Dr Rair Macedo

Reader in Electrodynamics (Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering)

telephone: 01413305892
email: Rair.Macedo@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

R3119, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

Biography

Dr Rair Macêdo is a theoretical physicist by training—but every so often dabbles in the world of experimental physics. He started pursuing research at the age of 16, as a part of his BSc studies, in the area of novel optical effects in natural hyperbolic media. After receiving a PhD in physics from the University of Glasgow in a similar area, but at an advanced theoretical level, modelling electromagnetic properties of magnetic structures, he held a Leverhulme Trust Early Research Fellowship to develop novel metamaterials to control and manipulate electromagnetic waves. He is currently Reader in Electrodynamics at the Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering Division of the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.

Research interests

My current research focuses on fundamental light–matter interactions, particularly the hybridisation of photons with elementary excitations of matter—such as collective spin excitations and lattice vibrations—to realise new physical behaviours and functionalities in nanoscale and quantum systems.

I work across both theory and experiment, with interests spanning magnetic and non-magnetic materials and I lead the q-SPIn Lab.

In magnetic systems, we are developing new ways to control spin dynamics by engineering the internal properties of magnetic structures, aiming to create novel functionalities at microwave and Terahertz frequencies. We also explore how time-dependent control of magnon–photon coupling can be used to build hybrid microwave devices. A key part of this work involves optimising material growth and fabrication techniques to integrate low-loss magnetic materials with planar superconducting circuits, which is essential for achieving strong coupling in the quantum regime.

In parallel, we investigate how non-magnetic materials can be used to manipulate light in the infrared based on quantised lattice vibrations, or phonons. By designing materials with tailored direction-dependent phonon responses, we explore unconventional optical effects—including negative refraction, one-way propagation, and polarisation-selective reflectivity. These behaviours open up possibilities for new types of photonic devices, especially in regimes where conventional optics breaks down.

Publication Highlights

Spin systems:

Macêdo, R. , Kudinoor, A. S., Livesey, K. L. and Camley, R. E. Breaking space inversion-symmetry to obtain asymmetric spin-wave excitation in systems with nonuniform magnetic exchange. Advanced Electronic Materials, 8(1), 2100435 (2022).

Hybrid quntum systems:

Wolz, T., Stehli, A., Schneider, A., Boventer, I., Macêdo, R. , Ustinov, A. V., Kläui, M. and Weides, M. (2020) Introducing coherent time control to cavity magnon-polariton modes. Communications Physics, 3, 3 (2020).

Boventer, I., Dörflinger, C., Wolz, T., Macedo, R. , Lebrun, R., Kläui, M. and Weides, M. Control of the coupling strength and linewidth of a cavity magnon-polariton. Physical Review Research, 2(1), 013154 (2020).

Photonics & Hyperbolic (meta) materials:

Wu, X., McEleney, C. A., González-Jiménez, M. and Macêdo, R. (2019) Emergent asymmetries and enhancement in the absorption of natural hyperbolic crystals. Optica, 6(12), pp. 1478-1483 (2019).

Macêdo, R. , Dumelow, T., Camley, R. E. and Stamps, R. L. (2018) Oriented asymmetric wave propagation and refraction bending in hyperbolic media. ACS Photonics, 5(12), pp. 5086-5094 (2018).

Publications

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Number of items: 59.

2025

Cunningham, Mark, Lafferty, Adam L., Gonzalez-Jimenez, Mario ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588 and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2025) Optical footprint of ghost and leaky hyperbolic polaritons. Photonics Research, 13(8), pp. 2291-2305. (doi: 10.1364/PRJ.558334)

Linder, Jack W., Lafferty, Adam L., Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2025) Hyperbolic optics in antiferromagnets with tilted anisotropy. Optics and Laser Technology, 184, 112440. (doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.112440)

McEleney, Cameron Aiden, Camley, Robert E. and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2025) Decoherence in spin wave propagation via precursor pulses during signal equilibration. Scientific Reports, 15, 4458. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88799-3) (PMID:39915648) (PMCID:PMC11802918)

2024

Camley, Robert E., Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Livesey, Karen L. (2024) Curie-Weiss behavior and the interaction temperature of magnetic nanoparticle ensembles: Local structure strongly affects the magnetic behavior. Physical Review B, 110(14), 144440. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.144440)

