What we presented at KTN’s ‘Showcasing Emerging Technologies 2019 – Metamaterials’ event in Birmingham on 19 March 2019:
- a tag prototype that could revolutionise metallic packaging security (Dr Paul Keatley, Emily Glover);
- a numerical tool which can be used to design a new class of radio and microwave frequency-based components for communications devices (Dr Conor McKeever);
- a demonstrator to showcase the modulation of a terahertz beam using optical light, which allows us to quickly take images at terahertz frequencies (Dr Lauren Barr);
- research currently being undertaken to significantly reduce the profile depth of conformal antennas (Dr Cameron Gallagher).
Our CDT Director, Prof Alastair Hibbins, gave the event’s opening talk on history and relevance of Metamaterials science to the ~130 attendees from UK universities and industrial/governmental institutions.
UoE reseach fellow Dr Paul Keatley opened the demonstrator sessions with an exciting 5 minute pitch on the security tag prototype developed at the University of Exeter: A solution for future protection of high value merchandise in metallic packaging.
