Postgraduate research projects
In addition to the projects listed below we encourage interested applicants to browse our research pages for areas of our research they are interested in and to contact the members of academic staff concerned.
Specific fully-funded PhD projects can become available throughout the year. Current positions will be listed on our Funding for postgraduates page.
Electromagnetic materials projects
- Electro-mechanical properties of graphene
- Meta-metamaterials
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Study of aperiodic metamaterials at microwave frequencies
- Micromagnetic studies of magnonic metamaterials
- Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons
- Developing the use of microwaves to characterise natural photonics
- Miniaturising planar microwave resonators with permeable materials
- Seeing the magnetic nano-world with near field magneto-optical nanoscopy
- Picosecond dynamics of nanoscale Spin Transfer Torque devices
- Pseudo-plasmonic waveguides
- Slow plasmonics
- Ultrafast spin dynamics in complex magnetic nano-structures
- Ultrafast magneto-optical characterization of magnetic recording materials
- Spin-wave and domain wall dynamics in vertical magnetic nanowires
- Viscodynamics of lyotropic liquid crystals
- Anisotropic 'designer' surface plasmons
- Collective plasmonic resonances to control light at the nano-scale
- Magnonic networks: spin waves in magnonic waveguides
- Plasmonics and magneto-optics
- Novel fabrication strategies for magnonics
- Magnonic meta-meta-materials
- Predictive theoretical modelling in magnonics
