Professor David Whittaker

Professor of condensed matter theory

Contact details

• Room : E12b
• Phone : +44 (0)114 22 23537
• Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555

email : d.m.whittaker@sheffield.ac.uk

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Research interests

• Photonic crystals and polantons in microcavities

Teaching

• PHY313

Departmental administration

• Research committee

Professional activities

• Member, International Advisory Committee for Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems, Montpellier (2001) and Southampton (2005)
• Chair, EPSRC Physics Prioritisation Panel 2007
• Scientific consultant, Cambridge Displays Technology (2000- )
• Member, EPSRC college (2003- )

Recent key publications

• Classical treatment of parametric processes in a strong-coupling planar microcavity. Physical Review B, 63, 193305
• Optical Trirefringence in Photonic Crystal Waveguides. Physical Review Letters, 86, 1526-1529
• Origin of the Oscillator strength of the Triplet State of a Trion in a Magnetic Field. Physical Review Letters, 89, 246805
• Spatial structure and stability of the macroscopically occupied polariton state in the microcavity optical parametric oscillator. Physical Review B, 73, 241308R