Smith, Mawgan A., Lafferty, Adam L., Joseph, Alban, McMaster, Matthew R., Scott, Jade N., Hendren, William R., Bowman, Robert M., Weides, Martin P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-6795 and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2024) Observation of room temperature exchange cavity magnon-polaritons in metallic thin films. Advanced Quantum Technologies, 7(8), 2300420. (doi: 10.1002/qute.202300420)

Joseph, A. et al. (2024) The role of excitation vector fields and all-polarisation state control in cavity magnonics. npj Spintronics, 2(59), (doi: 10.1038/s44306-024-00062-z) (PMCID:PMC11618086)

Stamps, Robert L., Camley, Robert E. and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (Eds.) (2024) Solid State Physics. Volume 75. Academic Press. ISBN 9780443297786

2023

Tyboroski, Markus, Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Camley, Robert E. (2023) Extreme enhancement of nonreciprocal wave propagation in magneto-optical metamaterials. Physical Review Materials, 7(12), 125201. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.125201)

Silva, R.L., Silva, R.C., Pereira, A.R., McEleney, Cameron A. and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2023) Fractionalizing biskyrmions using magnons in a ferromagnetic thin film. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 586, 171194. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171194)

Melnyk, Olha, Jones, Reed, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Camley, Robert E. (2023) New quasiperiodic structures in nematic liquid crystals. Soft Matter, 19, pp. 7644-7654. (doi: 10.1039/D3SM00884C) (PMID:37779452)

Jones, Reed, Camley, Robert E. and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2023) Controlling asymmetric transmission in layered natural hyperbolic crystals. Optics and Laser Technology, 161, 109210. (doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2023.109210)

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Stamps, Robert L. (Eds.) (2023) Solid State Physics. Volume 74. Academic Press. ISBN 9780443137136

2022

Wu, Xiaohu, McEleney, Cameron A., Shi, Zhangxing, González-Jiménez, Mario ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588 and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2022) Asymmetric reflection induced in reciprocal hyperbolic materials. ACS Photonics, 9(8), pp. 2774-2782. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00551) (PMID:35996366) (PMCID:PMC9389604)

Chumak, A. V. et al. (2022) Roadmap on spin-wave computing. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(6), 0800172. (doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2022.3149664)

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Kudinoor, Arjun S., Livesey, Karen L. and Camley, Robert E. (2022) Breaking space inversion-symmetry to obtain asymmetric spin-wave excitation in systems with nonuniform magnetic exchange. Advanced Electronic Materials, 8(1), 2100435. (doi: 10.1002/aelm.202100435)

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (Ed.) (2022) Solid State Physics. Volume 73. Academic Press. ISBN 9780323989114

2021

Jones, Reed, Melnyk, Olha, Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Camley, Robert E. (2021) Vertically stacked soliton-like domain walls in nematic liquid crystals. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 4(11), 2100252. (doi: 10.1002/adts.202100252)

Tyboroski, Markus, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Camley, Robert E. (2021) Nonreciprocity in millimeter wave devices using a magnetic grating metamaterial. Physical Review Materials, 5(11), 115201. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.115201)

Peng, Jiebin, Tang, Gaomin, Wang, Luqin, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Chen, Hong and Ren, Jie (2021) Twist-induced near-field thermal switch using nonreciprocal surface magnon-polaritons. ACS Photonics, 8(8), pp. 2183-2189. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01934)

Baity, P. G. et al. (2021) Strong magnon-photon coupling with chip-integrated YIG in the zero-temperature limit. Applied Physics Letters, 119(3), 033502. (doi: 10.1063/5.0054837)

Paterson, Gary W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Macauley, Gavin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-9188 and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2021) Field-driven reversal models in artificial spin ice. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 4(7), 2100109. (doi: 10.1002/adts.202100109)

Melnyk, Olha, Jones, Reed, Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Garbovskiy, Yuriy, Hagen, Guy, Glushchenko, Anatoliy V., Spendier, Kathrin and Camley, Robert E. (2021) Fast switching dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal tunable filters. ACS Photonics, 8(4), pp. 1222-1231. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00151)

Baity, P. G. et al. (2021) Strong Magnon-Photon Coupling On-Chip for YIG in the Zero-Temperature Limit. American Physical Society March Meeting 2021, Online, 15-19 Mar 2021.

