The University of Exeter has received a £1.8 million research grant for a collaboration with the National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Metamaterials (CfM) in the USA to develop advanced, reconfigurable metamaterials that will revolutionise technologies such as wireless communication networks, remote imaging and artificial intelligence type computing. The project will be led […]
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Elizabeth Martin awarded PhD!
Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Martin, who was recently awarded her PhD. Her thesis was titled ‘Microfluidic Elasto-Magnetic Materials For Controlled Swimming And Pumping’. During her time as part of the CDT, she published 6 papers and was involved with multiple Outreach activities, notably Pint of Science and Metabuddies, a PGR-led scheme where PGRs work with local […]
Management Board and Admin Team- last working dates for this year
Please find below a table of the last working days for this year for CMRI Management Board and the admin team, and their first working day of 2022. We hope you enjoy the festive season! Management Board Staff member Last day in First day back Alastair Hibbins Wednesday 15th December Tuesday 4th January Anja Roeding […]
New Publication: Transition Metal Synthetic Ferrimagnets: Tunable Media for All-Optical Switching Driven by Nanoscale Spin Current
Congratulations to fourth year PGRs David Newman and Connor Sait, who have co-authored the paper ‘Transition Metal Synthetic Ferrimagnets: Tunable Media for All-Optical Switching Driven by Nanoscale Spin Current‘, recently published in Nano Letters. Synthetic ferrimagnets (SFi’s) represent a promising avenue for magnetic data storage devices since they have greater tunability (by varying the thickness […]
New Publication: Designing the collective non-local responses of metasurfaces
Congratulations to third year PGR James Capers, whose paper ‘Designing the collective non-local responses of metasurfaces’ was published in Communications Physics last month. James describes the significance of the findings: Recently, there has been growing interest in how metamaterials can be designed to perform a specific function. The ability to perform specific input field to […]
Welcome to our new cohort for 2021!
We have two new students this year, who have just finished the first week of their projects! Having attended a busy virtual induction week, they were pleased to meet the rest of the CDT face-to-face in a socially-distanced away day canoeing on Totnes Quay. Our new […]
James Capers contributes oral presentation at General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS)
Second year PGR James Capers recently gave an oral presentation at General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). Held only every 3 years, URSI GASS is one of the largest conferences about the theory of electromagnetism and radio science, attracting some of the biggest names in the field of Metamaterials […]
New Publication: Experimental characterization of acoustic beaming from an elastic plate by coupled symmetric leaky Lamb modes
Congratulations to CDT alumnus Dr Tom Graham, whose paper ‘Experimental characterization of acoustic beaming from an elastic plate by coupled symmetric leaky Lamb modes’ has recently been published in Physical Review B. Tom graduated in 2019. Abstract Designer mode dispersions with properties such as negative or zero group velocities have applications in tailored wave propagation […]
New Publication: Coupled Scholte modes supported by soft elastic plates in water
Congratulations to third year PGR Beth Staples, whose paper ‘Coupled Scholte modes supported by soft elastic plates in water’ was recently published in Physical Review E. Abstract Localized acoustic surface waves supported by a “soft” elastic plate in water are explored. Unlike many materials, such as aluminum, for soft interfaces the Scholte wave, a localized […]
New Publication: Recent Advances in Metal–Organic Frameworks Derived Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Applications in Energy and Environment
Congratulations to Dr Zahid Hussain, whose paper ‘Recent Advances in Metal–Organic Frameworks Derived Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Applications in Energy and Environment’ has been recently published in Advanced Science. Zahid explains the paper’s significance: Solar energy is tremendously abundant and on average every second about 173,000 terawatts of solar energy continuously reach the Earth, of which UV […]