Personal statement
I am Associate Team Leader in the Photonic Materials and Devices group at the Institute of Photonics of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). My overarching aims are:
➢ To conduct excellent, collaborative research in Photonics and enable technologies for addressing grand challenges and delivering impact
➢ To develop the experts of the future through research
My research in Photonics at the interface of Nanotechnology and Life Sciences contributes:
➢ To further the scientific knowledge of photonic devices and materials including novel colloidal semiconductors and nanomaterials
➢ To develop functional device technologies and instrumentation for healthcare, science, optical communications and emerging applications
My current research themes include:
• Colloidal quantum dots and perovskites color converters for LEDs and lasers
• Colloidal semiconductor lasers
• DNA photonics for sensing
• Hybrid, mechanically-flexible sources for phototherapy
My interests also cover epitaxial inorganic semiconductor structures and devices, microchip semiconductor disk lasers and optical fibre-based devices.
Professional activities
- Compact Quantum Dot Biosensor with MicroLED Excitation and Smartphone Detection
- Invited speaker
- 9/2020
- Photonics (Journal)
- Guest editor
- 2020
- Special Symposium on Micro-LEDs; (IEEE Photonics Conference)
- Organiser
- 2019
- IEEE Photonics Conference 2019 (Event)
- Chair
- 2019
- 2018 IEEE Photonics Conference (Event)
- Chair
- 2018
- Wearable LED-based device for phototherapy applications
- Contributor
- 2018
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Projects
- Lasers and photonics of the future: self-assembled optically active resonators (Research Leadership) | McCormick, Emma
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Mathieson, Keith (Co-investigator) McCormick, Emma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | McCormick, Emma
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Mathieson, Keith (Co-investigator) McCormick, Emma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Lasers and photonics of the future: self-assembled optically active resonators (Research Leadership)
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2025
- Wearable multi--wavelength light-emitting device - HTAF CiC Interventional Biophotonics
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 29-Jan-2020
- FlexiLEDs with printed graphen based thermal management
- Dawson, Martin (Principal Investigator) Laurand, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Watson, Ian (Co-investigator)
- Extremely small flakes of Graphene have been made into printing inks which can pattern thin plastic sheets as well as paper. The flakes are derived in an industrial process from high quality graphite particles in a process known as exfoliation. After the printing process the graphene flakes are organised in a loose arrangement and the contact area between graphene flakes is small. We are developing a conversion process to compress selected areas of the printed graphene regions to enhance heat transfer properties and at the same time make it more efficient when transferring electrical current for integrated electronic and optoelectronic components. Our first demonstration will be flexible sheets of micro LEDs and will lead to completely new and novel formats of solid state lighting and indicator devices. Further development may allow everyday packages to be smart and able to capture data which becomes incorporated in to the internet of things. Other applications would be wearable displays, point of care diagnostic strips, touch devices for light weight vehicles as examples.
- 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2017
- Fraunhofer UK Research Limited: Studentship Agreement | Jankauskas, Marius
- Laurand, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Jankauskas, Marius (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 01-Jan-2019
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