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Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering

by Eamonn Boylan | May 10, 2021 | News

LCN Researchers at Imperial College London with colleages from the University of Manchester and University of Leeds have been awarded £9.6M programme grant from EPSRC to exploit the power of editing materials at the smallest scale to create designer materials for...

Taking Maxwell’s equations for a spin

by Grzegorz Komorowski | Feb 3, 2021 | News, Publication, Research Highight

John Clerk Maxwell developed his famous Maxwell Equations whilst working at King’s College London in the late 19th Century. The Maxwell Equations are four equations which link the fundamental behaviour of electric and magnetic fields. Electromagnetic fields and waves,...

Quantum circuits with a levitated heart

by Grzegorz Komorowski | Dec 11, 2020 | News, Publication, Research Highight

A collaboration between LCN researchers and the University of Duissburg-Essen has found a way to strengthen quantum networks by levitating key components, whilst simultaneously exploring the boundaries of quantum mechanics. Do you believe in quantum physics? Quantum...

Professor Alex Shluger wins 2020 David Tabor Medal and Prize

by Eamonn Boylan | Oct 29, 2020 | News

Congratulations to Professor Alexander Shluger (UCL Physics & Astronomy and the London Centre for Nanotechnology) who has been awarded 2020 David Tabor Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, for his seminal and wide-ranging contributions to surface and...

LCN researchers make electrical nanolasers even smaller

by Grzegorz Komorowski | Oct 21, 2020 | News, Publication, Research Highight

LCN researchers, in collaboration with a team at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a concept of an electrically driven nanolaser which is not only much smaller than the other integrated lasers but even smaller than the free-space wavelength it...