May 2011
Altaf Nizamani successfully defends his thesis on 6 May.
May 2011
Robin Sterling submits his doctoral thesis on 20 May.
February 2011
Altaf Nizamani submits his doctoral thesis on 21 February.
Microfabricated Ion Traps
Article on the principles and operation of microfabricated ion traps including material considerations, a guide to the appropriate fabrication design, details of different fabrication processes and a summary of previously realized structures, published in Contemp. Phys. (14 Sept. 2011).
January 2011
There will be a special Issue on “Ion Trapping” in Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics, edited by Winfried Hensinger, Danny Segal and Richard Thompson. Details can be found here. Submission deadline is 30 April 2011.
October 2010
Postdoctoral research fellow / associate position in Trapped Ion Quantum Technology and Nano-science is available. More details can be found here.
Optimum electrode configurations for fast ion separation in microfabricated surface ion traps
Article on how to create optimal electrode configurations for separation and trap depth in surface ion traps, published in Applied Physics B (28 Nov. 2011)
July 2010
The Ion Quantum Technology Group is featured in the 2010 University of Sussex Research Review.
Versatile ytterbium ion trap experiment for operation of scalable ion-trap chips with motional heating and transition-frequency measurements
Article on design and operation of an ytterbium ion trap experiment with a setup that can host advanced surface and multilayer ion trap chips. We make a heating rate measurement and provide transition frequency measurements more precise than previously published work, published in Phys. Rev. A (21 Jan. 2011)