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Read more at: Helen Springbett's article makes the cover of PSS(b)

Helen Springbett's article makes the cover of PSS(b)

Congratulations to Helen for getting her recent article onto the cover of Physica Status Solidi(b). The paper is about the properties InGaN nano-rings grown by modified droplet epitaxy, and can be viewed as June's Paper of the Month.


Read more at: Gallium Nitride Talk at the Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Gallium Nitride Talk at the Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Professor Martin Dawson from the Unviersity of Strathclyde will give an invited talk at the annual Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum on Tuesday 14th June. The talk will describe recent collaborative work on GaN/polymer, GaN/diamond and GaN/nanocomposite hybrid LEDs for high-bandwidth visible light communications. This...


Read more at: Lata Sahonta gives a talk at the 2016 Hay Festival

Lata Sahonta gives a talk at the 2016 Hay Festival

LEDs are well-known for revolutionising white lighting, but Lata will be giving a talk and a series of demos that highlight the other uses of LEDs, such as for communication, health, and medicine. Demonstrations will be recorded live and will be uploaded to the BBC online archive after the event. The Hay Festival is an...


Read more at: Happy Birthday Sir Colin!

Happy Birthday Sir Colin!

Many happy returns to Sir Colin Humphreys who celebrated his 75th birthday on Tuesday. We celebrated with a cake, and a group picnic on Friday 27th May, featuring many hexagonal cakes! Click on Colin's birthday card to see some of the many past and present members of the group.


Read more at: Chesterton Science Club

Chesterton Science Club

Rachel Oliver and a team of group members were invited to present a talk and a set of exciting demos to the students of Chesterton Community College's Science Club earlier this month. The team demonstrated how to communicate using light, which included a simple LiFi data circuit, a demo on optical fibre communication, and...


Read more at: Welcome to Nicolas

Welcome to Nicolas

The group welcomes new summer student, Nicolas Piot. Nicolas will be working on materials for single photon sources, and we wish him every success for his stay in Cambridge.


Read more at: The Group welcomes Professor Hiroshi Amano

The Group welcomes Professor Hiroshi Amano

The group was pleased to receive a visit from 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Hiroshi Amano, last week. We had many interesting discussions on LEDs, laser diodes, GaN-based transistors and RF devices.


Read more at: New video from Single Photon Source project collaborators in Oxford

New video from Single Photon Source project collaborators in Oxford

Professor Robert Taylor and University Research Fellow Josh Nunn, who are currently collaborating with Rachel Oliver in developing InGaN single photon sources, have produced a video and learning resource about encryption using single photons for the Oxford Sparks online science series.


Read more at: New researcher profile from Rachel

New researcher profile from Rachel

As a part of our group's downloadable learning resources , Rachel Oliver presents the first of a series of Researcher Profiles , where team leaders, postdocs and students in our group talk about their everyday life in the lab, what they enjoy about their research, and how they got into a career in science Rachel's profile...


Read more at: Rachel Oliver's quantum dot research in the spotlight

Rachel Oliver's quantum dot research in the spotlight

Rachel Oliver's EPSRC-funded research on developing InGaN quantum dots for single photon sources has been highlighted in a Science and Engineering South interview. The project is in collaboration with Professor Robert Taylor at Oxford University, Plessey Semiconductors, and Toshiba, and aims to develop room-temperature...


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