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Holland, Rory C., Baity, Paul G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-2346, McLellan, Luke J., Livesey, Karen L., Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864, Weides, Martin P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-6795 and Bozhko, Dmytro A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0215-4903 (2021) Electromagnetic approach to cavity spintronics. Physical Review Applied, 15(2), 024065. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024065)

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2021) The 2021 magnetic hyperbolic polaritons roadmap. In: Camley, Robert E. and Stamps, Robert L. (eds.) Solid State Physics. Volume 72. Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 83-91. ISBN 9780323915175 (doi: 10.1016/bs.ssp.2021.08.004)

2020

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, McEleney, C.A., González-Jiménez, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588 and Wu, X. (2020) Unidirectional light propagation in natural crystals. Optics and Photonics News, 31(12), p. 53. (doi: 10.1364/OPN.31.12.000053)

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2020) Electromagnetic waves in canted magnets. In: Donahue, Michael (ed.) Compendium on Electromagnetic Analysis From Electrostatics to Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications for Physicists and Engineers. World Scientific, pp. 231-261. ISBN 9789813270268 (doi: 10.1142/9789813270268_0007)

Rodrigues Lavor, Icaro, Rabelo da Costa, Diego, Chaves, Andrey, Farias, Gil de Aquino, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Peeters, Francois M. (2020) Magnetic field induced vortices in graphene quantum dots. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(15), 155501. (doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab6463)

Macauley, Gavin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-9188, Paterson, Gary W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Li, Yue, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, McVitie, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2020) Tuning magnetic order with geometry: thermalisation and defects in two-dimensional artificial spin ices. Physical Review B, 101, 144403. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.144403)

Wolz, Tim, Stehli, Alexander, Schneider, Andre, Boventer, Isabella, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Ustinov, Alexey V., Kläui, Mathias and Weides, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-6795 (2020) Introducing coherent time control to cavity magnon-polariton modes. Communications Physics, 3, 3. (doi: 10.1038/s42005-019-0266-x)

Boventer, Isabella, Dörflinger, Christine, Wolz, Tim, Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Lebrun, Romain, Kläui, Mathias and Weides, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-6795 (2020) Control of the coupling strength and linewidth of a cavity magnon-polariton. Physical Review Research, 2(1), 013154. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013154)

2019

Porro, Jose M., Morley, Sophie A., Venero, Diego Alba, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Rosamond, Mark C., Linfield, Edmund H., Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864, Marrows, Christopher H. and Langridge, Sean (2019) Magnetization dynamics of weakly interacting sub-100 nm square artificial spin ices. Scientific Reports, 9, 19967. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-56219-y) (PMID:31882867) (PMCID:PMC6934880)

Boventer, Isabella, Kläui, Mathias, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Weides, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-6795 (2019) Steering between level repulsion and attraction: broad tunability of two-port driven cavity magnon-polaritons. New Journal of Physics, 21(12), 125001. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab5c12)

Wu, Xiaohu, McEleney, Cameron A., González-Jiménez, Mario and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2019) Emergent asymmetries and enhancement in the absorption of natural hyperbolic crystals. Optica, 6(12), pp. 1478-1483. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.6.001478)

Paterson, G. W. et al. (2019) Heisenberg pseudo-exchange and emergent anisotropies in field-driven pinwheel artificial spin ice. Physical Review B, 100(17), 174410. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.174410)

Proskurin, Igor, Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Stamps, Robert L. (2019) Microscopic origin of level attraction for a coupled magnon-photon system in a microwave cavity. New Journal of Physics, 21(9), 095003. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab3cb7)

Macauley, Gavin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-9188, Paterson, Gary W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Li, Yue, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, McVitie, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2019) Ice-rule made manifold: phase transitions, topological defects and manifold restoration in two-dimensional artificial spin systems. arXiv, (Unpublished)

Yarbrough, Patrick M., Livesey, Karen L., Camley, Robert E. and Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2019) Far-infrared reflection from heterostructures made of ultrathin ferromagnetic layers. Physical Review Applied, 12(2), 024004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.024004)

Li, Y. et al. (2019) Superferromagnetism and domain-wall topologies in artificial 'pinwheel' spin ice. ACS Nano, 13(2), pp. 2213-2222. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08884) (PMID:30588800)

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Camley, Robert E. (2019) Engineering terahertz surface magnon-polaritons in hyperbolic antiferromagnets. Physical Review B, 99, 014437. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.014437)

