In addition to the projects listed below we encourage interested applicants to browse our research pages for areas of our research they are interested in and to contact the members of academic staff concerned.

The School also has a number of specifically-funded PhD projects.

Potential projects

• Meta-metamaterials
• Acoustic metamaterials
• Study of aperiodic metamaterials at microwave frequencies
• Predictive theoretical modelling in magnonics
• Micromagnetic studies of magnonic metamaterials
• Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons
• Developing the use of microwaves to characterise natural photonics
• Miniaturising planar microwave resonators with permeable materials
• Seeing the magnetic nano-world with near field magneto-optical nanoscopy
• Picosecond dynamics of nanoscale Spin Transfer Torque devices
• Pseudo-plasmonic waveguides
• Slow plasmonics
• Ultrafast spin dynamics in complex magnetic nano-structures
• Ultrafast magneto-optical characterization of magnetic recording materials
• Spin-wave and domain wall dynamics in vertical magnetic nanowires
• Viscodynamics of lyotropic liquid crystals
• Anisotropic 'designer' surface plasmons
• Collective plasmonic resonances to control light at the nano-scale
• Magnonic networks: spin waves in magnonic waveguides
• Plasmonics and magneto-optics
• Novel fabrication strategies for magnonics
• Magnonic meta-meta-materials

Joint Biomedical and Electromagnetic Materials projects

• Magnetic nanobots: construction and study of microscopic swimming machines