PGRs Emily Glover and Vicky Kyrimi at Phononics 2019

Second-year PGR Emily Glover and fourth-year PGR Vicky Kyrimi presented at Phononics 2019– a biannual conference series that started in 2011. This year’s conference ran from 3rd to 7th June, and was held in Tucson, Arizona. Emily presented a poster, entitled ‘Tunable Magnetoelastic Phononic Crystals’, and Vicky presented a talk on  ‘A Metasurface comprising Spiral […]

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Joaquin Faneca awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE

Third year PGR Joaquin Faneca has been awarded a $3000 grant from SPIE. SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, this not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career […]

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Integrated phase-change photonics for memory and computing devices

This video, narrated by our third year PGR Emanuele Gemo, gives a short description of the integrated phase-change photonic memory, a device allowing to store and retrieve non-volatile information on optical chips. Emanuele’s research project is focused on the theoretical study of this class of devices, and on the proposal of solutions to improve its […]

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