The group continues to grow! This month we welcomed Alessandra Ronchi, a visiting PhD student from the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Thomas Khazanov, a new C&CB recruit. We aim to really put the laser to work. Time to find some more office space…
Emissive TT states in pentacene
We’ve just published a new paper in Nature Chemistry demonstrating direct emission from bound TT states in single-crystalline pentacene. Very proud to have been a part of that team, and the lead author David did some phenomenal work with extremely difficult measurements! Worth a read over the holidays!
Let there be light!
After months of delays and with a big thanks to Woojae, we now have a fully operational Pharos, Orpheus + Lyra, and simultaneous 2H-3H Hiro. So many photons, in so many colours! Fortunately we know just what to do with them…
Polariton Chemistry seminar
Andrew just gave a seminar last week on our latest studies of the spectroscopy of exciton-polaritons, as part of the excellent Polariton Chemistry seminar series organized by Wei Xiong and Joel Yuen-Zhou of UCSD. The recording of Andrew’s talk and most other seminars in the series are available on the Polariton Chemistry youtube channel. Keep an eye out for the special cameo of Basil behaving badly!
Welcome to Woojae and Stavrini!
We’ve just been joined by a top-notch spectroscopist from Yonsei University, Dr. Woojae Kim! Also a belated welcome to our first physicist, Stavrini Tsangari, an undergraduate in the AEP program who joined us for the fall semester. They’ll both be putting their laser experience to good use to get us up and running.
Our first grant
A big thanks to the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, who has awarded us a grant to study complex photocatalysis within MOFs. Olefins, watch out!
Growing again!
A big welcome to David Bain, our newest graduate student! Pandemic permitting, David will be spearheading our new research efforts into photocatalysis.
Looking ahead – New postdoc position!
The lab is shuttered for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, but at least everyone is keeping safe. Looking ahead to when we re-open, we plan to hit the ground running and there will plenty of exciting opportunities for an ambitious postdoc to get involved. That’s right, we’re hiring for the start of Fall semester! See ‘opportunities’ page for details. UPDATE 15th May: We are no longer taking applications.
Even more new members
A big welcome to Aaron and Trevor, our first undergraduate group members! They’ve taken on the challenge of helping get the lab up and running this semester.
Join us at SPIE San Diego in August 2020!
This year I’m a Conference Co-Chair of #SPIEOpticsPhotonics 2020, together with Christian Nielsen and Dan Congreve. Our conference is: Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces, taking place in San Diego at the end of August. It will explore the fundamental processes of emerging and established semiconductor materials, and their interfaces, from bulk to the nanoscale. Check out the website and submit your paper before 12 February: http://bit.ly/NanoEng2020