Call for Papers

Please contact the symposium organizers with questions.

The symposium will broadly cover current research on emerging heterostructures consisting of different layers interacting via van der Waals forces that can be employed in sustainable electronics. Examples of these architectures are two-dimensional (2D) materials deposited on non- or weakly-interacting substrates, molecular layers deposited on a 2D material, film of inorganic nanotubes deposited on a 2D material or heterostructures made solely of 2D materials. The symposium is divided into three parts. The first one will focus on the application of heterostructures in the field of neuromorphic computing, energy-efficient transistors and low-power memory devices. The second one will be dedicated to their use in the field of energy harvesting, with special attention to photovoltaic devices based on heterostructures comprising perovskites. Finally, the third one will cover the aspects of growth as well as properties, modelling and advanced characterization of various heterostructures between 2D materials. Therefore, the symposium will provide state-of-the-art research on various aspects of van der Waals layered heterostructures for sustainable electronics bringing together physicists, chemists, computer scientists and engineers from both academia and industry with the goal of bridging the gap between them. Symposium contributions should address fundamental science issues, including material properties and device configuration, or address challenges towards the development of practical applications from these emerging materials. Furthermore, a tutorial will be given by the company Synopsis regarding modelling of electronics based on stacked 2D devices.

Topics will include:

• van der Waals heterostructures
• Neuromorphic hardware
• Energy harvesting
• DFT calculations
• Device modelling
• Bottom-up growth of heterostructures
• Vertical, lateral, wrap-around heterostructures
• Advanced and in situ characterization techniques
• Twist effects in heterostructures
• Mixed dimensional heterostructures
• Energy-efficient transistors
• Photovoltaic solar cells
• Photoelectrocatalysis
• Monolayer, few-layer and many layer heterostructures

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Luis Hueso Arroyo (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
• Matthias Batzill (University of South Florida, USA)
• Camilla Coletti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
• María del Mar García Hernández (Instituto de Ciencia dei Materiales de Madrid, Spain)
• Antonija Grubisic-Cabo (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez (University of South Florida, USA)
• Marc Hersam (Northwestern University, USA)
• Song Jin (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
• Moon-Ho Jo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Andras Kis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Mario Lanza (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• Andrea Li Bassi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Adina Luican-Mayer (Ottawa University, Canada)
• Troels Markussen (Synopsys, Inc., Denmark)
• Cecilia Mattevi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• Kirby Maxei (Intel Corporation, USA)
• Feng Miao (Nanjing University, China)
• Maurizia Palummo (INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
• Eric Pop (Stanford University, USA)
• Iuliana Radu (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan)
• Peter Sutter (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
• Boris Yakobson (Rice University, USA)
• Amaia Zurutuza (Graphenea, Spain)

Symposium Organizers