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Research

  • Research overview
  • Quantum Dot Refrigeration
  • Projects for undergraduates and summer students
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Carbon Electronics

  • Carbon Electronics overview
  • Electrically Contacting Molecules Using Graphene for Energy Harvesting
  • Graphene quantum dots
  • Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) of Graphene

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)

  • Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) overview
  • SAW-driven quantised charge transport
  • The use of SAWs to manipulate quantum bits (qubits)
  • Playing ping-pong with single electrons
  • A single-photon production line driven by a sound wave

Quantum Optics

  • Quantum Optics overview
  • Self-assembled quantum dots
  • Solid-state photonic interfaces based on single quantum dots and quantum dot molecules

2D Transport

  • 2D Transport overview
  • Coupled Two-Dimensional Electron or Hole Gases
  • Electron hole bilayers

1D Transport

  • 1D Transport overview
  • Electrons take the fast and slow lanes at the same time
  • Spin-charge separation in quantum wires
  • Testing theories that go beyond the regime of applicability of Luttinger-liquid theory
  • Incipient formation of an electron lattice in quantum wires

Fundamentals of low-dimensional semiconductor systems

  • Fundamentals of low-dimensional semiconductor systems overview
  • Introduction to low-dimensional systems
  • Electrons in few dimensions
  • Low-dimensional electron systems in a perpendicular magnetic field
  • Antidots
  • Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs)
  • Low-temperature scanning probes

PhD projects

  • PhD projects overview
  • Measuring spin-charge separation and high-energy effects in an interacting 1D Luttinger Liquid
  • Electrically Contacting Molecules Using Graphene for Energy Harvesting
  • Project Posters

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Research

  • Research overview
  • Carbon Electronics
  • Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
  • Quantum Optics
    • Self-assembled quantum dots
    • Solid-state photonic interfaces based on single quantum dots and quantum dot molecules
  • 2D Transport
  • 1D Transport
  • Quantum Dot Refrigeration
  • Fundamentals of low-dimensional semiconductor systems
  • PhD projects
  • Projects for undergraduates and summer students
  • Press Cuttings
  • Summer projects

Quantum Optics

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