Coherent Spintronics Group

Greg Holloway made this really cool video demonstrating the placement of a semiconductor nanowire using our recently home-built micromanipulator tool. This improves dramatically upon the previous method of mechanically depositing many wires randomly on a pre-patterned device substrate, and opens up new possibilities for quantum device fabrication. Nice work Greg!

Our new paper on Kyle Willick’s research, “Sensitive magnetic force detection with a carbon nanotube resonator”, has just appeared in the Journal of Applied Physics (link).

Prof. Baugh attended the NMR QIP conference in Rio de Janeiro this November. His presentation on qubit noise spectroscopy can be found here.

Dr. Chris Haapamaki and Greg Holloway attended the Materials Research Society Fall meeting in Boston this December. Chris presented a talk entitled ‘Evaluation of InAs/InAlAs Core-Shell Nanowire Interface Quality’.

Welcome to Sean Walker who starts as a new MSc student this Fall. Sean graduated from the University of Manitoba and holds an NSERC graduate scholarship.

Congratulations to Greg Holloway who won an IQC Achievement Award this term for his body of work on nanowire transport experiments!

Also, farewell to Mustafa Muhammad who completed his postdoctoral appointment this September.

Finally, an article appeared today on our University homepage:
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-researcher-loves-hands-side-quantum-science

Congrats to Greg Holloway and Kyle Willick on being awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships this year!

We have three new publications in 2013 on electronic transport studies in InAs and InAs-InAlAs core-shell nanowires!

Kyle Willick and Stéphane Labruyere have both joined the group as MSc students. Kyle has also been awarded a WIN NanoFellowship. Welcome to both, and congrats Kyle!

Kaveh Gharavi, Jeremy Kroeker, and Greg Holloway join the group as graduate students. Welcome!

See the People page for short biographical information on the group members.