Professor Sir Michael Pepper Awarded Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Visiting Professorships to India
Professor Sir Michael Pepper, Pender Professor in Nanoelectronics, LCN and EEE, is among 5 scientists awarded the Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Visiting Professorships to India. The Visiting Professorships are part of a Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Programme for India that...
Taking Maxwell’s equations for a spin
John Clerk Maxwell developed his famous Maxwell Equations whilst working at King’s College London in the late 19th Century. The Maxwell Equations are four equations which link the fundamental behaviour of electric and magnetic fields. Electromagnetic fields and waves,...
The humble light bulb proves a source of transverse spin
Almost a hundred years on from its first proposal, a number of questions remain around what spin is. While understood to be a basic property characterizing and distinguishing fundamental particles just as charge or mass do, it is still not clear what exactly spin...