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Our $2.7 million project with Defence Research and Development Canada was announced on Thursday, April 12 by Honourable Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism and our local Waterloo MP, at  a press conference hosted at RAC. It is a collaborative project, headed by Jonathan Baugh, with co-PI's Prof. Michael Reimer and Prof. Zbig Wasilewski. Dr. Francois Sfigakis is the project manager. He is a Research Assistant Professor (Chemistry) working in Baugh's group.

Professor Baugh and the Coherent Spintronics lab were featured recently in an article and video as part of IQC's Annual Report.

Prof. Baugh attended the OCE Discovery technology fair on May 9 in Toronto, and presented his work on "Nanowire-based infrared photodetectors" to the global Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin, Dr. Keoki Jackson (far left in photo). The work is in collaboration with Prof. Ray LaPierre of McMaster University (far right in photo), and from our group involves Eduardo Barrera and Greg Holloway.

Sean Walker won the first place poster prize at the Guelph-Waterloo Chemistry annual meeting last week (April 2016). His poster was titled: "Deposition of functionalized molecular nanomagnets on graphene"  2016AwardsPoster

Eduardo Barrera obtained an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2016-2017.

Congrats to both!

Greg Holloway made this really cool video demonstrating the placement of a semiconductor nanowire using our recently home-built micromanipulator tool. This improves dramatically upon the previous method of mechanically depositing many wires randomly on a pre-patterned device substrate, and opens up new possibilities for quantum device fabrication. Nice work Greg!

Our new paper on Kyle Willick's research, "Sensitive magnetic force detection with a carbon nanotube resonator", has just appeared in the Journal of Applied Physics (link).

Prof. Baugh attended the NMR QIP conference in Rio de Janeiro this November. His presentation on qubit noise spectroscopy can be found here.

Dr. Chris Haapamaki and Greg Holloway attended the Materials Research Society Fall meeting in Boston this December. Chris presented a talk entitled 'Evaluation of InAs/InAlAs Core-Shell Nanowire Interface Quality'.

Welcome to Sean Walker who starts as a new MSc student this Fall. Sean graduated from the University of Manitoba and holds an NSERC graduate scholarship.

Congratulations to Greg Holloway who won an IQC Achievement Award this term for his body of work on nanowire transport experiments!

Also, farewell to Mustafa Muhammad who completed his postdoctoral appointment this September.

Finally, an article appeared today on our University homepage:
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-researcher-loves-hands-side-quantum-science

Congrats to Greg Holloway and Kyle Willick on being awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships this year!

We have three new publications in 2013 on electronic transport studies in InAs and InAs-InAlAs core-shell nanowires!