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06.12.2024

Visitor from the North Pole


Our small visitor from the North Pole tried to exfoliate his own graphene but struggled to manage the tape.


15.10.2024

Lab tour for "Experimentierferien"


Today, we had the pleasure of welcoming 15 high school students for the first lab tour through our newly equipped labs. They had the chance to produce their own graphene, explore the ultra-cold temperatures involved in our measurements, and discovered that gummy bears can’t survive such extreme cold!


10.10.2024

Glovebox moved to our lab


We are excited to welcome the glovebox to our lab! This crucial addition will significantly enhance our ability to work with sensitive materials in a controlled environment. A big thank you to everyone who helped move it!


26.09.2024

First photoluminescence measurements


We successfully captured our first photoluminescence measurements! After months of ordering equipment, aligning components, and fine-tuning the setup, it's great to see the system finally in action.


01.09.2024

First Master student started


Welcome to our first Master student, Alberto!


30.08.2024

Jeniffer successfully finished her Bachelor thesis! Congratulations!


We enjoyed having you in the group and hope to see you again.


28.06.2024

Huge boxes arrived


Today we could unpack two huge boxes in our lab. The inset for low temperature optical measurements enables us to perform our first experiments!


13.06.2024

First Bachelor student started


Welcome to our first Bachelor student, Jeniffer König! Excited to have you working on single-photon emitters in transition metal dichalcogenides. Best of luck with your research!


01.06.2024

Welcome Sara


Sara Etman-Zadeh joined our team as a PhD student. Welcome Sara!


01.05.2024

Welcome Hanan


Hanan Matar joined our team as a PhD student in the TIDE Research Training Group. Welcome Hanan!


27.03.2024

First van der Waals heterostructure


About one month after the transfer system arrived in cologne, all pieces were finally in place to build the first stack of 2D materials. A bilayer graphene flake encapsulated in hBN, together with a nicely aligned graphite backgate.
We're now ready to continously fabricate stacks and to explore different 2D materials such as TMDs.
 


 

06.02.2024

 

First equipment


Our first big equipment piece arrived after a long journey from the Netherlands. The transfer system for 2D materials enables us to start building van-der-Waals heterostructures here in cologne.


 

01.01.2024

First PhD student joins the group


Cornelius joins the group as Annika's first PhD student in Cologne.


 

01.08.2023

 

Formation of a new group


Annika Kurzmann is appointed as a new professor at the II.Physical Institut at University of Cologne. Empty labratories are waiting to be filled.