Today we are celebrating our annual CarboQuant Day with lots of interesting presenations and a keynote given by Arzhang Ardavan from the University of Oxford. 🚀Congrats to Yujeong Bae, Stepan Kovarik and Nils Krane for winning the 2025 CarboQuant Innovator Awards!🚀
@empa-materials.bsky.social

From molecular wires to quantum bits: in our latest work presented in Nature Chemistry, porphyrins are docked to graphene nanoribbons with atomic precision.
Hybrid properties, many possibilities.
🧪 rdcu.be/eBHyj

Congratulations to our PhD student, Laric Bobzien, for winning the 2025 EPS-QEOD / Young Minds Best Student Presentation Award! Laric works in our Terahertz lab, focusing on ultrafast scanning probe microscopy of atomic quantum emitters in 2D materials.

Exciting plenary talk by our head of laboratory, Roman Fasel, today to kick off the STM'25 conference in Seoul!

www.wernersiemens-stiftung.ch/en/news/deta...

"Quantum Lego": We engineered spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains by linking Olympicene nanographenes, unveiling their length-dependent spin excitations. With STM/IETS, we confirm gapless behavior in the thermodynamic limit & visualize spinon standing waves.
📖 Nature Materials: rdcu.be/edxe0

In our latest work, we show a sub-exponential increase in charge-state lifetime of Se vacancies in WSe₂, from picoseconds in monolayers to nanoseconds in multilayers. Great collaboration with @pennstatematse.bsky.social !
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
#2DMaterials #QuantumDefects #Optoelectronics

Empa has opened the CarboQuant Lab, a cutting-edge hub for exploring quantum effects in carbon! Supported by the Werner Siemens Foundation and the @snsf-ch.bsky.social, CarboQuant aims to create a materials platform for carbon-based quantum technologies.