XM² PGR David Newman (1st year, supervised by Prof Rob Hicken and Dr Mustafa Aziz ) recently went to the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, California where he was using X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), X-ray ferromagnetic resonance (XFMR) and other magnetic spectroscopic techniques to characterise spin currents in ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic/ferromagnetic trilayer structures and probe the dynamics of […]
New Publication: A Broadband Stripline Technique for Characterizing Relative Permittivity and Permeability
Congratulations to the XM² PGRs Cameron Gallagher and Conor McKeever for their publication on “A Broadband Stripline Technique for Characterizing Relative Permittivity and Permeability” in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2851563 Abstract: We present a stripline design and calibration method allowing the extraction of relative permittivity of single dielectric samples in the 200-MHz-50-GHz range. […]
New Publication: From colloidal CdSe quantum dots to microscale optically anisotropic supercrystals through bottom-up self-assembly
Congratulations to XM² PGR Ben Hogan (4th year) who is co-author on an article that outlines the analysis of quantum dot self-assembly into ordered superstructures, along with the evolution of their morphological and optical properties. The work has just been published as accepted manuscript in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/tc/c8tc04780d Abstract The development […]
New Publication: Investigation of the coupling between tunable split-ring resonator
Congratulations to XM² PGR Milo Baraclough (3rd year) who published his first paper ‘Investigation of the coupling between tunable split-ring resonators‘ in Physical Review B. This paper examines how the coupling between a passive and an active Split ring resonator changes as the active ring is tuned through the frequency of the passive ring: https://bit.ly/2JeXYbC. […]
“Seven brief lessons on Physics” – a translation into Urdu
XM2 PGR Zahid Hussain (3rd year) has committed a substantial amount of energy and time towards the translation of Carlo Rovelli’s book “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” into Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Three chapters have so far been published online: http://www.laaltain.com/khob-sorat-tareen-nazria/ http://www.laaltain.com/roshani-k-zarat/ http://www.laaltain.com/kainat-ki-sakht/ “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” was originally published in Italian […]
New Publication: Probing Raman Scattering for Particle Tracking: a novel spectrocscopic analysis method
XM² PGR Ben Hogan (4th year) recently published his work on ‘Probing Raman Scattering for Particle Tracking: a novel spectrocscopic analysis method‘ as the cover story in Micrcoscopy and Analysis (Sep/Oct 2018): https://lnkd.in/dmsEkyd The article presents a summary of the current achievements of the team’s ongoing investigations using Raman spectroscopy to characterise and track particles […]
XM2 PGR social – food, fight and pub quiz winners!
Peter Inzani and Jess Brown are currently leading on the XM² PGR social events organisation. They have recently coordinated a welcome celebration to the new cohort with all other CDT PGRs at Mill on the Exe. Their summary of the evening: “There was a delicious buffet and a pub quiz. After 6 rounds of trivia, […]
Sam Shelley & Tim Spicer passed their vivas! Congratulations!
Very many contragulations to both Sam Shelley and Tim Spicer who have recently passed their respective viva with minor corrections. Well done both! Sam will continue to contribute his expertise at the University of Exeter as a postdoc. His work on “The Control of Fluid Flow Using Metamaterials Concepts” (supervised by Roy Sambles (FRS), […]
Training and other events: October 2018 to January 2019
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from October 2018 until January 2019 as far as planning currently allows. Yet to be confirmed for 1st year PGRs: progression & monitoring – introduction to CDT assessments and PGR progression (Prof C D Wright) – likely to be held in November/December […]
Riddle time!
A famous scientist was found murdered in her lab in the chemistry department! Before she died, she was able to smeer a few numbers with her blood on the wall: Scotland yard believes this might be a clue to find her murderer(s)! Strong suspects are some of her colleagues who were unable to provide an […]