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New lab! These photos were taken over 5 days as we moved 1 mile north to the new facility. Thanks to all the group for their hard work. Moving one of the big optical tables on the hottest ever day in the UK. If only the lift had been a few centimetres bigger... Crates arrived in the lab for packing all our equipment, ready to move to the new Translational Research Hub. I have known this moment was coming for almost 5 years, so am prepared. Will post lots of updates in the next few weeks as we settle into our new home. One way to quantum technology. My group has published paper today on quantum light emission from colour centres in Gallium Nitride at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085257. This semiconductor is used in numerous everyday applications including room lighting, car headlamps, high power electronics and blu-ray (if you are old enough to remember what that is?). We showed the use of a half-sphere lens on the semiconductor can greatly enhance the magnification with which we image these colour centres, and also increases the intensity of the emission. Well done to all the team on getting this paper out. The scanning electron microscope in the Cardiff Cleanroom. A visit to our new labs! Goodbye San Francisco. It's is a pleasure to be in San Francisco at Photonics West this week, giving an invited talk on our research, and representing the UK's Hub in Quantum Computing and Simulation. Part of my talk is about SPEs (Single Photon Emitters) so I was amused to be greeted by this in the entrance. #photonics #photonicswest #quantum