Theses - Physics
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Plasmonic Sensing via Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies
(2019-12-12)The research reported in this thesis focuses on the high field localisation formed in the nanometric gaps between gold nanoparticles. Sub-wavelength sized nanoparticles irradiated with light support electron oscillations ... -
Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography
(2020-01-25)The increase in luminosity during the LHC upgrade programme causes a challenging rise in track multiplicity and hit occupancy in the LHCb detector. In order to mitigate this effect, the use of photon detector hit time ... -
Investigation of performance and the influence of environmental conditions on strip detectors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade
(2020-07-18)With the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) scheduled for installation in 2024, the Inner Detector will be replaced with the new all-silicon ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) to maintain ... -
Low temperature Kerr effect study of magnetic topological insulators and other magnetic structures
(2020-05-16)Spintronic technology utilises the spin of electrons as an extra degree of freedom to store and process information in microelectronic devices. Of special interest among all spintronic materials are topological insulators ...
