News and events

Thanks to everyone for coming to the group social trip to Kenilworth Castle on Halloween. Here are a few pictures of the Tera-ific Team THz enjoying the medieval surrounds of this beautiful castle.

A very warm welcome to our 4 new PhD students, who have just started their THz adventures! Hannah and Xavier are working with Emma on THz imaging and biomedical applications, while Helen (supervised by Becky) and Edward (supervised by James) are studying the wonderful world of perovskite semiconductors. Best of luck.

We would like to invite you to the University of Warwick in December to a workshop on terahertz (THz) science and technology. Dinner and accommodation are available on campus at a heavily discounted rate on the night of Monday 10th December. The scientific and technical session of talks and posters will be on Tuesday 11th December. The event is being organised by Emma MacPherson & James Lloyd-Hughes in Warwick, with help from some of the Teranet group.

For more details and to register please use this link.

We would like to welcome Dr Rebecca Milot to the department, where she started as an Asst. Prof. in September. Dr Milot is an expert on terahertz spectroscopy of materials for solar energy applications. She is based in Physics 2.32 and is setting up a new lab in Physics, as well as making use of the existing Ultrafast & THz group labs. Welcome Becky!

Congratulations to Sarah on the publication of her work on the vibrational properties of methylammonium lead halide perovskites, which you can read more about in J. Phys. Chem. C. In this work thin-film total internal reflection (TF-TIR) spectroscopy is shown to have an enhanced sensitivity to the vibrational properties of thin films in comparison to standard THz transmission spectroscopy. This increased sensitivity was used to track photoinduced modifications in the strengths of phonon modes under illumination.

Many congratulations to Dr Failla, who was recently awarded one of the Faculty of Science doctoral thesis prizes. Well done, Michele!

We welcome Arturo to the group, where he has just started a postdoc with Emma. Arturo recently completed his PhD in Enrique Castro Camus's group at CIO, Mexico.

We'd like to welcome Qiushao (Sarah) Sun to the group in Warwick. She is completing her PhD at CU Hong Kong, in Emma's group, and will be visiting the department for a year.

Our work on the conductivity of double-walled carbon nanotubes wrapped in xylan, a type of hemicellulose, has recently been published in Nanotechnology. Importantly the tubes were efficiently dispersed in water, and had excellent conductive properties. The hemicellulose was shown to not seriously interfere with the inter-tube conductance. This work was led by our collaborators in Finland at Jyvaskyla. Thanks to Maria & Connor for their efforts on our FTIR and THz-TDS results.

Congratulations to Connor on the publication of his recent work in a special issue of J. Phys. D: Applied Physics devoted to the applications of ultrafast spectroscopy. In this work we demonstrate that terahertz electromagnons can be used to directly probe the nature of a phase transition between magnetically ordered phases in the improper ferroelectric CuO.