Novel Materials for Quantum
PhD positions available for Oct 2024 start date - contact hannah.stern@manchester.ac.uk to enquire
Funded summer intern positions available for summer 2024 - contact hannah.stern@manchester.ac.uk to enquire
Excited state engineering of novel optical material platforms for application in quantum technologies.
We explore novel materials, ranging from two-dimensional materials to molecular semiconductors, for quantum light emission, quantum memory and solar energy harvesting applications. In particular, we investigate the excited state dynamics and spin physics of localised excitations in these materials. Our goal is to utilise our findings to ultimately engineer excited states, thereby opening routes to next generation technologies.
Learn about our research
Spin defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride
for quantum networks and quantum sensing
Ultrafast spin dynamics in molecular semiconductors
for solar energy conversion
Key Publications
A quantum coherent spin in a van der Waals material at room temperature. H. L. Stern*, C. M. Gilardoni*, Q. Gu, S. Eizagirre Barker, O. Powell, X. Deng, L. Follet, C. Li, A. Ramsay, H. H. Tan, I. Aharonovich and M. Atature, Nature Materials, accepted (2024).
Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride , H.L Stern*, Q. Gu *, J. Jarman*, S. Eizagirre Barker, N. Mendelson, D. Chugh, S. Schott, H. H. Tan, H. Sirringhaus, I. Aharonovich and M. Atature. Nature Communications, 13, 681, (2022).
Spectrally resolved photodynamics of individual emitters in large-area monolayers of hexagonal Boron Nitride, H.L. Stern, R. Wang, R. Mizuta, J.C. Stewart, T. D. Roberts, R. Wai, N. S. Ginsberg, D. Klenerman, S. Hofmann and S. Lee. ACS Nano, 13, 4538-4547, (2019).
Vibronically coherent ultrafast triplet-pair formation and subsequent thermally activated dissociation control efficient endothermic singlet fission. H. L. Stern, A. Cheminal, S. R Yost, K. Broch, S.L. Bayliss, K. Chen, M. Tabachyk, K. Thorley, N. Greenham, J. M Hodgkiss, J. Anthony, M. Head-Gordon, A.J Musser, A. Rao and R. H. Friend. Nature Chemistry, 9, 1205-1212 (2017).
Identification of a triplet pair intermediate in singlet exciton fission in solution. H. L. Stern, A.J. Musser, S. Gelinas, P. Parkinson, L. M. Herz, M. J. Bruzek, J. Anthony, R. H. Friend, and B.J. Walker, PNAS, 111, 25 (2015).
*= these authors contributed equally
