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Conversion between longitudinal and shear waves at normal incidence using tailored meta-structures (2025)
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Clark, M., Fuentes-Domínguez, R., Jin, P., Patel, R., Simonelli, M., & Smith, R. J. (2025). Conversion between longitudinal and shear waves at normal incidence using tailored meta-structures. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 618(B), Article 119325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2025.119325

The ability to manipulate elastic waves and achieve efficient mode conversion is important for many applications including energy harvesting, vibration mitigation and elastic wave control. In this paper, we present a novel metamaterial-based wave mod... Read More about Conversion between longitudinal and shear waves at normal incidence using tailored meta-structures.

Interpretable Multi-Task Conditional Neural Networks Reveal Cancer Cell Adhesion Characteristics From Phonon Microscopy Images (2025)
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Zheng, Y., Fuentes-Dominguez, R., Goni, M. R., Clark, M., Gordon, G. S., & Perez-Cota, F. (2025). Interpretable Multi-Task Conditional Neural Networks Reveal Cancer Cell Adhesion Characteristics From Phonon Microscopy Images. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3556599

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) show significant promise in multiscale modeling and biomedical informatics, particularly in the analysis of phonon microscopy (high-frequency ultrasound) data for cancer detection. This study addresses critica... Read More about Interpretable Multi-Task Conditional Neural Networks Reveal Cancer Cell Adhesion Characteristics From Phonon Microscopy Images.

Measuring the elastic properties of the Gibeon meteorite using laser ultrasound (2025)
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Li, W., Clark, M., & J. Smith, R. (2025). Measuring the elastic properties of the Gibeon meteorite using laser ultrasound. Scripta Materialia, 262, Article 116666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2025.116666

Meteorites provide access to information on the formation and evolution of planetary bodies which is otherwise difficult to study. The unique nature of these samples and their relative scarcity means that non-destructive analysis techniques are neede... Read More about Measuring the elastic properties of the Gibeon meteorite using laser ultrasound.

Body wave to surface wave conversion using tailored meta-structures (2025)
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Fuentes-Domínguez, R., Smith, R. J., Jin, P., Simonelli, M., Gibbon, S., & Clark, M. (2025). Body wave to surface wave conversion using tailored meta-structures. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 603, Article 118989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2025.118989

Elastic waves are important in many application areas. Their manipulation and coupling between different acoustic modes is important and presents a considerable challenge that offers to unlock the flexibility in wave transport required for efficient... Read More about Body wave to surface wave conversion using tailored meta-structures.

Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components (2019)
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Pieris, D., Stratoudaki, T., Javadi, Y., Lukacs, P., Catchpole-Smith, S., Wilcox, P. D., Clare, A., & Clark, M. (2020). Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components. Materials and Design, 187, Article 108412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2019.108412

© 2019 The Authors. Additive manufacturing (AM) has the capability to build complex parts with internal features, which have many advantages over conventionally manufactured parts. This makes AM an alternative for advanced manufacturing sectors. AM c... Read More about Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components.

Super-resolution imaging using nano-bells (2018)
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Fuentes-Dominguez, R., Pérez-Cota, F., Naznin, S., Smith, R. J., & Clark, M. (2018). Super-resolution imaging using nano-bells. Scientific Reports, 8, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34744-6

In this paper we demonstrate a new scheme for optical super-resolution, inspired, in-part, by PALM and STORM. In this scheme each object in the field of view is tagged with a signal that allows them to be detected separately. By doing this we can ide... Read More about Super-resolution imaging using nano-bells.

Cell imaging by phonon microscopy: sub-optical wavelength ultrasound for non-invasive imaging (2017)
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Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., Moradi, E., Leija, A. L., Velickovic, K., Marques, L., Webb, K. F., Symonds, M. E., Sottile, V., Elsheikha, H., & Clark, M. (2017). Cell imaging by phonon microscopy: sub-optical wavelength ultrasound for non-invasive imaging

The mechanical properties of cells play an important role in cell function and behavior. This paper presents recent developments that have enabled the use of laser-generated phonons (ultrasound) with sub-optical wavelengths to look inside living cell... Read More about Cell imaging by phonon microscopy: sub-optical wavelength ultrasound for non-invasive imaging.

High resolution 3D imaging of living cells with sub-optical wavelength phonons (2016)
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Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., Moradi, E., Marques, L., Webb, K. F., & Clark, M. (2016). High resolution 3D imaging of living cells with sub-optical wavelength phonons. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 39326. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39326

Label-free imaging of living cells below the optical diffraction limit poses great challenges for optical microscopy. Biologically relevant structural information remains below the Rayleigh limit and beyond the reach of conventional microscopes. Supe... Read More about High resolution 3D imaging of living cells with sub-optical wavelength phonons.

Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells (2015)
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Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., Moradi, E., Webb, K. F., & Clark, M. (in press). Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 684(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/684/1/012003

Mechanical imaging and characterisation of biological cells has been a subject of interest for the last twenty years. Ultrasonic imaging based on the scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) and mechanical probing have been extensively reported. Large acou... Read More about Thin-film transducers for the detection and imaging of Brillouin oscillations in transmission on cultured cells.

Thin-film optoacoustic transducers for the subcellular Brillouin oscillation imaging of individual biological cells (2015)
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Perez-Cota, F., Smith, R. J., Moradi, E., Marques, L., Webb, K. F., & Clark, M. (2015). Thin-film optoacoustic transducers for the subcellular Brillouin oscillation imaging of individual biological cells. Applied Optics, 54(28), https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.54.008388

Mechanical characterisation and imaging of biological tissue has piqued interest in the applicability to cell and tissue biology. One method, based on detection of Brillouin oscillations, has already lead to demonstrations on biological cells using u... Read More about Thin-film optoacoustic transducers for the subcellular Brillouin oscillation imaging of individual biological cells.