Our group members received the Best Poster Prize by the German Physics Society
Every two years, Bad Honnef Physics School holds one of the most important summer schools in the field of nanophotonics materials, Exciting Nanostructures. During the five days of school, prominent scientists around the world gather, share their findings and train next-generation researchers who want to start their research. One of the competitive and exciting parts of the school is awarding the best poster delivered by the participating students and is dedicated to the physics and chemistry of these nanostructures. The referees choose the best poster among more than 50 posters coming from the best research groups of the world, according to the content and novelty of the research, alongside the performance of the presenter. This year, our group members and UNAM’s Grad students Furkan Işık and Farzan Shabani received the best poster award at the Bad Honnef Physics School. This poster presents the semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs), which have emerged as a highly favorable class of nanocyrstals, especially attractive as nano-emitters. Owing to their tight 1D-confinement and quasi-2D atomically flat structure, the NPLs exhibit distinct strong excitonic features. Additionally, by forming their heterostructures (in core/crown and core/shell architectures), these excitonic properties can be further enhanced and tailored, and/or new properties can be imparted, for example, to obtain different types, combinations and degrees of electronic band alignments in a single quantum heterostructure. As a result, tunable outstanding optical properties can be attained, which make these hetero-NPLs highly promising for light-generating applications including lasers and LEDs. To synthesize different heterostructures of NPLs, various methods are implemented. Using the combination of colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) and hot-injection (HI) coating techniques, composition and structure of such atomically flat coating layers can be precisely controlled and tuned while successful passivation is obtained. The resulting NPL heterostructures, particularly enabled by the use of HI method alone or in combination with c-ALD, exhibit extremely high quantum yields (QY) (reaching near-unity in various cases), accompanied by high colloidal stability.
July 2019
Congratulations to Nima for the best poster runner-up award in UNAM NanoDay 2019!
Our group member Nima Taghipour, in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent, has been awarded in the Best Poster Award Contest at the UNAM NanoDay 2019, with the title of ‘Near-Unity Efficiency Energy Transfer from Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wells of CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets to A Monolayer of MoS2’.
March 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Sharma for the best poster award in EPIC-2018!
Our group member Dr. Manoj Sharma, who is working as a Research Fellow at Bilkent University-UNAM, has been awarded for his work on doping nanocrystals with a Best Poster Award at the Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC) organised by School of Physical and Mathematics Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 5-7th Dec, 2018. The title of his presented work is ‘Copper Doping in Atomically Flat CdSe Colloidal Quantum Wells’. This work is the first account of Cu-doping in the colloidal nanoplatelets. Part of this work, along with his co-authors, was published in Advanced Materials 2017 and also in Chemistry of Materials 2018. This work has been performed jointly by an international team of researchers from Bilkent University UNAM, Ankara, and LUMINOUS! NTU, Singapore, led by Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir.
December 2018
Congratulations to Kıvanç on a successful PhD defense!
Our lab member Kıvanç Güngör successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Colloidal Photonics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: From Polarized Color Conversion to Efficient Solar Concentration”.
July 2018
Our recent PhD graduate Dr. Akbar Alipour has been awarded with the prestigious Stanley L. Blumenthal, Cardiology Research Award.
The annual Stanley L. Blumenthal, Cardiology Research Awards have been presented to Johns Hopkins Medical School postdoctoral fellows, submitting the best clinical/translational, basic science, epidemiologic/population-based cardiovascular research. On April 20, 2018, this award was bestowed at the Annual Cardiovascular Research Retreat, which is organized each year by David Kass, MD, Director, Institute of CardioScience, and the Abraham & Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology.
April 2018
GRC Best Poster Award!
Our group member Kivanc Gungor, in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent, has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 29th GRC – Graduate Research Conference 2018, with the title of ‘Luminescent Solar Concentrators made of Semiconductor Nanocrystals for High-Performance Photovoltaics’. His work, along with his co-authors, was published in Advanced Materials. The annual GRC is a whole-day activity where graduate students at Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department present their work in a festival of information sharing.
March 2018
Congratulations to Sayım on a successful PhD defense!
Our lab member Sayım Gökyar successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Implanable Sub-cm Wireless Resonators for MRI: From Circuit Theory to Medical Imaging”.
December 2017
Three generations of the Demir Research Group met in Boston, USA for 2017 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit.
Nov 2017
Didem Dede, a MS graduate student of Demir Research Group in MSN program at Bilkent, has been awarded with the ACS Nano Best Poster Award at NaNaX8 – Nanoscience with Nanocrystals Conference in Portugal 2017, with the title of ‘Colloidal Heterostructures of Nanoplatelets for Highly Tunable Excitonic Properties’. NaNaX8 brings together scientists of different research disciplines, in the fields of synthesis, characterization and applications of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and metal nanoparticles. Didem is photographed with the conference chair, Professor Andrey Rogach, ACS Nano Editor, after receiving her award.
July 2017
Congratulations to Yusuf on a successful PhD defense!
Our lab member Yusuf Keleştemur successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Colloidal Heterostructures of Semiconductor Quantum Wells: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications”.
June 2017