Professor Martin Cryan
B.Eng(Leeds), Ph.D.(Bath)
Current positions
Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
Press and media
Many of our academics speak to the media as experts in their field of research. If you are a journalist, please contact the University’s Media and PR Team:
Research interests
- Photonic Crystal-based Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) modelling of nanophotonic devices
- Nanophotonics for light trapping in solar cells
- Solar thermal and solar thermionic cells
- Nanobiophotonics
- Nanoantennas for fluorescence sesning
- Plasmonics
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Hyperuniform Disordered Metasurfaces for Selective Absorbers (HyMeta)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
02/09/2024 to 01/09/2027
Hyperuniform Disordered Metasurfaces for Selective Absorbers (HyMeta)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
02/09/2024 to 01/09/2027
8031 Cryan - MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) Covid 19
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
11/05/2020 to 10/04/2021
Exploring Water Quality Monitoring and Modelling in Bristol Harbour
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This 4-month project aims to work on analysing and visualising the water quality data in the Bristol Floating Harbour through multidisciplinary collaborations.Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
30/03/2017 to 29/07/2017
8031 EPSRC GLOBAL CHALLENGES 2016
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/08/2016
Thesis supervisions
Solar Thermal Characterisation of Micro-Patterned High Temperature Selective Surfaces applied to a Thermionic Device
Supervisors
Optically Reconfigurable Microwave and Millimetre Wave Switches
Supervisors
GaN Distributed Bragg Reflector Cavities for Sensing Applications
Supervisors
The Application of Millimetre-Wave Radars in Human Activity Recognition
Supervisors
Optimization of Solar Thermionic Energy Converters
Supervisors
Multi-Channel All-Optical Signal Processing Based on 3D Tensor Computing
Supervisors
Structural colour in plants and algae
Supervisors
Nitrogen-Doped Diamond
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/10/2023Enhancement of InGaN Quantum Well Photoluminescence in a Tamm Metal/Porous-DBR Micro-Cavity
IEEE Photonics Journal
A Tamm plasmon-porous GaN distributed Bragg reflector cavity
Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
Solar Thermal Characterisation of Micro-Patterned High Temperature Selective Surfaces
Journal of Photonics for Energy
A Waveguide Integrated GaN Distributed Bragg Reflector Cavity Using Low Cost Nanolithography
Nano-Micro Letters
Optically Controlled Millimeter-wave Switch with Stepped-Impedance Lines
IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
Related people
Dr Andrei Sarua
Senior Lecturer
School of Physics
Dr Daniel Ho
Visiting Teaching Fellow
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Neil Fox
Professor of Materials for Energy
School of Chemistry
Dr Edmund Harbord
Senior Lecturer in Quantum Communication Technologies
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Hugo Dominguez Andrade
Senior Research Associate
Interface Analysis Centre