Welcome to the q-SPIn Lab!
At our Lab we aim to tackle several engineering challenges to translate spintronic and photonic technology to UK industry for the benefit of society.
We are also interested in several fundamental aspects of light matter interaction, including hybrid systems for interfacing quantum technologies.
Our research supports the James Watt School of Engineering Quantum Technology Priority Theme as well as the University of Glasgow's cross-disciplinary Research Beacon ‘The Nano & Quantum World’ and 'Centre for Quantum Technologies'.
Optical Media & Photonics
We engineer (meta)materials supporting hyperbolic polaritons to control light–matter interactions for next-generation infrared and THz opto-electronic technology and achieve novel optical phenomena.
Hybrid Spin-Photon Systems
We explore coherent spin–photon coupling in microwave resonators, realising and controlling hybrid magnon–photon excitations for interfacing quantum technologies.
Spintronics & Micromagnetics
We study spins and structured magnetic media for integrated non-reciprocal devices through engineered magnetic interactions, structural design, and modelling of magnetisation dynamics.
Selected Publications
- Cunningham, Mark, Lafferty, Adam L., Gonzalez-Jimenez, Mario and Macedo, Rair (2025) Optical footprint of ghost and leaky hyperbolic polaritons. Photonics Research, 13(8), pp. 2291-2305.
- Joseph, A. et al. (2024) The role of excitation vector fields and all-polarisation state control in cavity magnonics. npj Spintronics, 2(59)
- Melnyk, Olha, Jones, Reed, Macedo, Rair , Garbovskiy, Yuriy, Hagen, Guy, Glushchenko, Anatoliy V., Spendier, Kathrin and Camley, Robert E. (2021) Fast switching dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal tunable filters. ACS Photonics, 8(4), pp. 1222-1231.
- Wu, Xiaohu, McEleney, Cameron A., González-Jiménez, Mario and Macêdo, Rair (2019) Emergent asymmetries and enhancement in the absorption of natural hyperbolic crystals. Optica, 6(12), pp. 1478-1483
- Macêdo, Rair , Kudinoor, Arjun S., Livesey, Karen L. and Camley, Robert E. (2022) Breaking space inversion-symmetry to obtain asymmetric spin-wave excitation in systems with nonuniform magnetic exchange. Advanced Electronic Materials, 8(1), 2100435.
Opportunities
We are always looking for people to work on a diverse range of research projects.
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