Congratulations to PGR Henry Fernandez, who has recently submitted his PhD thesis titled “Optical and Electronic Study of Hybrid Light-Matter States” supervised by Prof. Bill Barnes, and Prof. Saverio Russo. This thesis extends a description of his recently published work titled “Electrically Tuneable Exciton-Polaritons through Free Electron Doping in Monolayer WS2 Microcavities” and “Electrically tuneable […]
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New Publication: Vibrational strong coupling with surface plasmons and the presence of surface plasmon stop bands
Congratulations to 4th year PGR Kishan Menghrajani, who is lead author on ‘Vibrational strong coupling with surface plasmons and the presence of surface plasmon stop bands’, published in ACS Photonics. The authors present results from experiments and numerical simulations to show that surface plasmon modes provide convenient open cavities for vibrational strong coupling experiments. In […]
New publication: ‘A Nonvolatile Phase‐Change Metamaterial Color Display’
Congratulations to PGR Santiago Garcia-Cuevas Carrillo, who is the lead author on ‘A Nonvolatile Phase‐Change Metamaterial Color Display’, recently published in Advanced Optical Materials. Co-authors include fourth year PGR Liam Trimby and Prof. C. David Wright. Abstract Chalcogenide phase‐change materials, which exhibit a marked difference in their electrical and optical properties when in their amorphous and crystalline […]
PGR Kavya Sreeja Sadanandan presents poster at ISFOE Conference
First year PGR Kavya Sreeja Sadanandan presented a poster on ‘Graphene coated textile fabrics for wearable electronics’ at the 12th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics Conference (ISFOE 2019), held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 1st to 4th July. ISFOE is the biggest scientific & technology event in Flexible Organic & Printed Electronics (OEs), that promotes […]
Prof. Bill Barnes wins the Thomas Young Prize and Medal 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Bill Barnes who has been awarded the Thomas Young Prize and Medal 2019 from the Institute of Physics. The award is made for distinguished contributions to optics, including work related to physics outside the visible region. Bill was awarded this prize for his outstanding contributions to the development of nanophotonics, especially in plasmonics […]
Gooch and Housego Industry Visit
In May this year, our first year PGRs (Cohort 5) visited Gooch and Housego, a global leader in photonics technology in Torquay, for an insight into their company and the wider industry. G&H are experts across a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies – crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, fiber optics, DFB […]
CDT PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo is Poster Award Finalist at Nano Today Conference 2019
At the Nano Today Conference in Lisbon, third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo reached the final 17 in the Poster Awards (out of 350 posters)- the only UK student this year to do this. Overall, there were 1,100 entries to attend the conference so this is a real achievement for Pablo. Chaired by Nano Today […]
Hybridization of Multiple Vibrational Modes via Strong Coupling Using Confined Light Fields
Congratulations to our fourth year PGRs Kishan Menghrajani, the main author of the paper Hybridization of Multiple Vibrational Modes via Strong Coupling Using Confined Light Fields, which was recently published in Advanced Optical Materials. The co-authors were fourth year PGR Henry Fernandez and supervisors Geoffrey R. Nash and William L. Barnes. The paper is on strong […]
David Newman presents poster at York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium
On 12th-14th June, first year PGR David Newman attended the York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on “New Concept Spintronic Devices”. The symposium is a result of the JSPS Core-to-Core programme that pairs Japanese universities with world-leading universities. David presented a poster titled”Time-resolved X-ray detected ferromagnetic resonance measurements of a CoFe/NiO/Fe/NiFe multilayer structure”. This involved using X-ray techniques […]
Training and other events: June 2019-July 2019
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from June 2019 until July 2019 as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. Please note that some locations and events have been updated and added since the previous month’s table. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to […]