Quantum materials by design

Quantum materials by design
Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science and Chemistry Department

Utrecht University

Ornstein Laboratory, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands

Web: https://www.uu.nl/staff/ZZanolli

Group leader:

• Zeila Zanolli

Permanent researchers:

• Dr. Andrés Rafael Botello Mendez

Post-Doctoral researchers:

• Pedro M. Monteiro Campos de Melo

PhD students:

• Riccardo Reho
• Arnold Kole
• Pim Keizer

Research topics:

• First-principles (ab initio) modelling of nanoscale materials, with special focus on quantum materials and applications in nanoelectronics and spintronic devices.

• The investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties is performed using ground state and beyond ground-state (GW approximation, Bethe-Salpeter equation) Density Functional Theory techniques. Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function is used to model time dependent phenomena, such as spin-polarized quantum transport and time-dependent photoluminescence.

• The investigated systems include 2D materials (TMDs, monochalcogenides, BN), carbon-based nanostructures (carbon nanotubes, monoatomic carbon chains, graphene, …), hybrid organic-inorganic materials, III-V semiconductor nanowires.