Erik Bakkers – QuMat

Full professor: Erik Bakkers

Erik Bakkers

TU Eindhoven

Advanced Nanomaterials and Devices group

Email: e.p.a.m.bakkers@tue.nl

Leader of pillar 3

Short Biography

The Bakkers group is renowned for the development of new materials based on nanowires. His group has realized the nanowire structures in which the first signatures of Majorana states have been observed (Science 2012, Nature 2017). Recently, they succeeded in growing Silicon with a different -hexagonal- crystal structure which has a direct band gap and can efficiently emit light (Nature 2020). Bakkers has received an NWO Vici (2011), ERC Consolidator (2013) and Advanced Grant (2019), was awarded the TR35 prize from MIT (2007), and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland prize for best paper in Science (2013). He is a member of the KNAW, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Project involvement

Project Leader for project 3.1A
Synthesis of PbTe and development of in-situ device technology

PhD student: Pim Lueb

Co-supervisor for project 3.3A
Synthesis of artificially engineered unit cells for quantum anomalous Hall effect

PhD student: Yoran Starmans

Co-supervisor for project 1.2B
Heterostructure engineering of hybrid materials based on transition metal dichalcogenides

PhD student: Cédric Cordero Silis

Publications in QuMat


Diffusive and ballistic transport in thin InSb nanowire devices using a few-layer-graphene-AlO_x gate Lior Shani and Pim Lueb and Gavin Menning and Mohit Gupta and Colin Riggert and Tyler Littmann and Frey Hackbarth and Marco Rossi and Jason Jung and Ghada Badawy and Marcel A Verheijen and Paul A Crowell and Erik P A M Bakkers and Vlad S Pribiag Materials for Quantum Technology 4, 1 (March 2024) Contributes to: Pillar 3,
Thermal scanning probe and laser lithography for patterning nanowire based quantum devices Lior Shani; Jana Chaaban; Alec Nilson; Eliott Clerc; Gavin Menning; Colin Riggert; Pim Lueb; Marco Rossi; Ghada Badawy; Erik Bakkers NANOTECHNOLOGY 35, 25 255302 (April 2024) Contributes to: Pillar 3,
Evidence for π-Shifted Cooper Quartets and Few-Mode Transport in PbTe Nanowire Three-Terminal Josephson Junctions Mohit Gupta, Vipin Khade, Colin Riggert, Lior Shani, Gavin Menning, Pim J. H. Lueb, Jason Jung, Régis Mélin, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Vlad S. Pribiag Nano Letters 24, 44 (October 2024) Contributes to: Pillar 3,

Diffusive and ballistic transport in thin InSb nanowire devices using a few-layer-graphene-AlO_x gate
Lior Shani and Pim Lueb and Gavin Menning and Mohit Gupta and Colin Riggert and Tyler Littmann and Frey Hackbarth and Marco Rossi and Jason Jung and Ghada Badawy and Marcel A Verheijen and Paul A Crowell and Erik P A M Bakkers and Vlad S Pribiag
Materials for Quantum Technology 4, 1 (March 2024)

Contributes to: Pillar 3,

Thermal scanning probe and laser lithography for patterning nanowire based quantum devices
Lior Shani; Jana Chaaban; Alec Nilson; Eliott Clerc; Gavin Menning; Colin Riggert; Pim Lueb; Marco Rossi; Ghada Badawy; Erik Bakkers
NANOTECHNOLOGY 35, 25 255302 (April 2024)

Contributes to: Pillar 3,

Evidence for π-Shifted Cooper Quartets and Few-Mode Transport in PbTe Nanowire Three-Terminal Josephson Junctions
Mohit Gupta, Vipin Khade, Colin Riggert, Lior Shani, Gavin Menning, Pim J. H. Lueb, Jason Jung, Régis Mélin, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Vlad S. Pribiag
Nano Letters 24, 44 (October 2024)

Contributes to: Pillar 3,