Dr Hannah Stern

Biography

2017- now - Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College

2013 - 2016 - PhD (Optoelectronics) with Professor Richard Friend.

2008 - 2011 - BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, University of Otago, New Zealand

Originally from New Zealand, Dr Hannah Stern works at the Cavendish Laboratory, within the Quantum Optics group headed by Mete Atature. During her Junior Research Fellowship, Hannah is working on localised excitations in wide bandgap 2-dimensional materials that are of interest for quantum applications that require single photons. Recently, she has been interested in investigating the presence of optically-initialised spins in hexagonal-Boron Nitride and potential quantum applications of this technology.

Hannah completed her PhD in the Optoelectronics Group in the Cavendish with Professor Richard Friend on the ultrafast dynamics of singlet exciton fission in organic semiconductors. Hannah was funded as a Winton Scholar.

Publications

Key publications:

H.L. Stern, J. Jarman, Q. Gu, S.E. Barker, N. Mendelson, D. Chugh, S. Schott, H.H. Tan, H. Sirringhaus, I. Aharonovich, M. Atature. Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride. arXiv preprint: 2103.16494 (2021).

H.L. Stern, R. Wang, Y . Fan, R. Mizuta, J. C. Stewart, LM Needham, T.D. Roberts, R. Wai, N. S. Ginsberg, D. Klenerman, S. Hofmann, S. F Lee. Spectrally resolved photodynamics of individual emitters in large-area monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride. ACS Nano, 13, 4538-4547 (2019).

H.L. Stern, A. Cheminal, S. R. Yost, K. Broch, S. L. Bayliss, K. Chen, M. Tabachnyk, K. Thorley, N. Greenham, J. M. Hodgkiss, J. Anthony, M. Head-Gordon, A. J. Musser, A. Rao, R. H. Friend. Nature Chemistry, 9, 1205 (2017).

H.L. Stern, A. J. Musser, S. Gelinas, P. Parkinson, L. M. Herz, M. J. Bruzek, J. Anthony, R. H Friend, B. J Walker. Identification of a triplet pair intermediate in singlet exciton fission in solution, PNAS, 112, 7656-7661, (2015).

H.L. Stern, A. J. Musser, R. H. Friend. Singlet Exciton Fission in Solution. Photochemistry, 270-285 (2015).

Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College

Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics, with Professor Mete Atature.