big-data for nano-electronics - Patrick Parkinson - Physics · Strategy

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

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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.

Conference Talk

Conference: Nanowire Week 2023 (Georgia Tech)

Patrick gave an invited talk at Nanowire Week 2023, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta Georgia. This event brought together over 100 academics and researchers from around the world to discuss the major findings and future direction for the nanowire field, spanning sensing, photovoltaics, microscopy, lasing and more.

Publication

New Publication: Sub-Picosecond Carrier Dynamics Explored using Automated High-Throughput Studies of Doping Inhomogeneity within a Bayesian Framework

Nano-materials are hard to precisely manufacture. By measuring >10k, we use their disorder to understand their performance in a paper in Small.

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New Publication: Holistic Nanowire Laser Characterization as a Route to Optimal Design

Group postdoc Stephen Church has just had a paper accepted into Advanced Optical Materials. In this work, he reports the study of thousands of individual nanowire lasers, using advanced statistical methods to identify a route to optimization. Photonic integrated circuitry is rapidly emerging as an alternative to electronics for specialist

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Presentation Prize: Stephen Church at Rank Prize Symposium

Group postdoc Stephen Church was awarded the “best early-career-researcher” presentation prize at the Rank Prize Symposium meeting in Grasmere. The meeting Nanowire Photonics was chaired by Prof. Martin Dawson (Strathclyde), Prof. Hannah Joyce (Cambridge) and Prof. Michael Johnston (Oxford). Congratulations to Stephen!

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New preprint: Holistic nanowire laser characterization as a route to optimal design

Group postdoc Stephen Church has submitted his most recent work to the arXiv preprint server. In this new work, Stephen carried out optical, microscopic, and electron micrograph characterization of over 5000 nanowire lasers. By correlating geometry effects which affect the nanolaser cavity, and material quality that affect gain material, we

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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.

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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

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New Paper: Holistic Determination of Optoelectronic Properties using High-Throughput Spectroscopy of Surface-Guided CsPbBr3 Nanowires

Optoelectronic materials form the building blocks of crucial components of modern technology, including solar cells, CCDs, lasers and LEDs. The past decade has seen significant developments in materials science that enable the shrinking of these materials to the nano-scale. These advancements have also created entirely new technologies based around light

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Nanowire Week 2022: Talks and Posters

Group members Dr Stephen Church and Nikesh Patel have presented their work at the 2022 Nanowire Week meeting in Chamonix, France. Stephen gave an oral presentation on his recent research on “Nanowire facet reflectivity and lasing performance using high-throughput interferometry“. Nikesh presented a poster on his work on “High Intra-

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Learning Through Research Internship 2022: Big-Data From High-Throughput Experimentation

The group will again offer an 8-week paid summer internship to work on developing a cloud-based solution for high-throughput data management. This position is only available to current University of Manchester students in their penultimate year of study. The role will sit alongside PhD and postdoctoral staff in the group,

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MRS Fall 2021 - Mobility, Quantum Efficiency and Defect Density from High Throughput Spectroscopy of CsPbBr3 Nanowires

Stephen Church will present a talk on his recent work on holistic modelling using high-throughput spectroscopy virtually at MRS Fall 2021. This work, in collaboration with Prof Ernesto Joselevich at the Weizmann Institute uses high-throughput multimodal techniques to simultaneously model mobility, quantum efficiency and defect density from a single correlative

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Invited Talk - SPIE Optics and Photonics 2021

Patrick gave a remote invited talk in the Low Dimensional Materials and Devices session of SPIE 2021, hybrid hosted in San Diego. He spoke about “High-throughput spectroscopy of semiconductor nanowires in the presence of inhomogeneity“ including new material from group members.

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New Paper: Defect-Free Axially Stacked GaAs/GaAsP Nanowire Quantum Dots with Strong Carrier Confinement

In a new collaboration between Yunyan Zhang and Profs. Huiyun Liu (UCL), Ana Sanchez (Warwick) and David Mowbray (Sheffield) we report the fabrication and measurement of a GaAs/GaAsP quantum dot-in-wire structure in Nano Letters. While many material architechtures have been explored for single photon emission, the GaAsP-GaAs system provides

Andras Botar

Welcome to Andras Botar

The group will be joined for the next 8 weeks by a summer intern through the “Learning Through Research” program at Manchester. Andras will work on big-data methods for handling, sharing and processing large spectral and imaging datasets produced in the group. Welcome Andras!

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Invited Talk - Compound Semiconductor Week 2021

Patrick gave an invited talk at a virtual Compound Semiconductor Week 2021 (nominally in Stockholm) on “A needle in a needlestack – exploiting functional inhomogeneity as a tool for optimized nanooptoelectronics“. This opened the B2 session “Nanowire growth and characterization“.

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MRS Spring - virtual conference presentation

Patrick gave a virtual presentation on “High-Throughput Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Nano-Laser Development” in the CT05 “AI and Automation for Materials Design” session.

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Learning through Research Internship available

A student experience intership is available in the group for a period of 8 weeks over summer 2021. This paid position is available to any Manchester undergraduate student who is not currently in their final year. They are designed to provide experience of academic research to undergraduates who are considering

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Welcoming back returning MPhys students

The group welcomes back our returning MPhys students who will continue on their projects this semester. This includes: Big-data for nano-electronics – development of machine-learning tools for analysis of imaging and spectroscopic data for nanotechnology Rafe Whitehead, Thomas Blackmore, Jonathan Ryding Earth’s-field NMR – design and construction of an NMR system

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New Review : Measuring, controlling and exploiting heterogeneity in optoelectronic nanowires

Group PhD students Ruqaiya Al-Abri and Hoyeon Choi have written an invited review article for JPhys Photonics, published today. Lead author Ruqaiya Al-Abri describes this work: Among the one-dimensional structures, semiconductor nanowires have attracted great attention; from the growth process to the production of functional devices they have been widely

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EPSRC-funded PhD position now available

A fully funded EPSRC studentship (DTP) will be available in the group for a September 2021 start. This studentship is associated with the “Big-data for nano-electronics” project, and is open to UK-based applicants (EU applicants living in the UK may also be eligible for some support). The project will develop

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2020.S7 - Group MPhys Students

The group welcomes a bumper set of new MPhys (Masters project) students on a range of projects. Welcome to all students! Big-data for nano-electronics – development of machine-learning tools for analysis of imaging and spectroscopic data for nanotechnology Rafe Whitehead, Thomas Blackmore, Omar Ahmed, Jonathan Ryding Earth’s-field NMR – design and

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Welcome to Dr Stephen Church

The group welcomes our new PDRA working on the Big-data for Nano-Electronics project. Dr Stephen Church joins the group from working in cubic-phase GaN for white-light and RGB LEDs. Welcome to Stephen!

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Postdoctoral Research Position Available: Big-Data for Nano-Electronics

A 2-year postdoctoral position is available in the group to work on data acquisition and analytics pipeline on the big-data for nano-electronics project. The post has the potential to be extended to 4 years. The successful candidate will apply statistical approaches to large-scale data produced by high-throughput spectroscopy and imaging