LCN researchers at King’s, Imperial and UCL took part in the first digital London Plasmonics Forum on 11 June. The London Plasmonics Forum has been held annually at King’s College London since 2015, but in 2020 this was not possible due to COV-ID 19, so instead of cancelling the event, the committee decided to move it online.
The event was hosted by the EPSRC programme grant Reactive Plasmonics lead by Professor Anatoly Zayats at King’s College London and Professor Stefan Maier at Imperial College London who also chaired the meeting.
Professor Thomas Ebbesen from the University of Strasbourg opened the event with the keynote talk on The Alchemy of Vacuum, overviewing how vacuum modes can influence chemistry and superconductivity, with a busy Q&A session after.
Other speakers included Dr Diane Roth from King’s College London with the presentation on holography with metamaterials. This was followed by Daniel Glass from Imperial College London presenting details of photo-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Finally, Dr Emilie Ringer from the University of Cambridge gave a talk focused on plasmonics with magnesium nanoparticles.
As the event was online, it allowed the wider plasmonics community to get involved, with delegates tuning in from time zones ranging from Japan in the east, to the Pacific coast of the US in the west. The digital poster session drew entries from researchers from all over the world, including Russia, India, the UK and Europe. It was judged by science journalist Dr Anna Demming, Dr Nina Meinzer from Nature Physics, and Dr Rachel Won from Nature Photonics.
You can view the flash poster presentations here.
People: Stefan Maier Anatoly Zayats Diane Roth
