Two new lecturers appointed at LCN@Imperial

Dr Solveig Felton has been appointed as fixed term lecturer in Electron Microscopy in the Department of Materials. Dr Felton commenced her appointment on 01 January 2011.

Dr Rupert Oulton has just received the EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in the Department of Physics in Experimental Solid State Physics. He will be developing new ways of using light during his fellowship. Although we use light to sense the world around us, it has a limitation: light cannot be imaged or focused to sizes below half its wavelength. Metals can shatter this ‘diffraction limit’ of light by storing energy on the electrons that collectively move in unison with light, called surface plasmons. Dr Oulton aims to reduce the size of light so that it can occupy nanometre-scale volumes for the first time. Exploring optics at untouched length scales offers the potential for fundamentally new discoveries and for developments in new technologies that expand the capabilities of computers and the internet, and in new sensor technologies for healthcare, defence and security.