The Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre integrates several existing quantum physics research groups, including Semiconductor Physics and Nanostructures, Low Temperature Physics and Condensed Matter Theory with new activities in Energy and Biophotonics.
Facilities include state-of-the-art clean-rooms, with growth, processing, characterisation and microscopy facilities, high-end computing and ultra-low temperature physics.
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A novel techniqe was developed by inducing ordered poriosity into deposited Ag & Pd layers on glass substrates that can be used for separate nuclear fuel.
Scattering wave-function of an Indium mechanically controlled break junction.
We model nanodevices of the future using state of the art numerical methods. The picture shows the chiral nature of the electronic density of a double walled carbon nanutube electromechanical quantum pump. Such devices could be used as energy scavengers able to power microscopic machines.
We explore the interaction of electromagnetic waves with metamaterials and photonic crystals. Using the unique dispersion properties of these materials to trigger novel particle-wave interactions.
We develop innovative microscopy approaches that combine traditional scanning probe microscopy with ultrasonic, optical and thermal excitations that allow investigation of physical properties of materials and devices at ultimate spatial resolution and nanosecond time scale.
Left image: An AFM image of a single graphene layer reveals its corrugated topography with "nano-domes" of nm height.
Right image: Properties of "nano-dome" and the interface between graphene layer and a substrate revealed by UFM.
Quantum properties are probed from close to absolute zero to more than 1000C, and in magnetic fields up to 17 tesla.
A self-assembled quantum ring grown in the QTC. Individual atoms and atomic rows can be seen in this image, which was taken using a cross-sectional scanning tunnelling microscope by our partners at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
"Quantum Technology" is a term to describe electronic materials and devices where effects caused by the quantum nature of matter become significant in their design and performance.
During the next 20 years this technology has the potential to revolutionise the electronics, medicine, energy and computing sectors.
Read more...At the beginning of the 21st century, a Second Quantum Revolution is taking place where technology is being used to create highly unnatural quantum states for a particular purpose.
Engineering on nano-scale opens a new generation of devices with radically improved performance and materials with unequalled properties. Their already envisaged and still unforseen applications will also lead to a new era in human history.
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