Publications | Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation

2023

Title	Journal
Glancing-angle deposition of magnetic in-plane exchange springs	Physical Review Applied
Inverse Design of Thin-Plate Elastic Wave Devices	Physical Review Applied
First principles study of layered transition metal dichalcogenides for use as electrodes in Li-ion and Mg-ion batteries	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Controlling in-plane magnetic anisotropy of Co films on MgO substrates using glancing angle deposition	Physica Status Solidi (a)
First principles study of layered scandium disulfide for use as Li-ion and beyond-Li-ion batteries	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Herringbone micromixers for particle filtration	Biomicrofluidics

Research2022

Title	Journal
Inverse design in the complex plane: Manipulating quasi-normal modes	Physical Review A
Designing Disordered Multi-Functional Metamaterials using the Discrete Dipole Approximation	New Journal of Physics
Synthesis of monolayered n-type WSe2 from solid state inorganic precursors	Nanoscale
MOF-Derived Multi-heterostructured Composites for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution: Deciphering the Roles of Different Components	Energy & Fuels
Tailoring the refractive index of impedance-matched ferrite composites	Scientific Reports
Optical and Thermal Design and Analysis of Phase-Change Metalenses for Active Numerical Aperture Control	Nanomaterials
Phase Stability and Electronic Properties of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Solid Solution (CH(NH2)2)x(CH3NH3)1–xPb(BryI1–y)3 as a Function of Composition	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Confined acoustic line modes within a glide-symmetric waveguide	Scientific Reports
Computational analysis of the enhancement of photoelectrolysis using transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures	Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
High‐Harmonic Generation Enhancement with Graphene Heterostructures	Advanced Optical Materials
Space squeezing optics: Performance limits and implementation at microwave frequencies	APL Photonics
Reflectionless anisotropic multilayers for both polarisations at grazing incidence	EPJ Applied Metamaterials
Effect of Multilayered Structure on the Static and Dynamic Properties of Magnetic Nanospheres	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Rigorous dynamical model of a silicon ring resonator with phase change material for a neuromorphic node	Optics Express
A thermophone-based bridge circuit for the measurement of electrical and thermal properties of thin films	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Resonator-based Pressure Sensor for Wall Pressure	28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics 2022 Conference
An integrated photonics engine for unsupervised correlation detection	Science Advances
Electric Transport in Few-Layer ReSe2 Transistors Modulated by Air Pressure and Light	Nanomaterials
Designing metasurfaces to manipulate antenna radiation	Metamaterials XIII, Proceedings of SPIE
Removing grazing incidence reflection with half-boundstates and non-Hermitian systems	Metamaterials XIII, Proceedings of SPIE
Tailoring the Spectral Response of Multilayered Chiral Mid-Infrared Metamaterials	CLEO: QELSFundamental Science
Comparing Individual DNA Transient Hybridization Kinetics Using DNA-PAINT and Optoplasmonic Sensing techniques	CLEO: QELSFundamental Science
All-optical control of phase singularities using strong light-matter coupling	Nature Communications
Implicit image processing with ghost imaging	Optics Express
2D hybrid perovskite for light sensing	nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022
3D printed metaparticles based on platonic solids for isotropic, multimode microwave scattering	2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Quantum Brownian motion for magnets	New Journal of Physics
Enrichment of low concentration methane: An overview of ventilation air methane	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Slow waves on long helices	Scientific Reports
Toward efficient and tailorable mid-infrared emitters utilizing multilayer graphene	Applied Physics Letters
Topological transitions in arrays of dipoles coupled to a cavity waveguide	Physical Review Research
Single-Step Fabrication of High-Performance Extraordinary Transmission Plasmonic Metasurfaces Employing Ultrafast Lasers	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Excited State Spectroscopy of Boron Vacancy Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Using Time-Resolved Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance	Nano Letters

