Congratulations to PGRs Conor Price and Edward Baker who have had their latest article ‘First principles study of layered transition metal dichalcogenides for use as electrodes in Li-ion and Mg-ion batteries’ published in the journal Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Conor, first author on the publication, provides the following summary of the work and reflection […]
Tag: metamaterials
Charlie Patrickson presents at the 2nd Torbay Hi-Tech Cluster Research and Innovation Conference
On Thursday 4th May, PGR Charlie Patrickson presented to local academic institutions and member businesses as the Torbay Hi-Tech Cluster gathered for the 2nd “Torbay Hi-Tech Cluster Research and Innovation Conference”. The event was a showcase and celebration of the crossover between academic research and industrial R&D in the local area, with a focus on […]
Introducing new lecturers, Changxu Liu and Rupam Das
Two of our new Lecturers, Dr. Changxu Liu and Dr. Rupam Das, presented introductory talks on 30th March to showcase their research to the wider CMRI and stimulate exciting new collaborations. Dr Rupam Das previously worked as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow before joining us at the CMRI. Rupam’s research is multidisciplinary […]
James Capers attends ‘Mathematical Theory and Applications of Multiple Wave Scattering’ Winter School
Final year PGR James Capers attended the ‘Mathematical Theory and Applications of Multiple Wave Scattering’ Winter School held at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge University. The Winter School was a mix of lectures from mathematicians about wave scattering theory, talks from industry representative from organisations such as DSTL, The Smith Institute and Thales about […]
PGRs present at MRS Fall 2022
Final year PGRs Hannah Barnard and Dean Patient recently gave talks at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The MRS Fall meetings are huge events in the materials research calendar with up to 7,000 attendees annually taking part in over 50 symposia spread across a week. For the event, […]
New Publication: Inverse design in the complex plane: Manipulating quasi-normal modes
Congratulations to final year PGRs James Capers and Dean Patient, whose paper ‘Inverse design in the complex plane: Manipulating quasi-normal modes’ has been recently accepted by Physical Review A. James explains the importance of this paper’s findings: To design materials for use in solar panels, gas sensors and thermal emitters it is necessary to control the […]
New Publication: Designing Disordered Multi-Functional Metamaterials using the Discrete Dipole Approximation
Congratulations to fourth-year PGR James Capers, who has just had his paper ‘Designing Disordered Multi-Functional Metamaterials using the Discrete Dipole Approximation’ accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics. James explains the significance of the paper’s findings: Being able to manipulate radiation in any desired way is key to sensing, stealth, power transfer and next-generation […]
Summer Student Project 2022
Final year PGR James Capers was awarded a summer student bursary, covering a small stipend and project fees to allow him to host an undergraduate student for 10 weeks to complete a summer research project on ‘New Methods for Designing Elastic Metamaterials’, which took place July-September 2022. In a competitive process, the PGRs had to […]
PGRs present at META 2022
There was a strong CDT presence at META 2022 in Torremolinos, Spain 19th-22nd July, with eleven of our PGRs presenting posters and two PGRs who contributed talks. META is one of the largest international conferences in the field of metamaterials and nanophotonics and was well attended by CDT students. James Capers and Iago Rodríguez Díez […]
PGRs present at Complex Nanophotonics Science Camp
Three of our PGRs- final year PGRs Joe Shields and Dean Patient, and third year PGR James Capers– presented at the Complex Nanophotonics Science Camp, which was held on August 2nd-5th 2022 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. The Science Camp brings together 60 early-career scientists in the field of photonics but also science writers […]