Patrick Parkinson

📍 Manchester, UK

New Paper - Emission Properties and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of CsPbCl3 Perovskite Nanocrystals

Congratulations to Ruben Ahumada-Lazo for his new paper on emission properties of perovskite nanocrystals. In his new paper, published in ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry C, he used ultrafast and high-fluence optical techniques based at the Photon Science Institute to reveal the radiative and non-radiative recombination pathways in CsPbCl3 perovskite

New Paper - Optical Study of p-Doping in GaAs Nanowires for Low-Threshold and High-Yield Lasing

Our new work on large-scale statistical spectroscopy to optimize nanowire lasers is published today in Nano Letters. In this work, PhD student Arturo studied thousands of nanowires to identify the lowest threshold nanowire, as well as to model emission to identify the primary sources of non-radiative emission. By quickly sorting

Presentation at ICYRAM-2018

Arturo gave an oral presentation on his work – “Nanolaser optimization through statistical optoelectronic analysis” at ICYRAM in Adelaide as part of a IOP Barber Fund supported conference trip.

New Paper - Graphene-Silicon-On-Insulator (GSOI) Schottky Diode Photodetectors

Hakan Selvi has had a paper accepted for publication in RSC Nanoscale describing SOI graphene-based photodetectors. In a collaboration between the Echtermeyer group and the Parkinson group at the University of Manchester, Hakan showed that by modifying the shape and thickness of the silicon, the electrical and optical characteristics could

Visitors from Melbourne

A welcome to Jasper, Vivek and Jiajun from the Crozier group at the University of Melbourne who visit our group for the week. This visit, funded through the Manchester-Melbourne linkage program, will allow the Melbourne group to use some of the microscopy facilities within the Photon Science Institute to understand

Welcome to Lily and Rachel

Lily Shepherd and Rachel Clarke join the group as 4th year MPhys students. They will be working on developing fast techniques for looking at homogeneity in photovoltaic cells, extending the work done over the summer by Edoardo Altamura.

Welcome to Hoyeon Choi!

A welcome to Hoyeon Choi, who joins the group as a PhD student from the Advanced Photonics Research Institute at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. Hoyeon is co-supervised by Wendy Flavell, and will focus on the role of morphology on energy dynamics in novel photovoltaic materials.

Rank Prize Internship - Edoardo Altamura

Over Summer 2018, Edoardo Altamura has worked as a Rank Prize Optoelectronics Intern on developing techniques for photovoltaic characterisation. He describes his research: Photovoltaic energy proved to play a decisive role in a variety of areas, from everyday life power consumption to space satellites. Assessing the efficiency of devices capable

Photon 2018

Both Stefan and Arturo will present at Photon 2018 in Aston, UK (September 3rd-6th, 2018). Stefan presented a poster on “Time and Spectrally-Resolved Microscopy of GaAsP-GaAs core-shell Quantum Well Lasers“, describing some recent work with collaborators in the group of Prof. Huiyun Liu at University College London. Arturo presented a

Thanks to Edoardo Altamura!

Edoardo has completed his 10 week placement in the group as an optoelectronics intern, funded by the Rank Prize funds. During his stay he has developed hardware, software, and optical approaches to use compressive sensing with low-cost equipment for characterising photovoltaic cells. Many thanks to Edoardo for his hard work!