New publication: Acoustic metasurfaces with Frieze symmetries

Congratulation to CMRI PGR Dan Moore whose paper ‘Acoustic metasurfaces with Frieze symmetries‘ has been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The work also contains further CMRI contributions with CMRI academics Tim Starkey and Greg Chaplain as co-authors of the study. Frieze patterns are patterns that follow specific arrangement rules and […]

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New publication: High frequency magnetometry with an ensemble of spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride

Congratulations to CMRI PGR Charlie Patrickson on his paper “High frequency magnetometry with an ensemble of spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride” which has been published in npj Quantum Information. This work is Charlie’s first publication and includes CMRI alumni Dr Simon Baber and senior lecturer Dr Isaac Luxmoore as co-authors. In this paper, Charlie […]

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New publication: Inverse Design of Thin-Plate Elastic Wave Devices

Congratulations to CMRI postdoctoral researcher James Capers who has had his work ‘Inverse Design of Thin-Plate Elastic Wave Devices‘ published in Physical Review Applied. In this work, James applies principles from electromagnetism to manipulate mechanical energy with a view towards using graded plates as lenses or for performing mode shaping. This work has applications for […]

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New publication: Fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators with ultrasonic spray coated graphene electrodes

Congratulations to CDT alumni Dr Kavya Sreeja Sadanandan whose work ‘Fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators with ultrasonic spray coated graphene electrodes’ has been published in Nano Energy. In this work, Kavya and colleagues report on the effectiveness of a new triboelectric nanogenerator (devices that convert mechanical energy into an electric current) design which could be used in […]

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New publication: First principles study of layered transition metal dichalcogenides for use as electrodes in Li-ion and Mg-ion batteries

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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New Publication: Transition Metal Synthetic Ferrimagnets: Tunable Media for All-Optical Switching Driven by Nanoscale Spin Current

Congratulations to fourth year PGRs David Newman and Connor Sait, who have co-authored the paper ‘Transition Metal Synthetic Ferrimagnets: Tunable Media for All-Optical Switching Driven by Nanoscale Spin Current‘, recently published in Nano Letters. Synthetic ferrimagnets (SFi’s) represent a promising avenue for magnetic data storage devices since they have greater tunability (by varying the thickness […]

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New Publication: Designing the collective non-local responses of metasurfaces

Congratulations to third year PGR James Capers, whose paper ‘Designing the collective non-local responses of metasurfaces’ was published in Communications Physics last month. James describes the significance of the findings: Recently, there has been growing interest in how metamaterials can be designed to perform a specific function.  The ability to perform specific input field to […]

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New Publication: Experimental characterization of acoustic beaming from an elastic plate by coupled symmetric leaky Lamb modes

Congratulations to CDT alumnus Dr Tom Graham, whose paper ‘Experimental characterization of acoustic beaming from an elastic plate by coupled symmetric leaky Lamb modes’ has recently been published in Physical Review B. Tom graduated in 2019. Abstract Designer mode dispersions with properties such as negative or zero group velocities have applications in tailored wave propagation […]

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