Biological lasers

Scientists at Harvard Medical School, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have succeeded for the first time in creating a laser using fluorescently labelled (with GFP) biological cells .

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Congratulations to Dr Barry Haycock

Congratulations to Dr Barry Haycock who successfully defended his PhD thesis today. The title of his thesis was "Calculation of the Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanoscale Systems" and the work was supervised by Dr Des O'Mahony of the DIT School of Physics and co-supervised in the USA by Prof James Lewis of the University of West Virginia, where much of the work was carried out.

Dr Haycock was examined by Prof Alexander Demkov of the University of Texas at Austin, and internally by Dr Aidan Meade of the DIT School of Physics