Publication New Paper: Wafer-scale correlated morphology and optoelectronic properties in GaAs/AlGaAs core–shell nanowires Group PhD student Ishika Das had her first paper accepted in APL Materials. This work, led by Stephen Church in collaboration with Prof. Fumitaro Ishikawa at the University of Hokkaido, reported on wafer-scale characterization of nanowire growth. This work provides a route to understand homogeneity and uniformity at the full
Publication New Paper: Nitrogen-vacancy color centers in nanodiamonds as reference single-photon emitters Group PhD Nikesh Patel has just published a new work in Optics Express, in collaboration with colleagues at NPL. While NV-centres in nano-diamonds are well established as optically accessible quantum emitters, they're not all the same. By studying >1000 emitters at two different sites, Nikesh and co-authors
Seminar IBM Hartree Seminar Patrick was invited by fellow FLF, Eloisa Bentivegna, to give an IBM Hartree seminar. It was great to speak with IBM researchers and research leaders on a sunny Cheshire afternoon.
Seminar Invited Seminar: University of Nottingham Patrick gave a seminar at the University of Nottingham, invited by Dr George Gordon.
invited talk Conference: Italian Crystal Growth Group member Dr Stephen Church gave an invited talk at the Italian Crystal Growth Conference in Lecce, Italy. He spoken on his automated techniques for characterization.
PhD examiner PhD Viva - Soo Teck See Patrick was the external examiner for Soo Teck See, at the University of Cambridge (Optoelectronics Group). Soo Teck's supervisor was Prof. Akshay Rao, and the internal examiner was Prof. Richard Friend.
invited talk Invited Talk at ISSON Patrick gave an invited talk at ISSON, Canberra. This meeting was arranged to celebrate the retirement of Prof. Chennupati Jagadish, and drew over 70 speakers and 150 attendees to Canberra to speak about semiconductor optoelectronics.
Conference Talk AIP/COMMAD Conference, Melboune Patrick gave a talk at the COMMAD session of the Australian Institute of Physics conference 2024. This was held in Melbourne.
Seminar Seminar at IMRE Singapore Patrick visited IMRE/A*STAR in Singapore to give an invited institute seminar. While there, he caught up with Mihir Athavale, who is based with Prof Kedar Hippalgaonkar on an exchange programme.
Kieran Ramaswami Welcome to Kieran! The group welcomes Dr Kieran Ramaswami as a new Postdoctoral Researcher. He joins from the Curry group in EEE in Manchester, where he led on spectroscopy and modelling of optoelectronic devices.
invited talk SPIE Photonex Manchester Patrick and Olympia Kennard (from the gifts and endowments team) gave an invited presentation at SPIE Photonex in Manchester. This was to advertise the photononics capabilities at Manchester, and to thank SPIE for their endowment. We were joined by the first two students on the SPIE studentship programme, Sruthi and
Panel Discussion 150 years of Physics at Manchester - Panel Discussion Patrick took part in a panel discussion to celebrate 150 years of physics at Manchester, 90 years since Professor Sir Arthur Schuster's death, and 200 years of the University of Manchester. The discussion was held in the Rutherford lecture theatre of the Schuster Building, and was chaired by
PhD examiner PhD Viva: Marvin van Tilburg Patrick acted as external examiner for Marvin van Tilburg, of the AND group at Tu/E in Eindhoven. Congratulations to Marvin for a successful defence.
Conference Talk ICANS30: Talks Several of the group attended ICANS30, held in Manchester (5-8 August). We had contributed talks from group members Nikesh Patel and Stephen Church (pictured), as well as friends and colleagues from around Europe: - Hannah Joyce (Cambridge) - Gregor Koblmuller (TUM/WSI, Munich) - Paola Prete (CNR, Lecce) - David
Conference Talk ICPS 2024: Mihir Athavale Group member Mihir Athavale gave his first contributed talk as ICPS 2024 in Ottawa, Canada. He spoke on Microring Laser Optimization, as part of a collaboration between growers (Wei Wong/Hoe Tan, ANU), optimization (Andre Low/Kedar Hippalgaonkar, A*STAR Singapore) and our Manchester spectroscopy group.
Funding New Funding: Royce ICP The OMS group are partners with Nanoco on a Prof. David Binks led Industrial Collaboration Project from the Royce Institute. This new project "A Colloidal Quantum Dot Spin-Photon Interface for Quantum Repeaters" will run from October 2024 to March 2025.
PhD graduation Graduation Day: Ruqaiya and Nawal Congratulations to group PhD students Dr Ruqaiya Al-Abri and Dr Nawal Alamairi! Both move on to lectureship positions at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman.
invited talk Invited talk: Patrick at CIMTEC2024 Patrick gave an invited talk at CIMTEC 2024 in Montecatini Terme (Italy) in June. The talk on "High-throughput spectroscopic characterization of nanowire-based quantum structure" was delivered to the "Quantum dot and dopant-based qubits" session of the meeting.
Tharaka Weeraddana Presentation: Tharaka at microfluidic meeting Group PhD Tharaka presented an outline of his work to the Manchester microfluidics network launch meeting - the only PhD to present. Congratulations Tharaka!
thesis Congratulations to Matthew Thornton! Congratuations to group co-supervised student Matthew Thornton who passed his viva with minor corrections! Matt's thesis on "Exploration of Macrocyclic and Protein-Derived Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes Toward the Development of Discrete Molecular Probes" was examined by Dr Stephen Butler (Loughborough) and Dr Imogen Riddell (Manchester).
ESRF Research: XRF and XEOL at ESRF Patrick, Stephen and Nikesh visited the ID16 beamline at ESRF Grenoble to carry out nano X-ray imaging. This was led by Dr Valentina Bonino, beamline scientist; four 24 hour shifts were used to measure combine XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) and XEOL (X-Ray excited optical luminescence) with 60nm resolution on doped and
Conference Talk Conference Talk: Stephen Church at UKNC Glasgow Group postdoc Stephen Church presented a talk at UKNC (the UK Nitrides Conference) in Glasgow, Scotland. His talk focussed on nitride-related aspects of our research, "Holistic characterization of GaN and III/V nanowires using experimental big data".
Keynote Talk Keynote Talk: Patrick at ICFM, IIT Kharagpur Patrick gave a keynote talk at the International Conference on Functional Materials (ICFM2024), held at IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. This meeting was organized by collaborator Prasana Sahoo. Patrick spoke on "High-Throughput Study of Wavelength-Scale Optoelectronics". While at IIT, Patrick also met with joint PhD student Vidushi Chaudhary
PhD viva Congratuations Ruqaiya! Congratulations to group PhD student Ruqaiya Al-Abri for completing her PhD viva on "Correlative Optoelectronic Measurements for Optimization of Semiconductor Nanolasers". The examiners were Jack Alexander-Weber (University of Cambridge Physics) and David Binks.
Nawal Al-Amairi Congratulations Nawal! Congratulations to group PhD student Nawal Al-Amairi on passing her PhD viva with a thesis entitled "Optimisation of Photo- and Particle Detectors using Ultrafast Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy" with minor corrections! Thanks to both examiners: Qiandong Zhuang (Lancaster) and Iain Crowe (Manchester).
