EPSRC 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
InnovateUK Postdoctoral Research Position available: Spectroscopy of Singly-Doped Colloidal Quantum Dots A 12 month postdoctoral position is available on an InnovateUK funded project to produce singly-doped colloidal quantum dots for quantum technology applications. This position, led by Nanoco and Dr. David Binks (Manchester Physics) runs from March 2023-March 2024. For more details, or to apply, see https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.
Matthew Thornton Conference Presentation: Near Infrared Lanthanide Complexes as Biological Probes Group PhD student Matthew Thornton has presented work at the Terra Rarae conference in Leipzig, Germany. His presentation reports on the synthesis and characterization of a novel multi-pocket molecule for lanthanide photophysics.
Matthew Thornton Poster Prize: Matt Thornton Matt Thornton, a BBSRC funded PhD affiliated with the group won a Poster Prize at the Molecular Photophysics meeting in Newcastle. Congratulations to Matt!
Conference Talk Conference Presentation: CMD 2022 Two of the group gave oral presentations at CMD29 in Manchester. Group PhD student Hoyeon Choi reported his work on the “Impact of Microstructure of Crystallinity driven singlet fission efficiency in diF-TES-ADT“, a collaboration between Jenny Clark (Sheffield) our our group. Group PDRA Stephen Church reported his work on “Disentangling
David Binks New Grant - InnovateUK Commercialising Quantum Technologies The group have been awarded an InnovateUK grant as part of the ISCF “Commercialising Quantum Technologies” call. This 18month project led by Nanoco Technologies (Widnes) and David Binks (Manchester) will explore singly-doped quantum dots as a platform for quantum technologies. The project runs from August 2022 to January 2024. This
big-data for nano-electronics Conference Presentation: Advanced Photonics Congress Group PDRA Stephen Church presented his work on nanolaser characterization at APC22 in Maastricht. He described our high-throughput methodology to understand the relative contributions of gain, end facet and cavity for photonic integrated application.
API Summer Intern: Tomasz Neska We welcome Tomasz Neska, a third year Physics undergraduate, to the group as a summer intern. This project is funded by the Manchester Careers Service through their Learning through Research program. Over the next 8 weeks, Tomasz will be working on developing an API for our high-throughput experimentation.
JSPS Visit from JSPS Director - Prof. Naoto Kobayashi Group PhD Nikesh and PI Patrick welcomed the UK-based director of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (a major Japanese government funder) to the Photon Science Institute. Professor Naoto Kobayashi and colleagues had discussion on both science and internationalization.
Conference Talk Conference Presentation: UK Semiconductors Group postdoc Stephen Church presented a talk entitled “Disentangling Gain, Distributed Losses and End-Facet Losses in Freestanding Nanowire Lasers using Automated High-Throughput Micro-Spectroscopy” at UK Semiconductors in Sheffield, UK. This collaborative work between Manchester and colleagues in Zhejiang and University College London reported a multimodal correlative approach to studying nanolasers.
Australian National University Visit and seminar: Australian National University As part of a planned visit to the Australian National University Electronic Materials Engineering group, Patrick gave a joint seminar with Hannah Joyce (Cambridge Engineering) to project partners.
big-data for nano-electronics New Paper: Optical Characterisation of Nanowire Lasers Group postdoc Stephen Church and PhD student Ruqaiya Al-Abri collaborated with Dhruv Saxena at Imperial College London to produce a review of methods to characterise nanowire lasers. This article, forming part of a celebration issue for the birthday of colleague Prof. Chennupati Jagadish (at the Australian National University) seeks to
Conference Talk Conference Presentation: ICPS 2022, Sydney Patrick gave a talk at ICPS Sydney, entitled “Hot-carrier dynamics in Zn-doped GaAs nanowires at sub-picosecond timescales via high-throughput spectroscopy“. This work, in collaboration with Martin Magnusson and colleagues at Lund University was led by group PhD student Ruqaiya Al-Abri.
big-data for nano-electronics New Paper: Holistic Determination of Optoelectronic Properties using High-Throughput Spectroscopy of Surface-Guided CsPbBr3 Nanowires Optoelectronic materials form the building blocks of crucial components of modern technology, including solar cells, CCDs, lasers and LEDs. The past decade has seen significant developments in materials science that enable the shrinking of these materials to the nano-scale. These advancements have also created entirely new technologies based around light
big-data for nano-electronics Nanowire Week 2022: Talks and Posters Group members Dr Stephen Church and Nikesh Patel have presented their work at the 2022 Nanowire Week meeting in Chamonix, France. Stephen gave an oral presentation on his recent research on “Nanowire facet reflectivity and lasing performance using high-throughput interferometry“. Nikesh presented a poster on his work on “High Intra-
ANU Panel discussion Patrick took part in a virtual panel discussion featuring collaborator Prof. Fu Lan (Australian National University) on the topic of nanowire quantum well arrays. The ICANX talk was moderated by Haixia Zhang of Peking University, and featured Weida Hu (SITP) and Noushin Nasir (Macquarie). The session is available to view
Arturo Alanis Graduation Congratulations to first group PhD student Juan (Arturo), who managed to graduate today. Having passed his viva in March 2020, it was a long wait to return to Manchester. He is now working with Synaptec in Glasgow.
Import 2022-12-08 21:42 Group Research Planning day The group met to discuss research planning and objectives for the next 6 months – our second all-team in-person meeting.
A*STAR Funded PhD position with A*STAR The group is now advertising for a funded PhD position as part of the A*STAR ARAP scheme, in collaboration with Kedar Hippalgaonkar of A*STAR and NTU in Singapore. The project will build on the high-throughput techniques developed in the Manchester group, and the Bayesian optimization approaches at A*
Jessica Boland Welcome to Stefan! The group welcomes Dr. Stefan Skalsky to the group as a short-term postdoctoral researcher. He will lead a pump-prime project on integrating single photon spectroscopy to near-field microscopy as part of a UMRI-funded project with Jessica Boland.
big-data for nano-electronics Learning Through Research Internship 2022: Big-Data From High-Throughput Experimentation The group will again offer an 8-week paid summer internship to work on developing a cloud-based solution for high-throughput data management. This position is only available to current University of Manchester students in their penultimate year of study. The role will sit alongside PhD and postdoctoral staff in the group,
Jack Young New MPhys students - Peter, Kit and Jack The group welcomes three new MPhys students for semester 2. They will be working on: * Peter Parsons – Single-photon compressive spectro-imaging methodology (assisted by Dr. Stefan Skalsky) * Kit Garbutt & Jack Young – Enhancing optical imaging for crop-science (led by Prof. Bruce Grieve)
Funding New Funding : Small Capital Equipment The group has secured funding for a 3-year license of NextNano for quantum device simulation. This is part of the University of Manchester’s COVID research-recovery fund, and will be led by group member Nikesh.
automated microscopy Hardware drivers made available A set of MATLAB-based hardware drivers developed in the lab have been made available online. More details are available on the Hardware Drivers page, or via github. These span Thor Labs imaging equipment, oceanoptics spectrometers, and a range of motion controllers.
CUSTOM New Funding : Single-photon spectroscopy at the nanoscale Patrick and colleague Jessica Boland have received short-term pump-prime funding to combine single-photon spectroscopy with scattering-type near-field microscopy. The project, running from February to June will employ one postdoc for a proof-of-principle system.
