The workshop “Sensing with graphene and 2D materials” was held on 5th to 6th of November in Aachen with great success. It is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the frame of the international bilateral project between Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine and AMO GmbH.
Graphene enables ultra-wide bandwidth communications coupled with low power consumption, with potential to surpass the needs of 5G, IoT and Industry 4.0.
Researchers within the Graphene Flagship project, one of the biggest research initiatives of the European Commission, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a unique solution for the next generation of optical communications.
Researchers of AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University together with colleagues from Center for Nanoscience and Technology (a division of Italian Institute of Technology) have recently developed perovskite microdisc lasers integrated into silicon nitride photonic circuits. This optically pumped lasers have thresholds of 4.7 µJcm-2 surpassing the thresholds of other CMOS compatible lasers. These results were published in Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02811). [read more »]
In a cutting-edge industrialised state like North Rhine-Westphalia, key technologies, such as nanotechnology, microsystems technology, photonics and the broad field of new materials, are of particular importance. Their importance lies in the fact that they form the basis for innovations and new products and provide complex answers to the challenges of our time. 
70% of all innovations today, for example, depend either directly or indirectly on the development of new materials that meet the required specifications.
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The European Union’s Horizon 2020 project HIPERDIAS released its autumn newsletter on the most recent results in the project:
AMO GmbH together with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Université de Bourgogne attained crucial results on co-integration of Al based plasmonic and Si3N4 photonic waveguides. The results of these research activities are described in the paper “Aluminum plasmonic waveguides co-integrated with Si3N4 photonics using CMOS processes” which was recently published in Nature Scientific Reports.
AMO will host the workshop “Sensing with graphene and 2-dimensional materials” taking place at Forum M in the city center of Aachen, Germany from November 5-6, 2018. This workshop is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). For more detailed information please refer to the attached Flyer_Sensor_Workshop_2018.
Researchers of AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University as well as their colleagues developed an experimental method for proper visualization of graphene grain boundaries. The work was conducted in collaboration between AMO GmbH, RWTH Aachen University, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm and Chemnitz University of Technology.
Researchers at AMO GmbH have used Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology’s fabrication solutions to develop a graphene based photonics device capable of operating at a data rate of 25 Gb/s per channel. These devices convert optical modulation data into electrical signals that are compatible with electronics-based IT systems, unlocking data streams at ultrafast speeds and large bandwidths, thus becoming a key enabler for the next generation of mobile communication.
AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with six further research institutes and companies (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Trinity College, University of Siegen, Infineon Technologies AG, University of Leipzig, TU Dresden and Helmholtz Center Dresden) attained first results of the electromechanical properties of the recently discovered 2D material platinum diselenide. The results of these research activities are described in the paper “Highly sensitive electromechanical piezoresistive pressure sensors based on large-area layered PtSe2 films” recently been published in ACS Nano letters.