Placing a nanowire with a micromanipulator (video)

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!

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New paper in Journal of Applied Physics

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).

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Conference presentations

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’.

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Welcome and Congrats

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

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Student awards

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

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New Publications

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

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New students join group

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!

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Recent experimental work featured in APS Viewpoints

APS Viewpoint article by Xuedong Hu highlights recent work by our group that was published in Physical Review Letters. The Viewpoint article describes the electron spin resonance work lead by Mike Zhang that exploits the anisotropic hyperfine interaction to gain efficient and universal quantum control of a pair of nuclear spins indirectly, by irradiating the electron spin they are both coupled to.

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Greg Holloway awarded WIN NanoFellowship

Greg Holloway is awarded a WIN Nanofellowship for his research proposal on manipulating spins in quantum dots. Congratulations Greg!

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New graduate students join group

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.

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