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!
Patrick Parkinson
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
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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.