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Advanced material platforms for holographic applications of photonic metasurfaces
(2024-06-10) - ThesisMetasurface holographic applications such as imaging, sensing, data encryption and biophotonics are promising for more advanced photonic devices. However, most prevailing material platforms are constrained to rigid substrates ... -
Holographic metasurfaces for imaging, trapping, sensing, and antennas applications
(2024-06-10) - ThesisHolographic metasurfaces are known for their effective manipulation of light properties. They are the two-dimensional version of bulk metamaterials and are made by artifact subwavelength meta-atoms. Their applications span ... -
Moving and changing : using cold gas and spatially resolved spectroscopy to understand galaxies as evolving dynamic systems
(2024-06-10) - ThesisGalaxies are vast systems which contain stars, gas, and dust, spiralling under the influence of gravity. On human timescales they appear constant and fixed, however these systems are in motion – moving internally at vast ... -
From candidate identification to planet characterization : a machine learning approach
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis is broken into three main sections tracing the steps of the development of a new framework to search for and characterize planets from the WASP survey. While all methods were developed specifically for the WASP ... -
Analogue event horizons in dielectric medium
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisIn this thesis I numerically study an optical pulse travelling in a dielectric medium as an analogue event horizon. A novel numerical method is developed to study the scattering properties of this optical system. Numerical ...