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.
Patrick Parkinson
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
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.
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.
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: 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.
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!
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).
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: 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".