Very many congratulations to the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials PGR Lauren Barr for submitting her PhD thesis on “Giving Metamaterials a Hand – Electromagnetic interactions in chiral metamaterials”, supervised by Prof. Euan Hendry and Prof. Alastair Hibbins. (The thesis title is a play-on-words, as the term chiral comes from the Greek word for hand, and […]
Honorary Fellow of IOP – Highest honour awarded to Prof Roy Sambles
Professor Roy Sambles (FRS) has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his contributions in pure and applied physics, and as a superb ambassador for physics through outreach and an outstanding President of the IOP. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the melting process, spin waves in metals, […]
Stargazing on Dartmoor
The recent nice weather spell in England’s Southwest allowed our the CDT in Metamaterials PGRs and Exeter University Optical Society (EUOPS) members to finally set out with telescopes and binoculars on the long-planned camping trip to the nearby National Park, Dartmoor, for a stargazing night. They teamed up with non-CDT colleagues to use this amazing […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Chris King: Designing non-scattering graded-index media
Very many congratulations to Chris King for submitting his PhD thesis on “Designing non-scattering graded-index media”, supervised by Dr Simon Horsley and Dr Tom Philbin. Chris joined the CDT in 2014, following his Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. As Student Advisory Group (SAG) chair (2015/16 & 2016/17) he successfully linked the […]
Zahid Hussain’s research visit at the TU Munich: MOF-Derived Bimetal Oxide/Carbon (M-MO/C) Nanocomposites for Solar Light Driven Applications
Zahid Hussain started his PhD in the EPSRC CDT in Metamaterials in 2016 and was invited to join the Catalysis Research Center at the Technical University, Munich, from January to December 2018. This fantastic opportunity aims to derive bi-metal oxide nanocomposites from metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for high efficient solar light driven applications. Zahid got […]
XM2 thesis submitted by Ben Ash: Locally Resonant Metamaterial for Surface Acoustic Waves
Very many congratulations to our 4th year PGR Ben Ash, who recently submitted his PhD thesis on “Locally Resonant Metamaterial for Surface Acoustic Waves”. Ben informed us that he has accepted an offer for his dream job as a Microsystems engineer which starts on Monday 13th August with Oxford HighQ, http://www.oxfordhighq.com/, a start-up which is […]
New Publication: Investigation of magnetic droplet solitons using x-ray holography with extended references
Congratulations to Erick Burgos-Parra for his recent Scientific Reports publication on the investigation of magnetic droplet solitons using x-ray holography with extended references: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29856-y A dissipative magnetic soliton, or magnetic droplet, is a structure that has been predicted to exist within a thin magnetic layer when non-linearity is balanced by dispersion, and a driving force […]
Riddle time!
In need of a break? Try and figure this one out for a bit of a change: One to six is what is there. All you can see though is fifteen to twenty, as well as five, but never twenty-one, unless it’s in the air. What is it? —- The answer to last month’s riddle: 10, […]
Sathya Seetharaman – viva successfully completed. Next up: a career in industry.
Very many congratulations to Sathya Sai Seetharaman who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Electromagnetic interactions in one-dimensional metamaterials” on 24 July 2018. Sathya was supervised by Prof Bill Barnes and Dr Ian Hooper and will soon be starting a position as Metamaterials Scientist at Metaboards Ltd in Oxford. Congratulations to Sathya, and all involved in his […]
Lighting up RAMM – XM2 PGRs in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
On Saturday 21st July 2018 the CDT in Metamaterials PGRs set out to inspire the public in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM). They joined forces with research colleagues from the University’s physics and engineering departments and an Irish artist to showcase interactive experiments, demonstrations and craft activities. Thanks to all of them for sharing […]