Blog
Welcome to our group blog, where we share updates, ideas, and reflections from our research and activities.
Steven Schofield
On Monday the whole group — Georgia, Sean, Byron, and I — attended the Quantum Meets Nanoscale Workshop (QMNW 2025), organised by the Institute of Physics Nanoscale Physics and Technology Group. The meeting brought together researchers working across quantum technologies, nanoscale materials, and advanced characterisation techniques, with a programme designed to highlight the many ways that nanoscience enables quantum technology, and how the drive to build new quantum devices is in turn stimulating new directions in nanoscience. more →
Steven Schofield
This week marks the end of a successful visit to our group by Dr Rebecca Rodrigues de Miranda from the Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux (ICMCB). more →
Steven Schofield
We were delighted to host Prof. Michael E. Flatté from the University of Iowa for his recent visit to UCL. more →
Steven Schofield
This week marks the end of a six-week visit by Hardeep, a PhD student from Akshay Singh’s group at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His visit was supported by a Royal Society International Exchanges grant, with the initial contact made possible through the UCL Global Engagement scheme. more →
Steven Schofield
This week we were delighted to welcome two new PhD students to the group, Byron Gamble and Sean Egan. To mark the occasion, we had a group lunch at a long-standing and old group favourite, the vegetarian Indian restaurant Chutneys on Drummond St. more →
Steven Schofield
We are delighted that our work has been featured on the cover of Nano Letters (Vol. 25, Issue 38). The cover image (see below) shows an image we took of acceptor wave functions in silicon, showing for the first time how these states can be directly visualized with atomic-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy. Along with accompanying tunnelling spectroscopy data, and theoretical calculations, our work provides critical insight into the anisotropy of these acceptor states, paving the way for defect-based quantum technologies in silicon. more →
Steven Schofield
``First-of-its-kind image may suggest new ways to use silicon defects in quantum devices.’’ We are delighted that PNAS Journal Club has written about our latest publication, highlighting the significance of our work on imaging acceptor wave functions in silicon. more →
Steven Schofield
We’re pleased to launch our new group website — schofield-lab.github.io — and with it, our group blog! more →