INDEED: Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design

Partners: Durham University

Nanowires (NWs) exhibit unique properties that make them potential building blocks for a variety of next generation NanoElectronics devices. Recent advances have shown that NWs with predefined properties can be grown, offering a new paradigm enabling functional device prototypes including: biosensors, solar cells, transistors, quantum light sources and lasers. The critical mass of scientific knowledge gained now needs to be translated into NW technologies for industry. FP7-MC NanoEmbrace (ITN) and FUNPROB (IRSES), made substantial contributions to NW research, producing excellent scientific and technological results (>100 journal papers published) and delivered outstanding training in nanoscience and transferable skills to ESRs. Despite demonstrable scientific and technological advantages of NWs, NW-based technology concepts have not yet been translated into market-ready products, because industry and academia have not worked hand-in-hand to commercialize the research findings. Thus, it is essential that NW research is now directed towards customer-oriented scientific R&D; whilst applying innovative industrial design techniques to ensure rapid translation of the basic technologies into commercial devices. This ambitious challenge requires close collaboration between academia and the nascent NW industry, combining the efforts of scientists and engineers to address market needs. Building upon our previous achievements, a team of leading scientific experts from top institutions in Europe, strengthened by experts in innovative design and industrial partners with an excellent track record of converting cutting edge scientific ideas into market products has formed the INDEED network to address this challenge. To enhance employability, INDEED will train young ESRs to become experts with a unique skill set that includes interdisciplinary scientific techniques, industrial experience through R&D secondments and innovative design skills.

Programme topic: MSCA-ITN-2016 - Innovative Training Networks

Project Reference: 722176

From 01.02.2017 to 31.01.2021

Type of funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks

Budget: EUR 4 000 457,52

Consortium

• Coordinator: University of Durham (United Kingdom, Durham)

• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)

• Københavns Universitet (Denmark)

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France)

• Lappeenrannan Teknillinen Yliopisto (Finland)

• University of Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom)

• Lunds Universitet (Sweden)

• The University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)

• Universite Paris-SUD XI (France)

• Innolume GMBH (Germany)

• Imina Technologies SA (Switzerland)

ITMO University (Russia) is an associate partner

ITMO University Team

Laboratory of Physics of Epitaxial Nanostructures

Prof. Vladimir Dubrovskii, Head of Laboratory of Physics of Epitaxial Nanostructures

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