Congratulations to Illia Starshinov and our first XM² graduate Dr Alba Paniagua for their recent Physical Review X article on Non-Gaussian Correlations between Reflected and Transmitted Intensity Patterns Emerging from Opaque Disordered Media, collaborative work between the University of Exeter and The Institut Langevin, Paris. Summary When coherent light (like a laser) passes through […]
Poster prize for Liam Trimby at the 2nd International Symposium on Doped Amorphous Chalcogenides and Devices
Congratulations to Liam Trimby who won the poster prize for his work on “Tunable Band-Pass Filters using Phase-Change Metamaterials” at the 2nd International Symposium on Doped Amorphous Chalcogenides and Devices in the Lake District. The work demonstrates how phase-change materials can be used in conjunction with periodic hole arrays to manipulate the extraordinary optical transmission […]
Viva succesfully completed!
Very many congratulations to Tanveer Ahmad Tabish who successfully defended his PhD in May 2018. His thesis is titled “DEVELOPMENT OF GRAPHENE NANOSTRUCTURES FOR USE IN ANTI-CANCER NANOMEDICINE”, and has been supervised by Shaowei Zhang and Yongde Xia. Tanveer will soon be starting a 3-year post-doc position on the £5.7m EPSRC programme grant “Raman Nanotheranostics […]
SPIE Europe – XM2 PGRs presented their work at the only cross-disciplinary optics and photonics event in Europe
Four PGR students from Exeter’s CDT in Metamaterials travelled to Strasbourg to present their work at SPIE Europe, the only cross-disciplinary optics and photonics event in Europe. The conference covers topics across the most significant photonics technologies—from digital optics to quantum technologies to attosecond science. 2018 saw the addition of 7 new conference topics being covered […]
New Publication: One-Dimensional Multi-Channel Photonic Crystal Resonators Based on Silicon-On-Insulator With High Quality Factor
Congratulations to Joaquin Faneca and the co-authors who just published the article “One-Dimensional Multi-Channel Photonic Crystal Resonators Based on Silicon-On-Insulator With High Quality Factor” in Frontiers in Physics. Abstract We have theoretically and experimentally demonstrated a Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonators based on a Si-air one-dimensional photonic crystal (1D PhC) with coupled triple-cavity modes (or defects). These […]
£15,000 ChAMP and WAFT Collaboration Fund award
£15,000 were recently awarded by the ChAMP / WAFT Collaboration Fund to the Physical Chemistry group at Cambridge and researchers at the University at Exeter. The CDT in Metamaterials PGR Liam Trimby contributed significantly to the development of this proposal, following an idea from Dr A Alexeev to demonstrate a novel approach for chemical sensing […]
Chiral near fields not so “super”: A microwave analogy of handed molecules tests the origin of chiral interactions in “superchiral” near fields.
Congratulations to Lauren Barr for her recent Physical Review B publication “Investigating the nature of chiral near-field interactions“. Well done! Electromagnetic interactions are often stronger in the near-field of an antenna, where the field gradients are largest. This was also thought to be true close to a chiral antenna, where so-called “superchiral” fields can be […]
Training and other events in May 2018
Date Training/Event Cohort Time Venue 01.05.2018 Physics Theory Seminar: Daniel Kattnig, Exeter University – ‘The quantum magnetic compass: Pathways to high sensitivity’ As applicable 13.30 – 14.30 Physics SCR 02.05.2018 CDT Group Meeting Group 2 13.30 – 14.30 Har 215 03.05.2018 Student Cohort Meeting with the XM2 Programme Manager Third Years 10.00 – 11.00 Physics […]
Riddle time!
In need of a break? Get your hands and brains working and try this for a bit of a change: Cut the image below in three pieces and reassemble them to form a square. You need to cut along the lines, obviously. 😉 Too easy? Got another one? Please email your riddle suggestions to […]
16 May 2018 – Celebrate the International Day of Light with us!
The International Day of Light takes place on 16 May 2018. Our CDT in Metamaterials postgraduate researchers in Physics and Engineering (Erick Burgos, Henry Fernandez, Joaquín Faneca) have joined forces with Astrophysics (Dr Jennifer Hatchell), Biophysics (Dr Francesca Palombo, Dr Noemi Correa) and Archaeology (Adrian Oyaneder) to celebrate this day with three events: An outreach […]