Optics and Photonics Research Group

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 Keywords Name
Novel medical device design, photoplethysmography, Smart fabric wearable medical devices, design and fabrication of custom integrated circuits for medical instrumentation Professor Barrie Hayes-Gill (Head of Group)
Mobile Computer Engineering and Sensing Systems for Healthcare Dr Steve Bull
Nanoscale Bioelectronics and Biophotonics Dr Serhiy Korposh
Design and fabrication of nanophotonic devices and photonic integrated circuits, nano-biophotonics high-speed and high-brightness semiconductor lasers Professor Eric Larkins
Biomedical engineering, optical fibre sensing for healthcare, wearable devices, smart textiles, applications in monitoring in critical care, diabetes, gerontology, sports Professor Stephen Morgan
Optical imaging with lateral resolution in the nanometer scale, Optical dimensional measurement in the nanoscopic scale with sub-nanometer precision, Incorporation of signal processing techniques (ANN, GA, PCA etc.) into optical systems to enhance and refine their applications Dr Chung See
Optical particle characterization techniques, Signal processing, Imaging through Turbulence Dr John Walker
Physiology of transparent tissues of the eye, Real-time, label-free imaging of small molecular transport, Electrophysiology and impedance characterisation of barrier tissues, Trans-epithelial drug delivery and barrier function, Raman micro spectroscopy and biosensing using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), Hydrodynamic imaging and condenser-free contrast enhancement methods Dr Kevin Webb
Optically trapped probes for micro-rheology of soft material, single-cell mechano-sensing, single-molecule manipulation and characterisation, novel optical microscopy techniques for imaging deep into 3D culture Dr Amanda Wright

Optics and Photonics Research Group

Faculty of Engineering
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


telephone: +44 (0)115 95 15536
email: optics@nottingham.ac.uk