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11/18/2024: Congratulations to Dr. Fenton Clawson for passing his dissertation defense! His dissertation is entitled, "A Floquet solver for Time-Periodic Open Quantum Systems."
9/25/2024: Graduate student Will Eshbaugh delivered an oral presentation at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO+LS) in Denver, CO. His talk was entitled, "Positioned Nanofabrication and Characterization of a Polarization Demultiplexer Based on GaAs-AlGaAs Quantum Dots."
6/6/2024: Prof. Flagg delivered an invited talk at Nanostructure Fabrication & Measurement Group meeting at NIST. The talk was entitled, "Quantum Dots & Nanophotonics."
5/28/2024: Prof. Flagg and graduate student Sulaiman Al Ghadani spent the summer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) thanks to the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-4 Research Fellowship grant. They received training from the NIST NanoFab in semiconductor microfabrication, and worked with Dr. Marcelo Davanco to fabricate photonic nanostructures containing quantum dots.
6/19/2024: The inaugural
WVU Quantum Summer School was this week! 15 students from the region spent an intense week learning the fundamentals of quantum information theory and quantum computing. They even learned how to build quantum circuits with the Python package Qiskit.
5/15/2024: Graduate student Braden Warr spent the summer at the Naval Research Laboratory as a fellow of the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Braden worked with Dr. Allan Bracker to perform research on coherent light-matter interactions involving quantum dots in photonic crystal waveguides.
5/5/2024: Graduate student Will Eshbaugh delivered an oral presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in Charlotte, NC. His talk was entitled, "Fabrication and Characterization of a Quantum Dot Polarization Demultiplexer."
4/20/2024:
Applied Optics published
Raju KC's article, "Narrow-bandwidth tunable optical filter stabilized by Newton’s rings fringe analysis." Congratulations to Raju!
The article can be found at doi:10.1364/AO.513725.
3/6/2024: Prof. Flagg delivered a virtual Colloquium at the Department of Physics at Marshall University. The talk was entitled, "An Introduction to Quantum Computing," and was an introduction to the topics at an undergraduate level.
11/24/2023: The National Science Foundation has funded our proposal entitled, "RII Track-4: NSF: Fabrication of Inversely Designed Nanophotonic Structures for Quantum Emitters." The project’s goal is to develop an all-on-chip nanophotonic device containing a semiconductor quantum dot that produces on-demand, path-entangled photon pairs for the purpose of photonic quantum information processing. Dr. Flagg and a graduate student will spend six months over two years visiting NIST to learn fabrication techniques for semiconductor nanophotonics.
8/29/2023: The
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurement Science and Engineering program has funded our
proposal, "Advancing fabrication of inversely designed quantum nanophotonic devices."
The goal of the proposed work is to design and fabricate nanoscopic light-shaping structures containing emitters of quantum light that will be useful in optical quantum computation and communication. Graduate students will be trained in semiconductor fabrication techniques and quantum optical measurements at NIST by our collaborator, Dr. Marcelo Davanco.
8/22/2023: The
National Science Foundation has funded a
proposal with
Dr. Flagg as Principal Investigator as part of the Quantum Sensing Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems program (QuSeC-TAQS). Drs.
Alan Bristow (Physics and Astronomy),
Kevin Daly (Biology), and
Charles Anderson (School of Medicine) are co-PIs. The project is titled, "Entanglement-enhanced multiphoton fluorescence imaging of in vivo neural function." The team will use entangled photons (quantum states of light) to explore new ways to see within neuron cells of living organisms, potentially yielding greater resolution and efficiency in imaging biological processes in the nervous system. Read the
press release from NSF.
8/22/2023: Graduate student William Eshbaugh passed his oral candidacy exam! Congratulations, Will!
8/21/2023:
Optics Letters published our article with work done by graduate student Will Eshbaugh and our collaborators Dr. Emerson G. Melo (University of São Paulo) and Dr. Marcelo Davanco (NIST, Gaithersburg). The article is, "Inverse Design of a Polarization Demultiplexer for On-chip Path-entangled Photon-pair Sources Based on Single Quantum Dots." doi:10.1364/OL.496129.
