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Dr Ian Hooper

Senior Research Fellow

 I.R.Hooper@exeter.ac.uk

 (Streatham) 2501 or (Streatham - Lab) 4187

 01392 722501 or (Lab) 01392 724187


Overview

I am an experimental physicist specialising in metamaterials and, more generally, wave-matter interactions. I first joined the University of Exeter as an undergraduate in 1995, before continuing on as a PhD student studying surface plasmons on diffraction gratings. Subsequent post-doctoral positions have taken me from working in the optical region of the spectrum all the way through to mm waves, and has seen me work on projects focused on bio-sensors, microscopy, anti-counterfeiting features, antennas, RFID, and liquid crystal devices. Though many of these projects were application and device focused, I have also maintained my research into the fundamental physics of wave-matter interactions. More recently I was the Technical Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials, before returning to full-time research as part of an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership between the University and QinetiQ Ltd. (http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/team-a/). Currently I am employed on an EPSRC Centre-to-Centre collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Clarkson University, and the City University of New York, developing reconfigurable spatial modulators for GHz-THz frequency electromagnetic radiation (https://emps.exeter.ac.uk/metamaterial-cmri/workwithus/a-meta/).

Positions and Employment

  • 1998 - 2002, Post Graduate Researcher, University of Exeter - Surface Plasmons on Diffraction Gratings
  • 2002 - 2004, Research Fellow, University of Exeter - Pixelated, Dynamic Surface Plasmon Sensor
  • 2004 - 2005, Teaching Fellow, University of Exeter - Optical Nano-structures in Nature
  • 2005 - 2008, Research Fellow, University of Exeter - 2D Surface Plasmon Resonance Imagin for Bio-chemical Sensing
  • 2008 - 2009, Research Fellow, University of Exeter - Structured-light Microscopy
  • 2009 - 2011, Research Fellow, University of Exeter - Knowledge Transfer Account with QinetiQ Ltd. (Anti-counterfeiting Features and RFID)
  • 2011 - 2014, Research Fellow, University of Exeter - QUEST: The Quest for Ultimate in Electromagnetics via Spatial Transformations (RF and Microwave Metamaterials)
  • 2014 - 2018, Technical Director XM2, University of Exeter - Technical director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials (XM2 - http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/metamaterials/)
  • 2018 - 2022, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter - TEAM-A: The Tailored Electromagnetic and Acoustic Materials Accelerator. An EPSRC Prosperity Partnership with QinetiQ Ltd. (RF and Microwave Metamaterials)
  • 2022 - Present, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter - A-Meta. An EPSRC Centre-to-Centre collaboration with multiple universities in the USA (Reconfigurable mm-wave devices)

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Publications

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2023

  • Chaplain GJ, Moore D, Hooper I, Hibbins A, Sambles J, Starkey T. (2023) Beyond-nearest-neighbour metamaterials, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 154, no. 4_supplement, pages a156-a156, DOI:10.1121/10.0023108.
  • Mrnka M, Penketh H, Hooper IR, Saxena S, Grant NE, Murphy JD, Phillips DB, Hendry E. (2023) Terahertz imaging through emissivity control, Optica, volume 10, no. 12, DOI:10.1364/optica.503936.
  • Mrnka M, Penketh H, Hooper IR, Saxena S, Grant NE, Murphy JD, Phillips DB, Hendry E. (2023) Terahertz imaging through emissivity control. [PDF]
  • Chaplain GJ, Hooper IR, Hibbins AP, Starkey TA. (2023) Reconfigurable Elastic Metamaterials: Engineering Dispersion with Beyond Nearest Neighbors, Physical Review Applied, volume 19, no. 4, article no. 044061, DOI:10.1103/physrevapplied.19.044061. [PDF]
  • Gallagher C, Hamilton J, Hooper I, Sambles JR, Hibbins A, Lawrence C, John B. (2023) Multi-resonant Tessellated Anchor-based Metasurfaces (Dataset).

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2017

  • Hibbins AP, Dautova J, Shytov A, Hooper IR, Sambles JR. (2017) Gapless states in microwave artificial graphene.
  • Dautova YN, Shytov AV, Hooper IR, Sambles, Hibbins AP. (2017) Gapless states in microwave artificial graphene, Applied Physics Letters, volume 110, article no. 261605, DOI:10.1063/1.4989580.

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2004

  • Giannattasio A, Hooper IR, Barnes WL. (2004) Transmission of light through thin silver films via surface plasmon-polaritons, OPTICS EXPRESS, volume 12, no. 24, pages 5881-5886, DOI:10.1364/OPEX.12.005881.
  • Sambles, J.R.. (2004) Sensing using differential surface plasmon ellipsometry, Journal of Applied Physics, volume 96, pages 3004-3011.
  • Hooper IR, Sambles JR. (2004) Coupled surface plasmon polaritons on thin metal slabs corrugated on both surfaces, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, volume 70.
  • Lawrence, C.R., Hooper, I.R.. (2004) Broad-band polarization conversion from a finite periodic structure in the microwave regime, Applied Physics Letters, volume 84, pages 849-851.
  • Sambles, J.R.. (2004) Differential ellipsometric surface plasmon resonance sensors with liquid crystal polarization modulators, Applied Physics Letters, volume 85, pages 3017-3019.
  • Wedge S, Hooper IR, Sage I, Barnes WL. (2004) Light emission through a corrugated metal film: The role of cross-coupled surface plasmon polaritons, PHYS REV B, volume 69, no. 24, article no. 245418, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.69.245418.

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2002

  • Hooper IR, Sambles JR. (2002) Broadband Polarization-converting Mirror for the Visible Region of the Spectrum, Optics Letters, volume 27, pages 2152-2154.
  • Hooper IR, Sambles JR. (2002) Dispersion of surface plasmon polaritons on short-pitch metal gratings, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, volume 65, no. 16, pages 1654321-1654329.
  • Hooper IR, Sambles JR. (2002) Surface plasmon polaritons on narrow-ridged short-pitch metal gratings, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, volume 66.

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