Quantum engineering is a vital breeding ground for future key technologies, from quantum computing and energy-efficient optoelectronics to medical applications. However, the search for suitable material platforms is lagging. Guidelines may be performance-based, e.g., related to the efficiency and reliability of quantum-state preparation, transfer, and read-out.
On the other hand, a more widespread deployment of quantum technology may also need to consider aspects such as scalability, tunability, integrability, versatility, or cost-efficiency. In this respect, halide perovskites and other metal halides of variousdimensionalities invite the question whether their solution processability, spectral tunability, strong light-matter interaction, and generally intriguing set of optical and structural properties could indeed represent a suitable material platform for quantum-engineered devices.
PeroQuant26 will provide an engaging and stimulating forum for discussing the latest scientific discoveries in the field of halide perovskites and perovskitoids, with the aim of jointly exploring emerging opportunities in the realm of quantum information science and quantum technology. We invite both experimental and theoretical advances to better create, understand, and utilize metal halides as tunable and scalable materials for quantum-engineered devices.
- 3D perovskites and low-dimensional metal halides (from 0D to 1D, 2D)
- Synthesis, from colloidal nanocrystals and nanocrystal assemblies to bulk materials
- Static and dynamic structural properties
- Photophysics and ultrafast spectroscopy
- Coherent/collective/correlated phenomena
- Many-body physics, including single excitons and multi-exciton complexes, as well as their exciton fine structure, exciton-phonon, and exciton-photon interactions
- Polaritonics and strong light-matter interaction
- Spin dynamics and coherence
- Control of light and matter via chirality and light polarization
- Quantum-engineered applications, including quantum-light sources and quantum imaging
Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich since July 2011 and Associate professor from January 2017. His group is also partially hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. He completed graduate studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004-2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present scientific focus is on the development of new synthesis methods for inorganic nanomaterials, their surface chemistry engineering, and assembly into macroscopically large solids. His ultimate, practical goal is to provide novel inorganic materials for optoelectronics, rechargeable Li-ion batteries, post-Li-battery materials, and catalysis. He is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018, ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Preis 2013 and Werner Prize 2016. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (by Clarivate Analytics).
Ilya Akimov, Prof.
- Graduated State Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg in 1997
- PhD in physics in 2000 at Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia).
- 2001-2006, Postdoc at Photonics Chair in Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and as research assistant at PennState University in USA.
- In 2007 joined Experimental Physics 2 at TU Dortmund, where since 2019 he is professor.
Research interests: spin-related and magneto-optical phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures and magnetic materials using transient optical spectroscopy.
Yitong DongGrigorios Itskos obtained a B.Sc. in Physics in 1997 from University of Thessaloniki, Greece and carried out his PhD studies at SUNY at Buffalo, USA (Ph.D. in Physics 2003), under the supervision of Prof. Athos Petrou within the newly-born field of semiconductor spintronics. He worked as postdoctoral researcher (Imperial College London, 2003-2007) under the supervision of Profs. Donal Bradely and Ray Murray, focusing on photophysical studies of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors. In September 2007 he was hired as a faculty member at the Department of Physics, University of Cyprus (Lecturer 2007-2011, Assistant Professor 2011- 2017, Associate Professor 2017- now). His group research activities focus on optical studies of inorganic, organic and hybrid solution-processed semiconductors, with recent emphasis on the characterization and optoelectronic applications of semiconductor nanocrystals.
Prof. Kyoung-Duck Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2017. Before joining POSTECH, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) from 2018 to 2022. Prof. Park’s research focuses on developing novel nano-optical spectroscopy and imaging methods to investigate quantum optical phenomena at the nanoscale.
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