Nanomat Liege

Centre QMAT (Quantum MATerials) : nanomat Group

Group leader : Matthieu Verstraete

Address :
University of Liege

Permanent staff : Bertrand Dupé

Overview:
 Optical and excitonic properties of 2D materials in particular TMDs
 Vibrational and dielectric properties of TMDs, graphene, mono-chalcogenides
 Development of novel methods for electronic structure, linear and many body perturbation theory, in general but also specifically for 2D systems

Technical and instrumental facilities:

 Software development for the simulation of materials properties. Packages : Abinit, Aiida, BoltzTraP, SIESTA, Octopus
 High performance computing
 High throughput calculation of advanced materials properties

Research perspectives at short and long term :
 Novel methods for transport calculations in heterostructures
 Properties of defects in 2D materials