Silicon-Photonics Hot-Electron Light Sources

Project Information

SPOTLIGHT

Grant agreement ID: 101045396

DOI

10.3030/101045396

EC signature date 6 May 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 962 253,00

EU contribution

€ 1 962 253,00

Coordinated by

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SPOTLIGHT (Silicon-Photonics Hot-Electron Light Sources)

Reporting period: 2022-09-01 to 2025-02-28

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The aim of the SPOTLIGHT project is to design, build, measure, and explore a novel class of light sources based on silicon bowtie structures. We will pioneer hitherto unexplored light sources that use strongly enhanced light-matter interaction to dramatically increase the radiative decay rate of emitters.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

1. Babar, Weis, Tsoukalas, Kadkhodazadeh, Arregui, Vosoughi Lahijani, Stobbe, Nature 624, 57 (2023).
2. Rosiek, Arregui, Vladimirova, Albrechtsen, Vosoughi Lahijani, Christiansen, Stobbe. Nature Photonics 17, 386 (2023).
Both papers created considerable attention, e.g. News and Views in Nature and Nature Photonics, Nature podcast, interviews, etc.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

We have founded a new spin-out company, Lizard Photonics ApS, which builds directly on the scientific results of the SPOTLIGHT project.