Biography
Isabel Pita is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher working between the Tyndall National Institute as part of Brian Corbett's III-V materials and devices group and the Department of Physics at the University of Limerick. She is working on an Irish Research Council funded project which aims to integrate LED structures with antennas. Previously Isabel worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics group at the University of Limerick where she researched the formation of all-inorganic LEDs. Her main research interests are optical antenna incorporation into nanoscale devices, nano-optic device component fabrication, light-emitting diode fabrication, nanowire and nanoparticle synthesis, surface plasmon enhancement, plasmonic circuits, and optical waveguide analysis.
Isabel obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Limerick in January 2018. She graduated with a 1st Class Honours B.Sc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in August 2013.
Isabel is a holder of a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (GOIPD/2018/10) and previously held an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (GOIPG/2013/58).
Professional Activities
Education
- 2018 University of Limerick - PhD
- 2013 University of Limerick - BSc
Award
- 2018 - Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2017 - UL PhD Scholar's Bursary
- 2016 - INSPIRE Mobility Funding
- 2015 - INSPIRE Mobility Funding
- 2013 - Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
Association
- Early Career, American Physics Society
- Early Career, The Optical Society of America
Employment
- Tyndall National Institute - Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Limerick - Postdoctoral Researcher
Publications
Conference Contribution
COMSOL Conference 2019
Isabel Pita, Ning Liu, Brian Corbett
Photonics Ireland 2017
Isabel Pita, Mahendar Kumbham, Michael Schmidt, Matthew Gleeson, Kevin M. Ryan, Christophe Silien, and Ning Liu
OSI-12
Isabel Pita, Mahendar Kumbham, Michael Schmidt, Matthew Gleeson, Kevin M. Ryan, Christophe Silien, and Ning Liu
ECOSS 2015
Isabel Pita, Shalini Singh, Christophe Silien, Kevin M. Ryan, Ning Liu
UL-NUIG Research Day
Isabel Pita, Christophe Silien, Kevin M. Ryan, Ning Liu
Peer Reviewed Journal
Input coupling enhancement through antenna incorporation in thin Au-mica trench waveguides
Isabel A. Pita, Mahendar Kumbham, Matthew Gleeson, Serguei Belochapkine, Kevin M. Ryan, Christophe Silien, and Ning Liu
Journal Of The Optical Society Of America B-Optical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.36.002954
Surface plasmon propagation enhancement via bowtie antenna incorporation in Aumica block waveguides
Isabel A. Pita, Mahendar Kumbham, Michael Schmidt, Matthew Gleeson, Kevin M. Ryan, Christophe Silien, and Ning Liu
Applied Optics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.57.000E50
Far-Field Subdiffraction Imaging of Semiconductors Using Nonlinear Transient Absorption Differential Microscopy
Ning Liu, Mahendar Kumbham, Isabel Pita, Yina Guo, Paolo Bianchini, Alberto Diaspro, Syed A. M. Tofail, André Peremans, Christophe Silien
Acs Photonics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00716
Recyclable SERS substrates based on Fe2O3Ag hybrid hollow microspheres with crumpled surfaces
Xuexiang Weng, Zhiling Feng, Yina Guo, Jiu-Ju Feng, Sarah P. Hudson, Jufang Zheng, Yongming Ruan, Fathima Laffir and Isabel Pita
New Journal Of Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NJ00473C
Heteroaggregation assisted wet synthesis of coreshell silversilicacadmium selenide nanowires
Isabel A. Pita, Shalini Singh, Christophe Silien, Kevin M. Ryan and Ning Liu
Nanoscale
DOI: DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06615H
High resolution imaging with differential infrared absorption micro-spectroscopy
Isabel Pita, Nordine Hendaoui, Ning Liu, Mahendar Kumbham, Syed A. M. Tofail, André Peremans, and Christophe Silien
Optics Express
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.025632