Congratulations to 4th year PGR Miguel Camacho Aguilar for his recent Spanish national award of 3,300 € as best undergraduate student in Physics (class of 2015).
He is supervised by Prof A Hibbins and Prof R Sambles and has so far produced 8 publications during his PhD, 3 more are currently under peer-review. He is planning to submit his thesis early next year and his viva examiners are already set (Prof. Guido Valerio from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, Dr Matthew Browning from Astro).
Miguel has recently received (and accepted) the formal offer for the postdoctoral appointment in the group of Prof. Nader Engheta (https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~engheta/index.htm) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, starting 1 March 2019, and will leaving us therefore a few months earlier than expected.
His future work in the US will be related to metamaterials and plasmonics. Nader invented the field of metatronics, i.e., metamaterial-based optical nano circuitry, in which properly designed nano structures function as “lumped’ optical circuit elements such as optical capacitors, optical inductors and optical resistors. These are the building blocks for the metatronic circuits operating with light. He also worked on graphene photonics and epsilon-near-zero photonics.
Miguel’s current list of publications:
- Camacho M, Hibbins AP, Sambles JR, Boix RR, Medina F. (2017) Dispersion of Surface Waves Supported by Truncated Metasurfaces, Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on, DOI:10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2017.8072903. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Boix RR, Medina F, Hibbins AP, Sambles JR. (2017) On the extraordinary optical transmission in parallel plate waveguides for non-TEM modes, Optics Express, volume 25(20), pages 24670-24677, DOI:10.1364/OE.25.024670. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Mitchell-Thomas RC, Hibbins, Sambles, Quevedo-Teruel O. (2017) Mimicking glide symmetry dispersion with coupled slot metasurfaces, Applied Physics Letters, volume 111(12), pages 121603-121603, DOI:10.1063/1.5000222. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Boix RR, Medina F. (2017) Comparative study between resonant transmission and extraordinary transmission in truncated periodic arrays of slots, Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization for RF, Microwave, and Terahertz Applications (NEMO), 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on, DOI:10.1109/NEMO.2017.7964252.
- Camacho M, Mitchell-Thomas RC, Hibbins AP, Roy Sambles J, Quevedo-Teruel O. (2017) Designer surface plasmon dispersion on a one-dimensional periodic slot metasurface with glide symmetry, Optics Letters, volume 42, no. 17, pages 3375-3375, DOI:10.1364/OL.42.003375. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Boix RR, Medina F, Hibbins AP, Sambles JR. (2017) Theoretical and experimental exploration of finite sample size effects on the propagation of surface waves supported by slot arrays, Physical Review B, volume 95, no. 24, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.245425. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Boix RR, Medina F. (2016) Computationally efficient analysis of extraordinary optical transmission through infinite and truncated subwavelength hole arrays, Physical Review E, volume 93, no. 6, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.063312. [PDF]
- Camacho M, Hibbins AP, Sambles. (2016) Resonantly induced transparency for metals with low angular dependence, Applied Physics Letters, volume 109, article no. 241601, DOI:10.1063/1.4971983. [PDF]