2018

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, Thomas, Camley, Robert E. and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2018) Oriented asymmetric wave propagation and refraction bending in hyperbolic media. ACS Photonics, 5(12), pp. 5086-5094. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01402)

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Livesey, Karen L. and Camley, Robert E. (2018) Using magnetic hyperbolic metamaterials as high frequency tunable filters. Applied Physics Letters, 113(12), 121104. (doi: 10.1063/1.5049602)

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Macauley, G.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-9188, Nascimento, F.S. and Stamps, R.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2018) Apparent ferromagnetism in the 'pinwheel' artificial spin ice. Physical Review B, 98, 014437. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.014437)

2017

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (2017) Tunable hyperbolic media: magnon-polaritons in canted antiferromagnets. In: Camley, Robert E. and Stamps, Robert L. (eds.) Solid State Physics. Elsevier, pp. 91-155. ISBN 9780128119914 (doi: 10.1016/bs.ssp.2017.10.001)

2016

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, Thomas and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2016) Tunable focusing in natural hyperbolic magnetic media. ACS Photonics, 3(9), pp. 1670-1677. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00321)

2015

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, T. and Stamps, R.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2015) Tunable Magneto-Optical Effects in Antiferromagnetic Structures. In: 2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS), Oxford, UK, 7-12 Sept 2015, pp. 454-456. ISBN 9781479978366 (doi: 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2015.7342485)

2014

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Stamps, R. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 and Dumelow, T. (2014) Spin canting induced large nonreciprocal Goos-Hänchen shifts. Optics Express, 22(23), pp. 28467-28478. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.028467)

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Dumelow, T. (2014) Tunable all-angle negative refraction using antiferromagnets. Physical Review B, 89(3), 035135. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.035135)

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Rodrigues da Silva, R., Dumelow, T. and da Costa, J.A.P. (2014) MgF2 as a material exhibiting all-angle negative refraction and subwavelength imaging due to the phonon response in the far infrared. Optics Communications, 310, pp. 94-99. (doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2013.07.065)

2013

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Costa e Silva, J., Chaves, Andrey, Farias, G.A. and Ferreira, R. (2013) Electric and magnetic field effects on the excitonic properties of elliptic core–multishell quantum wires. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 25(48), 485501. (doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/48/485501)

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Costa e Silva, J., Chaves, A., Farias, G.A. and Ferreira, R. (2013) Magnetic field induced shell-to-core confinement transition in type-II semiconductor quantum wires. Journal of Applied Physics, 113(15), 153710. (doi: 10.1063/1.4802588)

Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Dumelow, T. (2013) Beam shifts on reflection of electromagnetic radiation off anisotropic crystals at optic phonon frequencies. Journal of Optics, 15(1), 014013. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/1/014013)

2012

Estevâm da Silva, R., Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, T., da Costa, J.A.P., Honorato, S.B. and Ayala, A.P. (2012) Far-infrared slab lensing and subwavelength imaging in crystal quartz. Physical Review B, 86(15), 155152. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155152)

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, Thomas and da Costa, José A.P. (2012) Beam Shifts of Far-Infrared Radiation on Reflection off the Anisotropic Crystal LiYF₄. In: Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference 2012, São Sebastião, Brazil, 10-13 Nov 2012, LT2A.20. ISBN 9781557529589 (doi: 10.1364/LAOP.2012.LT2A.20)

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, Thomas and da Costa, José A.P. (2012) Tunable All-Angle Negative Refraction in Antiferromagnets. In: Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference 2012, São Sebastião, Brazil, 10-13 Nov 2012, LM3A.5. ISBN 9781557529589 (doi: 10.1364/LAOP.2012.LM3A.5)

Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Sena, Michael S., Costa e Silva, Jusciane, Chaves, Andrey and da Costa, José A. P. (2012) The role of surface roughness on the electron confinement in semiconductor quantum dots. In: Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference 2012, São Sebastião, Brazil, 10-13 Nov 2012, LM2A.19. ISBN 9781557529589 (doi: 10.1364/LAOP.2012.LM2A.19)

2011

Dumelow, T., Rodrigues da Silva, R., Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, da Costa, J.A.P., Honorato, S.B. and Ayala, A.P. (2011) Negative refraction of far-infrared radiation in quartz. Optics and Photonics News, 22(12), p. 42. (doi: 10.1364/OPN.22.12.000042)