Research2021

Title	Journal
Tailoring the spectral properties of layered chiral mid-infrared metamaterials	Applied Physics Letters
Excited State Spectroscopy of Boron Vacancy Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Using Time-Resolved Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance	Nano Letters
Transition Metal Synthetic Ferrimagnets: Tunable Media for All-Optical Switching Driven by Nanoscale Spin Current	Nano Letters
Experimental characterization of acoustic beaming from an elastic plate by coupled symmetric leaky Lamb modes	Physical Review B
Designing the collective non-local responses of metasurfaces	Communications Physics
Coupled Scholte modes supported by soft elastic plates in water	Physical Review E
Recent Advances in Metal–Organic Frameworks Derived Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Applications in Energy and Environment	Advanced Science
Supersymmetry, half-bound states, and grazing incidence reflection	Journal of Optics
Enhanced Performance and Diffusion Robustness of Phase-Change Metasurfaces via a Hybrid Dielectric/Plasmonic Approach	Nanomaterials
Time-domain imaging of curling modes in a confined magnetic vortex and a micromagnetic study exploring the role of spiral spin waves emitted by the core	Physical Review B
An in situ investigation of the thermal decomposition of metal-organic framework NH2-MIL-125 (Ti)	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Electrical Detection of DC Spin Current Propagation Through an Epitaxial Antiferromagnetic NiO Layer	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Research2020

Title	Journal
Graphene coated fabrics by ultrasonic spray coating for wearable electronics and smart textiles	Journal of Physics: Materials
Bimetal-organic framework derived multi-heterostructured TiO2/CuxO/C nanocomposites with superior photocatalytic H2 generation performance	Journal of Materials Chemistry A (JMCA)
Microfluidic devices powered by integrated elasto-magnetic pumps	Lab on a Chip
Calcium-stannous oxide solid solutions for solar devices	Applied Physics Letters
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Urdu translation)	Mashal Books (publishing company)
Hippopede curves for modelling radial spin waves in an azimuthal graded magnonic landscape	Physical Review B
Performance characteristics of phase-change integrated silicon nitride photonic devices in the O and C telecommunications bands	Optical Materials Express
Tunable pseudo-magnetic fields for polaritons in strained metasurfaces	Nature Photonics
Surface functionalized N-C-TiO2/C nanocomposites derived from metal-organic framework in water vapour for enhanced photocatalytic H2 generation	Journal of Energy Chemistry (JEC)
Coupling and confinement of current in thermoacoustic phased arrays	Science Advances
Status and Future Directions of Anti-metastatic Cancer Nanomedicines for the Inhibition of Cathepsin L	Frontiers in Nanotechnology
The Potential of Overlayers on Tin-based Perovskites for Water Splitting	The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Symmetry and Finite-size Effects in Quasi-optical Extraordinarily THz Transmitting Arrays of Tilted Slots	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Microwave Superdirectivity with Dimers of Helical Elements	Physical Review Applied
Wide-band electromagnetic wave propagation and resonance in long cobalt nanoprisms	Physical Review Applied
O-band N-rich silicon nitride MZI based on GST	Applied Physics Letters
Experimental investigation of silicon and silicon nitride platforms for phase change photonic computing	Optica
Selective reconfigurable multilevel control of resonant modes in hybrid all-dielectric/phase-change metasurfaces	Optica
Revealing the underlying mechanisms behind TE extraordinary THz transmission	Photonics Journal
Sub-wavelength plasmonic-enhanced phase-change memory	SPIE Photonic West 2020
Simple technique for determining the refractive index of phase-change materials using near-infrared reflectometry	Optical Materials Express
Nanostructured porous graphene for efficient removal of emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals) from water	Chemical Engineering Journal
Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (RPICs) based on functional materials for integrated optical communication applications	Proceedings of SPIE
Three-dimensional profiling of collimated radio-frequency orbital angular momentum beams	Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Polyoxometallates@zeolitic-imidazolate-framework derived bimetallic tungsten-cobalt sulfide/porous carbon nanocomposites as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution	Electrochimica Acta

