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PERSEPHONe · PERovskite SEmiconductors for PHOtoNics

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-03-01 → 2025-08-31
EU contribution
€3,794,255
Participants
12
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

PERovskite SEmiconductors for PHOtoNics

The EU-funded PERSEPHONe project aims to train a new generation of early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the emerging area of photonics. It is a joint research training and doctoral programme, implemented by a partnership of highly ranked universities, research institutions and industrial research partners spread over 6 different countries. The project will involve 14 Early Stage Researchers, who have been selected to develop a novel technological platform for photonics based on an emerging class of semiconductors, metal-halide perovskites, with exceptional optical and electrical properties. Importantly, PERSEPHONe want to engineer them in order to provide a large set of functionalities whose integration could lead to important improvement to Silicon photonics, Silicon (Oxy)Nitride and other established technological platforms The goal is to make this novel technology commercially viable in several different sectors from medical diagnostics to environmental monitoring, telecommunications and robotics. Thanks to the PERSEPHONE training network, early stage researchers will be exposed to a wide spectrum of expertise, materials synthesis; photonic (and optoelectronic) devices and integrated circuits fabrication; characterization and modeling, upscaling and manufacturing. Each fellow will learn how to deal with complex problems, acquiring broad competences and becoming highly adaptable. They got are aware of their skills and attitudes and have spent them efficiently in both corporate and academic environments. The key to success of such Programme is the multidisciplinarity and inter-sectoriality of the network, which allowed the young researchers to genuinely discover their attitude while having an impact on a relevant scientific and technological field.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

PERSEPHONe (PERovskite SEmiconductors for PHOtoNics) is a coordinated training network which wants to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation for the development of a novel technological platform for photonics based on metal-halide perovskite semiconductors. These materials have impressive optoelectronic properties and they can be engineered to achieve a large set of functionalities whose integration could lead to important improvement to Silicon photonics, Silicon (Oxy)Nitride and other established technological platforms. PERSEPHONe is a multidisciplinary and intersectoral effort which sees, in parallel, the development of perovskite materials, the development of photonic devices and the integration of such building blocks in integrated photonic circuits, with the intent to set the bases for a technology which is commercially viable. 8 academic and 5 industrial beneficiaries, from 7 different EU Countries and one EU-13 Country will train 14 ESRs, exposing them to a wide spectrum of expertise: materials synthesis, photonic (and optoelectronic) devices and integrated circuits fabrication, characterization, and modeling, upscaling and manufacturing together with a powerful set of soft skills. Each ESRs will learn how to deal with complex problems, acquiring broad competences and becoming highly adaptable. They will be aware of their skills and attitudes and spend them efficiently in both corporate and academic worlds, eventually reinforcing the European placement in the high tech market.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA · GenovaCoordinatorItaly
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • DECTRIS AG · DATTWIL AGSwitzerland
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MIKRO UND OPTOELEKTRONIK MIT BESCHRANKTERHAFTUNG AMO GMBH · AachenGermany
  • HELIO DISPLAY MATERIALS LIMITED · OXFORDUnited Kingdom
  • IBM RESEARCH GMBH · RUESCHLIKONSwitzerland
  • LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET · LinkopingSweden
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · NapoliItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA · ValenciaSpain

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union