Other Impacts

Exhibit at BeCurious 2019 (part of Leeds Festival of Science)

The Leeds HyperTHz team exhibiting at the Be Curious festival in 2019. The team provided THz spectroscopy and imaging demonstrations alongside hands on activities including a laser maze.

Exhibit at Royal Society Summer Exhibition Discovery Hub 2019

The Leeds HyperTHz team exhibiting at the Royal Society Summer exhibition in 2019. The team provided THz spectroscopy and imaging demonstrations alongside hands on activities including a laser maze. Dr Paul Dean delivered a talk.

Related Programme grant awarded in Non-Ergodic Quantum Manipulation (Pepper, Ritchie et al), £7M 2019-2023.

KTN Emerging Technologies and Industries Showcase, London, May 2018

The Leeds Team visited the Emerging Technologies and industries showcase in London with a demonstration of THz imaging and Prof. Edmund Linfield provided a talk.

University seminar delivered: Lucy Hale: “Aperture-type collection mode near-field microscopy and spectroscopy of individual sub-wavelength THz resonators,” November 2018, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 2018.

Lecture at Summer School: Oleg Mitrofanov: “THz near-field microscopy technique and applications with focus on aperture-type near-field imaging.” PETER Summer School, Oct 3-5, 2018, Brno, Czech Rep.

New Investigator Award, PI Dr R Degl’Innoncenti: (EPSRC Reference: EP/S019383/1) “THz metamaterial/graphene optoelectronic modulators” 15/1/2019 to14/1/2021.

Aligned grant awarded: EPSRC grant EP/R00501X: “The Physics of plasmonic gain in low-dimensional electronic systems”, J Cunningham, C D Wood, E H Linfield, and A G Davies, £527,764, Dec 2017 for three years (part of a ~£1M consortium, collaborative with Imperial College).

Aligned iCASE award from NPL, start date Oct 2018 for four years, “Metrology for sub-mm-wave communications and electronics”, J Cunningham, N Ridler, and R Clarke.

THz QCL imaging instrument presented at KTN Emerging Technologies and Industries Showcase events: Emerging Imaging Technologies, 1st May, London.

Kasia Balakier awarded an EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship (2018).

Video Production on THz applications for public engagement activity of HyperTHz programme grant.