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Material layers compress empty space between optical components
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Lauren Barr is a postgraduate contributor to Physics World. Lauren is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Tailored Electromagnetic and Acoustic Materials – Accelerator project at the University of Exeter, where she previously obtained a PhD from the XM2 Centre for Doctoral Training. She has had plenty of opportunities to explore interesting physics, but most of her research involves studying electromagnetic interactions in complex and novel materials, particularly at terahertz and microwave frequencies. She also enjoys climbing, knitting and brewing beer, and takes any opportunity to share her passion for physics with the general public.
Material layers compress empty space between optical components
Increasing the refractive index of dielectric particles creates intense and narrow photonic nanojets of radiation that allow super subwavelength imaging
Graphene controls the Brewster angle of reflection and allows record-breaking control of terahertz beams
The inverse charge funnelling effect pushes charges to easy collection points in few-layer hafnium disulphide flakes, thanks to strain from laser-induced oxidation
Unprecedented chiroptical activity is reported from planar chiral nanostructures made from high-index dielectrics, thanks to high-order multipoles
Nano-sized chiral magnetic particles suspended in a gel allow real-time control of the polarization state of light
Dark-mode resonators provide low-profile, high Q-factor, tuneable lasers
Laser-writing photoactive junctions in iron-chloride intercalated graphene leads to a photodetector that can operate inside a functioning nuclear reactor
By introducing a constantly varying curvature in a nanomagnet, researchers find stable vortex-antivortex pairs, and take a step towards magnetization-based logic devices
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