Unleashing the potential of metamaterial-driven light to matter interaction
| Dates: | 25 October 2023 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Joel Loh |
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Join this EEE research seminar - Photonic, Quantum Materials and Devices series seminar event.
Metamaterials are unique structures with light-matter interaction properties that are not seen in nature. The growing climate crisis has driven efforts to recycle and reduce our carbon emissions. This can be achieved by reducing the energy inputs or by seeking lower energetic pathways in common industrial reactions that create or reform chemical feedstock. I will discuss several examples of how metamaterial properties, associated with super-blackbody, impedance matching, bound-in-continuum states, and anapole resonances can be used to drive catalytic reactions. This is a young, emerging field with many unknowns in the interaction of metamaterial and its environment with heat, photo and/or electrical inputs. I will hypothesize about how conventional materials and surface characterization of the activation, adsorption, reaction and desorption stages of a reaction pathway can lead to insights in understanding these unique interactions. Understanding and designing these interactions will enable us to optimize metamaterials for a wide range important reactions, as well as benefit adjacent fields such as sensing and optics
Speaker
Dr Joel Loh
Role: Dame Kathleen Ollernshaw Fellow
Organisation: University of Manchester
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3.306
Alan Turing Building
Manchester
