Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Industrial Showcase

10:00

Arrival/coffee

10:15

Introduction by Dr Tim Cook

(formerly of Oxford University Innovation and Co-Director for User Engagement of Networked Quantum Information Technologies (NQIT))

10:30

Dr Tim Brears

(CEO of Evonetix)

10:50

Professor Michel Calame

(Head of Laboratory for Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces, Empa, Switzerland)

11:10

Dr Jason Hyde

(Senior Director of Chip Research, Oxford Nanopore Technologies)

11:30

Vishal Chatrath

(CEO of PROWLER.io)

11:50

Round-table discussion

Session 3

(chair: Martin Bryce)

09:00

Thermoelectric measurement of the single-molecule diketopyrrolopyrrole junction

Wenjing Hong (Xiamen University, China)

09:45

Thermoelectric heat-to-energy conversion in graphene-based nanodevices

Jan Mol (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

10:15

Single layered films investigated by near field scanning thermal microscopy

Achim Kittel (The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Session 7

(chair: Colin Lambert)

09:00

Control over Charge Transport in Large Area Junctions: Inverted Marcus Region, Efficient Diodes, and Molecular Memory

Christian Nijhuis (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

09:45

Thermal transport between surfaces separated by nanometers

Olivier Chapuis(CETHIL Lyon, France) & Samy Merabia(Université Lyon, France)

10:15

Thermoelectrical properties of self-assembled molecular-scale junctions

Benjamin Robinson (Lancaster University, UK)

10:45-11:15 Coffee+posters

10:45-11:15 Coffee+posters

Session 4

(chair: Wenjing Hong)

11:30

Aiming for atomically precise molecular devices

Michel Calame (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Switzerland)

12:00

Controlling quantum interference in single-molecule junctions

Colin Lambert (Lancaster University, UK)

12:30

Carbazole-Based Tetrapodal Anchor Groups for Gold Surfaces

Luke O'Driscoll (Durham University, UK)

12:45

Graphene Contacted Self-Assembled Molecular Junctions for Thermoelectric Measurements

Jan Girovsky (University of Cambridge,UK)

Session 8 + Close

(chair: Jan Mol)

11:30

How to measure and tune nanoscale devices using machine learning

Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford, UK)

12:00

Charge Transfer at the Single Molecule Level with Metal and Semiconductor Electrodes

Richard Nichols (University of Liverpool, UK)

12:30

Effect of Aromaticity on Charge Transport in Single-Molecule Junctions

Gunnar Olsen (Durham University, UK)

12:45

Synthesis of new OPE derivatives and a study of their electro-thermal properties in molecular junctions

Hervé Dekkiche (Durham University, UK)

12:30-13:30 Registration + Lunch

13:00-14:00 Lunch (dining hall)

13:00 Lunch (dining hall)

Intro+Session 1

(chair: Chris Ford)

14:00

Introduction

14:05

Energy Transport and Conversion at the Nanoscale

Pramod Reddy (University of Michigan, USA)

14:50

Phonon Blocking in Solid-State Thermionic Junctions

Mika Prunnila (VTT Espoo, Finland)

15:20

Thermopower Measurements in Single-Molecule Junctions

Tim Albrecht (University of Birmingham, UK)

Session 5

(chair: Ben Robinson)

14:00

Single-molecule Insights to Charge Transport and Charging

Shi-Xia Liu (University of Bern, Switzerland)

14:45

Porphyrin-Based Molecular Wires

Harry Anderson (University of Oxford, UK)

15:15

Charge transfer complexes in single molecule electronics; a boost to both conductance and thermopower?

Simon Higgins (University of Liverpool, UK)

15:50-16:30 Coffee+posters

15:45-16:30 Coffee+posters

Session 2

(chair: Pramod Reddy)

16:30

Quantum and Phonon Interference Enhanced Molecular-Scale Thermoelectricity

Hatef Sadeghi (University of Warwick, UK)

17:00

Thermal transport through single molecule junctions

Bernd Gotsmann (Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)

Session 6

(chair: Shi-Xia Liu)

16:30

TBA

Lapo Bogani (University of Oxford, UK)

17:00

QuIET Single-Molecule Junctions

Nicolás Agraďt (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

17:30

Measuring the gate dependent thermoelectric properties of single molecules

Pascal Gehring (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

18:00 Check-in

19:00 Drinks - 19:30 Dinner (banquet)