PhD pages
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PhD projects pages
On this page you can find a selection of current and past PhD projects in the Applied Optics Group.
| Student | Project title | Thesis | Year |
| Paul Dryburgh | Inspection of additively manufactured components by spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy | 2022 | |
| Don Pieris | Towards in-process inspection of additive manufacturing using laser ultrasonics. | 2022 | |
| Sal La Cavera III | High frequency ultrasonics using optical fibres | - | 2021 |
| Rafael Fuentes | Metal nanoparticles as nano-sized opto-acoustic transducers. | 2018 | |
| Jiri Hromadka | Volatile organic compounds sensing with use of fibre optic sensor with long period grating and mesoporous nano-scale coating. | 2016 | |
| David Jung | Optical assessment of middle ear inflammation | 2016 | |
| Sidahmed Abayzeed | Responsivity of the differential-intensity surface plasmon resonance instrument. | 2016 | |
| Victoria Ageeva | Endoscopic CHOTs for On-wing Inspection | 2016 | |
| Rohan Nandkumar Kakade | Improved resolution and signal-to-noise ratio performance of a confocal fluorescence microscope | 2016 | |
| Qimei Zhang | Ultrasound mediated luminescence tomography using contrast agents | 2016 | |
| Son Nguyen | The effects of skin moisturizers using electrical impedance spectroscopy | 2016 | |
| Fernando Perez Cota | Opto-acoustic thin-film transducers for imaging of Brillouin oscillations on living cells | 2016 | |
| Jethro Coulson | SRAS Technology Development | 2016 | |
| Jing Wang | Highly Sensitive Real-Time Multipoint Kinetic Detection Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique with Custom CMOS Camera | 2014 | |
| James Carpenter | Low bandwidth laser doppler blood flowmetry | 2014 | |
| Rikesh Patel | Ultrastable heterodyne interferometry using a modulated light camera | 2014 | |
| Sheikh Mohammod Ali | Ultrasonic and thermo-kinetic characterization of curing epoxy resin | 2013 | |
| Bei Zhang | Confocal surface plasmon microscopic sensing | 2013 | |
| Samuel Osei Achamfuo-Yeboah | Design and implementation of a CMOS modulated light camera | 2012 | |
| Rob Ellwood | The effect of microstructure and fatigue on the acoustoelastic response of aerospace materials | 2012 | |
| Audrey Kah Ching Huong | Spectroscopic analysis of scattering media via different quantification techniques | 2012 | |
| Wenqi Li | Laser ultrasonic method for determination of crystallographic orientation of large grain metals by spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy (SRAS) | 2012 | |
| Suejit Pechprasarn | Analysis of sensitivity and resolution in plasmonic microscopes | 2012 | |
| Chin-Jung Chuang | Proximity projection grating structured illumination microscopy | 2011 | |
| John Himsworth | Linear array CMOS detectors for laser doppler blood flow imaging | 2011 | |
| Ahmet Arca | The design and optimisation of nanophotonic devices using the Finite Element Method | 2010 | |
| Martin Mienczakowski | Advanced ultrasonic NDE of composite airframe components: physics, modelling and technology | 2010 | |
| Lin Wang | High-resolution structured illumination solid immersion fluorescence microscopy | 2010 | |
| Christopher Ward | Novel NDE techniques in the power generation industry (EngD thesis) | 2010 | |
| Yu Huang | Morphology dependent voltage sensitivity of gold nanostructures | 2010 | |
| Gerard Byrne | Total internal reflection microscopy studies on colloidal particle endocytosis by living cells | 2009 | |
| Peiliang Dong | On-chip ultra-fast data acquisition system for optical scanning acoustic microscopy using 0.35um CMOS technology | 2009 | |
| Qun Zhu | Rotating orthogonal polarization imaging | 2009 | |
| Ian Collison | Measurement of material nonlinearity using laser ultrasound | 2008 | |
| Roger Light | Design and implementation of an integrating modulated light camera | 2008 | |
| José Hernández | Statistics of aberrations in polycrystalline materials | 2007 | |
| Mengxiong Li | 5 GHz optical front end in 0.35um CMOS | 2007 | |
| Richard Smith | Optical measurement of ultra fine linewidths using artificial neural networks | 2006 | |
| Shihong Jiang | Non-scanning fluorescence confocal microscopy using laser speckle illumination | 2005 | |
| Graham Stabler | High resolution wide field surface plasmon microscopy | 2005 | |
| Boon Hean Pui | CMOS optical centroid processor for an integrated Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor | 2004 | |
| Ian Stockford | Characterisation of layered scattering media using polarized light | 2004 | |
| Steve Sharples | All-optical scanning acoustic microscope | 2003 |