2010

Rodrigues da Silva, R., Macêdo, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, T., da Costa, J.A.P., Honorato, S.B. and Ayala, A.P. (2010) Using phonon resonances as a route to all-angle negative refraction in the far-infrared region: the case of crystal quartz. Physical Review Letters, 105(16), 163903. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.163903)

da Silva, Rízia R., Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, Dumelow, Thomas, da Costa, José A., Honorato, Sara B. and Ayala, Alejandro P. (2010) All-Angle Negative Refraction from the Phonon Response in Anisotropic Crystals. In: Latin America Optics and Photonics 2010, Recife, Brazil, 27-30 Sep 2010, WE23. ISBN 9781557529039 (doi: 10.1364/LAOP.2010.WE23)

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Number of items: 59.

Articles

Joseph, A. et al. (2024) The role of excitation vector fields and all-polarisation state control in cavity magnonics. npj Spintronics, 2(59), (doi: 10.1038/s44306-024-00062-z) (PMCID:PMC11618086)

Chumak, A. V. et al. (2022) Roadmap on spin-wave computing. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(6), 0800172. (doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2022.3149664)

Baity, P. G. et al. (2021) Strong magnon-photon coupling with chip-integrated YIG in the zero-temperature limit. Applied Physics Letters, 119(3), 033502. (doi: 10.1063/5.0054837)

Macauley, Gavin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-9188, Paterson, Gary W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Li, Yue, Macêdo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X, McVitie, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 and Stamps, Robert L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0713-4864 (2019) Ice-rule made manifold: phase transitions, topological defects and manifold restoration in two-dimensional artificial spin systems. arXiv, (Unpublished)

Li, Y. et al. (2019) Superferromagnetism and domain-wall topologies in artificial 'pinwheel' spin ice. ACS Nano, 13(2), pp. 2213-2222. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08884) (PMID:30588800)

Book Sections

Edited Books

Stamps, Robert L., Camley, Robert E. and Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (Eds.) (2024) Solid State Physics. Volume 75. Academic Press. ISBN 9780443297786

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X and Stamps, Robert L. (Eds.) (2023) Solid State Physics. Volume 74. Academic Press. ISBN 9780443137136

Macedo, Rair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-798X (Ed.) (2022) Solid State Physics. Volume 73. Academic Press. ISBN 9780323989114

Conference or Workshop Item

Baity, P. G. et al. (2021) Strong Magnon-Photon Coupling On-Chip for YIG in the Zero-Temperature Limit. American Physical Society March Meeting 2021, Online, 15-19 Mar 2021.

Conference Proceedings

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Grants

Current research funding:

Coherent Optimisation and Magnon Manipulation for Information Transfer - (COMMIT)

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: UKRI (STFI) and NSERC
Start date: 01/04/2025; End

Opto-Spintronic interfaces for next generation quantum networks - (SpinNet)

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: EPSRC New Horizons Highly Speculative ICT (EP/X017850/1)
Award: £250,000
Start date: 01/04/2023; End date: 31/03/2025

Empowering Practical Interfacing of Quantum Computing (EPIQC)

Co-investigator
Funding source: EPSRC (EP/W032627/1)
Award: £3,000,000
Start date: 30/04/2022; End date: 29/04/2026

Recently completed grants:

Synthetic magnets for signal processing: designing wave phenomena through micro- and nano-scale structuring

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: The University of Glasgow (Reward for Excellence, Colege of Science and Engineering)
Award: £10,000
Start date: 01/03/2021; End date: 31/07/2021

Advanced magnetic media for next generation thz multifunctional devices

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: The Leverhulme Trust (300947-01) and The University of Glasgow (LKAS - 200584-01)
Award: £189,881
Start date: 01/03/18; End date: 28/02/2021

Erasmus+

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
End date: 28/02/2021

Vacation Scholarship

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo; Student Investigator: Connor Maclean
Funding source: The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (308264-00)
End date: 2020

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo; Student Investigator: Cameron McEleney
Funding source: The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (308264-00)
End date: 2019

Vacation Internship: Study of light interactions with magnetic systems

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo; Student Investigator: Rory Holland
Funding source: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
End date: 2019

