Nano Letters (American Chemical Society) award to Elena Blundo
Elena Blundo, a third-year PhD student in Physics supervised by Prof. Antonio Polimeni, was awarded the Nano Letters Seed Grant by the American Chemical Society. An excerpt of the motivation reports:
“Elena is a prolific young researcher investigating strained 2D crystals, especially the mechanical and photonic properties of bubbles and domes formed by 2D crystals. She proposes to fabricate an array of nanodomes [1] of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides through irradiation to achieve near-ideal single-photon sources emitting at telecom wavelengths. Quantum emitters (QEs) operating at telecom wavelengths would enable the implementation of quantum technologies through fiber-based optical communication networks. Compared with quantum dots, the proposed QEs can be obtained with relatively low costs, are mechanically tunable, and can be easily integrated into photonic circuits. Outside of academia, Elena is a Taekwondo Poomsae and Freestyle athlete, black belt, IV dan. She is a 10-time National Champion and has conquered numerous medals at European and World competitions.”
[1] E. Blundo et al., https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.067402
E. Blundo et al., https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04197
E. Blundo et al., https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.046101
The announcement and the full and motivation of the Award can be found in:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03880
https://axial.acs.org/2022/03/15/nano-letters-seed-grants/