Congratulations to XM² PGR Cheng Shi (4th year) whose paper Metamaterial-enhanced infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy has been accepted by Nanoscale and is due to be published next month. Abstract below. Abstract The use of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflection (FTIR-ATR) allows solid or liquid samples to be characterised directly without specific […]
Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta poster presentation at Nanometa 2019
Joining fellow fourth year CDT PGRs Henry Fernandez, Charlie-Ray Mann and Tom Collier at Nanometa 2019, Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta presented a poster- “All-dielectric hybrid silicon/Ge2Sb2Te5 optical metasurfaces for tunable and switchable light control in the near infrared” (abstract below). NANOMETA 2019 aims to bring together the international Nanotechnology, Photonics and Materials research communities where […]
Henry Fernández gives talk at Nanometa 2019
Fourth year CDT PGR Henry Fernández gave a talk at the prestigious Nanometa 2019 conference in Seefield, Austria on 5th January 2019. Nanometa aims to bring together the international Nanotechnology, Photonics and Materials research communities where most recent and challenging results and plans are discussed in the informal setting on a glorious mountaineering resort. As […]
New Publication: Tunable Volatility of Ge2Sb2Te5 in Integrated Photonics
Congratulations to third year CDT PGR Emanuele Gemo , co-author of a paper, Tunable Volatility of Ge2Sb2Te5 in Integrated Photonics, which was recently published in the prestigious journal Advanced Functional Materials. His co-authors include his supervisors Dr Anna Baldycheva and Prof C David Wright. This work was led by researchers from the labs of Prof Harish Bhaskaran […]
We are recruiting to PhD projects!
Exciting times! Thanks to our industrial partners and the commitment from our College we can now offer fully funded PhD studentships for start in September 2019. The studentships will be aligned to our CDT in Metamaterials, hence benefitting from enhanced technical and transferable skills training and exposure to a variety of companies. Spread the news […]
The CDT’s UG summer student scheme – a huge success for UGs, PhD students and semiconductor research
Our CDT PGR Tom Collier, now in his final year, sucessfully bid for a CDT summer student bursary in early 2018. The “learning by doing” scheme provided an opportunity for all third years to hone their grant writing scheme and take a chance on one of three bursaries that would cover a small stipend and […]
New Publication: A Luneburg lens for spin waves
Congratulations to XM² PGR Natalie Whitehead for her publication on “A Luneburg lens for spin waves“: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049470 (Applied Physics Letters 113). In this article, the researchers report on the theory of a Luneburg lens for forward-volume magnetostatic spin waves and verify its operation via micromagnetic modelling. The lens converts a plane wave to a point […]
CDT office Xmas closure
The CDT office will be closed from 21 December 2018, 4 pm, until including 1 January 2019. If all goes well business should revert back to normal on 2nd January with Kelyn manning the office full-time, and Deb as usual from Tuesday to Wednesday. Alastair will return on 3rd January, and Anja on 8th of […]
Riddle time!
An easy one to go with the Christmas celebrations and to kill the digestive time under the festively decorated needle tree: What’s the x standing for? The answer to last month’s riddle: who killed the scientist? Gabi and Felice, obviously, if you know your periodic table of elements: 31 => (Ga)llium; 83 => (Bi)smuth; 26 => (Fe)rrum; […]
From Smart Materials to Smart Things – Smart NanoMaterials 2018 in Paris: Presentation prize for XM2 PGR Charlie-Ray Mann
The first European conference on Smart Nanomaterials took place at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Paris, France, 10 – 13 December 2018: Internationally known experts, including industry leaders, met at the first European conference on Smart Nanomaterials to discuss the most critical technological advances, innovations and new practical applications in smart technologies. SNAIA2018 […]