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!

Dale’s image from his paper on entangled cluster state generation was selected for the “Kaleidoscope” at Phys. Rev. A : https://journals.aps.org/pra/kaleidoscope/pra/98/2/022318.  Well done Dale!

Our new Research Associate, Dr Hyeonjun Baek, has joined us to work on integrated quantum photonic circuits using 2D materials. For this project, he will investigate the interaction between photonic cavities and 2D materials.  Welcome to Heriot-Watt Hyeonjun!!

Dr. Markus Rambach has joined us today from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His project will explore light-matter interfaces using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum frequency conversion in order to work towards feasible quantum networks and the hybridization of quantum systems.  Welcome to Heriot-Watt Markus!

Our new cryostat has been successfully installed! Everything went smoothly and we are excited to use the Attodry800 from attocube for experiments in 2D integrated photonics and quantum defects in SiC devices.

Our Atomic Architects website is now live – have a look around: http://qpl.eps.hw.ac.uk/?page_id=790

Huge congratulations to Dr Cristian Bonato, Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert and Raphael Picard (PhD student) for completing the Edinburgh half-marathon at the weekend – you’ve put in an amazing effort and all the hard work and training has paid off, well done you 3!!