Second year PGR Connor Sait talks about his experience at ‘Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium’ summer school: Between the 1st and 5th of September I took part in the ‘Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium‘ Summer school in Granada, Spain. The school was the fifth of its kind and was organised by Rosario González-Férez (University […]
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CDT Team Building Away Day!
Third year PGR student and SAG rep Emily Glover reports on this year’s CDT Away Day, a team building activity which rounded off Induction Week: Following on from the tradition which was started last year, the last day of Induction Week (20th September) found PGRs from all years taking part in a variety of activities […]
Welcome to our new cohort for 2019!
We have six new students this year- after a very busy induction week, they are eager to start work on their projects! We wish them good luck for the rewarding challenge of the next four years. The new students are: 2019 XM² cohort Theme Project Supervisor 1 Supervisor 2 Supervisor 3 William Borrows Acoustic and […]
Natalie Whitehead submits her thesis!
Congratulations to PGR Natalie Whitehead, who has just submitted her thesis on ‘Making The Grade: Generating and Controlling Spin Waves with a Graded Refractive Index’. Her supervisors were Prof. Volodymyr Kruglyak, Dr. Thomas Philbin and Dr. Simon Horsley. During her degree, Natalie has been prolific in her Outreach work. As well as being part of […]
PGR Joaquin Faneca at training school on Emerging Technologies for 5G Networks
Joaquin Faneca was recently in Greece (Thessaloniki) attending a training school on Emerging Technologies for 5G networks. He received The EUIMWP (CA 16220) COST Action GRANT to cover attendance costs. Joaquin was presenting the work he has developed between the University of Southampton and University of Exeter, about reconfigurable silicon photonic integrated circuits for future […]
New Publication: Novel Au–SiO2–WO3 Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Potential Application in Cancer Cell Imaging
Congratulations to third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo for his latest publication- a paper on Novel Au–SiO2–WO3 Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Potential Application in Cancer Cell Imaging , published this week in Advanced Functional Materials. Abstract With the rapid development of nanotechnology during the last decades, the ability to detect and […]
New Publication: Metasurface bilayer for slow microwave surface waves
Congratulations to fourth year PGR Julia de Pineda Gutiérrez, whose paper ‘Metasurface bilayer for slow microwave surface waves’ was recently published in Physical Review B. Julia’s previous publications include Microwave edge modes on a metasurface with glide symmetry and Hexagonal symmetry metasurfaces for broadband antenna applications. Julia’s thesis is on exploration of beam shaping at microwave frequencies using […]
New Publication: 2D WS2 liquid crystals: tunable functionality enabling diverse applications
Congratulations to PGR Ben Hogan, who has just published a paper on ‘2D WS2 liquid crystals: tunable functionality enabling diverse applications’ in Nanoscale. Ben says of his paper: This paper describes the first observation of a liquid crystal phase for dispersions of two-dimensional tungsten disulfide particles in organic solvents. We detail the synthesis methods used […]
CDT Movie Night: Terminator 2: Judgement Day
On 30th August, the PGRs held another of their regular movie night socials. This time the film was classic 90s films- a tough choice with Toy Story 2, Groundhog Day and The Matrix all in the running. The winning choice was Terminator 2: Judgement Day. All 23 attendees enjoyed the evening. It was ‘hasta le […]
New Publication: Controlling acoustic waves using magneto-elastic Fano resonances
First year PGR Oliver Latcham has just co-authored his first paper, ‘Controlling acoustic waves using magneto-elastic Fano resonances’, published last week in Applied Physics Letters. This is an impressive achievement at the start of his degree. His PhD project is ‘Excitation of spin waves in magnetic elements using surface acoustic waves’, supervised by Volodymyr Kruglyak, Geoff […]