Professor Martin Cryan
B.Eng(Leeds), Ph.D.(Bath)
Current positions
Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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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
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
8031 EPSRC VIA UCL EGKW
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/08/2016
GW4 NETWORK ON ADVANCED MOLECULAR PLATFORMS FOR PLASTIC PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Plastics have been explored in photonics for lighting devices and waveguides, but their use for nanophotonics is completely new. Our approach is towards a special type of plastic that could…Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
04/07/2016 to 31/03/2017
Thesis supervisions
GaN Distributed Bragg Reflector Cavities for Sensing Applications
Supervisors
Solar Thermal Characterisation of Micro-Patterned High Temperature Selective Surfaces applied to a Thermionic Device
Supervisors
Optically Reconfigurable Microwave and Millimetre Wave Switches
Supervisors
Structural colour in plants and algae
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/03/2021A 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
High frequency guided mode resonances in mass-loaded, thin film gallium nitride surface acoustic wave devices
Applied Physics Letters
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