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!!

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.

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.

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!