Abstract:

The Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (NAME) research programme aims to revolutionise the design and delivery of functionality on demand at the nanoscale within advanced materials. Utilizing new world-leading capabilities, we aim to: transform the ability to exploit spin and photonics; address and harness thermal interactions; and realise designer materials for quantum technologies (QTs). In this talk the unique capability developed to enable this will be presented, with exemplars demonstrating performance provided. It is hoped that the talk will stimulate creative thinking of opportunities to apply it to photonic systems under development at IFCO and potentially lead to collaborative research between teams based in our respective institutes.

Bio:

Prof. Richard Curry (RC) is Vice-Dean for Research & Innovation, for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Manchester. Richard obtained his BSc in Theoretical Physics (1st class Hons) from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in 1996. He went on to complete a PhD, also at QMUL in 1999, in which he pioneered the first near infrared emitting organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Extending these studies and his interest in lanthanide emitters he moved to the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton in 2001 as a postdoctoral researcher. Here he also developed research interests studying planar chalcogenide materials for optoelectronic applications and quantum dots. In 2004 he moved to the University of Surrey becoming Professor of Photonics in 2015 and holder of a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship 2015/16. In December 2016 he moved to the University of Manchester as Professor of Advanced Electronic Materials in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and undertakes his research within the Photon Science Institute. He has a wide portfolio of funding which includes substantial capital investments for the development and study of materials for photonics and QTs. He leads the ~£10M EPSRC Programme Grant NAME (www.name-pg.uk) with a focus on the development and engineering of materials for QT. He is a national Research Area Lead for the Atoms to Devices thematic area of the UK's Henry Royce Institute (www.royce.ac.uk). He is the co-lead of the UK EPSRC Network in Materials for Quantum.