The Network

The Photon-Mediated Phenomena Network is a Research Training Network set up under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. The broad aims of the Network are to bring together seven teams of researchers from across Europe who are working in the area of photon-mediated interactions, to train young researchers in this field, and to benefit from the shared knowledge, resources and expertise this allows.

Research Topic:

The field of study of the Network is photon-mediation in semiconductor nanostructures. Current designs of elementary logical operations by voltage driven electrons (e.g. transistors) are approaching the fundamental limits dictated by a single-electron transport through a meso-structure. A further technological breakthrough via photon-mediated manipulation and quantum control of electrons is of a great and decisive importance. To this end the Network has chosen to tackle seven specific questions, one per team. These form our core Project Objectives. There is also a more detailed, formal discussion of the background of this field and the questions under investigation, covered by the Scientific Originality of the Network's studies.

 

Collaboration:

At the heart of this Network is the collaboration between the Network Teams. Our teams have a wide range of mutually complementary skills and have access to an extensive range of facilities. The teams have already been successfully collaborating with each other on a project-by-project basis. By building our Network, we further enhance these connections and develop close and more extensive collaborations via joint access of facilities, instrumentation-experiment-theory interactions, and bi-annual workshops.