We are delighted to announce that Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta has passed her viva. She was supervised by Prof. C. David Wright and Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti. Carlota’s thesis was on “Optical phase-change metasurfaces: novel design concepts to practicable devices”. The examiners were Prof Anatoly Zayats from Kings College London, and the internal was Dr Ana Neves from […]
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Fun-COMP creates first ever integrated nanoscale device programmable with either photons or electrons
Congratulations to Prof. C. David Wright whose work as lead of the EU H2020 project Fun-COMP was featured on the University’s main news webpage. The team have created the first-ever integrated nanoscale device programmable with either photons or electrons. This device helps achieve faster and more energy efficient computer memories and processors. Fun-COMP is a collaboration […]
New Publication: ‘The Fundamental Mechanism Behind Colossal Permitivity in Oxides’
Congratulations to fourth year PGRs Francis Davies and Ned Taylor, third year PGR Shane Davies and second year PGR Conor Price, who have co-authored a paper with Dr. Steven Hepplestone. The paper, titled ‘The Fundamental Mechanism Behind Colossal Permittivity in Oxides‘, determines the mechanism responsible for colossal permittivity exhibited by various oxides to be that of […]
Natalie Whitehead submits her thesis!
Congratulations to PGR Natalie Whitehead, who has just submitted her thesis on ‘Making The Grade: Generating and Controlling Spin Waves with a Graded Refractive Index’. Her supervisors were Prof. Volodymyr Kruglyak, Dr. Thomas Philbin and Dr. Simon Horsley. During her degree, Natalie has been prolific in her Outreach work. As well as being part of […]
New Publication: Novel Au–SiO2–WO3 Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Potential Application in Cancer Cell Imaging
Congratulations to third year PGR Pablo Martinez Pancorbo for his latest publication- a paper on Novel Au–SiO2–WO3 Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Potential Application in Cancer Cell Imaging , published this week in Advanced Functional Materials. Abstract With the rapid development of nanotechnology during the last decades, the ability to detect and […]
New Publication: Metasurface bilayer for slow microwave surface waves
Congratulations to fourth year PGR Julia de Pineda Gutiérrez, whose paper ‘Metasurface bilayer for slow microwave surface waves’ was recently published in Physical Review B. Julia’s previous publications include Microwave edge modes on a metasurface with glide symmetry and Hexagonal symmetry metasurfaces for broadband antenna applications. Julia’s thesis is on exploration of beam shaping at microwave frequencies using […]
New Publication: 2D WS2 liquid crystals: tunable functionality enabling diverse applications
Congratulations to PGR Ben Hogan, who has just published a paper on ‘2D WS2 liquid crystals: tunable functionality enabling diverse applications’ in Nanoscale. Ben says of his paper: This paper describes the first observation of a liquid crystal phase for dispersions of two-dimensional tungsten disulfide particles in organic solvents. We detail the synthesis methods used […]
New Publication: Controlling acoustic waves using magneto-elastic Fano resonances
First year PGR Oliver Latcham has just co-authored his first paper, ‘Controlling acoustic waves using magneto-elastic Fano resonances’, published last week in Applied Physics Letters. This is an impressive achievement at the start of his degree. His PhD project is ‘Excitation of spin waves in magnetic elements using surface acoustic waves’, supervised by Volodymyr Kruglyak, Geoff […]
New Publication: Photoluminescence from NV− Centres in 5 nm Detonation Nanodiamonds: Identification and High Sensitivity to Magnetic Field
Congratulations to fourth year PGR Ben Hogan, who has co-authored a paper on ‘Photoluminescence from NV− Centres in 5 nm Detonation Nanodiamonds: Identification and High Sensitivity to Magnetic Field’, published last week in Nanoscale Research Letters. The paper was the result of a collaboration with Ioffe Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia), Université Paris-Sud & Université Paris-Saclay […]
Tom Collier submits his thesis!
Congratulations to fourth year PGR Tom Collier, who has submitted his thesis, ‘Doubled-Gated Quantum Rings and Nanohelices: from Theory to Novel Applications’. As well as his publications and conference presentations, in April 2018, Tom made an industry visit to De La Salle University, in the Phillipines, where he worked with Dr Richard Hartmann on theoretically solving […]