News from the lab! 🤩
Is it possible to switch a material from being an absorber to an amplifier just by changing the phase of light?
By treating a thin film of ITO as a time-varying medium, we achieved 400% amplification and 80% absorption within the same structure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prof Chris Jackson
Interesting article on UK academia and its financial pressure by @milespadgett.bsky.social and @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social
wonkhe.com/blogs/a-more...
Impact of demographic change in one image.
The researchers show that a subwavelength film of indium tin oxide, the bulk permittivity of which is strategically modulated via optical pumping, can be dynamically tuned to act as both a non-resonan...
Anton Muscatelli and Miles Padgett think through the deeper issues in UK research – from cost recovery and dual support to doctoral training and organisational structure – that won’t be solved by simp...
