Congratulations to Dr Peng!
Kun Peng has been given approval for the award of her PhD for her thesis “III-V Compound Semiconductor Nanowire Terahertz Detectors“. Congratulations to Kun for all her hard work.
Patrick Parkinson
Manchester Pint of Science
Patrick spoke at the Manchester Pint of Science event at Terrace NQ. Linking the first photograph to nuclear bombs, the Matrix movie and helicopters that appear not to move, he described the use of picosecond “movie-making” to understand energy processes in photosynthesis and nanolasers.
New Publication - Direct laser write process for 3D conductive carbon circuits in polyimide
Bryce Dorin has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, on Direct laser write process for 3D conductive carbon circuits in polyimide.
Using a femtosecond direct-laser-writing technique, Bryce demonstrated 3D writing of conductive pathways in polyimide, a stable insulating material. Through optical and processing
New Publication - The influence of surfaces on the transient terahertz conductivity and electron mobility of GaAs nanowires
In research led by Hannah Joyce (University of Cambridge), and colleagues at the University of Oxford and the Australian National University we have reported an in-depth terahertz study of the influence of surfaces on carrier recombination in nanowires.
By performing power-dependant and diameter-dependant measurements, Hannah determined the surface recombination velocity
Helios Transient Absorption system arrives
New Publication - Single n-i-n InP Nanowires for Highly Sensitive Terahertz Detection
Kun Peng has written a paper accepted in IOP Nanotechnology (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/aa5d80).
The work, building on previous progress in single nanowire terahertz detectors, uses a combination of an axial doping profile and novel optical characterisation to improve the contact quality for these devices.
Welcome to Pawita and Cosimo
The group welcome two MPhys project students, Pawita and Cosimo, to the group. Over this semester, they will be working on developing a compressive-sensing approach to large area photocurrent mapping for novel photovoltaics.
The group goes to Oxford
Arturo, Xiaoyan, Stefan and Patrick visited Oxford for the UK III-V Nanowire workshop hosted at Corpus Christi College. While Arturo presented a poster and Patrick a talk, the whole group got to meet the ever increasing number of researchers working on III-V Nanowires in the UK.
One year in the lab...
We are now one year into our new lab space, and it’s starting to look more used! The three experimental stations can be seen at the bottom right of the photo – transient microscopy, 3D material processing and automated microscopy (left to right).
Arturo passes 1st year viva
Congratulations to Arturo, who has passed his 1st year viva and now continues into the PhD program. His project will focus on the understanding of inhomogeneity in nanowire lasers, and their development towards device-implementable nanomaterial.