7/1/2023: The Office of Naval Research has funded our proposal, "SUPER-PICs: Swing-UP of quantum emittER single-photon sources in Photonic Integrated Circuits." The project will develop a source of single photons for quantum information applications using nanoscopic crystals called quantum dots embedded in a light-guiding microchip called a photonic integrated circuit.
6/23/2023: Graduate student Braden Warr passed his oral candidacy exam! Congratulations, Braden!
5/1/2023: Graduate student William Eshbaugh won the Outstanding TA award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Will is the long-time head TA for PHYS 111. Congratulations, Will!
4/11/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Raju KC for passing his dissertation defense! His dissertation is entitled, "Emission spectroscopy of an InGaAs
Quantum Dot via High-resolution Fabry-Perot Interferometry."
9/19/2022:
ACS Photonics published our
article with work done by graduate student
Will Eshbaugh with our collaborators Dr. Emerson G. Melo and Dr. Marcelo Davanco, at NIST, Gaithersburg. The article is, "Multiobjective Inverse Design of Solid-State Quantum Emitter Single-Photon Sources."
doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00929.
7/28/2022: Undergraduate student
Parker Hewitt presented a
poster at the WVU
Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. His poster was selected as a runner-up in the Physical Sciences category. Congratulations, Parker!
8/1/2022: Congratulations to
Dr. Gary Lander for passing his
dissertation defense! His dissertation is entitled, "
Charge Dynamics of InAs Quantum Dots Under Resonant and Above-Band Excitation." Gary will be a post-doc at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.
4/8/2022: Congratulations to Dr. Tristan Wilkinson for passing his dissertation defense! His dissertation is entitled, "Characterization and Coherent Spin Selective Manipulation of Quantum Dot Energy Levels." Tristan will be an Image Science Engineer at L3Harris in Rochester, NY.
3/5/2022:
SPIE Proceedings published
Raju KC's article, "A tunable Fabry-Perot cavity stabilized via a mechanically connected
shearing interferometer." Congratulations to Raju and co-authors
Gary Lander,
Cainan Nichols, and
Jaxon Lee! The article can be found at
doi:10.1117/12.2609815.
3/5/2022: Graduate student
Raju KC delivered a virtual
poster presentation at
SPIE Photonics West.
1/4/2022: Graduate student
Gary Lander accepted a
post-doctoral position at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
in Pittsburgh, PA. Congratulations, Gary!
12/13/2021: Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson accepted a
job as an Image Science Engineer at L3Harris in Rochester, NY. Congratulations,
Tristan!
11/16/2021: Undergraduate student
Sadie Chafin was selected as a
NASA Scholar by the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium for her
research project to characterize the influence of charge dynamics on spectral
diffusion in quantum dots. Congratulations, Sadie!
9/7/2021:
Review of Scientific Instruments
published Tristan Wilkinson's article, "Complete Stokes vector analysis with a compact, portable rotating
waveplate polarimeter
."
Congratulations to Tristan and co-authors
Cole Maurer,
Dillion Cottrill,
Collin Flood,
Gary Lander, and
Sadie Chafin! It can be found at
doi:
10.1063/5.0052835
12/14/2020: Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson
delivered a virtual poster presentation
at
QD2020, the International Conference on Quantum Dots.
12/8/2020: Graduate student
Fenton Clawson passed his
oral candidacy exam! Congratulations, Fenton!
2/28/2020: Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson
has been awarded a
research fellowship as the student member of a
Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) triplet!
This NSF-funded program supports a graduate student, their academic adviser,
and an adviser from a leading technology company or national laboratory. Tristan
and Prof. Flagg will be working with Dr. Marcelo Davanco of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology.
2/17/2020:
Prof. Flagg went with other WVU faculty and students to the state capitol
Charleston, WV, for
WVU Climate Science and Education Day. Students gave lawmakers and their
staff demonstrations of the causes and effects of climate change.
