Logistic Cellular Automata

Seymur Jahangirov MSN Graduate Program and UNAM Imagine a system that consists of interconnected cells each having an inner state. The inner state of each cell is changed based on the inner states of a specific subset of cells according to a certain rule. This is a general definition of cellular automata. Now replace those […]

NanoDay 2022

  NanoDay will take place on Thursday, May 12th this year as a hybrid event. This annual event held at Bilkent UNAM hosts the best international names in their respective fields and awards the best nano-scale visual through its NanoArt competition. This year on NanoDay, we will be hosting two important names—Prof. Oliver Hayden from […]

Probing leaky and guided exciton-polaritons in resonant planar structures

Anton Samusev ITMO University Planar periodic structures such as metasurfaces and photonic crystal slabs strongly coupled to an exciton resonance attract particular attention since they provide vast opportunities for on-demand engineering of the dispersion of guided and leaky polariton resonances. In this regard, experimental characterization and control of the over modes’ dispersion is of great […]

Connecting Atomic-scale Impurities to Larger Morphologies

Nadire Nayir Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University/The Pennsylvania State University (Half) van der Waals epitaxy of single-crystal two-dimensional (2D) materials (e.g., TMD, h-BN, graphene, group III materials) on substrates are quite challenging and time and source expensive. Therefore, theoretically characterization of materials is essential to deepen our understanding of the physical and chemical properties of materials, thus, […]

Next Generation Biomonitoring: Implementing Machine Learning for Accurate Metabarcoding with Nanopore MinION

Bilgenur Baloğlu University of Southern California Metabarcoding (identification of the plant, animal, and fungal taxa present in an environmental sample) rapidly gains importance in ecology, food safety, pest identification, and disease surveillance. NGS metabarcoding has a compelling advantage over traditional approaches for obtaining data on species distributions, however, it is often difficult to detect all […]

Perfect transfer of waves

Q-Han Park Korea University Waves, both classical and quantum, are reflected when they encounter different media or potential regions. Reflection is a fundamental property of waves underlying numerous scientific applications. Nevertheless, in many cases removing reflection is a key issue to secure transmission and increase device efficiencies. Since the early works of Brewster and Rayleigh, […]

Spintronics with novel two-dimensional materials

Ahmet Avsar The National University of Singapore Exploitation of the intrinsic spin of an electron, spintronics, could facilitate the development of multifunctional and novel devices. As regards to material selection, two-dimensional (2D) crystals and their van der Waals heterostructures could enable new spintronics functionalities that are inaccessible in conventional bulk materials . To exploit the […]

Novel electronic properties of quantum critical Dirac plasma

Alexey Berdyugin The National University of Singapore The most recognizable feature of graphene’s electronic spectrum is its Dirac point around which interesting phenomena tend to cluster. At elevated temperatures thermal excitations can overcome the disorder and create an electron-hole (e-h) plasma of Dirac fermions. The Dirac plasma has recently been found to exhibit unusual properties […]

Structure Control in Biomimetic Hybrid Membranes: From Molecular Engineering to In-operando Characterisation

Amin Sadeghpour Dilmaghani University of Leeds The properties and function of advanced materials in biomimetic environments are associated with their morphology, hierarchy, anisotropy and mechanical properties. For instance, the structural morphology of biopolymer networks in cellular scaffolds is known to play important roles in cellular adhesion and proliferation, controlling the tissue homeostasis. The ability to […]

The World Quantum Day Celebrated at UNAM

In honor of the World Quantum Day, Bilkent University’s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) will be holding an event on Saturday, April 15 in partnership with QTurkey. The World Quantum Day has been celebrated since April 14, 2021, with the aims of creating social awareness about quantum technologies and increasing the interest and knowledge levels […]

Micro/nano processing technology for metamaterials

Yoshiaki Kanamori Tohoku University Micro/nano processing technology is one of the important elements for achieving the academic progress and industrialization of metamaterials. There are strong expectations for the establishment of micro/nano fabrication technology to produce metamaterials that meet needs. Here, the metamaterials developed in my research group and their microfabrication technologies are discussed. (i) Hydrogen […]

Quantum Computers, Quantum Sensors, and Magnets

Michael E. Flatté The University of Iowa Recent advances in quantum technologies, including room-temperature quantum operations on quantum bits (“qubits”), suggest the field is rapidly progressing towards practical quantum sensors and computers. However a major challenge remains how to connect these qubits together. Some types of qubits are very small, making it very difficult to […]