Improving Medical Wearables with Material Science
The University's collaboration with Integrated Graphene has significant implications for the future of medical wearables.
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School of Physics and Astronomy lights the way for deep-sea diving
For commercial deep-sea divers, light is a precious commodity. Their work is among the most dangerous in the world, performing critical tasks such as repairing oil rigs with constraints on their time, mobility and…
Watching the Lava dome: Volcano monitoring radar handover to Montserrat
Dr David Macfarlane is a Senior Research Fellow who has been working on high resolution radar projects in the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews since 2002. Last year he travelled to the volcanic island of…
The use of creative art for explaining organic semiconductors
Nedyalka Panova is an artist-in-residence in the School of Physics & Astronomy“. Her work explores the boundaries between art and science, organic and inorganic, natural, synthetic and manmade. Nedyalka works in…
Millimetre antennas
Dr Graham Smith & Dr Duncan Robertson | Millimeter Wave & EPR Group, School of Physics & Astronomy Horn antennas at microwave, mm-wave and terahertz frequencies are commonly used in high performance radars, radiometers…
Muscle contraction sensor
Dr Simonas Krotkus & Prof. Ifor Samuel | School of Physics & Astronomy Wearable sensors are desirable for a wide range of medical applications including long-term continuous health monitoring and various robotic tools…
Light Box – bringing together culture and science
Light Box celebrates light in all its aspects – solar, sacred, scientific, nourishing, and poetic. Produced as a result of meetings between Professor Crawford and McBeath and contemporary physicists whose work centres…
Applied photonics in the Southern Ocean
So why did I, a physicist who is most at home in the darkened, well-controlled confines of a laser laboratory, find myself dressed in high-viz clothing climbing aboard a big orange ship in Tasmania in January 2016…
The Light touch…
Optical tweezers, miniscule forces that light exerts on micron-size particles, developed by researchers in the School of Physics and Astronomy, have empowered scientists to perform important studies on single…
New research uses bioluminescent jellyfish as optical engineers
Researchers at St Andrews have produced the world’s first solid-state protein lasers, capable of record performance and some capable of self-assembly, by harnessing the optical engineering skills of bioluminescent…