2021/12/09:
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Our latest study on III-nitride quantum emitters exhibitting the narrowest linewidths reported to date has been published in APL materials. The paper is open access and can be downloaded for free here.
| 2021/06/17:
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We have just published a paper on realizing the purest (and brightest) single-photon emission from InGaN QDs! The paper is published open access in APL materials, and can be downloaded for free here.
| 2021/03/11:
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Our most recent work on using nanophotonic bullseye structures to enhance photon emission has been published in ACS Photonics! The paper can be read online here.
| 2020/06/11:
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Progress in quantum-dot single photon sources for quantum information technologies: A broad spectrum overview Invited review article written by Profs Arakawa and Holmes has been published in Applied Physics Reviews. The paper has been selected as a featured article by the journal, and can be downloaded for free here.
| 2020/05/11:
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Excitation and Emission dynamics of a single photon emitting InGaN quantum dot in a photonic horn structure:
Xiaoxiao's latest paper can be found here.
| 2020/04/01:
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Aoki-kun has graduated with a Master's degree. Congratulations!
| 2020/01/31:
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Aoki kun has made his first presentation at an international workshop. He presented his work on III-nitride bullseye structures at the 1st SNU-UT workshop on Nano-photonics in Seoul, Korea (in english!). Good Job! | 
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| 2019/10/16:
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Our latest research in collaboration with Peking University on single photon emission from reverse reaction regrown quantum dots in nanowires has been published in quantum engineering. Read more here! We are also proud to annouce that this work has been selected as the front cover art for the journal (art made by Holmes). | 
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| 2019/07/12:
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Xiaoxiao has been awarded with the "OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION" award at the International Confernce on Nitride Semiconductors for her work on single photon emitters. congratulations!
| 2019/07/08:
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Our paper titled "Single photon source based on an InGaN quantum dot in a site-controlled optical horn structure" has been published in Applied Physics Letters.
| 2019/05/20:
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Holmes has been awarded with the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Young Scientist Award during Compound Semiconductor Week 2019. 
| 2019/05/10:
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Our paper titled "Observation of sharp emission lines from Zn-doped GaN" has been published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
| 2019/04/17:
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Holmes has been awarded with The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists’ Prize. 
| 2019/04/01:
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We welcome Asai Tsubasa and Xia Sijia, who have joined the lab as master's students
| 2019/03/25:
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Our latest research on measurements of spectral diffusion time scales in InGaN QDs has ben published in Applied Physics Letters! Check it out here.
| 2019/03/10:
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Gao has presented his latest work at the Japan Society for Applied Physics Spring Meeting! 
| 2019/01/30:
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Our invited review paper has been published in Semiconductor Science & Technology. Check it out here.
| 2018/11/15:
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Xiaoxiao and Mark have given presentations at the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN2018), in Kanazawa, Japan! 
| 2018/09/19:
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Gao Kang has given two presentations at the Japan Society of Applied Physics autumn conference in Nagoya. Otsukaresama! 
| 2018/09/14:
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Dr. Christopher Chan visits the Holmes lab. 
| 2018/09/10:
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We are pleased to announce that our recent work on improving the single photon emission properties of InGaN quantum dots in collaboration with Rachel Oliver's group at the University of Cambridge has been published in Applied Physics Letters. Conratulations to all involved! See more here.
| 2018/05/12:
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Our latest research on measurements of single photon emission dynamics of III-nitride interface fluctuation quantum dots has been published in Physica Status Solidi a (applications and materials science). Read more here! We are also proud to annouce that this work has been selected as the front cover art for the journal (art made by Holmes). | 
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| 2018/04/01:
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We welcome Aoki Tomoyuki, who has joined the Holmes Lab as a master's student!
| 2018/02/09:
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Holmes presented a general science talk on the use of light (particularly single photons) for future quantum technologies at "Tokyo Nerd Nite". (Photos provided by Andrew and John). 
| 2018/01/01:
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A very happy new year! We welcome Xiaoxiao Sun from Peking University, who has joined the Holmes Lab for the next 2 years.
| 2017/12/14:
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New paper on measurements of "Nanosecond-scale spectral diffusion in the single photon emission of a GaN quantum dot" is published in AIP advances. Check it out here!
| 2017/12/12:
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Gao Kang has presented his recent work on spectral diffusion in GaN Quantum dots at the 7th International Symposium on Photonics and Electronics Convergence 
| 2017/11/27:
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A new paper on "Temperature dependence of the single photon emission from interface-fluctuation GaN quantum dots" has been published in Scientific Reports. Check it out here!
| 2017/07/24:
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Several presentations are to be given at the International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-12). Gao Kang will present his work on spectral diffusion timescale measurements, and Holmes will present recent work on single photon emitters [as a late news presentation]. Our recently published ACS Photonics paper in collaboration with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg will also be presented at the conference.
| 2017/07/12:
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Opening plenary talk given at UK Semiconductors 2017. It's been a great conference with lots of stimulating scientific discussion. Many thanks to the conference committee for inviting me to come over and speak! 
| 2017/06/28:
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A gallery section has now been added to this website, check it out!
| 2017/06/20:
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We welcome Helen Springbett, from the University of Cambridge, to work in the lab for the next 2 months as a JSPS summer programme fellow.
| 2017/06/01:
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Experiment section added to this website, complete with photos of the new measurement system! 
| 2017/04/24:
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Paper on "Ultraclean Single Photon Emission from a GaN Quantum Dot" has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters. Congratulations to all involved!
| 2017/03/22:
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Invited presentation given at the 2017 General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, held at Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.
| 2017/03/16:
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Presentation given at the Japan Society of Applied Physics Spring Meeting 2017 held at Yokohama, Japan. I'm honored that this presentation was selected as "one to watch" by the conference committee. 
| 2017/03/10:
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Invited talk on single photon emitters given at the International Symposium on Photonics and Electronics Science and Engineering 2017 held at Kyoto University, Kyoto.
| 2017/03/02:
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Invited talk given at the JSAP Workshop on Quantum Information and Related Fields held at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.
| 2017/02/13:
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Paper on "Emission of linearly polarized single photons from quantum dots contained in nonpolar, semipolar and polar sections of pencil-like InGaN/GaN nanowires" in collaboration with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg has been accepted for publication in ACS Photonics. Congratulations to all involved! Otsukaresama!
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2016/11/07:
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Introductory presentation at the Institute of Industrial Science's "SEIKEN SALON", The University of Tokyo. 
| 2016/09/01:
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Holmes lab is opened
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