Structuring materials with atomic precision is the ultimate goal of nanotechnology and is becoming increasingly relevant as an enabling technology for quantum electronics, spintronics, optoelectronics, and photonics, as well as for energy conversion applications. Our chair explores the possibility to structure materials on an atomic level and to explore the fundamental physical properties of atomistic 2D materials with a specific focus on semiconducting nanomaterials for future information and energy conversion technologies.

We follow four main research directions:

• Single-atom circuits
• Topological electronics and materials
• Excitonic many-body states towards Bose-Einstein condensates
• Femtosecond on-chip electronics