Tuesday, 28 November, 2017
Thin Films, Bright Future
ERC Consolidator Grant for Alexander Högele
CeNS member Alexander Högele studies ultrathin semiconducting films and carbon nanotubes, which possess astonishing physical properties. He has now received the second highly endowed European Research Council grant in his career. These much sought-after, 5-year grants are each worth approximately 2 million Euros in all, and are among the most prestigious of all European research awards.
Prof. Alexander Högele's work focuses on the search for nanomaterials with unusual optical properties, principally with a view to applications in photonics and quantum technologies. In a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), he and his research group successfully developed ways of fabricating carbon nanotubes made of graphene that exhibit specific and potentially useful optical characteristics. His new ERC project, entitled LASSO, will focus on Layered semiconductors and hybrid systems for quantum optics and opto-valleytronics.
Alexander Högele studied Physics at the University of Heidelberg and LMU Munich. He obtained his PhD at LMU in 2005. From 2006 until 2008 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, before moving back to LMU. In 2011, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant.
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