Peter Swift
Teaching Fellow
Department of Physics
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Peter Swift is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Physics, Member of the Centre for Materials Physics, Vice-Master of Grey College, Sub-Organist of St Chad's College, Sub-Organist of St Chad's College.Peter graduated with first class honours in Maths and Physics from Durham University. He then undertook a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Martyn Chamberlain and sponsored by HMGCC in the terahertz group at Durham, which he completed in 2008. Since then he has worked for a University spin-out, Durham Photonics Ltd, where he developed terahertz instrumentation, and as a Post-Doc on the ROBUST project (Regeneration Of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology), investigating the applicability of terahertz radiation as a sensor for organic molecules. In October 2011, Peter was appointed as aTeaching Fellow in the Department of Physics, which he has combined with the positon of Vice-Master of Grey College since January 2014.
Research Interest
I am interested in the application of terahertz radiation to a variety of engineering and biological applications. These include the detection of organic chemicals and the use of artifical materials to manipulate and focus THz radiation.
Publications
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Baragwanath, A.J., Swift, G.P., Dai, D., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2010). Silicon based microfluidic cell for terahertz frequencies. Journal of Applied Physics 108(1): 013102.
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Swift, G.P., Gallant, A.J., Kaliteevskaya, N., Kaliteevski, M., Brand, S., Dai, D., Baragwanath, A.J., Iorsh, I., Abram, R.A. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Negative refraction and the spectral filtering of terahertz radiation by a photonic crystal prism. Optics Letters 36(9): 1641-1643.
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Baragwanath, A.J., Swift, G.P., DeChang, D., Zeze, D.A., Gallant, A.J. & Chamberlain, J.M. (2011). Micro-machined fluidic devices for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. physica status solidi (c) 8(9): 2935-2937.
