QTwist

The QTWIST program aims to uncover the fundamental properties of emerging synthetic quantum materials, including a vast range of two-dimensional materials, and their potential future applications in quantum nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.

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Unique infrastructure and imaging techniques are needed to observe desired properties that can be achieved by precise twisting of synthetic quantum matter.

Through the QTwist program, ICFO, in close collaboration with Distinguished Invited Professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) and the Max Planck Society (DE), as well as other world renown scientific collaborators from leading institutions around the world, aims to create completely new functionalities from two-dimensional quantum materials. An important aspect in this effort is to develop novel experimental tools to probe the phenomena that emerge from interaction, topology, and twisting.

Prof. Frank Koppens with Ms. Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain at visit to ICFO, discuss twisted materials.

Frank Koppens with Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain at visit to ICFO, discuss twisted materials.

Pablo Jarillo- Herrero participates in ICFO’s Colloquium series, Jan 2024.

Project meeting of QTWIST participants, November 2023.

Optical image of a TDBG sample made into a Hall bar shape for precise measurement of electrical resistivity and photoconductivity.

Postdoctoral researcher Likun Wang in the Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics research group working on Quantum Twist Microscope (QTM).

Amir Yacoby, offered an Insight Seminar at ICFO in May 2024, coincideing with visiting professorship in the Quantum NanoElectronics and NanoMechanics group.

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Rafael Pardo, Director of Fundación BBVA visits ICFO's facilities and learns about key research iniciatives.

Oriol Sagrera