04 March 2021: New special research student - Konosuke Shimazaki

Today we welcome a special research student to our unit from Kyoto University. Konosuke Shimazaki will spend one month working on optical nanofibre ca...

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27 February 2021: Publication in New J. Phys.

Spatial distributions of the fields in guided normal modes of two coupled parallel nanofibers, F Le Kien, L Ruks, S Nic Chormaic and T Busch,&nbs...

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26 February 2021: New intern in the unit

Ayushman Tripathi, an MEng student from the University of Ryukyus, joins the unit for an internship in mechanical engineering and fabrication&nbs...

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28 January 2021: Publication in OSA Continuum

Trapping of rare earth-doped nanorods using quasi Bessel beam optical fiber tweezers.  RA Minz, U Tiwari, A Kumar, S Nic Chormaic, K Lahlil, T Ga...

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13 January 2021: Publication in Applied Physics Letters

Dynamic multiple nanoparticle trapping using metamaterial plasmonic tweezers, DG Kotsifaki, VG Truong and S Nic Chormaic, Appl. Phys. Lett. ...

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