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PSI Seminar: Strong light-matter coupling excitons in microcavities and their applications

Dates:29 January 2025
Times:12:00 - 13:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Photon Science Institute
Who is it for:University staff, Current University students
Speaker:Dr. Sai Kiran Rajendran
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Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Sai Kiran Rajendran. Radiative properties of excitons can be modified when placed in microcavities. Since the 1990s, the strong coupling of excitons to cavity modes were pursued towards the observation of novel polariton features such as condensation, lasing and superfluidity. In this talk, I will present the results of my investigation towards ultrafast processes of cavity polaritons, low-threshold polariton lasing, modification of energy levels, and giant Rydberg exciton-cavity polaritons. I will also explain the limits to the experimental realisation and applications of such features.

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Dr. Sai Kiran Rajendran

Organisation: University of St Andrews

Biography: Sai Kiran Rajendran is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research interests are fabrication and spectroscopy of semiconductor optical materials for strong light-matter coupling and quantum applications. He obtained his PhD from Politecnico di Milano in 2014 working on ultrafast spectroscopy of organic semiconductor microcavities. Thereafter, he worked at the University of St Andrews on fabrication of organic and inorganic semiconductor microcavities towards polariton lasing, modification of energy landscape and exploiting interaction strength for quantum applications.

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