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October 2011: AWARD! Macquarie University Excellence in Research- Science and Engineering link to YouTube
September 2011: Welcome to the group Dr Stefania Castelletto. Stef has joined us as a post-doc in the Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.
August 2011: Jana Say has won again! She and another student won the Optical Society of America and SPIE student prize for best presentation at the IQEC/CLEO conference. Carlo Bradac and Faraz Inam were highly-commended in the same category. From a field of severaly hundred other eligible students, this is OUTSTANDING!! Congrats guys.
August 2011: James, Carlo, Jana, Torsten and colleagues short-listed for MQ Research Excellence award for their work on measuring very small diamonds to be announced Oct 12. Awards page
August 2011: Jana's review paper, in collaboration with Dr Louise Brown and colleagues at the University of Sydney, accepted to "Biophysical Reviews"!
June 30 2011:
The Peoples Choice
PhD student Jana Say wins the Faculty of Science 3 Min Thesis "People's Choice" award. We're all very proud Jana, well done.
June 2011: Faraz's paper on the spontaneous emission of NV centres on Opal photonic crystal accepted in New Journal of Physics! Great work Faraz! link to arXiv
June 2010:
New Quantum news and articles website launched:
AZoQuantum.com
December 2010:
Dr Andy Edmonds, from the University of Warwick will join the group in January 2011 as a post-doctoral researcher. Welcome to OZ Andy!
November 2010:
PhD student Jana Say wins KOALA 2010 Best Poster award for her contribution entitled "Fluorescent nanodiamonds for biological applications"
October 2010:
PhD student Shaneel Chandra has successfully grown diamond using our microwave CVD reactor. Well done Shaneel!
April 2010:
Nature Nanotechnology now online and featured on MQ Faculty of Science news website.
March 2010:
Nature Nanotechnology, multi-institutional, Macquarie led paper on nanodiamonds accepted! Congratulations to all involved (stand by for web publication).
March 2010:
Ms Jana Say has joined the QMApp group as a PhD candidate. Welcome Jana.
November 2009:
What does Prime Minister Kevin Rudd think of NANODIAMONDS??
Find Out HERE
October 2009:
Our close collaborator, Dr Amanda Barnard, received the Malcolm Macintosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the year! Congrats Amanda.
September 2009: Mr Faraz Ahmed has joined the QMAppgroup as a PhD candidate. Welcome Faraz.
September 2009:
Marathon Man
183rd of 2456 runners
3h20'49"
- Congratulations Carlo!
September 2009: Collaboration between QMApp and CUDOS Macquarie has resulted in an Optics Express paper Single photon emission from diamond nanocrystals in an opal photonic crystal
August 2009: Congratulations Carlo (and Torsten and Jim), his first paper accepted to NANO LETTERS!! Joint work with Dr Amanda Barnard from CSIRO.
April 2009: Jim and Carlo on ABC Catalyst: Link to Catalyst
February 2009: Mr Matthew Clarke has joined the QMAppgroup as a PhD candidate. Welcome back Matt.
February 2009: Dr Torsten Gaebel has won a prestigeous Macquarie University Research Fellowship. To commence May 2009.
February 2009: < /strong> Joint paper with MQ and the University of Queensland colleagues accepted to the journal SMALL.
December 2008: Carlo already on the conference circuit, persented a talk on nanodiamond based magnetometry.
August 2008: Mr Carlo Bradac has joined the QMApp group as a PhD candidate.
April 2008: Mr Torsten Gaebel has joined the QMApp group.
February 2008: Dr Nishen Naidoo has joined the QMApp group. He will be researching in the area of nanodiamonds for bio applications.
December 2007: Atomic force microscope installed and operational!
November 2007: We are measuring single atoms in diamond
October 2007: QMapp publications: New Journal of Physics article accepted arXiv online
October 2007: QMApp publications: Nano Letters article now online
August 2007: QMApp Labs ALMOST fully commissioned
July/Aug 2007: Post-docs Dr Joanne Harrison and Dr Yan-Hua Zhai join the QMApp group
We are a cross-disciplinary research group pursuing science in Quantum information as well as Life Sciences.
New and exciting technologies in quantum information using diamond.
The Diamond Nanoscience group is forging new collaborations and research streams between the physical and life sciences. Cuurent programs include: Nanodiamond based magnetometry, single photon sources and biomedical imaging.