Quantum Nanoscience (PGI-3)

In the run-up to 2025 - the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - the Jülich quantum sensor from PGI-3 has been named as one of the highlights of 2024 in the Quantum Blog of physicsworld.

Dr. Taner Esat was selected to take the stage at this year's Physical Sciences Symposium. This is a rare opportunity to showcase his research to an esteemed audience of experts, fostering new connections and collaborations. Esat will present his cutting-edge project on 8. November 2024 at the Next Generation Researcher Pitches in Berlin.

Dr. Jun Huang and Dr. Taner Esat from Forschungszentrum Jülich have each received an ERC Starting Grant worth up to € 1.5 million from the European Research Council (ERC) for their research in the fields of electrochemical energy conversion (Huang) as well as quantum information science and quantum sensor technology (Esat). With the ERC Starting Grants, the European Research Council supports outstanding scientists in an early phase of their career, providing funding for innovative projects in basic research. Applications are evaluated only on the basis of scientific excellence. Forschungszentrum Jülich has already received 26 ERC grants, including Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, and Synergy Grants.

Physicist Dr. Taner Esat from Forschungszentrum Jülich has been honoured with the "Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award 2022". The award, named after the German Nobel Prize winner and surface physicist, recognises young scientists for outstanding achievements in surface science.

Observing incredibly fast quantum processes and chemical reactions at the highest resolution: That is the goal of the "Orbital Cinema" project, for which physicists from the coordinating Forschungszentrum Jülich and the universities in Marburg, Regensburg and Graz today received one of the prestigious Synergy Grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

In a scientific breakthrough, an international research team from Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich and Korea's IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) developed a quantum sensor capable of detecting minute magnetic fields at the atomic length scale. This pioneering work realizes a long-held dream of scientists: an MRI-like tool for quantum materials. Dr. Taner Esat from Jülich’s Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-3) explains what it is all about.

The next-generation photoemission analyser, NanoESCA MARIS, enables both pulse and real-space spectroscopy. The instrument was delivered before Christmas and finally installed at PGI-3 in February 2024 by an expert from Scienta Omicron. From now on, PGI-3 scientists will perform photoemission orbital tomography experiments as part of the ERC Synergy project "Orbital Cinema".