Prof D Paul
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Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
The James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow has a fully paid PhD scholarships (both fees and stipend for any UK or EC national) available for a quantum lidar project to start in October 2020. The quantum lidar project is linked to the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Enhanced Imaging (QuantiC) and an InnovateUK industrial programme developing lidar systems for automotive vehicles with partners including Toshiba Research Europe, IQE, Thales and Jaguar Land Rover. The successful candidates will be trained to use the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (http://www.jwnc.gla.ac.uk), a 1500 m2 quasi-industrial cleanroom with over £35M of processing tools. The cleanroom has delivered technology to over 300 companies in 28 countries globally in the last 5 years and over 100 international universities including 49 in the Times Higher Education Top 100 International Universities list. The project will be supervised by Prof Douglas J Paul, an EPSRC Established Quantum Technology Fellow. Glasgow has a long history in photonics with major research breakthroughs including the first 2D photonic bandgap devices in SOI, the first THz mode locked diode lasers, the first Ge on Si single photon avalanche detectors and the first entangled photonic qubits. Its spin out companies are now responsible for manufacturing over 5% of all the DFB lasers being deployed in datacentres globally. The University established in 1451 has been home to many notable scholars including James Watt, Joseph Black, Lord Kelvin, William Rankine, Rev Robert Stirling, Rev John Kerr, John Logie Baird, Frederick Soddy and Adam Smith.
Successful candidates are expected to have a first or upper second class degree from a reputable university in physics, electrical and electronic engineering, photonics, materials science or a suitably aligned degree. All the projects include design, modelling, fabrication and characterisation of photonic devices and systems. The students will also be expected to fully engaged with the UK Quantum Technology Programme and Hubs.
Quantum lidar / rangefinder: Glasgow has recently demonstrated world leading Ge on Si single photon avalanche detectors (SPADs) at 1500 nm wavelength with 38% single photon detection efficiency (Nature Comms. 10, 1086 (2019)). This project aims to developed waveguide coupled Ge on Si SPADs predicted to have >70% efficiency integrated into an interferometer with Si microring entangle photon sources (Nature Comms. 6, 7948 (2015)) to enable chip scale quantum lidar / rangefinders to be produced and tested.
How to Apply: Please refer to the following website for details on how to apply:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/opportunities/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree/.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/applyonline/?CAREER=PGR&PLAN_CODES=HH56A-7201
1st October 2020
Funding Notes
Funding is available to cover tuition fees for UK and EU applicants for 3.5 years, as well as paying a stipend at the Research Council rate (£15,285 for Session 2020-21).
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