PhD Viva: Marvin van Tilburg
Patrick acted as external examiner for Marvin van Tilburg, of the AND group at Tu/E in Eindhoven. Congratulations to Marvin for a successful defence.
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New Paper: Optical Characterization of Size- and Substrate-Dependent Performance of Ultraviolet Hybrid Plasmonic Nanowire Lasers
We have a new paper as a result of a collaboration between Freidrich-Schiller University Jena, the University of Manchester, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University.
Collaborator Francesco Vitale (Jena) led this study to understand how substrate interactions can modify photonic to plasmonic nanolasing
ICANS30: Talks
Several of the group attended ICANS30, held in Manchester (5-8 August). We had contributed talks from group members Nikesh Patel and Stephen Church (pictured), as well as friends and colleagues from around Europe:
- Hannah Joyce (Cambridge)
- Gregor Koblmuller (TUM/WSI, Munich)
- Paola Prete (CNR, Lecce)
- David
ICPS 2024: Mihir Athavale
Group member Mihir Athavale gave his first contributed talk as ICPS 2024 in Ottawa, Canada. He spoke on Microring Laser Optimization, as part of a collaboration between growers (Wei Wong/Hoe Tan, ANU), optimization (Andre Low/Kedar Hippalgaonkar, A*STAR Singapore) and our Manchester spectroscopy group.
New Funding: Royce ICP
The OMS group are partners with Nanoco on a Prof. David Binks led Industrial Collaboration Project from the Royce Institute. This new project "A Colloidal Quantum Dot Spin-Photon Interface for Quantum Repeaters" will run from October 2024 to March 2025.
Graduation Day: Ruqaiya and Nawal
Congratulations to group PhD students Dr Ruqaiya Al-Abri and Dr Nawal Alamairi! Both move on to lectureship positions at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman.
Invited talk: Patrick at CIMTEC2024
Patrick gave an invited talk at CIMTEC 2024 in Montecatini Terme (Italy) in June. The talk on "High-throughput spectroscopic characterization of nanowire-based quantum structure" was delivered to the "Quantum dot and dopant-based qubits" session of the meeting.
Invited talk: Stephen at CSW24
Group postdoc Stephen Church gave an invited talk at Compound Semiconductor Week (CSW) in Lund, Sweden. His invited talk covered methods to understand interwire and intrawire doping in semiconductor nanowires.
Stephen also gave a contributed talk on nanowire lasers.
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!
New arXiv paper: Data-driven Discovery for Robust Optimization of Semiconductor Nanowire Lasers
Group postdoc Stephen Church has uploaded our new study to arXiv. This work is a collaboration between world-leading growth and characterization groups:
* Friedrich Schiller University Jena
* The Australian National University
* Zhejiang University
* University of Cambridge
* University College London
Our comprehensive analysis reveals that while optimizing internal quantum efficiency is crucial