News
Jan 2012
Website is starting to be rolled out.
Feb 2012
UHV chamber at 10-10 mbar!
Jo woos crowds at the International Conference on Quantum Optics, Obergurgl.
March 2012
April 2012
May 2012
Matt H presented our work at the Quantum Interfaces meeting in Nottingham.
June 2012
We have cold atoms! The dynamic MOT is working although a bit quirky - more details to come!
July 2012
August 2012
The team have been presenting our work at ICAP2012, Paris
September 2012
October 2012
Matthew Aldous has joined the group as a PhD student having just left the University of Exeter with a 1st class degree.
November 2012
We have just been awarded a small equipment grant for early career researchers from EPSRC, along with Keith Wilcox and Otto Muskens.
December 2012
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
We have been awarded a Royal Society Research grant.
Matt H presented his work at the University of Dundee.
Matt H, along with Simone de Liberato presented the PhySoc Nobel prize lecture.
Matt H, along with Tim Freegarde, presented our work at the DSTL Precision Timing (and Navigation) Town Meeting at Harwell.
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
Matt A and the QC team are headed off to Enrico Fermi Summer School Course 188 (Atom Interferometry) in Italy.
August 2013
We have been awarded two CDE Precision Timing and Navigation Grants, one of which is led by Kai Bongs at the University of Birmingham.
September 2013
October 2013
November 2013
December 2013
Matt H has been promoted to a Senior Research Fellow.
January 2014
The gold reflectors for the grating MOT have arrived.
The dynamic MOT atoms have been measured at the the Doppler temperature.
February 2014
The silicon machined parts have arrived and look impressive!
March 2014
The UHV bonder is under construction
the AR coated chip windows have arrived
Quantum hub proposal outlines submitted!
April 2014
Our glass samples have been chemically analysed and tick all the boxes for helium impermeability. Permeation tests to follow.
UHV bonder now baking at gas mark 6 for two weeks
May 2014
UHV Bonder now mounted in glovebox
We have been awarded a KTS award for an inward secondment from NPL in collaboration with Alastair Sinclair
Matt H presented our work in a 3 minute elevator speech at the DSTL Quantum navigation and timing event at NPL.
Check out the press
We have submitted a paper on The Feasibility of a Fully
Miniaturized Magneto-Optical Trap for Portable Ultracold Quantum Technology to the ArXiV.
June 2014
Christopher Burr will spend the summer with us on a vacation studentship.
Quantum Hub proposals submitted! Fingers crossed.
We have been awarded a DSTL PhD studentship. Applications welcome from UK and EU nationals!
Matt A presents our work to the department.
Max Carey will join us in October to spend a year in research.
Jul 2014
Matt H finally gets round to sorting out the website!
Matt H wins the Dean's Award for proposal writing.
After several weeks of malfunctioning heaters, strange leaks, and RGA fixing we have finally anodically bonded our samples at UHV