11/15/2019: Undergraduate student
Dillion Cottrill gave a
poster presentation at the 2019 Physics Congress organized by the Sigma Pi
Sigma physics honor society. His poster was entitled, "
Spin-selective AC Stark shifts in a charged quantum dot."
11/7//2019:
Prof. Flagg delivered the
Colloquium at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at
SUNY Geneseo. The talk was entitled, "Artificial Atoms and Quantum Optics," and
was an introduction to the topics at an undergraduate level.
10/3/2019:
Prof. Flagg delivered the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute
Seminar entitled, "Artificial atoms: quantum optics and spin physics of quantum
dots."
9/18/2019:
Prof. Flagg
delivered the
Colloquium at the Department of Physics
at Boston College. The talk was
entitled, "Artificial atoms: quantum optics and spin physics of quantum dots."
9/16/2019:
Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson
delivered an
oral presentation
at the OSA Frontiers in Optics & Laser Science conference in Washington, DC.
A the conference, Tristan won the Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition! Well done, Tristan!
9/10/2019:
SPIE Proceedings published
Tristan Wilkinson's
article, "
Dynamic nuclear polarization in a charged quantum dot induced by the AC Stark effect." Congratulations!
It can be found at
doi:
10.1117/12.2529455
.
8/13/2019:
Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson
delivered an
oral presentation
at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Francisco, CA. His talk was entitled,
"
AC Stark induced dynamic nuclear polarization in a charged quantum dot."
6/11/2019:
SPIE Proceedings published
Gary Lander's
article, "
Auger recombination-induced neutralization and stretched exponential recharging
in an InAs quantum dot." Congratulations! It can be found at
doi:
10.1117/12.2506555
.
5/7/2019: Graduate student
Tristan Wilkinson delivered an
oral presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in
San Jose, CA. His talk was entitled,
"Spin-Selective AC Stark Shifts in a Charged Quantum Dot."
4/13/2019: Undergraduate students
Sadie Chafin, and
Dillion Cottrill gave
poster presentations at the WVU Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Sadie's poster was entitled, "
Addressing the Deficit of Physics Learning Materials Available to Young Kids in
4-H Groups." Dillion's poster was entitled,
"Spin-selective AC Stark shifts in a charged quantum dot."
4/10/2019: Several students in our lab were awarded
scholarships from the Department!
Dillion Cottrill received the Oleg D and Valentina P. Jefimenko Physics Scholarship.
Cole Maurer received the Benjamin James Galford Research Scholarship. And
Tristan Wilkinson received the Robert T. Bruhn Physics Research Award. Congratulations!
4/3/2019:
Applied Physics Letters published
Tristan Wilkinson's
article, "Spin-selective AC Stark shifts in a charged quantum dot." The paper
was selected as an
Editor's Pick! Congratulations! It can be found at
doi:10.1063/1.5084244.
3/28/2019: Undergraduate student
Dillion Cottrill gave a
poster presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Conference at
Virginia Tech. His poster was entitled, "Spin-selective AC Stark shifts in a charged
quantum dot."
3/20/2019:
Prof. Flagg delivered an
invited presentation of research progress to the Physical Behavior of Materials
Program of the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences directorate. The talk
was entitled, "Spin-Selective Modification of Quantum Dot Energy Levels via the
AC Stark Effect."
3/6/2019: Graduate students
Raju KC and
Tristan Wilkinson delivered
oral presentations at the APS March Meeting in Boston, MA. Raju's presentation
was entitled, "Precision Displacement Measurement Using a Shearing Interferometer."
Tristan's presentation was entitled, "Spin-Selective AC Stark Shifts in a Charged
Quantum Dot."
2/5/2019: Graduate student
Gary Lander delivered an
oral presentation at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, CA.
His presentation was entitled, "
Auger recombination-induced neutralization and stretched exponential recharging
in an InAs quantum dot."
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