Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage

纳米纤维促进了光子学、电子学和先进材料的融合，这是一个令人兴奋的研究环境。我们的目标是提供高度可制造的光子集成技术的科学和工程相关的广泛的最终用户-从数据存储，电信，生物光子学。为了增加用于“云”计算的硬盘驱动器的容量，需要新技术。热辅助磁记录（HAMR）是最受欢迎的，它使用电磁能来局部加热磁盘，以简化在磁盘上写入数据的过程。HAMR需要将诸如激光器、波导和等离子体天线的光子部件集成到记录头中。这将推动低成本光子集成和等离子体技术进入其他行业和应用。学生开始一个为期四年的计划-在第一年的初夏选择他们的实质性研究项目之前，首先强调额外的技术技能，管理和领导力培训。该方案将导致博士学位联合颁发的皇后大学贝尔法斯特和格拉斯哥大学。

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.