Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage

纳米制造促进了光子学、电子学和先进材料的融合，这是一个令人兴奋的研究环境。我们的目标是为从数据存储到电信再到生物光子学等广泛的终端用户提供高度可制造的光子集成技术。为了增加硬盘驱动器的容量以进行云计算，需要新的技术。热辅助磁记录(HAMR)是最受欢迎的技术，它使用电磁能对磁盘进行局部加热，以简化向其写入数据的过程。HAMR要求将激光、波导和等离子天线等光子组件集成到记录头中。这将推动低成本的光子集成和等离子体技术进入其他行业和应用。学生们开始一项为期四年的计划--在第一年的初夏选择实质性研究项目之前，首先强调额外的技术技能、管理和领导能力培训。该项目将获得贝尔法斯特女王大学和格拉斯哥大学联合颁发的博士学位。

The convergence of photonics, electronics and advanced materials facilitated by nanofabrication is an exciting research environment. Our objective is the science and engineering to provide highly manufacturable photonic integration technologies relevant to a wide spectrum of end-users - from data storage, to telecommunications, to biophotonics. To increase the capacity of hard disk drives for 'cloud' computing, new technology is required. Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which uses electromagnetic energy to locally heat the disk to ease the process of writing data on to it, is favourite. HAMR requires integration of photonic components such as lasers, waveguides and plasmonic antennas into the recording head. This will drive low-cost photonic integration and plasmonic technology into other industries and applications. Students embark on a four year programme - with an emphasis of additional technical skills, management and leadership training in the outset before selecting their substantive research project in early summer of their first year. The programme will lead to a Doctoral degree jointly awarded by Queen's University Belfast and University of Glasgow.