Key funding
- Lasers for Communications Applications; UKRI, £62k (2020-21).
- Single Photon Infrared Imaging, Detection and Ranging/ Innovate UK, £396k (2020-23).
- DISCOVERY: Developing UK Industrial Supply for Commercial Quantum Computing; Innovate UK, £498k (2020-23).
- Reliable, high throughput production and characterisation of coherent superconducting devices; Innovate UK, £425k (2020-23)
- Quantum Mechanics in a Rotating World; Leverhulme Trust, £380k (2020-23).
- Investigations in Gravitational Radiation: 1- year extension; STFC, £1.2M (2020-21).
Research news
- Six UofG academics recognised in Queen's birthday honours
- Two UofG engineerts win prestigious research chairs
- Gravitational wave discovery shows merger of two black holes with unequal masses
- Quantum leap for photon entanglement could revolutionise secure communications
- Quantum leap for imaging could advance radar tech
- Two UofG scientists honoured by the Royal Society for their groundbreaking work
Key publications
- Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M ⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal Letters (2020)
- GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150M. Physical Review Letters (2020)
- Imaging through noise with quantum illumination. Science Advances (2020).
- Two-photon quantum interference and entanglement at 2.1 μm. Science Advances (2020).
- Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior. Science Advances (2019).
Glasgow is an international centre of excellence in quantum and nanoscience, translating our fundamental understanding of these phenomena into world-changing technologies.
On the smallest possible scale, we study and control particles of matter and light to understand the building blocks of the universe. We engineer complex combinations of materials over length scales, from nanometres to centimetres, with reproducibility that enables low-cost components with the highest levels of functionality and energy efficiency. On the largest scale, we use our expertise to open new windows to the universe through the detection of gravitational waves.
We lead the UK’s Quantum Technology Hub in imaging; host the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, the UK’s leading facility; and are members of a world-leading international Max-Planck Partnership in Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit.
We are training the next generation of nano/quantum scientists and engineers through our Doctoral Training Programme in Sensor Systems, and our Innovation Centre, CENSIS, pioneers new sensor systems for industry.
We are leaders in the nano and quantum world.
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