Research2019

Title	Journal
Dynamics of spiral spin waves in magnetic nanopatches: Influence of thickness and shape	American Physical Society
Underwater acoustic surface waves on a periodically perforated metal plate	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
High efficiency photomodulators for millimeter wave and THz radiation	Scientific Reports
Coupled Scholte Modes in “Soft” Elastic Plates Underwater	UK Acoustics Network, Special Interest Group in Underwater Acoustics
Superdirective Antennas of Coupled Helical Elements	2019 Thirteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials)
Coupled Scholte Modes in Plastic Plates Underwater	2019 Defence and Security Doctoral Symposium
Metamaterial analogues of molecular aggregates	ACS Photonics
A Ferrite-Filled Cavity Resonator for Electronic Article Surveillance on Metallic Packaging	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Terahertz Applications Of Non-simply-connected and Helical Nanostructures	Fundamental and Applied NanoElectroMagnnetics II: THz Circuits, Materials, Devices (Chapter 11)
Mechanochemical synthesis of carbon-stabilized Cu/C, Co/C and Ni/C nanocomposites with prolonged resistance to oxidation	Scientific Reports
Experimental characterisation of the bound acoustic surface modes supported by honeycomb and hexagonal hole arrays	Scientific Reports
The Fundamental Mechanism Behind Colossal Permittivity in Oxides	Advanced Materials
Coupled Scholte Modes in Plastic Plates Underwater	SAM 2019: Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials
Coupled Scholte modes supported by “soft” elastic plates underwater	2019 Rank Prize Funds Symposium
Determination of inclusion depth in ex vivo animal tissues using surface enhanced deep Raman spectroscopy	Journal of Biophotonics
Optimal position of an emitter in a wavelength-scale parabolic reflector	Applied Optics
Tuning silicon-rich nitride microring resonances with graphene capacitors for high-performance computing applications	Optics Express
Controlling collective rotational patterns of magnetic rotors	Nature Communications
Graded index lenses for spin wave steering	Physical Review B
Behavioral modeling of integrated phase-change photonic devices for neuromorphic computing applications	APL Materials
Simultaneous modulation in the O and C communications bands using hybrid dielectric-plasmonic phase-change metasurfaces	European \ Phase Change and Ovonics Symposium (pp178-179)
Double-Gated Nanohelix as a Novel Tunable Binary Superlattice	Nanoscale Research Letters
Novel Au–SiO2–WO3 Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Potential Application in Cancer Cell Imaging	Advanced Functional Materials
2D WS2 liquid crystals: tunable functionality enabling diverse applications	Nanoscale
A behavioural model for integrated phase-change photonics devices	Proceedings E\PCOS 2019
A plasmonic route towards the energy scaling of on-chip integrated all-photonic phase-change memories	EPCOS 2019
Metasurface bilayer for slow microwave surface waves	Physical Review B
Controlling acoustic waves using magneto-elastic Fano resonances	Applied Physics Letters
Plasmonically-enhanced all-optical integrated phase-change memory	Optics Express
Photoluminescence from NV− Centres in 5 nm Detonation Nanodiamonds: Identification and High Sensitivity to Magnetic Field	Nanoscale Research Letters
Porous graphene – a potential sorbent for removing emerging contaminants from water	International Conference on Green Energy and Environmental Technology
Transmission Properties of FeCl3-Intercalated Graphene and WS2 Thin Films for Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Applications	Nanoscale Research Letters
Vibrational Strong Coupling with Surface Plasmons and the Presence of Surface Plasmon Stop Bands	ACS Photonics
A Nonvolatile Phase‐Change Metamaterial Color Display	Advanced Optical Materials
A metasurface comprising spiral shaped local resonators for surface acoustic waves	Physics D: Applied Physics
Hybridization of Multiple Vibrational Modes via Strong Coupling Using Confined Light Fields	Advanced Optical Materials
Extraordinary Transmission and Radiation From Finite by Infinite Arrays of Slots	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Spatially offset and transmission Raman spectroscopy for determination of depth of inclusion in turbid matrix	Analytical Chemistry
Microscale Magneto-Elastic Composite Swimmers at the Air-Water and Water-Solid Interfaces Under a Uniaxial Field	Phys. Rev. Applied
Gate tunable graphene-integrated metasurface modulator for mid-infrared beam steering	Optics Express
Diffraction by a truncated planar array of dipoles: a Wiener-Hopf approach	Wave Motion
Origins of All-Optical Generation of Plasmons in Graphene	Scientific Reports
Porous ZnO/Carbon nanocomposites derived from metal-organic frameworks for highly efficient photocatalytic applications – A correlational study	Carbon
Laser-writable high-k dielectric for van der Waals nanoelectronics	Science Advances
Multi-layer graphene as a selective detector for future lung cancer biosensing platforms	Nanoscale
Advanced Processing of Micropatterned Elasto-Magnetic Membranes	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Tunable Volatility of Ge2Sb2Te5 in Integrated Photonics	Advanced Functional Materials

