Group Christmas Meal and Hoyeon's thesis submission
It was great to have our group Christmas meal in Manchester which coincided with a celebration of Hoyeon’s thesis submission!
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Funded PhD project: Correlative operando spectroscopy of electrocatalysts
A fully-funded joint PhD project between Dr Alex Walton (Manchester Chemistry) and the Parkinson group is being advertised for a 2023 start. The project is based on correlating fast and slow measurements – optical and photoelectronic studies – of novel electrocatalytic materials. It is well suited for a student with an interest
Presentation Prize: Stephen Church at Rank Prize Symposium
Group postdoc Stephen Church was awarded the “best early-career-researcher” presentation prize at the Rank Prize Symposium meeting in Grasmere. The meeting Nanowire Photonics was chaired by Prof. Martin Dawson (Strathclyde), Prof. Hannah Joyce (Cambridge) and Prof. Michael Johnston (Oxford).
Congratulations to Stephen!
Conference Presentation: Rank Prize Symposium in Nanowire Photonics
The group was well represented at the Rank Prize symposium in Grasmere. The high-throughput and automation session included invited talks from Patrick, Stephen Church and Ruqaiya Al-Abri.
New preprint: Holistic nanowire laser characterization as a route to optimal design
Group postdoc Stephen Church has submitted his most recent work to the arXiv preprint server. In this new work, Stephen carried out optical, microscopic, and electron micrograph characterization of over 5000 nanowire lasers. By correlating geometry effects which affect the nanolaser cavity, and material quality that affect gain material, we
Welcome to Tharaka!
The group welcomes a new PhD student, Tharaka Weeraddana, who joins us on a University of Manchester Diversity Enhancement Scholarship. Tharaka will work with co-supervisor Andrew Thomas (Materials) to apply high-throughput approaches to liquid-phase nanomaterials. He joins from Sri Lanka via Masters research at Bowling Green State University.
UKRI FLF Annual Meeting 2022
Patrick attended the annual Future Leaders Fellowship meeting in Birmingham.
Manchester - NPL meeting on Quantum Materials
Patrick joined colleague from Manchester to travel to the National Physical Laboratory as part of the Manchester-NPL program on Quantum Materials. This included visits to collaborators Yameng Cao (leading the VAMAS 14 project) and Philip Dolan.
Kick-off meeting: Kubos Semi IAA
Patrick and Stephen traveled to Cardiff University to meet Kubos representatives as part of the Impact Accelerator Kick-off meeting. Stephen will spend half of his time developing our spectroscopy tools to support novel materials develop over the next 12 month as part of a secondment to Kubos.
New Grant - EPSRC Impact Accelerator with Kubos Semi
The group has been awarded a 1-year “impact accelerator” grant with Kubos Semi, to fund a 6 month secondment of group PDRA Stephen Church. In this project, Stephen will translate our high-throughput methodology towards in-line optimization of emerging semiconductor materials.
Kubos develop cubic-phase GaN which can be grown on large