Last month Pint of Science returned to Exeter. Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival that takes place every year and brings researchers to your local pub to present their scientific discoveries. This year it was in over 24 countries in nearly 400 cities. In the UK there were over 600 events in 41 […]
PGRs Emily Glover and Vicky Kyrimi at Phononics 2019
Second-year PGR Emily Glover and fourth-year PGR Vicky Kyrimi presented at Phononics 2019– a biannual conference series that started in 2011. This year’s conference ran from 3rd to 7th June, and was held in Tucson, Arizona. Emily presented a poster, entitled ‘Tunable Magnetoelastic Phononic Crystals’, and Vicky presented a talk on ‘A Metasurface comprising Spiral […]
CDT Film Evening 7th June- Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Following the success of March’s film night, the theme for the CDT’s second film night was the 80s. After watching an episode of Police Squad, they watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, feasting on pizza! Overall 28 CDT students, plus some plus-ones and non-CDT students, attended. More photos below:
Kishan Menghrajani presents at Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology
At this year’s Molecular Plasmonics conference at Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Jena, fourth year PGR Kishan Menghrajani presented his work on ‘Molecular vibrational strong coupling in a metal-clad microcavity below cut-off‘ . The meeting, held from 23rd to 25th May, was focused on bioanalytical and nanophotonic applications of plasmonic effects at nanoscale metal structures, utilizing the […]
Joaquin Faneca awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE
Third year PGR Joaquin Faneca has been awarded a $3000 grant from SPIE. SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, this not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career […]
Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo passed his viva!
We are delighted to announce that PGR Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Prof. Geoff Nash , passed his viva with minor corrections. Santiago’s thesis was on “Reconfigurable Phase-Change Metasurface Absorbers for Optoelectronic Device Applications”. The examiners were Ann-Katrin Michel from ETH Zurich and Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti from University of Exeter. […]
From Munich to London to Rome: Kieran Walsh on presenting at European conferences
Third year PGR student Kieran Walsh talks about his experience of presenting at conferences in Munich (LOPEC 2019), London (MCEC 2019) and Rome (HOPV 2019): “Over the past 3 months I have attended a number of conferences to give talks on my recent work involving graphene electrodes for energy harvesting. These conferences have taken place […]
Pablo Martinez Pancorbo presents virtual reality at EduExe 2019
On 3rd May, third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo took part in EduExe 2019. EduExe, the University of Exeter’s education conference, is an annual event at which the institution’s learning and teaching community can gather to celebrate and learn about good practice, innovations, and solutions to education challenges. Thought leaders from across the sector are […]
New Publication: “Gate tunable graphene-integrated metasurface modulator for mid-infrared beam steering”
Fourth year PGR Cheng Shi has authored “Gate tunable graphene-integrated metasurface modulator for mid-infrared beam steering”, with his supervisors Isaac Luxmoore and Geoff Nash. Modulators are a key component for communication, imaging, and so on, allowing the function of device can be controlled actively. However the research on modulators in infrared regime remain challenging as […]
Training and other events: May 2019-July 2019
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from May 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 […]