Nanoquanta
European Union
Status: finished projectThe FP6 Priority Thematic Areas recognise the crucial role of fundamental science in underpinning and generating future technology. The ability to invent new functionalities for nanoscale systems and advanced materials, such as quantum dots, biomolecules, and carbon nanowires, and of designing new devices for specific applications depend heavily on our understanding of the excitation under irradiation by light, electron beams or modern photon sources (synchrotrons, ultra-fast lasers), and also of the reaction of the environment to the electronic response. This NANOQUANTA Network of Excellence proposal, which follows our 2002 Expression of Interest of the same name, sets out our plan to integrate and develop the research capabilities of ten European teams in the field of the fundamental science of nanoscale systems and advanced materials, exploiting the now powerful combination of quantum-mechanical theory and computer simulation to make contact with nanoscience experimental studies and also directly with technologically relevant electronic, dynamic and optical processes. An ambitious reach-out programme is at the heart of our proposal, first through dissemination of ideas, theories, algorithms and computer programs to the wider European theory community through publication, workshops, conferences and training (both Internet-based and hands-on), and also through two-way contact with experimental and applied research groups in European universities, research institutions and companies. Our vision can be summarised in the concept of an ongoing "European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)" for nanoscale systems and advanced materials, with strong links with a wide range of research groups, which we shall develop from the collaborative research activity and reach-out initiatives to be established under the NANOQUANTA NoE.
Objectives
The Nanoquanta Network of Excellence integrates and develops the research capabilities of ten European teams in the field of the fundamental science of nanoscale systems and advanced materials, exploiting the powerful combination of quantum-mechanical theory and computer simulation to make contact with nanoscience experimental studies and also directly with technologically relevant electronic, dynamic and optical processes.
Through scientific publications, worshops and conferences, training, and contact with experimental and applied research groups in European universities, research institutions and other organisations, Nanoquanta's ongoing work is disseminated widely.
The Network is intended to evolve into a European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), with strong links with a wide range of research groups and available for collaboration with users from across science and industry in projects concerned with nanoscale systems and advanced materials.
Participants
Partners in the Network
- University of York (Team Leader: Prof. Rex Godby, Department of Physics)
- Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin (Team Leaders: Prof. Matthias Scheffler, Dr. Arno Schindlmayr and Dr. Patrick Rinke, Theory Department)
- Freie Universität, Berlin (Team Leader: Prof. Hardy Gross, Department of Physics)
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Team Leader: Prof. Friedhelm Bechstedt and Dr. Jürgen Furthmüller, Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik)
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Team Leader: Prof. Xavier Gonze, Unité de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux)
- Lunds Universitet (Team Leaders: Prof. Carl-Olof Almbladh and Prof. Ulf von Barth, Department of Solid-State Theory)
- Universitá degli Studi di Milano (Team Leader: Prof. Giovanni Onida, Department of Physics)
- Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés (Paris) (Team Leader: Dr. Lucia Reining)*The Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés is a joint research laboratory of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Ecole Polytechnique.
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (Rome) (Team Leader: Prof. Rodolfo Del Sole, Department of Physics, Universita´ degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
- Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (San Sebastián) (Team Leaders: Prof. Pedro Echenique and Prof. Angel Rubio, Facultad de Quimicas and Donostia International Physics Center)
Associate Members
Associate Membership allows former Ph.D. students and post-doctorial researchers who are no longer employed by a node, but who continue to contribute significantly to Nanoquanta's work, to retain a formal affiliation with the Network.
- Michel Bockstedte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, formerly of San Sebastián;
- Peter Bokes, Slovak University of Technology, formerly of York;
- Pablo García-Gonzáles, UNED, Madrid, formerly of San Sebastián;
- Miguel Marques, University of Coimbra, formerly of San Sebastián and Berlin (associated with San Sebastián);
- Valerio Olevano, CNRS, Institut NEEL, Grenoble, formerly of Paris;
- Gianluca Stefanucci, Universita´ degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, formerly of the Freie Universität, Berlin.
- Kristian Thygesen, Technical University of Denmark, formerly of San Sebastián.
- Daniele Varsano, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, formerly of San Sebastián;
- Ludger Wirtz, IEMN, Lille, formerly of San Sebastián;
Network Officers
- Network Coordinator: Professor Rex Godby, University of York;
- Deputy Coordinator: Dr Lucia Reining, Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés;
- Network Administrator: Mr Tony Patman, University of York;