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  • Chiara Trovatello selected in the Nano Letters Early Career Editorial Board

    Welcome to the Early Career Board of 2025! Check it out: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c04068

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  • Our periodically poled TMDs are featured on the cover of Nature Photonics

    Check out the March issue here.

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  • Out in Nature Nanotechnology “Spatiotemporal imaging of nonlinear optics in van der Waals waveguides”

    Here we use spatiotemporal imaging to provide phase-matching angles, mode profiles and losses in 3R-MoS2 waveguides, showing birefringent phase matching in both multi- and single-mode waveguides. Out today in Nature Nanotechnology: Article, News and views.

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  • Out in Nature Photonics “Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors”

    Here we realize ultracompact entangled photon sources by periodically poling 2D semiconductors (3R-MoS2), demonstrating quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion over micron-thick path lengths. Out today in Nature Photonics: Article. Press:• [ENG] Columbia Engineering: “Engineering Quantum Entanglement at the Nanoscale”• [ENG] We are featured on Phys.org!• [ITA] Hardware Upgrade: Semiconduttori bidimensionali e qubit, la ricerca di frontiera […]

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  • Women in STEM Podcast with Dr. Hannah Roberts

    Dr. Chiara Trovatello is featured in Episode 56 of the Women in STEM Podcast with the one and only Dr. Hannah Roberts! 🎧 In this episode we talk about:👉 The importance of trying out new opportunities before committing to them long-term (such as moving countries).👉 How our Pusher part gets driven by the need to […]

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  • 2024 Blavatnik Regional Finalist Award

    Dr. Chiara Trovatello is recipient of the Blavatnik Regional Finalist Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering 2024. Nominated by Columbia University, she is recognized for the development of new nano-engineered material platforms for optical computing, a critical step on the path towards innovative imaging and information processing methods in quantum technologies. The […]

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  • Optica Foundation Challenge Award 2024 

    Dr. Chiara Trovatello is recipient of the Optica Foundation Challenge 2024. The award supports early-career professionals with exceptional ideas to leverage optics and photonics and address global challenges. Chiara has received a US$100,000 prize for her project “Quantum-entangled Photon-pairs On-chip based on Layered Integrated Semiconductors (q-POLIS)”, which addresses the challenge of miniaturizing entangled photon sources […]

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  • New Perspective Paper out on ACS Photonics

    In this Perspective, we outline ongoing and future research directions in the field of nonlinear optics with layered semiconductors, with special focus on the control and tunability of their optical nonlinearities. Chiara Trovatello, Andrea Marini, Michele Cotrufo, Andrea Alù, P. James Schuck, and Giulio Cerullo. “Tunable Optical Nonlinearities in Layered Materials”. ACS Photonics.DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00521 Link […]

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  • 2024 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Prize

    Dr. Chiara Trovatello is recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women and Science Prize 2024. The 20.000 Euro award supports young, female scientists from Italy who are working in physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering and technologies. Currently conducting her research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow between Columbia University (New York, USA) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy), […]

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  • New Quantum Science and Technology M.S. Program at Columbia University

    Honored to be featured next to incredible scientists. We are excited to announce the launch of the new Quantum Science and Technology M.S. Program at Columbia University! Featured in this video some exciting science happening in the Delor, Gaeta, Hone, Lipson, Pasupathy, Schuck, Yu and Will labs!

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