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Kirsty McGhee

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.

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Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity

Effect demonstrated using silicon dioxide nanoribbon waveguides

Exciton–polaritons enhance magneto-optical responses in van der Waals crystals

Polariton energies are highly tunable using external magnetic fields and magnons

Researchers creating a polariton condensate

Polariton condensation emerges from a bound state in the continuum

Infinitely long lifetimes allow extremely low threshold polariton lasing in a planar waveguide

Dynamic control over exciton transport achieved at room temperature

Surface acoustic waves can induce an exciton drift velocity of up to 600 m/s in a transition metal dichalcogenide

Photonic band structure created in electrically driven OLED microcavities

Stack of organic light emitting diodes forms hybridized energy states with strong dependence on unit cell geometry

Ghost surface polaritons seen for the first time

Diffraction-less quasiparticles propagate up to 20 micron on the surface of calcite crystal

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Kirsty McGhee

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Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity

Exciton–polaritons enhance magneto-optical responses in van der Waals crystals

Polariton condensation emerges from a bound state in the continuum

Dynamic control over exciton transport achieved at room temperature

Photonic band structure created in electrically driven OLED microcavities

Ghost surface polaritons seen for the first time

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Kirsty McGhee

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Surface phonon polaritons enhance thermal conductivity

Exciton–polaritons enhance magneto-optical responses in van der Waals crystals

Polariton condensation emerges from a bound state in the continuum

Dynamic control over exciton transport achieved at room temperature

Photonic band structure created in electrically driven OLED microcavities

Ghost surface polaritons seen for the first time

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