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Metallic metamaterials and plasmonics

 

  • 02 - 03 June 2010, 09:00 - 18:00
Add to Calendar 06/02/10 09:00 AM 06/03/10 06:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Metallic metamaterials and plasmonics <p>Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Bill Barnes, Professor Nader Engheta, Dr Alastair Hibbins and Professor Roy Sambles FRS.</p> Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9JJ
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Organised by Professor Bill Barnes, Professor Nader Engheta, Dr Alastair Hibbins and Professor Roy Sambles FRS

Our ability to control and harness light is undergoing a revolution, one that exploits the special properties of metals and our ability to structure them on a sub-wavelength scale.These plasmonic and metallic metamaterials provide challenges for physicists and engineers that demand a multi-disciplinary approach. This meeting brings together scientists from different sub-disciplines to exchange knowledge and forge new ideas.

Audio recordings are now available to download below.

The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

Organisers

Professor Bill Barnes, University of Exeter, UK and University of Twente, the Netherlands

Professor Bill Barnes, University of Exeter, UK and University of Twente, the Netherlands

Professor Bill Barnes has been fascinated by the interaction between molecules and light since his PhD (1983-86). Much of his work has concerned changing the way molecules absorb, emit and transfer energy in the form of light. His research is primarily experimental in nature, involving the fabrication and study of molecules confined to well-defined nanostructures. Now he is particularly concerned with looking at how light may be used to link molecules together in new ways, especially because such an approach enables a radical modification of molecular properties. His interests extend widely, he has been involved in projects spanning physical geography, manuscript studies and astrophysics.

Dr Alastair Hibbins, University of Exeter, UK

Dr Alastair Hibbins, University of Exeter, UK

Alastair Paul Hibbins was born in Somerset, United Kingdom in 1975. He received both BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Exeter, UK in 1996 and 2000 respectively. His PhD research work considered grating coupling of surface plasmon polaritons at visible and microwave frequencies. He continued to undertake microwave studies of photonic structures as a member of the same research group for a further four years. In October 2004 he was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship with the aim of modelling the electromagnetic response of, building, and characterising a wide range of photonic microstructured devices for use at microwave frequencies. He was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Exeter in April 2007, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. He now has a group of research staff and students working on microwave and acoustic metamaterials, and is co-director of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Metamaterials at Exeter.

Professor Roy Sambles FRS, University of Exeter, UK

Professor Roy Sambles FRS, University of Exeter, UK

Professor John Roy Sambles FRS, studied Physics at Imperial College London, obtaining a first class honours degree in 1967 and a PhD in solid state physics in 1970. In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society for his contribution to a broad range of research on the fundamentals of melting, spin waves in metals, molecular rectification, liquid crystal optics and plasmonics. He has supervised 75 PhD students and published over 500 papers in international journals. Latest among several awards has been the Faraday medal of the Institute of Physics in 2012.

At Exeter he leads the Electromagnetic and Acoustic Materials research team, exploring the response of electromagnetic and acoustic Metamaterials, and is also Director of the large EPSRC funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Electromagnetic Metamaterials, which commenced in April 2014. He is currently President Elect of the Institute of Physics.

Professor Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Professor Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  He received his Ph.D. degree from Caltech.  He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research including 2015 SPIE Gold Medal, 2015 Department of Defense’s National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) award, 2015 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from URSI, 2013 Benjamin Franklin Key Award, 2013 Inaugural SINA Award in Engineering, 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, and the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair.  Selected as one of the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006, he is a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist, a Fellow of IEEE, APS, OSA, SPIE, MRS, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has co-edited the book entitled “Metamaterials:  Physics and Engineering Explorations” by Wiley-IEEE Press, 2006.  He was the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics in June 2012.

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