Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity
Effect demonstrated using silicon dioxide nanoribbon waveguides
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Kirsty McGhee was a PhD student contributor to Physics World. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s University of Leipzig and a science writer.
She did her PhD in the group of Prof. David Lidzey at the University of Sheffield, UK, working on the fabrication and characterization of organic exciton–polariton microcavities, with a particular focus on polariton condensation. In her spare time, Kirsty enjoys reading, running and exploratory cycles.
Effect demonstrated using silicon dioxide nanoribbon waveguides
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