Levitated Nanophysics Group

James gave a talk for World Quantum Day 2022 at King’s College London, setting the scene for many quantum technologists to inspire our wide audience.

We are looking for a Postdoc to work on our levitated electromechanics experiments, click here to see details and apply.

We are also looking for a PhD student to work on our charged particle levitation experiment, click here to see details and apply.

Don’t hesitate to contact James for more information.

Liz & Molly have joined us as Masters’ students, and we’re very glad to have them in the team. Here we are enjoying Chinese New Year with a dumpling party.

The whole levitated Nanophysics team got together for what has become our traditional (?) Mexican (??) Christmas Lunch. Well done for getting through a tough year, team!

James attending the ever-inspiring Quantum Technologies Showcase to see what progress is being made in the UK towards the realisation of really useful quantum things!

James gave a talk at SPIE Photonex 2021. An actual talk, with real people! The topic was building MEMS devices with levitated particles.

Read all about our technique to quickly, cleanly and efficiently launching nanoparticles into optical traps. Congratulations Maryam, Yanhui & James!

Direct and clean loading of nanoparticles into optical traps at millibar pressures
arXiv:2109.10316

The group (particularly James & Muddassar) are excited to have received support from EPSRC to develop our electrically levitated particle sensors. We will build simple, robust systems for particle levitation.

We had a lot of fun running a 2-day Red Pitaya Hackathon, and achieved way more than we hoped for! Well done team!

Welcome to Nur & Sara, who will join our group for a couple of months as Summer Students.

Nur, who holds a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship, will build an interactive electrical trap in collaboration with the artist Steven Claydon, and Sara will work with the optomechanics team on nanoparticle cooling software.