If you are interested in quantum information communication technologies using III-V quantum dots as solid-state spin-photon interfaces please get in touch with Brian (b.d.gerardot@hw.ac.uk) asap!!

Congratulations to one of our PhD students Zhe Xian Koong who has won a Young Researcher Award for his talk at the recent International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS) – great work Zak, well done!

Fred has just completed his Master of Physics at the University of Manchester and he’ll be investigating quantum key distribution using quantum dot single photon sources here at Heriot-Watt. Welcome to the group Fred!

Charalampos is joining Heriot-Watt University after completing his Masters of Physics at the University of Strathclyde and during his PhD he’ll be investigating spin control in SiC quantum devices. Welcome to the QPL group Charalampos!

Yashar Alizadeh is joining us after submitting his PhD thesis in the spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of rare-earth doped low-site symmetry crystals at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He’ll be working on developing quantum memory with crystals stoichiometric in rare-earth ions.

Huge congratulations to Mauro who has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and is due to take up his new post in October 2021 – ‘Semiconductors with a Twist: Engineering Programmable Quantum Materials’. Through this fellowship Mauro aims to engineer new quantum materials based on 2D semiconductor heterostructures. To address fundamental questions about…

Sheena has joined Heriot-Watt University after completing her Masters in Physics from India. During her PhD she will be working on engineering scalable coherent coupling in quantum dots. Welcome to the QPL group Sheena!

Wei is joining us as a post-doc right after submitting his PhD thesis in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers at the University of Manchester. He will be working on the development of a telecom quantum memory with rare earth doped crystals – welcome to the group Wei!

One of our recent articles “A bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion,” has been featured on the cover of Applied Physics Letters!! We think being selected for the “cover” is a big deal so many congratulations to everyone who contributed – a sterling effort all round!

“Congratulations to Shun who has been awarded an Marie Curie Fellowship to pursue exciton transport at the quantum level using two-dimensional heterostructures. We are looking forward to this exciting project!”