We welcome a visiting scholar! By Sarah Nutt14th May 201829th May 2018 Daniel Andres has joined us for 4 months from the University of Valencia to work on experiments involving luminescent properties of 2D materials based in h-BN, WSe2 and InSe as part of his PhD work – Welcome to Heriot-Watt University Dani!
Edinburgh International Science Festival – Atomic Architects By Sarah Nutt25th April 2018 The QPL team recently took part in Heriot-Watt’s Family Fun Day as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival with their ‘Atomic Architects’ exhibit. Visitors (and there were many!) got to have a go at trying to peel off single layers of atoms before viewing their efforts under the microscope. There was also a large spinning…
Prof. Gerardot is awarded a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technology! By Sarah Nutt27th March 2018 Prof. Gerardot is honoured to have been awarded a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technology. The 10 – year fellowship aims to develop integrated two-dimensional photonics.
New paper! By Cristian Bonato25th March 201825th March 2018 With collaborators in Germany, Korea, Sweden and the US, we studied the V1 line associated with the silicon vacancy in SiC. Our work, published in Physical Review Applied, shows more than 40% optical emission in the zero-phonon line and spin coherence up to 0.6 msec (for an ensemble). These features are very promising for spin-photon…
Congratulations to Zak, who has won the HWU Chess Club Championship in 2018! By Sarah Nutt19th March 201827th March 2018
Royal Society Research Grant By Cristian Bonato15th March 201813th March 2018 Our project on spin control on SiC photonic structures, sponsored by the Royal Society, is starting today!
Post-Doc Position Available By Sarah Nutt8th March 2018 A new Post-Doc Position in Two-Dimensional Heterostructures for Photonics is available. https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/jobs/job_SVJDMTM4NTI.htm http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BIB040/research-associate-in-two-dimensional-heterostructures-for-photonics Please contact Prof. Brian Gerardot for more information.
Welcome Daniel! By Cristian Bonato1st March 20187th March 2018 Daniel White joined us today, to start a PhD on the study of spin-active defects in SiC embedded in photonic and electronic devices. For this, he will build a new setup in our newly-refurbished lab, DB2.14. Good luck, Daniel!
Royal Society “Theo Murphy” meeting on SiC quantum devices By Cristian Bonato16th February 201816th February 2018 Our proposal to organize a Theo Murphy workshop about quantum devices in SiC has been accepted by the Royal Society! The meeting, organized by Cristian Bonato with Prof Joerg Wrachtrup (University of Stuttgart – Germany) and Dr Sang-Yun Lee (KIST, Seoul – Korea), will bring together quantum technology researchers with materials scientists, device engineers and…
Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant. By Cristian Bonato16th February 2018 We have been awarded a Research Incentive Grant by the Carnegie Trust, to study spins in single near-infrared colour centres in SiC embdedded in photonic structures, to enhance photo-luminescence collection. Looking forward to start!