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Scalable interdigitated photoconductive emitters for the electrical modulation of terahertz beams with arbitrary linear polarization

C.D.W. Mosley, M. Staniforth, A. I. Hernandez Serrano, E. Pickwell-MacPherson and J. Lloyd-Hughes
AIP Advances 9, 045323 (Apr 2019) [ pdf ] [ ref ]

Fri 26 Apr 2019, 09:00 | Tags: Paper Terahertz Analytical spectroscopy

Giant negative terahertz photoconductivity in controllably doped carbon nanotube networks

M.G. Burdanova, A.P. Tsapenko, D.A. Satco, R.J. Kashtiban, C.D.W. Mosley, M. Monti, M. Staniforth, J. Sloan, Y. Gladush, A.G. Nasibulin and J. Lloyd-Hughes
ACS Photonics just accepted (Mar 2019) [ pdf ] [ ref ]

Fri 15 Mar 2019, 08:00 | Tags: Paper Terahertz OPTP Analytical spectroscopy

Congratulations to Daniel on his poster prize

Congratulations to Daniel Coxon on winning first prize in the poster competition at Warwick Chemistry's ChemContext event. Daniel is working on defects in Diamond at the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and presented a poster titled "The Crystal Maze".

Tue 12 Feb 2019, 10:00 | Tags: PhD Prizes/awards News

The role of symmetric functionalisation on photoisomerisation of a UV commercial chemical filter

J.M. Woolley, J.S. Peters, M.A.P. Turner, G.J. Clarkson, M.D. Horbury and V.G. Stavros
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2019) [ref]

Thu 31 Jan 2019, 11:30 | Tags: Paper TEAS Analytical spectroscopy

Determination of secondary species in solution through pump-selective transient absorption spectroscopy and explicit-solvent TDDFT

M.A.P. Turner, M.D. Horbury, V.G. Stavros and N.D.M. Hine
J. Phys. Chem. A, 123 (2019) 873

Tue 08 Jan 2019, 16:00 | Tags: Paper TEAS Analytical spectroscopy

Thanks for attending the UK THz Workshop

THz Workshop poster winnersThanks to everyone who attended the UK THz Workshop last week! We had a packed schedule of talks, over 30 posters, and 100 attendees from across the UK and beyond. Many congratulations to our Poster competition prize winners:

Congratulations to our poster prize winners: Reshma Anamari Mohandas (Leeds) and Peter Karlsen (Exeter) won the postdoc prize; Luana Olivieri (Sussex), Connor Mosley (Warwick), Lucy Hale (UCL) and Matt Reeves (Bath) won the PhD prize.

Tue 18 Dec 2018, 10:00 | Tags: Conferences PhD Prizes/awards News

Substituent position effects on sunscreen photodynamics: a closer look at methyl anthranilate

N. D. N. Rodrigues, N. Cole-Filipiak, M. A. P. Turner, K. Krokidi, G. L. Thornton, G. W. Richings, N. D. M. Hines and V. G. Stavros.
Chem. Phys. 515, 596-602 (2018) [ref]

Wed 14 Nov 2018, 11:30 | Tags: Paper TEAS Analytical spectroscopy

Nobel Prize Colloquium : Intense Laser Beams

White light generated from a plasma On 24th October a special Departmental Colloquium in the Physics Department commemorated the recent 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Sutherland. The prize celebrated the trios' "groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”. Dr Gavin Morley spoke about the invention of optical tweezers, and their widespread adoption and use today. Dr James Lloyd-Hughes described the discovery and principles of chirped-pulse amplification, which is now used worldwide to create incredibly intense laser pulses for laser machining (micromachining and laser eye surgery) and scientific applications.

Chirped pulse amplification is the technique used in WCUS to produce our amplified laser pulses, which we use to perform ultrafast spectroscopy across the electromagnetic spectrum. As an example of the extreme intensity now routinely available, this video shows the focussed laser beam output producing a plasma (white ball, bottom right). The "buzz" on the video is the sound of the laser creating a mini explosion 1000 times per second. In addition to glowing, the plasma acts as a non-linear source of light, hence the blue/white/red glow on the top left. Thanks to Dr Mick Staniforth & Connor Mosley for the video.

Wed 24 Oct 2018, 17:00 | Tags: Conferences News

UK-THz Workshop @ Warwick

We would like to invite you to the University of Warwick in December to a workshop on terahertz (THz) science and technology, with the theme "THz Instrumentation and Applications". The scientific and technical session of talks and posters will be on Tuesday 11th December, with a welcome dinner on campus the night before (Monday 10th). The event is being organised by Emma MacPherson & James Lloyd-Hughes in Warwick, with help from some of the previous EPSRC Teranet network steering group. Registration and the programme are available here.

Sat 20 Oct 2018, 09:00 | Tags: Conferences Terahertz News

Hot carriers in the perovskite semiconductor CsRbSnI3

Results from one of our PhD students, Maurizio Monti, have just been accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. C. Well done to Maurizio on his first paper, and the first paper from the optical-pump THz-probe (OPTP) spectroscopy beamline at WCUS. In this work we have used OPTP to study how rapidly the energetic carriers in a perosvkite semiconductor relax in energy within their bands.

Tue 21 Aug 2018, 09:59 | Tags: News

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