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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.

OMS Group

"In-person" group social

Most of the group finally met in-person after 13 months of remote working, taking advantage of the sun and the newly reopened Krobar! A perfect time for a belated in-person welcome to Stephen Church (front right) and Nikesh Patel (front left).

Au Revoir

Au Revoir to Stefan Skalsky

Congratulations and an “au revoir” to group PhD student Stefan Skalsky, who has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Lancaster University in the group of Qiandong Zhuang. He will work on mid-infared optoelectronics for sensing applications.

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Welcome to Nikesh!

The group welcomes Nikesh Patel as a new EPSRC-funded PhD student working on the Big-data for Nano-Electronics project. Nikesh joins us from an MPhysChem at the University of Edinburgh, and will focus on high-throughput spectroscopy of low-dimensionality nanomaterials.

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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

Dragomir Neshev

PSI Seminar: Prof Dragomir Neshev on night-vision meta-materials

The OMS group invited Professor Dragomir Neshev, director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Tranformative Metal-Optical Systems to gave the Photon Science Institute Seminar today. He spoke about the new institute and a specific example of non-linear optical metamaterials for night-vision.

ANU

New Paper : Facet-Related Non-uniform Photoluminescence in Passivated GaAs Nanowires

Our collaborative work on spatially inhomogeneous recombination in semiconductor nanowires has been published in a special issue of Frontiers in Chemistry. The work, led by Dr. Nian (Jenny) Jiang at the University of Cambridge reports the spatially varying emission intensity from passivated nanowires. By comparing the bulk emission to buried

Aruni Fonseka

Group Seminar: Aruni Fonseka, Warwick Electron Microscopy

Dr Aruni Foseka of the Warwick Electron Microscopy Centre gave a seminar to the group and colleagues at the Photon Science Institute. Her talk covered electron microscopy techniques for nanomaterial characterisation, including dark-field and spectroscopic approaches.

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EPSRC-Funded Studentship live on FindAPhD

The advert for a September 2021 start EPSRC-funded studentship is now live on findaphd. Please contact Patrick with informal questions.

conductiv.ai

New Scientific Advisor Role

Patrick has been appointed as a Scientific Advisor for the Berlin-based startup conductiv.ai. Conductiv will merge simulation and process data to reduce the iterations required for optimization of semiconductor manufacture.

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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

PhD examiner

Viva in Oxford: Alice Smith

Patrick served as external examiner for the DPhil viva of Alice Smith (part of the Donal Bradley research group) at the University of Oxford, alongside Prof. Arzhang Ardavan as internal examiner.

EPSRC

New Capital Equipment Grant - Ultrafast Laser Facility

The group has been awarded funds to purchase a new ultrafast laser facility for the Photon Science Institute through an EPSRC Core Equipment Award (EP/V036343/1). This grant will be used to replace the aging Coherent RegA system with a turn-key highly tunable ultrafast laser system with optical parametric

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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!

PhD viva

Congratulations to group PhD Stefan Skalsky

A huge congratulations to group PhD student Stefan Skalsky (co-supervised with Prof. Wendy Flavell) who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. Even more impresively, he managed to deal with the challenges of a video-cal based viva. His examiners were Prof. David Mowbray (Sheffield) and Prof. Mark Dickinson (Manchester).

coronavirus

Back to work - PSI labs reopen

The Photon Science Institute laser labs are now reopened after nearly 19 weeks of closure due to the novel coronavirus shutdown. All lasers are back on, and reseach will resume over the upcoming week or two.

iTCSPC

Stefan Skalsky thesis submission

Congratulations to lab member Stefan Skalsky, who submitted his PhD thesis today. He work, entitled “Interferometric Time-correlated Single Photon Counting for Nano-optoelectronic Characterisation” covers his research on the i-TCSPC tool.

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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

ANU

New Paper: Carrier dynamics and recombination mechanisms in InP twinning superlattice nanowires

A new paper has been published in Optics Express, led by collaborator Xiaoming Yuan at Central South University (Changsha) and growth colleagues in the group of Prof. Jagadish at Australian National University. In this work, novel “twinning-superlattice” nanowires are grown. Once passivated, this growth method produces extremely high quality nanowires,

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Seminar : LIV.DAT

Patrick gave a virtual seminar at Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training (LIV.DAT) on “Big-data for nano-electronics“. Thanks to Prof. Carsten Welsch for the invitation!

Hoyeon Choi

New Paper: Visualizing the role of photoinduced ion migration on photoluminescence in halide perovskite grains

Group student Hoyeon has had a paper accepted in the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry C, studying the photo-brightening effect in perovskite grains using correlated optical and chemical mapping. In collaboration with the Flavell group and the NanoSIMS group at Manchester, this study linked luminescence lifetime and emission energies to

Fellowship

New Project: Big-Data for nano-electronics

Patrick has been awarded a 4-year research fellowship from UKRI for a project on “big-data for nano-electronics”. This Future Leaders Fellowship will enable Patrick to focus on building a research group to develop a new methodology for accelerating the study of functional nanotechnology. Project Summary The modern world runs on