This fun project has so much potential! We are now trying to use the plastic #spectrometer for an interesting computational #sensing application. Stay tuned!

🤖Our Department’s news on the ARIA robot dexterity project: we already have two PDRAs and are in the process of hiring a technician to support this exciting work. Don’t forget to apply for the third PDRA position! Deadline 29th June: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51600/

A story on our stress-engineered broadband #plastic #spectrometers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... This SMP material platform offers many exciting opportunities for future development of inexpensive, AI-enabled computational light detection systems.

With Prof Zongyin Yang, we engineered stress in polymers to make a low-cost, broadband (400-1600nm) computational #spectrometer. And it is on the Front page of @ScienceAdvances! #Spectroscopy #Photonics #AIoptics. Read it here: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Super excited to be a part of ARIA’s #dexterous #robot program! Our #sensors will allow future robots to detect force magnitude, direction, sliding, texture, and temperature, achieving unprecedented #dexterity and precision! @cambridge-ee.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk

Congratulations to Professor Chu 👏

Imagine a future where paper-based #memristor can not only processes data but be reconfigured for synaptic plasticity and neuronal leaky integrate-and-fire functionality and even #recyclable. Our #inkjet-printed memristors take a step towards sustainable electronics. @cambridge-ee.bsky.social

Great company and fantastic scientific discussions towards future indoor #VOC #sensors! Started the final stretch of the @UKRI_News #DIVINE project - a very productive meeting today!

Preparing my 2025 Day of Light outreach lectures, I bought a glass sphere and made a rainbow. But I saw some odd things, and so here’s a thread with some photos and raytracing pictures. There may well be mistakes so tell me and I'll fix them. First the basic setup showing the primary bow.

This is a super cool work. Tailored mechanical response in a 3D architected material, perfect for tailored mechanical responses! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚀 Breakthrough in strain sensing! A new biomimetic sensor achieves omnidirectional hypersensitivity & precise strain detection—transforming engineering, healthcare, robotics & more. Read more: bit.ly/410dj9k #Engineering #Sensors #Innovation #Cambridge Tagging: @OcchipintiGroup

Meeting up #WomeninOptics #PhotonicsWest @spie.org Sile NIC Chormaic, Clara Saraceno, Giulia Tagliabue, @rachelgrange.bsky.social, Andrea Redondo-Blanco, @drarmani.bsky.social, @astchalyan.bsky.social and Sona Hosseini 💃🎉🎊🥳💃

🚀Big news! The #YAO2025 invited speaker lineup is now live on our website!🎉🎉 Check out the amazing researchers joining us in Innsbruck this July. Don't miss out—registration is still open! 🔗: yao.iqoqi.at #QuantumScience #AtomOptics @iqoqi.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Working with Profs Sun and Cai, we developed a tunable vdW optoelectronic interface that identifies materials without complex spectral reconstruction, ideal for compact, cost-effective #2D material based #spectrometers @eng.cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ee.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We are hiring a #process #technician for 3 yrs on polymer composite based #sensors for #robotics and #wearables. Closing date is 11 February. If interested, please apply! Or retweet! Link: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50103/

Thank you IEEE Photonics Society for the cool plaque. Most importantly, for giving me the fantastic opportunity to talk about #spectrometers at 11 locations, 10 countries. Made many new friends, and future collaborators! If you are thinking about applying, go for it!

Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #lifegoals 🎉💡🧪

An out-of-plane electric field can tune the phonon dispersion of twisted van der Waals multilayers PRL: go.aps.org/4heHQFA

Interested in joining us in Cambridge Engineering? This year I am supporting applications in computational gas and environment sensors, mechanical metamaterials, broadband metasurfaces, porous materials & 2D electronics. Please email or message by the end of January. #academicsky @eng.cam.ac.uk

Would be the coolest lab in the world 🤣

First few hours into our three-day cruise to the #Sundarbans. Zoom in and look at the dense mesh of rivers and canals everywhere 😍 #bangladesh

Date juice / date palm sap, or khejur rosh (খেজুর রস ). Tried this heavenly drink after almost 20 years and it instantly transported me to my childhood! #bangladesh #winter #bangladeshi-cuisine en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_ju...

Just came across an African Butterfly Wing #Painting for the first time! Amazing! Exquisite! Made from #butterflywing collected from the ground 🦋

If you are in Dhaka, join me on Dec 24 for my first-ever technical talk in Bangladesh! I’ll briefly talk about my career, and then switch to miniaturising optical #spectrometers & future opportunities in this field. My final talk as a IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Kaitlin Kharas is awesome. She became the “face and voice” of a campaign to boost stagnant salaries for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across Canada, and they won. #PhDStudents www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great time today with IEEE PS talk @ multimedia uni, meet with old and new friends. Even had time for a quick trip to uni of malaya to meet Prof Harith over yummy snacks. & quick stop to outlet before going to airport! Tagging @rachelpcwon.bsky.social to make her jealous (in X and 🦋) 🤣😂

Looking forward to my IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture for the Malaysian Chapter. I will discuss the miniaturisation of optical #spectrometers , including our recent work on a BIC #metasurface spectrometer. The next will be at Dhaka University, #Bangladesh on the 24th

A short summary of our paper 👍

Our group’s alumni Prof @LeonardNGWT will give a fascinating talk tomorrow at Cambridge Electrical Engineering Division . I’m certain a lot of laboratory research will driven by this approach in the near future!

Although the engagement is still not as high as in X, please your papers here to drive the growth of 🦋! ♥️👍

Our work in Science Advances on #BIC #metasurface spectrometers overcomes resolution-sensitivity trade-off. We achieve high light throughput, ideal for ultra-low-light applications like fluorescence & astrophotonic spectroscopy. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Nature’s top 10 in 2024 features Muhammad Yunus #Bangladesh www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our department has an opening for an assistant OR associate professor, with a focus on semiconductor materials and devices This position is part of the Excellence in Mentoring Initiative, so we're looking for candidates with exceptional mentorship experience jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/asst-as...

An overdue catch up with @gomobel.bsky.social and Chris. Wrestler’s Thai food tastes pretty good!

Fourth best chemistry department in the UK closes becusse it is not financially sustainable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A £1 lunch on our long way back to #Bangkok. Heavenly, spicy #basil chicken and rice with egg 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ #Thailand

1/6 🧵 I'm building what might be the smallest #opensource #spectrometer with an easy to use UI! I call it a pocket spectrometer. Combining #M5StickC (~$20) with AS7341 sensor (~$16). My goal? A complete spectrometer that is barely larger than a sample cuvette itself.

Afternoon #Infrared light #photography Lightrail station trees. Canon RP Full Spectrum Infrared Camera Sensor Filter 720 NM Sensor filter Canon RF 14-35 f4L lens

Two weeks ago I had an amazing time in presenting my IEEE Photonics Society distinguished lecture on miniaturised #spectrometers in breathtaking Naples! All made possible because of the brilliant and generous hosting by IEEE PS president Italy chapter @antigonemarino.bsky.social

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Back for a little while here, I tried this ‘starter pack’ for photonics & optics people: anyone else can follow up to 50 people at the click of a button: go.bsky.app/QrtPj7R. Put your name below and I will add you to the pack.

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ICYMI yesterday, a smart fabric that helps you keep it cool 😎 (or warm) - my latest for @chemistryworld.bsky.social 🧪

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network on.ft.com/4fBQJcd

** Only 5 days left to apply ** We have a #PDRA position open in Cambridge Engineering Department and Graphene Centre for 3 years for EIC project HYPERSONIC! Join us in creating, next-generation #analog and #digital circuits and systems with solution-deposited #nanosheets. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49150/