Research2018

Title	Journal
Microwave edge modes on a metasurface with glide symmetry	Physical Review B
Realizing an ultra-wideband backward-wave metamaterial waveguide	Physical Review B
Metamaterial-enhanced infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy	Nanoscale
A Luneburg lens for spin waves	Applied Physics Letters
Wafer scale FeCl3 intercalated graphene electrodes for photovoltaic applications	Proceedings of SPIE
Phase-Change Metadevices for the Dynamic and Reconfigurable Control of Light	Novel Optical Materials and Applications
2D materials integrated in Si3N4 photonics platform	Proceedings of SPIE
A New Facile Route to Flexible and Semi-Transparent Electrodes Based on water Exfoliated Graphene and their Single-Electrode Triboelectric Nanogenerator	Advanced Materials
Phase-change band-pass filters for multispectral imaging	Proceedings of SPIE
Investigation of the coupling between tunable split-ring resonators	Physical Review B
Auxetic Structure for Increased Power Output of Strain Vibration Energy Harvester	Sensors & Actuators A. Physical
Designing scattering-free isotropic index profiles using phase-amplitude equations	Physical Review A
Reconfigurable phase-change meta-absorbers with on-demand quality factor control	Optics Express
A Broadband Stripline Technique for Characterizing Relative Permittivity and Permeability	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
From colloidal CdSe quantum dots to microscale optically anisotropic supercrystals through bottom-up self-assembly	Journal of Materials Chemistry C
The acoustic phase resonances and surface waves supported by a compound rigid grating	Scientific Reports
Torque driven ferromagnetic swimmers	AIP Physics of Fluids
Structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of multiphase ZnO/Zn(OH)₂/ZnO₂ nanocomposites and hexagonal prism shaped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by pulse laser ablation in Heptanes	Materials Chemistry and Physics
MOF Derived Porous ZnO/C Nanocomposites for Efficient Dye Photodegradation	Applied Energy Materials
Investigation into the toxic effects of graphene nanopores on lung cancer cells and biological tissues	Applied Materials Today
Biocompatibility and toxicity of graphene quantum dots for potential application in photodynamic therapy	Nanomedicine
Investigation of magnetic droplet solitons using x-ray holography with extended references	Scientific Reports
Manipulating type-I and type-II Dirac polaritons in cavity-embedded honeycomb metasurfaces	Nature Communications
Non-Gaussian Correlations between Reflected and Transmitted Intensity Patterns Emerging from Opaque Disordered Media	Physical Review X
One-Dimensional Multi-Channel Photonic Crystal Resonators Based on Silicon-On-Insulator With High Quality Factor	Frontiers in Physics
Investigating the nature of chiral near-field interactions	Physical Review B
Investigating the bioavailability of graphene quantum dots in lung tissues via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy	Interface Focus (Royal Society publishing)
Plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles	Physical Review B
Influence of luminescent graphene quantum dots on trypsin activity	International Journal of Nanomedicine
Nonvolatile Reconfigurable Phase-Change Metadevices for Beam Steering in the Near Infrared	Advanced Functional Materials
Novel circuit design for high-impedance and non-local electrical measurements of two-dimensional materials	AIP Review of Scientific Instruments
A new class of magnetically actuated pumps and valves for microfluidic applications	Scientific Reports
A facile synthesis of porous graphene for efficient water and wastewater treatment	Scientific Reports
Ideal Weyl points and helicoid surface states in artificial photonic crystal structures	Science

