Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Excitonic Properties of Localized Emitters from Monolayer WSe₂ an WSe₂/MoSe₂ Heterobilayer

• PC Department Online Seminar
• Date: Feb 23, 2021
• Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Xiu Lu
• Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

Since the discovery of single photon emitters (SPEs) from monolayer WSe₂ in 2015, the two-dimensional layered materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), has emerged to be a new playground for exploring quantum emitters and novel spin-photon interface1. A SPE in TMDC is believed to arise from trapping of an exciton by defects, localized strain or moirépotential which occurs in heterobilayer or twisted homobilayer. [more]