Project description
Overcoming barriers to terahertz optoelectronics devices with bilayer graphene
Terahertz (THz) radiation, between infrared and microwave, offers tremendous potential for applications including data communications, environmental sensing, quality control, security and biomedicine. This non-ionising radiation can penetrate more materials than infrared while providing greater spatial resolution than microwave. However, many challenges exist to implementing devices harnessing THz potential, largely related to the limited response of common electronic and optical materials in this spectral range. The ERC-funded TOP-BLG project will overcome these challenges with a new THz optoelectronic platform based on 2D materials – bilayer graphene structures – for compact, inexpensive THz optoelectronics devices that can be electrically controlled.
Objective
The terahertz (THz) spectrum, which lies on the seam between the optical and electrical spectral ranges, is ubiquitously important for science and technology, from chemical/biological sensing to stellar exploration. Nevertheless, the development of THz applications has been hindered by the sparsity of high-performance and low-cost optoelectronic devices, due to the limited response of common electronic and optical materials in this spectral range. Here, I propose to develop a new THz optoelectronic platform that is based on 2D materials of bilayer graphene structures. Taking this approach, I will realize a variety of new THz optoelectronic devices that can be electrically controlled and are highly compact and low-cost. Outperforming the state -of-the-art, TOP-BLG will constitute a transformative breakthrough in THz optoelectronic devices. Beyond THz technology, I envision that TOP-BLG will have great impact on the integration and dissemination of 2D materials into the microelectronics/optoelectronics technological market.
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- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics optoelectronics
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials two-dimensional nanostructures graphene
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics microelectronics
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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69978 Tel Aviv
Israel
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