Research2017

Title	Journal
Emergent propagation modes of ferromagnetic swimmers in constrained geometries	Journal of Applied Physics
Tuning Terahertz transitions in a double-gated quantum ring	Physical Review B
Metamaterial-based graphene thermal emitter	Nano Research
First principles electronic and elastic properties of fresnoite Ba2TiSi2O2	Materials Research Express
Role of defect states in functionalized graphene photodetectors	SPIE Proceedings
Electromagnetic interactions in a pair of coupled split-ring resonators	Physical Review B
Time-resolved imaging investigation of the domain walls dynamics in Landau domain pattern	Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), 2017 IEEE International
Gapless States in Microwave Artificial Graphene	Applied Physics Letters
High-Mobility and High Optical Quality Atomically Thin WS2	Scientific Reports
Infrared Phase-Change Meta-Devices with In-Situ Switching	EPCOS 2017 Proceedings
Tunable Dielectric Metadevices Enabled by Phase-Change Materials	EPCOS 2017 Proceedings
Towards A Phase-Change Metamaterial CMY Subtractive Display	EPCOS 2017 Proceedings
In vitro toxic effects of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets on lung cancer cells	Nanotechnology
Developing the Next Generation of Graphene-based Platforms for Cancer Therapeutics: the Potential Role of Reactive Oxygen Species	Redox Biology
Tracing the bioavailability of three-dimensional graphene foam in biological tissues	Materials, Vol 10. No. 4
Design of strong-coupling microcavities for optoelectronic applications	CLEO/Europe-EQEC, 2017
Dispersion of surface waves supported by truncated metasurfaces	2017 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium
Hidden dimensions make broadband metasurfaces (News article)	Nanotechweb IOP
Comparative study between resonant transmission and extraordinary transmission in truncated periodic arrays of slots	2017 IEEE MTT-S NEMO Proceedings
Tuning THz transitions in a quantum ring with two gates	Physics, Chemistry and Application of Nanostructures: Reviews and Short Notes to Nanomeeting-2017
A broadband metasurface Luneburg lens for microwave surface waves	Applied Physics Letters
Modification of Charge Carrier Mobility by Strong Light-Matter Coupling in Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors	OSA Publishing
Low Temperature Annealing Improves the Electrochromic and Degradation Behavior of Tungsten Oxide (WOx) Thin Films	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
On the extraordinary optical transmission in parallel plate waveguides for non-TEM modes	Optics Express
Mimicking glide symmetry dispersion with coupled slot metasurfaces	Applied Physics Letters
Designer surface plasmon dispersion on a one-dimensional periodic slot metasurface with glide symmetry	Optics Letters
Zero reflection and transmission in graded index media	Journal of Optics
Theory of linear spin wave emission from a Bloch domain wall	Physical Review B
A highly attenuating and frequency tailorable annular hole phononic crystal for surface acoustic waves	Nature Communications
Direct observation of topological surface-state arcs in photonic metamaterials	Nature Communications
2D Material Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronics and Photonics	Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Theoretical and experimental exploration of ﬁnite sample size effects on the propagation of surface waves supported by slot arrays	Physical Review B
Dynamic susceptibility of concentric permalloy rings with opposite chirality vortices	Journal of Applied Physics
Fast and Highly Sensitive Ionic-Polymer-Gated WS2–Graphene Photodetectors	Advanced Materials
Perfect Transmission through Disordered Media	Physical Review Letters
Non-classical correlations of multiply scattered light	OSA Technical Digest (online)
Magnetically controlled ferromagnetic swimmers	Scientific Reports
Dynamic in-situ sensing of fluid-dispersed 2D materials integrated on microfluidic Si chip	Scientific Reports
Role of Charge Traps in the Performance of Atomically Thin Transistors	Advanced Materials

Research2016

Title	Journal
Resonantly induced transparency for metals with low angular dependence	Applied Physics Letters
Time-resolved imaging of magnetic vortex dynamics using holography with extended reference autocorrelation by linear differential operator	Scientific Reports
Fast High-Responsivity Few-Layer MoTe2 Photodetectors	Advanced Optical Materials
Fluid Mobility over Corrugated Surfaces in the Stokes Regime	Physics of Fluids
Holographic imaging of magnetization in a single layer nano-contact spin transfer oscillator	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Computationally efficient analysis of extraordinary optical transmission through infinite and truncated subwavelength hole arrays	Physical Review E
Time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy of flux beam formation in hard disk write heads	Journal of Applied Physics
Homogeneously bright, flexible and foldable lighting devices with functionalised graphene electrodes	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Design of practicable phase-change metadevices for near-infrared absorber and modulator applications	Optics Express
On the origin of pure optical rotation in twisted-cross metamaterials	Scientific Reports
Wave Propagation in complex coordinates	Journal of Optics
Graphene Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Properties and Biological Applications	Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering
Quantum correlation of light scattered by disordered media	Optics Express

Research2015

Title	Journal
Synthesis and Characterization of Water Soluble Self-passivated Graphene Quantum dots for biological applications	IEEE conference proceeding
Compact Broadband Terahertz Perfect Absorber Based on Multi-Interference and Diffraction Effects	IEEE Transactions On Terahertz Science And Technology