{"id":154,"date":"2020-12-11T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/?p=154"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:24:21","slug":"we-co-authored-a-paper-using-research-from-our-urop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/2020\/12\/11\/we-co-authored-a-paper-using-research-from-our-urop\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Interviews: We co-authored a paper using research from our UROP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-156 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/files\/2020\/12\/Snapchat-1931897796-e1607685386563-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many Undergraduate students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\">Department of Materials<\/a>\u00a0will choose to undertake an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme. Sometimes the research can lead to co-authorships with the academic group. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This was the case for second-year Undergraduate student Yingxu Li and fourth-year Undergraduate student Seif Mehanna, whose research contributed to a recent paper with Dr Mark Oxborrow, now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevApplied.14.064017\">Physical Review Applied<\/a>. The paper demonstrates how a cheap organic material can be exploited to detect extremely weak radio signals so weak that the signal contains only a small number of radio-frequency photons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Both students have provided us with a snapshot of the research they did for the paper and their UROP experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Seif Mehanna<\/h3>\n<p>My part of the research aimed to see if we could get a maser to run using a much cheaper and less bulky light source than a massive medical laser. Lasers tend to be very inefficient at producing yellow light, so we used a luminescent concentrator instead. Luminescent concentrators are devices that concentrate and shift the colour of light, so you end up with a very bright light with the desired wavelength (colour).<\/p>\n<p>I made this very simple setup where we had a luminescent concentrator that Dr Oxborrow had made earlier, surrounded it with two Soviet-made Xe-flash lamps held up with lab clamps, and had a sample at the end of the concentrator that we tried to get to mase. As old as those lamps were, they&#8217;re very energy efficient and did a great job! They were so powerful that you could feel when they went off, just like with the flash in a professional studio. Sometimes you don&#8217;t need the newest and fanciest equipment to be on the cutting edge of science!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see the consequences of my research included in this paper, and I hope that it shows that you can have fun and look to the past while doing pioneering research to advance the future.<\/p>\n<h3>Yingxu Li<\/h3>\n<p>My research contribution to the paper was to render the instrument setup of this newly-developed MASTER, trying to make it look real as in reality. Figures 5(a) and (b) in the publication were produced by the 3-D rendering program, \u201cBlender\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This UROP was the first-ever research experience in my life, definitely unforgettable! Although the whole programme shifted to online-based, I learned a lot about MASER and 3D graphical modelling using Blender software. Also, the working vibe in Dr Mark Oxborrow&#8217;s team was so welcoming, and everyone in the team was happy to help me as \u201ca baby in scientific research\u201d. It gave me an immersive insight into researchers&#8217; lives and a taste of how a publication paper was produced. Last but not least, thank you to Dr Oxborrow for allowing me to contribute to the paper. It made the summer of 2020 so special!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this can show the fantastic opportunities available to students in our department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/materials\/study\/undergraduate\/career-prospects\/undergraduate-placement-opportunities-\/\">Hear more from our students about their UROPs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/urop\/\">find out how to apply.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Undergraduate students in the Department of Materials\u00a0will choose to undertake an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme. Sometimes the research can lead to co-authorships with the academic group. 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