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!!

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!

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 honoured to have been awarded a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technology. The 10 – year fellowship aims to develop integrated two-dimensional photonics.

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…

Our project on spin control on SiC photonic structures, sponsored by the Royal Society, is starting today!

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.

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!

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…