Devices and Applications | London Centre for Nanotechnology

Domains on a roll

by Grzegorz Komorowski | Feb 21, 2022 | News, Publication, Research Highight

Since the discovery of ferroelectricity 100 years ago, ferroelectric materials have made their way into numerous applications that exploit their superior dielectric properties, their ability to deform under applied electric field, their sensitivity to mechanical...

A new platform for controlled design of printed electronics with 2D materials

by Grzegorz Komorowski | Feb 2, 2022 | News, Publication, Research Highight

LCN researcher Dr Felice Torrisi with Politecnico di Torino researchers reveals the physical mechanisms responsible for the transport of electricity in printed two-dimensional (2D) materials. The work identifies what properties of 2D material films need to be tweaked...

LCN researchers host the 7th London Plasmonics Forum

by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 15, 2021 | News

The 7th Annual London Plasmonics Forum was held online on 9 June 2021. Hosted by Professor Anatoly Zayats, PI of the EPSRC Programme Grant Reactive Plasmonics and also LCN co-director, the event was held online for the 2nd year in a row due to restrictions still being...

LCN Scientist awarded prestigious IOM3 prizes

by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 7, 2021 | News

The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining has awarded four highly esteemed prizes in recognition for outstanding research to LCN Scientists in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. The annual awards recognise the significant contributions and...

Dramatic increase in the size of systems that can be simulated on current quantum computers

by Eamonn Boylan | May 25, 2021 | News, Research Highight

Researchers at UCL, King’s College London, Technical University of Munich, and the quantum software start-up GTN have developed new algorithms that can simulate an infinite quantum system on finite quantum computers. Currently available quantum computers have...