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Ted Sargent takes up the Gabor A. and Judith K. Somorjai Visiting Miller Professorship at Berkeley Fall 2017

http://miller.berkeley.edu/events/symposium/19-vmp-category

Ted Sargent attended as an invited lecturer to the ACS-Tsinghua Symposium on Photonics on July 31st, 2017. He gave a lecture on “Solution-processed photodetectors, solar cells, and optical sources based on quantum dots and perovskites“. 

The symposium was held by Prof. Jie Bao, and his talk was from 10:25 to 11:00 am in Rohm 5-206 at Tsinghua University. More details can be found from the WeChat QR Code below:

Prof. Ted Sargent visiting the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. 

The Sargent Group Wechat is now up and running!

The account will update the most recent research published from our group, and will also share our groups life, to a broader audience.

On June 8, 2017, Olivier Ouellette, Mathieu Lempen, Marc Lejay, and Emma Howard welcomed a distinguished delegation of visiting scholars from Brown PS French Immersion Class Grade 4-5.

Ph.D Candidate Olivier Oulette recently gave an invited lecture to the grade 4-5 class at Brown Public School in Toronto. Olivier spoke about solar cells and quantum dots to a group of bring young future scientists! 

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Co-authors Fengjia Fan, Oleksandr Voznyy, Randy P. Sabatini, and Kristopher T. Bicanic just published a paper in Nature describing continuous wave lasing achieved using biaxially strained quantum dots. You can download the paper here: Download

This discovery has been featured in media articles as outlined below:

1. Lab Manager: ‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers
2. R&D Magazine: ‘Flying Saucer’ Colloidal Quantum Dots Produce Brighter, Better Lasers
3. Science Newsline Physics & Chemistry: ‘Flying Saucer’ Colloidal Quantum Dots Produce Brighter, Better Lasers
4. Product Design & Development: ‘Flying Saucer’ Quantum Dots Hold Secret to Better, Brighter Lasers
5. Health Medicine Network: ‘Flying saucer’ colloidal quantum dots produce brighter, better lasers
6. Nano Werk: ‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers
7. IEEE Spectrum: Flying Saucer Quantum Dots: The Secret to Better, Brighter Lasers
8. Science Newsline Physics & Chemistry: ‘Flying Saucer’ Quantum Dots Hold Secret to Brighter, Better Lasers
9. News Wise: ‘Flying Saucer’ Colloidal Quantum Dots Produce Brighter, Better Lasers. Steady state lasing with colloidal quantum dots an important step toward practical lasing technologyews Wise: ‘Flying Saucer’ Quantum Dots Hold Secret to Better, Brighter Lasers
10. Phys.org: ‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers
11. Eurek Alert!: ‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers. Research team led by U of T Engineering ‘squashes’ the shape of nanoparticles, enabling inexpensive lasers that continuously emit light in a customized rainbow of colors
12. Nanotechweb.org: Squashed quantum dots solve a multi-faceted problem

Jixian “Bruce” Xu defended his Ph.D thesis. Bruce’s Ph.D work on photovoltaic materials has been published in high impact journals such as Nano Letters, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials.

Congratulations Bruce!

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Valerio Adinolfi publishes “Photovoltage field-effect transistors” in Nature

Press:

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/67891

Susan Leggett and Ian Wong from Brown University wrote for News & Views in Nature Nanotechnology on a recent Sargent-Kelley article on sorting circulating tumor cells using magnetic fields. 

You can read the feature article below:

“Catching Tumor Cells in the Zone”

It was recently Graduate Research Days (GRD) at the University of Toronto this February 23rd – 25th. GRD is an engineering faculty-wide event where prospective students from all over Canada visit the University of Toronto to learn about their departments, meet professors and students, and get tours of the campus. 

This year many of the graduate students in the Sargent group volunteered for GRD attending the networking events, giving student lab tours, and participating in panel discussions. Ted also met with a few enthusiastic and exceptional students to discuss coming to work for the Sargent group. 

A special thank you to the following students! 

• James
• Monorina
• Olivier
• Phil
• Rafa
• Surath
• Wendi