Welcome to Kieran!
The group welcomes Dr Kieran Ramaswami as a new Postdoctoral Researcher. He joins from the Curry group in EEE in Manchester, where he led on spectroscopy and modelling of optoelectronic devices.
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SPIE Photonex Manchester
Patrick and Olympia Kennard (from the gifts and endowments team) gave an invited presentation at SPIE Photonex in Manchester. This was to advertise the photononics capabilities at Manchester, and to thank SPIE for their endowment. We were joined by the first two students on the SPIE studentship programme, Sruthi and
150 years of Physics at Manchester - Panel Discussion
Patrick took part in a panel discussion to celebrate 150 years of physics at Manchester, 90 years since Professor Sir Arthur Schuster's death, and 200 years of the University of Manchester.
The discussion was held in the Rutherford lecture theatre of the Schuster Building, and was chaired by
New Paper: Data-Driven Discovery for Robust Optimization of Semiconductor Nanowire Lasers
Group postdoc Stephen Church has had a major paper accepted in "Lasers & Photonics Review". The work culminates two years of collaborative work with a number of partners around the world:
- Jena (Germany),
- Australian National University,
- Zhejiang University (China),
- University College London,
- University
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.
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.