New Publication: Transmission Properties of FeCl3-Intercalated Graphene and WS2 Thin Films for Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Applications

Congratulations to fourth year PGRs Ben Hogan and Kieran Walsh, who are authors on ‘Transmission Properties of FeCl3-Intercalated Graphene and WS2 Thin Films for Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Applications’, which was published last month in Nanoscale Research Letters. Ben explains the impact of the research findings: By using new and unique methods developed at the University […]

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New Publication: Vibrational strong coupling with surface plasmons and the presence of surface plasmon stop bands

Congratulations to 4th year PGR Kishan Menghrajani, who is lead author on ‘Vibrational strong coupling with surface plasmons and the presence of surface plasmon stop bands’, published in ACS Photonics. The authors present results from experiments and numerical simulations to show that surface plasmon modes provide convenient open cavities for vibrational strong coupling experiments. In […]

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Hybridization of Multiple Vibrational Modes via Strong Coupling Using Confined Light Fields

Congratulations to our fourth year PGRs Kishan Menghrajani, the main author of the paper Hybridization of Multiple Vibrational Modes via Strong Coupling Using Confined Light Fields, which was recently published in Advanced Optical Materials. The co-authors were fourth year PGR Henry Fernandez and supervisors Geoffrey R. Nash and William L. Barnes. The paper is on strong […]

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Impact of pump wavelength on terahertz emission of a cavity-enhanced spintronic trilayer

  Congratulations to third year CDT PGR Rosamund Herapath for her recent publication of Impact of pump wavelength on terahertz emission of a cavity-enhanced spintronic trilayer in Applied Physics Letters. In this paper, the authors enhance the THz generation of a novel, thin-film THz emitter by adding a set of dielectric overlayers. In doing so, […]

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New Publication: Diffraction by a truncated planar array of dipoles: A Wiener–Hopf approach

Having recently passed his viva and recently joined University of Pennsylvania in a posdoctoral role, PGR Miguel Camacho Aguilar, who graduates this summer, has just published a paper on Diffraction by a truncated planar array of dipoles: A Wiener–Hopf approach in the Special Issue on Canonical Scattering of the journal Wave Motion. Abstract We present […]

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New Publication: Origins of All-Optical Generation of Plasmons in Graphene

Congratulations to fourth year CDT PGR Craig Tollerton who has recently published an article on Origins of All-Optical Generation of Plasmons in Graphene in Scientific Reports journal. Abstract below. Abstract Graphene, despite its centrosymmetric structure, is predicted to have a substantial second order nonlinearity, arising from non-local effects. However, there is disagreement between several published […]

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New Publication: Laser-writable high-k dielectric for van der Waals nanoelectronics

Congratulations to second year XM² postgraduate researcher Konstantinos-Andreas Anastasiou, whose article Laser-writable high-k dielectric for van der Waals nanoelectronics has been published in Science Advances. State of the art van der Waals heterostructures rely on the use of hexagonal boron nitride as a gate dielectric, a tunnel barrier or a high-quality substrate material. The material […]

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New Publication: Metamaterial-enhanced infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy

Congratulations to XM² PGR Cheng Shi (4th year) whose paper Metamaterial-enhanced infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy has been accepted by Nanoscale and is due to be published next month. Abstract below. Abstract The use of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflection (FTIR-ATR) allows solid or liquid samples to be characterised directly without specific […]

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