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!
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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".
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
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.
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).
#SUSPQT Workshop
Patrick chaired a two-day workshop on Scale-up and Standardization for Photonic Quantum Technology at NPL Teddington. This event brought together over twenty speakers from academia, industry, national labs, metrology and funders to discuss opportunities and challenges in scaling-up photonic quantum technology.
With over 80 registered attendees, this M4QN/NPL/University
Conference: Nanowire Week 2023 (Georgia Tech)
Patrick gave an invited talk at Nanowire Week 2023, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta Georgia. This event brought together over 100 academics and researchers from around the world to discuss the major findings and future direction for the nanowire field, spanning sensing, photovoltaics, microscopy, lasing and more.
Welcome: Ishika Das
A warm welcome to the group to new PhD student Ishika Das! Ishika joins from a MSc degree at Bristol. She will work on a project to simulation, measure and optimize novel non-linear optoelectronic materials, working with her co-supervisor Dr Iain Crowe and international partners including Prof. Hong Liu (A*