Timo Nieminen—Home Page

Timo A. Nieminen PhD QEII Research Fellow Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science Department of Physics The University of Queensland email: timo@physics.uq.edu.au

You want to know more?—see my µCV

Teaching

PHYS1000 Introductory General Physics COURSE DESCRIPTION COURSE WEBSITE
PHYS6050/7250 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory COURSE DESCRIPTION

Research

• List of papers and other publications
• Preprints available on the UQ e-print server
• Preprints on arXiv.org

Laser trapping

• Optically-driven micromachines and microtools
• Full-wave computational electromagnetic modelling of optical trapping
• Two-dimensional trapping of absorbing particles
• Modelling dynamics of trapped particles
• Trapping in Laguerre-Gaussian beams (aka doughnut beams)
• Trapping, alignment, and rotation of nonspherical or birefringent particles
• Applications

• How and why microscopic particles can be trapped. (sorry, incomplete!)
• laser trapping

Extremely asymmetrical scattering (EAS)

• EAS in non-uniform gratings
• Non-steady-state EAS

Past research and other research interests

• Papers
• Behaviour classification and research methodology in social sciences
• Astrophysics—PhD thesis—abstract and outline—"Solar Line Asymmetries—Modelling the Effect of Granulation on the Solar Spectrum"
• MATLAB spectral synthesis software

Work-related links

Physics links

• physics links
• people
• journals
• organisations

Other links

• computer links
• software projects
• reference - online info, dictionaries etc.

Hobbies, amusements and general fun stuff

• Shrine to Spirits—Reviews and information on alcoholic spirits
• amusement links
• games—computer games, RPGs and boardgames
• military stuff—links to info and pictures
• music—links
• people I know and their web pages
• SCA—Society for Creative Anachronism—brief info and links

Contact details

• timo@physics.uq.edu.au
   
• Timo Nieminen
  Physics Department
  The University of Queensland
  Brisbane QLD 4072
  Australia

Updated 2nd September 2005