All Stories

  1. Disordered animal multilayer reflectors and the localization of light

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  2. Animal Polarization Imaging and Implications for Optical Processing

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  3. Out of the blue: the evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  4. Bumblebees Learn Polarization Patterns

    Article • Current Biology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  5. Polarisation Signals

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  6. Suppression of Brewster delocalization anomalies in an alternating isotropic-birefringent random layered medium

    Article • Physical Review B, July 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  7. Inspiration from the reflective sides of silvery fish

    Article • SPIE Newsroom, June 2013, SPIE

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  8. Dragonfly larval polarization sensitivity as a contrast enhancer in turbid water

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  9. Bees, Flowers and Polarization.

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  10. Varying degrees of polarization vision in octopus: interaction between degree and angle of polarization in contrast detection tasks

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  11. Polarisationish, speaking the language and making the movie

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  12. High levels of reflectivity and pointillist structural color in fish, cephalopods, and beetles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  13. Non-polarizing broadband multilayer reflectors in fish

    Article • Nature Photonics, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  14. An omnidirectional broadband mirror design inspired by biological multilayer reflectors

    Article • April 2012, SPIE

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  15. An Imaging Microspectrophotometer (iMSP)

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  16. The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polarization vision

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  17. A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent achromaticity in the visible wavelength region

    Article • Nature Photonics, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  18. Polarization signals in mantis shrimps

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  19. Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson

  20. A Novel Vertebrate Eye Using Both Refractive and Reflective Optics

    Article • Current Biology, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  21. Asymmetric switching in a ferrielectric liquid crystal device

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  22. Thermotropic biaxial nematic order parameters and phase transitions deduced by Raman scattering

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), May 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  23. Continuously rotating chiral liquid crystal droplets in a linearly polarized laser trap

    Article • Optics Express, April 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  24. Deduction of the temperature-dependent structure of the four-layer intermediate smectic phase using resonant X-ray scattering

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  25. Mechanisms of switching in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal device revealed by time‐resolved X‐ray scattering

    Article • Liquid Crystals, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson

  26. An experimental investigation of discrete changes in pitch in a thin, planar chiral nematic device

    Article • Liquid Crystals, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  27. Antisymmetric plasmon resonance in coupled gold nanoparticles as a sensitive tool for detection of local index of refraction

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  28. Remarkably wide four-layer smectic phases in mixtures of liquid crystals and highly chiral dopants

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson

  29. Biaxiality and temperature dependence of 3- and 4-layer intermediate smectic-phase structures as revealed by resonant X-ray scattering

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), December 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  30. Investigation into the Effects of Optical Tilt Angle Profile, Biaxiality and Dispersion of the Optic Axis on the Calculation of Reflection Spectra of SmC* Liquid Crystal Films

    Article • Ferroelectrics, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  31. The absorption of polarized light by vertebrate photoreceptors

    Article • Vision Research, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  32. Liquid Crystals, the Visual System and Polarization Sensitivity

    Article • Liquid Crystals Today, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson

  33. Differences in the optical properties of vertebrate photoreceptor classes leading to axial polarization sensitivity

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, March 2004, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson

  34. Optical Properties of Cholesteric Materials used in Surface Stabilised Cholesteric Texture Devices

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  35. The physics of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals.By I. Musevic, R. Blinc & B. Zeks. Singapore: World Scientific, 2000. Pp. 680. USD 129, GBP 88. ISBN 981-02-0325-X

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, May 2003, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts

  36. An experimental and theoretical investigation into the reflection spectra of SmC* and SmCA* phases

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Nicholas W Roberts, Professor Helen F Gleeson