News

We’re delighted to host Unbounded, a sculpture installation by NanoPhotonics Artist in Residence Melissa Pierce Murray. For more about Melissa’s work and exhibition, visit the link.

PhD student Sarah Sibug-Torres was interviewed by the BBC and showed them our new lab spaces in the Ray Dolby Centre. Read the article here!

PhD students from the NanoPhotonics Centre have attended Femincam, a one-day conference celebrating emerging women in science and leaders in electronic materials. During the event Sara Rocchetti also presented her poster on “Amplified plasmonic forces from DNA-origami scaffolded single dyes in nanogaps”.

A number of group members recently attended ICAVS12 in Krakow. Congratulations to Yuling who won the prize for the best flash presentation and to Marika for winning the best flash presentation audience award!

Sara Rocchetti won the best poster award at the 10th Chemical and NanoScience symposium Newcastle (CNSN-X) with her work on DNA origami and nanophotonics. Well done!

An £8.6M EPSRC programme grant on Ubiquitous Optical Healthcare Technologies (UbOHT)  has been awarded to Jeremy Baumberg along with other researchers from Cambridge, York, Strathclyde and Exeter, with the aim to build new types of low-cost biosensor to help with the monitoring, prevention and management of diseases. Read more here. 

Congratulations to Aoife Gregg, who won second prize in the Cavendish Photography Competition for her video entitled ‘Microscale actuators from carbon nanotube and hydrogel composites’, and to Eric Görlitzer for his photo of ‘Nanophotonic tools to watch behaviour of individual atoms, molecules, quantum dots and solid-state…

Why do grapes explode in a microwave oven? How does nanostructured chocolate look like? What do nanoparticles on a mirror and Homer Simpson have in common? As part of Physics at Work 2022 , 36 groups of high school students visited our exhibit about plasmonics and nano-optics. Read more here Read more…

A news article has been written about the recent Sciences Advances paper ‘ Optical suppression of energy barriers in single molecule-metal binding ‘ in the IOP optics and photonics research update. Read the article here !

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/revealed-winning-entries-department-s-2020-21-zeiss-photography-competition

“It’s like listening to slow-rippling earthquake waves by colliding them with a violin string to get a high whistle that’s easy to hear, and without breaking the violin,” – Professor Jeremy Baumberg Read the university’s press release for Angelos, Rohit and co.’s latest Science paper, Detecting mid-infrared light by molecular frequency upconversion in dual-wavelength nanoantennas.  Read more…