After four years of hard work and a successful viva, Artur Branny is now a Doctor! Both Artur and the external examiner looked very satisfied with his performance, as shown below. Congratulations Artur, and good luck for your future career!

The ERC Consolidator grant “2DQP: Two-dimensional quantum photonics”, awarded to Prof Gerardot, is starting today. The goal will be to engineer the ideal solid-state single quantum emitters of on-demand indistinguishable single photons, based on 2D materials. Congratulations Brian!

Hossein Dinani is visiting us from the group of Jeronimo Maze, Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Santiago (Chile). Hossein will be staying for a couple of weeks to collaborate on the application of Bayesian estimation to quantum sensing, in cases where single-shot readout is not available. This is relevant, for example, for magnetic field sensing using…

Dr Juan Francisco Sanchez Royo has joined us from Valencia for four months as a visiting scholar, to work on experiments involving luminescent properties of 2D materials based in h-BN, WSe2 and InSe.

Today our EPSRC 2D Photonics Fabrication Facility received its first instrument: an Accurion EP4 Imaging Ellipsometer. We are excited to start using this to characterise and construct new 2D photonic devices!

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BFF718/research-associate-in-quantum-photonics/ Please contact Prof Gerardot for more information.

We are excited for the opportunity to present our science at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit next summer.

Congrats to Prof. Gerardot, who today begins a 5 year research fellowship from the Royal Society for a Wolfson Merit Award.

Our EPSRC Strategic Equipment grant to create a “Two-dimensional Photonics Fabrication Facility” at Heriot-Watt commences. We look forward to accepting delivery in late 2017 / early 2018 of the equipment for our new facility. The facility has significant funding to allow free access to new users (academic or industrial) to seed their future their research….

Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert joined us from Valencia as a post-doc, to work on quantum emitters in 2D materials. Zhe X. Koong, from Malaysia, has started his PhD and he will be busy performing quantum optics experiments involving photons from a quantum dot source.