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Senior Research Fellow, University College London 🔗
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Physics & Astronomy – Condensed Matter & Materials Physics | Breeze Lab (Solid-State Maser Quantum Sensing) @ UCL
Summary:

Breeze is a senior research fellow at UCL working on room-temperature solid-state masers. Research directions: (1) Pentacene maser — first demonstration of a room-temperature, continuous-wave solid-state maser (Science 2018) using photoexcited triplet-state pentacene in p-terphenyl crystal; achieving amplification with noise temperature near 1 K; (2) Diamond NV maser — developing NV-center-based maser for ultra-low-noise microwave amplification at room temperature, relevant to quantum sensing readout chains; (3) Maser applications — quantum-limited amplification for dark matter searches, MRI signal amplification, and quantum communication repeaters; (4) Spin dynamics — understanding triplet-state dynamics in organic crystals for spin polarization control. Strong relevance to quantum-limited microwave sensing.

Created at: May 14, 2025, 7 a.m. Updated at: May 14, 2025, 7 a.m. Metadata: As of May 2025, UCL Physics staff list + Science 2018 paper