Professor Sir Michael Pepper receives the 2019 Issac Newton Medal and Prize from the IoP
The Isaac Newton Medal and Prize is for world-leading contributions to physics by an individual of any nationality. Professor Sir Michael Pepper’s work led to the creation of the new, important field of semiconductor nanoelectronics and discovery of new,...
Photonic skyrmions discovered
Skyrmions, ‘hedgehogs’ of electron spins, are well known in magnetic materials and were long considered for applications in spintronics and high-density data storage. However, electromagnetic waves also carry spin and orbital angular momenta. In a recent paper, the...
New SPIN-Lab at Imperial
LCN Professor Sandrine Heutz has been awarded £2 million from the EPSRC to fund a new state-of-the-art hub of magnetic characterisation SPIN lab in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. The facility includes equipment for the study of strongly...