The QEE2DUP project received a 2019 BIST Ignite Grant at the annual BIST Ignite Awards Ceremony held in March 2020.
Project overview
The development of new quantum technologies and their application in fields such as computing or communications require the design of new materials which combine chemical synthesis, 2D material nanofabrication, and advanced optics. This is the challenge posed by the QEE2DUP project, led by Dr. Roshan Krishna Kumar (ICFO) and Dr. José Ramon Durán (ICN2) —who take over the leadership of Dr. Antoine Reserbat-Plantey (ICFO) and Dr. César Moreno (ICN2) during the seeding phase— . They will set out to design a new material capable of confining excitons – electronically neutral quasi-particles found in semiconductors and insulators – within graphene nanopores. This will allow for controlling the dynamics of excitons and answering fundamental questions about their physical properties, and serve as the basis for designing new “quantum chips” that will increase the security in communications, and the capabilities in quantum computing.
Multidisciplinarity within QEE2DUP
This project will merge pioneering know-how and experience in the synthesis of atomically-precise graphene nanoarchitectures (ICN2) and in transferring high quality encapsulated 2D materials and study low temperature photoluminescence (ICFO). The specific objectives targeted by this project are triggered by the long term goal of reinforcing interactions between groups within BIST working on surface-assisted synthesis (Mugarza’s group), optoelectronics (Koppens’s group) and more generally material science to design a new generation of Van der Waals heterostructures based on atomically-precise meta-materials.
Project members
ICFO Postdoctoral Researcher
Project Leader
ICN2 Postdoctoral Researcher
Project Leader
ICFO Postdoctoral Researcher
ICN2 Group Leader & ICREA Professor
ICFO Group Leader & ICREA Professor
ICFO PhD Student
ICN2 PhD Student