Physics Friday Bulletin 2017-10-27

Materials Science Institute and Physics Colloquia: “Doping Semiconductor Nanocrystals”

Date: 31st Oct 2017, 2pm-3pm
Venue: Management School LT 1
Speaker: Professor Narayan Pradhan, Indian Association of Cultivation Science, Kolkata

Doping a few impurity atoms in semiconductor host nanocrystals can strongly influence the crystal growth and its properties. Hence, doping has been widely used as an efficient approach for obtaining new functional nanomaterials and also study of fundamentals of crystal growth in solution. However, placing odd dopant ions in a small volume of host nanocrystal lattice remain challenging. Selection of dopants and hosts cannot be random as they need compatibility and also this is chosen as per the desire of obtaining specific property on the host material. This talk would present the doping of optically active dopants in various quantum confined semiconductor host nanocrystals for the evolution of dopant induced optical emission in a new spectral window. This would show the magic activity of few impurity atoms for hijacking the original host emission in different systems. Latest developments of chemistry and photo-physical  properties of doping in chalcogenides and perovskite nanocrystals would be presented.

Professor Pradhan was awarded  the Young Nanoscientist India Award for 2017 at the Nanotechnology Forum for Indian Scientists in April 2017 which took place at JNCASR, Bangalore. The Nanotechnology Forum for Indian Scientists was established in 2015 to encourage research in the field of Nanotechnology in India and to acknowledge outstanding achievements in this field. The ‘Oxford Instruments Young Nanoscientist India Award’ is presented biennially by the NT Forum to promote scientific exchange between Britain and India and recognise the work of outstanding young Indian researchers.

Dr Narayan Pradhan is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. He has obtained his PhD from IIT Kharagpur. Currently he is working as Senior Editor in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C (ACS) and is among top 5 authors in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Dr Pradhan serves as Editorial Advisory Board member in (1) Chemistry of Materials, (2) ACS Energy Letters and (3) ChemNanoMat. Dr Pradhan received the young career award from DST nanomission, Govt of India in 2015 for his research contribution in nanoscience. He received DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship in chemical science in 2012. He also received the CRSI Bronze Medal for 2017 and LNJ Bhilwara Research Fellowship award in 2007 in Nanoscience.

Sam Jarvis

 

Safety handbook on Dept. Web pages

As part of our safety legal obligations please can you read the safety handbook, which is on the Physics Dept. web pages. Then print off the front page, sign to say you have understood it and return signed form to Grainne Wilkinson’s pigeon hole. Thank you.

Shonah Ion

 

Safety Induction

The next induction will take place on the 2nd November at 2:30 pm in A27 Physics. Any new members of staff,  post-doctoral researchers or anyone who wants a refresher please come along with a pen.

Shonah Ion

 

Facilities has informed us of the following works for the Physics building

Water Hygiene and Shower head cleaning in Physics will take place week commencing 30.10.2017 from 9am daily.
Two Lancaster University engineers will require access to kitchens and shared bathrooms to test hot water temperatures.  The engineers will not test every kitchen/bathroom just a sample from different locations within the building.  This brief survey will take approximately five minutes, and is to ensure that the hot water is maintained at the correct temperature to prevent any instances of legionella. There will be no shutdown of service.

Shonah Ion

 

Physics Christmas lunch – Thursday 21st December

The Physics Christmas lunch will take place at 1300hrs on Thursday 21st December at Greaves Park, Lancaster. Please see details of the menu at http://greavespark.co.uk/christmas-fayre-menu/

To secure your place please pay me and I’ll take your menu choices at the same time. The cost is £15.95 for two courses for £20.50 for three courses. It would be great if you could try and bring something like the right amount of money although I could try and offload some of my old £1 coins!

I need your menu choices by Weds 6 December COP at the very latest.

Gráinne Wilkinson

 

Departmental safety documentation storage

One of the recommendations from  our University safety audit was to have a central store of all the risk and COSHH assessments etc. To this end early next week, all staff will receive an invitation to share a Box folder called Departmental safety files.
There are 4 folders within, Travel, Teaching, Research and Workshop & Technical. I have listed some sub folders with the divisions in the research space but if you want to create your own group or project file please do so.
Please upload your safety documentation into an appropriate file for reference and to ensure compliance with the University’s polices.

Shonah Ion

 

Compulsory health and Safety training

All members of the University are required to complete a basic on line health and safety training. The link is for the front page of the University health and Safety web pages. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/depts/safety/index.html and the course is under the Moodle section.

Shonah Ion

 

Postgraduate & Staff football

Now that the new academic year is upon us, postgraduate and staff football session will be starting up again. The team plays with the undergraduates in the winter months, sessions are £1 to play, on Wednesday evenings at 6:30pm on the far astroturf pitches (see online campus map for location).

For weekly reminders you can either join the emailing list by emailing myself at s.malzard1@lancaster.ac.uk or by sending a request to the “Lancaster Physics Postgrad Sport” group on Facebook. If you have any other queries please email the address above.

Simon Malzard

 

Location of current safety forms.

A recommendation from the recent safety audit of the Department was to ensure everybody knows where the current blank safety forms are located. They are found on the University safety web pages at http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/depts/safety/index.html . These can be found by looking under safety in any of the University A-Z indexes. All safety form templates can be found here, usually at the end of the individual guidance i.e.  risk assessment, COSHH etc. The link on the Physics web site will be updated to reflect this.

Shonah Ion