After a lot of hard work and a successful viva, Raphael Picard is now a Doctor! Congratulations Raphael! Team celebrations were slightly different this year with two teams competing to complete an online escape room challenge in the fastest time – well done everyone, much fun was had by all!

On September 1st, 2020, the new European FET-Open project QUROPE has kicked off. Its ambitious goal is to build a quantum repeater architecture using on-demand photonic entanglement (find out more at https://www.qurope-team.eu/ or https://twitter.com/qurope_eu). The quantum photonic lab is a partner of the QUROPE consortium and will be working to develop a broadband solid-state quantum…

Congratulations to Zak who has been chosen as the winner of the EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prize!! – Well done Zak, it’s well deserved!

Dan will be joining us straight after finishing his Masters in Chemistry with Materials and Nanotechnology here at Heriot-Watt University. During his PhD he will be working on twisted quantum heterostructures made from 2D materials. Welcome to the group Dan!

Francesco Graffitti is joining us right after finishing his PhD in experimental quantum optics and quantum information at Heriot-Watt University. He’ll be working on frequency conversion to interface solid-state quantum emitters with quantum networks – welcome to the group Francesco!

Congratulations Mauro and Hyeonjun on the publication of your paper ‘Spin–layer locking of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials‘ in Nature Materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-0687-7

One of our PhD students – Zak – has won best experimental poster entitled ‘Coherent Control of a Quantum Dot via Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage’ at the recent Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT:20), held virtually this year. Congratulations Zak – that’s a great achievement!!

Daniel has joined us straight from finishing his PhD in the preparation and characterisation of optical and optoelectronic devices based in two-dimensional semiconductors at the University of Valencia. At Heriot-Watt Daniel will be further exploring the experimental process from the preparation and characterisation through to the application in a final device using these 2D materials….

Micaela aims to develop scalable on-chip quantum photonics microsystems integrating a class of newly discovered 2D semiconductor materials (transition metal dichalcogenides) in state-of-the-art CMOS compatible nanophotonic circuits, Karen will be controlling spins in silicon carbide to study their potential application as a form of quantum information storage and Aidan will be investigating new structures for more…

Congratulations to Raphaël Picard, who was awarded the 2nd year PhD research prize in IPaQS! Enjoy the prize!