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SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
My research concerns the low temperature properties of nanoscale structures, including quantum dots, graphene and 2D materials, superconducting devices, and nanomechanical resonators. At low enough temperatures, quantum mechanical phenomena dominate the behaviour of these systems. I am interested in how this can be exploited to build new solid-state devices to advance computation, metrology, and sensing. I am currently working on techniques to reach temperatures below 1 millikelvin inside nanoscale devices.
Keywords
- Solid state physics
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Semiconductor Quantum-Cryogenic Hybrid Platform Technology for Next-Generation Quantum Technologies
Prance, J. (Principal Investigator)
31/03/26 → 30/03/28
Project: Research
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Scalable graphene-superconductor integrated quantum circuits (SuperICQ)
Pashkin, Y. (Co-Investigator), Thompson, M. (Principal Investigator) & Prance, J. (Co-Investigator)
1/03/26 → 28/02/30
Project: Research
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Talent and Research Stabilisation Fund 2022 (Manus Hayne)
Mikhaylovskiy, R. (Co-Investigator), Hook, I. (Co-Investigator), Chan, A. (Co-Investigator), Haley, R. (Co-Investigator), Laird, E. (Co-Investigator), Hayne, M. (Principal Investigator), Lambert, C. (Co-Investigator), Jarvis, S. (Co-Investigator), Marshall, A. (Co-Investigator), Kolosov, O. (Co-Investigator) & Prance, J. (Co-Investigator)
21/11/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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LANCQTFP: Quantum Enhanced Superfluid Technologies for Dark Matter and Cosmology
Haley, R. (Principal Investigator), Thompson, M. (Co-Investigator), Kafanov, S. (Co-Investigator), Prance, J. (Co-Investigator), Tsepelin, V. (Co-Investigator), Zmeev, D. (Co-Investigator) & Zmeev, D. (Co-Investigator)
1/12/20 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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GrapheneCore3: SGA-FET-GRAPHENE-2019
Prance, J. (Principal Investigator) & Kolosov, O. (Co-Investigator)
1/04/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
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Characterisation of silicon photomultipliers in a dilution refrigerator down to 9.4 mK towards a cryogenic cosmic-ray muon veto system
The QUEST-DMC collaboration, 1/05/2026, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 21, 05Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Development of Superfluid Helium-3 Bolometry Using Nanowire Resonators with SQUID Readout for the QUEST-DMC Experiment
Leason, E., Levitin, L. V., Autti, S., Bloomfield, E., Casey, A., Darvishi, N., Eng, N., Franchini, P., Haley, R. P., Heikkinen, P. J., Jennings, A., Kemp, A., March-Russell, J., Mayer, A., Monroe, J., Muenstermann, D., Noble, M. T., Prance, J. R., Rojas, X. & Salmon, T. & 10 others, , 30/04/2026, In: Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 222, 2, 39.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Ultralow Temperature On-chip Magnetic Refrigeration
Prance, J., 6/05/2026, 2026 10th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM). IEEEResearch output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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Charge Transport Regimes of MoS2 Nanosheets at Cryogenic Temperatures: Implications for Cryogenic Electronics
Thompson, M., Haworth, M., Hughes, O., Prance, J., Pashkin, Y., Panarella, L., Gity, F., Mirabelli, G., Fagas, G. & Duffy, R., 12/12/2025, In: ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8, 49, p. 23769-23775 7 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Dark matter attenuation effects: sensitivity ceilings for spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions
The QUEST-DMC collaboration, 30/04/2025, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025, 4, 017.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open AccessFile36 Downloads (Pure)
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visit to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Pashkin, Y. (Visitor), Prance, J. (Visitor) & Thompson, M. (Visitor)
27/04/2026 → 29/04/2026Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Johnson Matthey visit to Lancaster University.
Hardy, J. (Chair), Fielden, P. (Speaker), Sweeney, J. (Speaker), Griffin, J. (Speaker), Toghill, K. (Speaker), Bimbo, N. (Speaker), Hoster, H. (Speaker), Fletcher, N. (Speaker), Ashton, L. (Speaker), Short, R. (Speaker), Lin, H. (Speaker), Coogan, M. (Speaker), Evans, N. (Speaker), Andrieux, F. (Speaker), Prance, J. (Speaker) & Robson, A. (Speaker)
5/07/2018Activity: Other activity types › Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
Datasets
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Simulation of DC SQUIDs using an RCSJ model
Prance, J. (Creator) & Thompson, M. (Creator), Lancaster University, 6/02/2023
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/592
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Coulomb Blockade Thermometer measurements
Bradley, I. (Contributor), George, R. (Contributor), Gunnarsson, D. (Contributor), Haley, R. (Contributor), Heikkinen, H. (Contributor), Pashkin, Y. (Contributor), Penttilä, J. (Contributor), Prance, J. (Creator), Prunnila, M. (Contributor), Roschier, L. (Contributor) & Sarsby, M. (Contributor), Lancaster University, 2/10/2015
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/31
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Measurements of on-chip cooling in a Coulomb blockade thermometer
Bradley, D. I. (Contributor), Guénault, A. M. (Contributor), Gunnarsson, D. (Contributor), Haley, R. P. (Contributor), Holt, S. M. (Contributor), Jones, A. (Creator), Pashkin, Y. (Contributor), Penttilä, J. (Contributor), Prance, J. (Creator), Prunnila, M. (Contributor) & Roschier, L. (Contributor), Lancaster University, 20/10/2016
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/105
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Measurements of Graphene Josephson junction SQUID
Thompson, M. (Creator), Prance, J. R. (Creator), Haley, R. P. (Contributor), Pashkin, Y. (Contributor), Ben Shalom, M. (Contributor), Geim, A. (Contributor), Matthews, A. (Contributor), White, J. (Contributor) & Melhem, Z. (Contributor), Lancaster University, 15/12/2016
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/121
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Operating Nanobeams in a Quantum Fluid
Bradley, D. I. (Creator), George, R. (Creator), Guénault, A. M. (Creator), Haley, R. P. (Creator), Kafanov, S. (Creator), Noble, T. (Creator), Pashkin, Y. (Creator), Pickett, G. R. (Creator), Poole, M. (Creator), Prance, J. R. (Creator), Sarsby, M. (Creator), Schanen, R. (Creator), Tsepelin, V. (Creator), Wilcox, T. (Creator) & Zmeev, D. (Creator), Lancaster University, 1/07/2017
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/139
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