Non-specific cellular uptake of surface-functionalized quantum dots
Included as a brief abstract in Topics in Particle and Dispersion Science.

Three weeks travelling around New Zealand.

Non-specific cellular uptake of surface-functionalized quantum dots
Published in Nanotechnology.

Optical generation of surface acoustic waves guided at the linear boundary between two thin films
Published in Journal of Applied Physics.

Vibrations of microspheres probed with ultrashort optical pulses
Published in Optics Letters.

A week travelling around Tasmania.

A week travelling around the North Island of New Zealand.

Nano plasmonic and phononic interactions Presentation given at the University of Queensland.

Update: Australia travel pages.

I start work as a Post Doc in the Optical Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Group at Macquarie University.

A month travelling around Japan and South Korea.

A week travelling around the more rural Japanese island of Shikoku, see more photos on my flickr website.

Give a talk on The Japanese Seasons as part of my Japanese communication course.

A weeks holiday in the Kansai region of Japan, see more photos on my flickr website.

See photos from my Mt Fuji trip.

Gave an invited talk at the Solid State Devices and Materials conference on Plasmonic Crystals and Nanophotonics Sensing Devices.

Vibrational Properties of Gold Nanorings
Presented at Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter
Paris, France.

Topological Study of Gold Nanorings
Presented at the International Symposium on "Topology and Singularity in Optical Physics"
Sapporo, Japan.

For the Japanese Golden Week I travelled some of the Tohoku region, see more photos on my flickr website.

Strong Coupling between Localized Plasmons and Organic Excitons in Metal Nanovoids, Selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Mie plasmon enhanced diffraction of light from nanoporous metal surfaces,
Published in Optics Express.

Localized and delocalized plasmons in metallic nanovoids,
Selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Oscillations of Gold Nanorings
Presented at the Center of Excellence Topological Science Open Day
Sapporo, Japan.

Localized and delocalized plasmons in metallic nanovoids,
Published in Physical Review B.

Strong Coupling between Localized Plasmons and Organic Excitons in Metal Nanovoids,
Published in Physical Review Letters.

I start work as a Post Doc in the Research Group of Quantum Matter Physics at Hokkaido University.

Strong coupling of light to flat metals via a buried nanovoid lattice: the interplay of localized and free plasmons,
Published in Optics Express.

I head off on my Round the World Trip.

I finally become Dr Kelf. Get a copy of my thesis.

Whispering Gallery Mode Emission at Telecommunications-Window Wavelengths Using PbSe Nanocrystals Attached to Photonic Beads,
Published in Semiconductor Science And Technology.

Angle-Resolved Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on Metallic Nanostructured Plasmonic Crystals, Pubished in Nano Letters.

Sculpted substrates for SERS,
Published in Faraday Discussions.

Plasmonic bandgaps and Trapped Photons on Nanostructured Metal Surfaces,
Selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Strong Coupling in Plasmonic Systems
Presented at Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems
Southampton, United Kingdom.

Plasmonic bandgaps and Trapped Photons on Nanostructured Metal Surfaces,
Published in Physical Review Letters.

Electrochemical SERS at a structured gold surface
Published in Electrochemistry Communications.

Plasmon Mixing in Nano-cavities
Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO / QELS), Baltimore, America.

Anisotropic surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) on nanostructured plasmonic crystals
Presented at the Micro and Nanotechnology 2005 International Conference
London, United Kingdom.

Plasmon Mixing
Presented at Surface Plasmon Photonics 2
Graz, Austria.

Ray Optics in Nanostructured Mirrors: Wave or Particle?
Presented at Physics 2005 - A Century After Einstein
Warwick, United Kingdom.

Wetting of Regularly Structured Gold Surfaces
Published in Langmuir.

Mesophotonics use SERS technology in Klarite Raman enhancing substrate.

Chameleon Metals - Optical Response of Nano-Structured Metallic Surfaces
Presented at EQUONT-3: Quantum Technology and Optical Processes in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Light-Matter Interactions on Nano-Structured Metal Surfaces
Presented at Quantum Electronics and Photonics-16
Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Tunable Resonant Optical Microcavities by Self-Assembled Templating
Published in Optics Letters.

Interaction of Light on Nano-Structured Metals
Presented at Dielectrics at Meso and Nano Scales
Canterbury, United Kingdom.

Light Matter Interactions on Nano-Structured Metallic Surfaces
Presented at the Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software Conference, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Whispering Gallery Modes of Quantum Dot Spheres
Presented at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference
Warwick, United Kingdom.

Electric Fields above Nano-Structured Surfaces
Presented at the Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing International Conference
London, United Kingdom.

Investigating Nano-structured Materials
Presented at the Faraday Discussion 125: Nanoparticle Assemblies
Liverpool, United Kingdom.