Three of our PGRs- final year PGRs Joe Shields and Dean Patient, and third year PGR James Capers– presented at the Complex Nanophotonics Science Camp, which was held on August 2nd-5th 2022 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. The Science Camp brings together 60 early-career scientists in the field of photonics but also science writers […]
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Graduation Celebration Summer 2022
This year we celebrated not only our Summer 2022 graduates, but our 2020 and 2021 graduates as well, who were finally able to attend an in-person ceremony. We held post-graduation celebrations in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both academia (two […]
CDT Summer Conference and Summer Ball 2022
Final year PGRs Hannah Barnard and Dean Patient organised this year’s Summer PGR Conference and the accompanying Summer Ball, both events taking place on 10th June. Hannah comments on the experience of running these events and the motivation behind them: As a result of COVID over the last year or two, the social interaction amongst […]
Narima Eerqing gives oral presentation at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022
Final year PGR Narima Eerqing recently gave an oral presentation at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022 on ”Comparing Individual DNA Transient Hybridization Kinetics Using DNA-PAINT and Optoplasmonic Sensing Techniques”. Narima explains the findings of his work: Very happy to present my work at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022; this is […]
PGR presentations at Magnetism 2022
On the 28-29th of March the Magnetism 2022 conference took place in York. Magnetism 2022 is the premier conference organised by the UK and Republic of Ireland magnetism community, with a huge range of topics from spintronics, superconductors, nanoparticles and nanostructures to biomagnetism. The attendees from CMRI included fourth year PhD students Jacob Binsley, […]
Emily Glover awarded PhD!
Congratulations to Dr Emily Glover, who recently completed her PhD. Emily’s thesis was titled ‘Magnetic metamaterials for innovative solutions to the inductive tagging problem’. During her time at the CDT Emily published a paper on ‘A Ferrite-Filled Cavity Resonator for Electronic Article Surveillance on Metallic Packaging‘ and was involved with multiple Outreach schemes, including Pint […]
Joe Pitfield receives supercomputing grant from the Materials Chemistry Consortium worth £100,000
Congratulations to third year PGR Joe Pitfield, who has been awarded 250,000 CU (Computer Units) with a notional value of £100,000 from Materials Chemistry Consortium (MCC). Read below for Joe’s comments on this achievement: The Hepplestone research group have a ritual when it comes to supercomputing. Biannually we draft proposals that are sent to the […]
New Publication: Toward efficient and tailorable mid-infrared emitters utilizing multilayer graphene
Congratulations to fourth-year PGR Dean Patient, whose paper ‘Toward efficient and tailorable mid-infrared emitters utilizing multilayer graphene’ was recently published in Applied Physics Letters. Dean summarises the paper’s findings: In this work, we experimentally fabricate devices consisting of multi-layer graphene with an incorporated back-reflector. The resultant devices have a roughly 4-fold increase in emission compared […]
Training and other events: February 2022 to April 2022
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from February 2022 to April 2022, as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: all confirmed events have been […]
New Publication: Tailoring the spectral properties of layered chiral mid-infrared metamaterials
Congratulations to final year PGR Hannah Barnard, whose paper ‘Tailoring the spectral properties of layered chiral mid-infrared metamaterials‘ was published in Applied Physics Letters last month. Hannah explains the significance of the paper’s findings: Metamaterials, an important class of man-made material in which metals are patterned into periodic, subwavelength structures, can be designed for a […]