On June 14th, PGRs Kyle Arnold, James Capers and Charlie Patrickson attended the Eureka 2023: Physics in the South West conference. The conference was unusual in scope with an interest in all physics research, from astrophysics to nanoscience, ongoing in the South West with representative from Exeter, Southamtpon, Bristol, Cardiff and Bath.
The event was a double success for the Exeter PGRs with Charlie Patrickson winning the ‘Best Poster’ Prize for his work ‘A 2D Quantum Sensor of High Frequency Magnetic Fields’ and James Capers winning ‘Best Poster by a PhD Student’ Prize with his poster titled ‘Generalising the Yagi-Uda Antenna: Designing disordered metamaterials to manipulate antenna radiation’ (with fellow PGR Leanne Stanfield another of the co-authors on the work). James gives his views on the event below:
This conference was a great chance to get to see the breadth of science being done in the south west. With talks on topics from detecting black holes to new types of 2D material-based sensors, there was something for everyone. I was presenting some exciting new results from some work undertaken collaboratively my fellow CDT student Leanne Stanfield, in which we experimentally demonstrate a new paradigm for designing metamaterials to manipulate antenna radiation. Our work has the potential to address many problems for the next generation of communications systems, from 6G and beyond. I was lucky enough to win the “Best Poster by a PhD Student” prize.