Postdoctoral and Early Career Research Exchange Program

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
End date: 2018

Lord Kelvin Postgraduate Scholarship

Principal investigator: Dr. Rair Macedo
Funding source: The University of Glasgow
Start Date: 2015; End date: 2016

Supervision

Researchers:

Kym Russell - Project Assistant
James Walker - Project Assistant

Ph.D. Students:

Amy Eden - University of Glasgow (EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity-Led, Mission-Driven Research)
Cameron McEleney - University of Glasgow (EPSRC and SFI CDT in Photonic Integration & Advanced Data Storage)
Katherine Stevens - University of Glasgow (EPSRC and SFI CDT in Photonic Integration & Advanced Data Storage)
Mawgan Smith - University of Glasgow (EPSRC and SFI CDT in Photonic Integration & Advanced Data Storage)

Cunningham, Mark
Photonic integration and advanced data storage
Joseph, Alban
Controlling temporal spin dynamics in a magnetic network
Karar, Wridhdhisom
Experimental realization of many-body coupling schemes with superconducting quantum hardware

Former Staff:

Charlotte de Cremoux - Project Assistant - EPSRC IAA
Dr. Yashar Alizadeh - Research Associate
Dr. Gary Paterson - Research Associate
Dr. Luke McLellan - Research Associate
Rory Holland - Project Assistant
Adam Lafferty - Project Assistant

Former Students:

Connor Maclean (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Vacation Scholar)
Gavin Macauley - (PhD) University of Glasgow (Funded by The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland - Co-supervision with Prof. Stephen McVitie)
Connor Maclean (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Vacation Scholar)
Cameron McEleney (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Vacation Scholar)
Rory Holland (EPSRC Vacation Intern)
Reed Jones - (PhD) University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Co-supervision with Prof. Robert E Camley)
Anna Casey - (PhD) Queen's University Belfast (EPSRC and SFI CDT in Photonic Integration & Advanced Data Storage, 2nd Supervisor)
Vandeilma Bezerra - (PhD) Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (Co-Supervision with Prof. Thomas Dumelow)

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Level 2 (SCQF level 8):

Engineering Electromagnetics 2 (ENG2031)

Level 4 (SCQF level 10):

Quantum Electronic Devices 4 (ENG4099)
Public Engagement & Teaching in Engineering (ENG4201)

Postgraduate Courses:

Level 5 (SCQF level 11):

Q uantum Electronic Devices M (ENG5261)

Past Teaching:

Level 1 (SCQF level 7):

Engineering Mathematics 1 (ENG1063)

Level 5 (SCQF level 11):

Research Methods and Practice Group Project M (ENG5324)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2024 | 2019

Number of items: 2.

2024

Joseph, A., Nair, J., Smith, M., Holland, R., McLellan, L., Boventer, I., Wolz, T., Bozhko, D., Flebus, B., Weides, M. and Macedo, R. (2024) The role of excitation vector fields and all-polarisation state control of cavity magnonics. [Data Collection]

2019

Li, Y., Paterson, G., Macauley, G., Nascimento, F. S., Ferguson, C., Morley, S. A., Rosamond, M. C., Linfield, E. H., MacLaren, D. , Macedo, R. , Marrows, C. H., McVitie, S. and Stamps, R. (2019) Superferromagnetism and Domain-Wall Topologies in Artificial 'Pinwheel' Spin Ice. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Public Engagement (advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion):

I currently serve as:

EDI champion for the EPSRC and SFI CDT in Photonic Integration & Advanced Data Storage;
Steering board member for Opening Up Photonics; and
Chair of the James Watt School of Engineering EDI committee (formely Culture Lead).

In order to help bridge the gap between science and disadvantaged groups, not only social and financial, but also racial, sexual orientation, gender and any other minority group, I developed a series of high school activities, including seminars and demonstrations, which I delivered to schools in rural and remote areas of South America this last summer.

These activities target children at an early age when they are just starting to study scientific subjects such as physics, chemistry and biology. My main focus was to motivate children from an underprivileged background to get into STEM and I worked with over 150 children.

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The overarching goal of these initiatives was to help reduce barriers in education or research in science for underrepresented and/or economically disadvantaged groups.

More recently, as part of the outreach activities within the School of Engineering, we have opened up out teaching labs to primary school pupils from Glasgow as an opportunity for them to learn more about electronics and its applications:

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