Dr Jonathan McKendry
Research Fellow
Institute of Photonics
Personal statement
Personal statement
Jonathan J. D. McKendry received the M.S. degree in Electronics and Electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 2011. In 2007 he joined the Institute of Photonics as a Ph.D. student where the focus of his Ph.D. was on the application of AlInGaN-based micro-LEDs for time-resolved fluorescence lifetimemeasurements and optical communications. He currently works as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Photonics, primarily on the subject of LED-based Visible Light Communications. To date, he has authored or co-authored in excess of 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 conference submissions, as well as making contributions to book chapters and review articles on micro-LEDs and optical communications.
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Prize And Awards
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 2022
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 15/6/2019
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 15/6/2019
- Highlights of 2017 in Semiconductor Science and Technolog
- Recipient
- 2017
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Publications
- 650 Mbps optical wireless communications using far-ultraviolet-C micro-light-emitting diode arrays
- McKendry JJD, Zimi H, Rajbhandari S, Ruschel J, Rass J, Einfeldt S, Herrnsdorf J, Dawson MD
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc65510.2025.11282262
- Ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diodes for satellite quantum key distribution
- McKendry Jonathan, Gray Johnathan, Hill Jordan, Xie Enyuan, Willett Hobbs, Sagar Jaya, Joshi Siddarth Koduru, Rarity John, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Oi Daniel
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 2025 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC65510.2025.11282023
- Eye and skin-safe 150 Mbps Optical Wireless Communications over 1 m using UVC LEDs
- McKendry Jonathan, Zimi Hichem, Shao Yingjie, Rajbhandari Sujan, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Dawson Martin
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol 37, pp. 1451-1454 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2025.3571619
- 235 nm and 255 nm light-emitting diode based Gbps optical wireless communications up to 30 meters
- Zimi Hichem, Babadi Sina, Majlesein Behnaz, Osahon Isaac N O, McKendry Jonathan J D, Rajbhandari Sujan, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Haas Harald, Dawson Martin D
- Optics Express Vol 33, pp. 51383-51391 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.580372
- 650 Mbps optical wireless communications using ultraviolet-C micro-light-emitting diodes
- McKendry Jonathan, Zimi Hichem, Rajbhandari Sujan, Ruschel Jan, Rass Jens, Einfeldt Sven, Herrnsdorf Johannes, Dawson Martin
- IEEE Photonics Conference 2025 (2025)
- Waveguide integration, and micro-LED-on-CMOS optical pumping, of micronscale photonic devices on-chip
- Xia Zhongyi, Jevtics Dimitars, Guilhabert Benoit Jack Eloi, McKendry Jonathan, Gao Qian, Tan Hoe, Jagadish Chennupati, Dawson Martin, Strain Michael
- 2025 30th Microoptics Conference (2025)
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Professional Activities
- 2025 30th Microoptics Conference
- Participant
- 25/10/2025
- Compact UV-C MicroLED Transmitter for Intersatellite Quantum Key Distribution
- Contributor
- 17/10/2025
- Deep Ultra-Violet Micro-Light-Emitting Diodes for Compact Quantum Key Distribution Transceivers
- Contributor
- 31/7/2025
- Micro-Light-Emitting Diode (“Micro-LED”) arrays: Overview and applications
- Speaker
- 24/11/2021
- Fraunhofer Fellow
- Consultant
- 23/2/2021
- Recent developments in gallium nitride micro-light-emitting diode structured light sources
- Contributor
- 8/12/2020
Projects
- Building Global Engagements in Research
- Littlejohn, David (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Academic) Ault, Graham (Academic) Bennet, Derek James (Academic) Birch, David (Academic) Booth, Campbell (Academic) Burt, Graeme (Academic) Chen, Yu (Academic) Chen, Haofeng (Academic) Fedorov, Maxim (Academic) Finney, Stephen (Academic) Fletcher, Ashleigh (Academic) Gu, Erdan (Academic) Guilhabert, Benoit Jack Eloi (Academic) Hastie, Jennifer (Academic) Jaroszynski, Dino (Academic) Johnston, Andrea (Academic) Judd, Martin (Academic) Kockar, Ivana (Academic) Lamprou, Dimitrios (Academic) Laurand, Nicolas (Academic) Macdonald, Malcolm (Academic) Massoubre, David (Academic) Mathieson, Keith (Academic) McKnight, Loyd (Academic) Nordon, Alison (Academic) Norman, Patrick (Academic) Oliveira, Monica (Academic) Papoff, Francesco (Academic) Patwardhan, Siddharth (Academic) Portugues, Iliana (Academic) Scanlon, Thomas (Academic) Sefcik, Jan (Academic) Seib, Philipp (Academic) Skabara, Peter (Academic) Stack, Margaret (Academic) Stephen, Bruce (Academic) Tuttle, Tell (Academic) Ulijn, Rein (Academic) Xiao, Qing (Academic) Yan, Xiu (Academic) Zagnoni, Michele (Academic) Dawson, Martin (Co-investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Reese, Jason (Co-investigator) Zhang, Yonghao (Co-investigator) Ivanistsev, Vladislav (Researcher) Jawor-Baczynska, Anna Malgorzata (Researcher) Jones, Catherine (Researcher) McGlone, Thomas (Researcher) McKendry, Jonathan (Researcher)
- The EPSRC awarded the University of Strathclyde £499,040 to support activities where the main objective was to increase the level and number of sustainable global engagements between leading researchers at the University of Strathclyde and top researchers in the USA and Asia.
The research themes selected for the programme featured internationally leading groups at Strathclyde that are well supported by the EPSRC. Each theme is headed by a recognised pioneer in their field supported by a number of associated world class researchers. The five thematic areas were: Photonics, Power & Energy, Advanced Engineering; Advanced Manufacturing, and Bionanotechnology.
Strathclyde identified key international partners at various institutions in the USA and Asia with whom we wished to develop more strategic, mutually beneficial, relationships. We adopted a “best with best” approach, identifying internationally leading researchers who aligned well with several of our own EPSRC funded internationally leading experts. Existing interactions with the groups in the USA and Asia were at different stages of development so we aimed to escalate the relationship engagement levels from Tier 3 (Emergent), through Tier 2 (Developing) to Tier 1 (Strategic). The intention was to develop as many of the relationships as possible during the period of the award so that longer-term interactions could be established thereafter. - 01-Jan-2012 - 31-Jan-2013
- Doctoral Training Grant 2006 | McKendry, Jonathan
- McKendry, Jonathan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2007 - 20-Jan-2011
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Contact
Dr
Jonathan
McKendry
Research Fellow
Institute of Photonics
Email: jonathan.mckendry@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 5738