Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

Nanoscience and Advanced Materials

The Nanoscience and Advanced Materials group is part of the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University. The group is located in the nanofabrication research center Micronova. Research is mainly funded by external sources, especially Business Finland, Academy of Finland, EU and industry.
Nanotechnology Group

The group focuses on the research of nanomaterials, nanostructures, and advanced materials for use especially in nanoelectronics and optoelectronics. 

Our current research topics include

-     2D materials
-     Nanofabrication
-     Energy harvesting
-     Neuromorphic devices
-     Quantum materials

Recent PhD dissertations:

•    Kirill Isakov (2021): Grass-Like Aluminum Oxide: Fabrication and Applications
•    Maria Kim (2021): Flexible Platform for Next-generation Electronics
•    Henrik Mäntynen (2022): Nanophotonics with Group III-V Compound Semiconductor Nanowires
•    Jose Rosa (2022): Red-emitting Phosphor Fabrication by Atomic Layer Deposition
•    Abde Shafi (2023): Photonic and Electronic Characterization of Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
•    Heli Seppänen (2024): Plasma-enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Aluminum Nitride: Characteristics and Applications
 

Latest publications

Miniaturized spectral sensing with a tunable optoelectronic interface

Xiaoqi Cui, Fedor Nigmatulin, Lei Wang, Igor Reduto, Andreas C. Liapis, Mingde Du, Md Gius Uddin, Shafi Abde Mayeen, Faisal Ahmed, Yi Zhang, Hoon Hahn Yoon, Harri Lipsanen, Seppo Honkanen, Timo Aalto, Zongyin Yang, Tawfique Hasan, Weiwei Cai, Zhipei Sun 2025 Science Advances

High-performance, self-powered photodetectors based on vertically stacked van der Waals heterostructures toward bifacial photovoltaics

Er Xiong Ding, Anastasios Karakassides, Yaoqiang Zhou, Ruihuan Fang, Fida Ali, Esko I. Kauppinen, Zhipei Sun, Harri Lipsanen 2025 Nano Energy

High-performance field-effect transistors with semiconducting-rich single-walled carbon nanotube bundle

Abu Taher Khan, Nan Wei, Otto Salmela, Kimmo Mustonen, Yongping Liao, Aqeel Hussain, Er Xiong Ding, Md Gius Uddin, Hua Jiang, Yutaka Ohno, Esko I. Kauppinen 2025 Carbon

High-responsivity InSe/TaSe2 photodetectors integrated on low-loss silicon nitride waveguides

Maaz Ahmed Qureshi, Fooqia Khalid, Md Gius Uddin, Abde Mayeen Shafi, Isaac Doughan, Janvit Tippinit, Faisal Ahmed, Xiaoqi Cui, Matthieu Roussey, Harri Lipsanen, Zhipei Sun, Markku Kuittinen 2025 Nanoscale Advances

Broadband miniaturized spectrometers with van der Waals junctions

Md Gius Uddin, Susobhan Das, Abde Mayeen Shafi, Lei Wang, Xiaoqi Cui, Fedor Nigmatulin, Faisal Ahmed, Andreas C. Liapis, Weiwei Cai, Zongyin Yang, Harri Lipsanen, Tawfique Hasan, Hoon Hahn Yoon, Zhipei Sun 2025 9th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference

Controllable growth transition from single-walled to double-walled carbon nanotubes using sulfur in an aerosol CVD reactor

Zhenyu Xu, Er Xiong Ding, Anastasios Karakassides, Peng Liu, Hua Jiang, Ghulam Yasin, Qiang Zhang, Esko I. Kauppinen 2025 Chemical Engineering Journal

Configurable anti-ambipolar photoresponses for optoelectronic multi-valued logic gates

Xiaoqi Cui, Sunmean Kim, Faisal Ahmed, Mingde Du, Andreas C. Liapis, Juan Arias Muñoz, Abde Mayeen Shafi, Md Gius Uddin, Fida Ali, Yi Zhang, Dong Ho Kang, Harri Lipsanen, Seokhyeong Kang, Hoon Hahn Yoon, Zhipei Sun 2024 Applied Physics Letters

Nonlinear optical response of strain-mediated gallium arsenide microwire in the near-infrared region

Xiangpeng Cui, Wenjun Huo, Linlu Qiu, Likang Zhao, Junjie Wang, Fei Lou, Shuaiyi Zhang, Vladislav Khayrudinov, Wing Yim Tam, Harri Lipsanen, He Yang, Xia Wang 2024 Nanophotonics

High-permittivity Solvents Increase MXene Stability and Stacking Order Enabling Ultraefficient Terahertz Shielding

Xiaodan Hong, Zhenyu Xu, Zhong Peng Lv, Zhen Lin, Mohsen Ahmadi, Linfan Cui, Ville Liljeström, Volodymyr Dudko, Jiali Sheng, Xiaoqi Cui, Alexey P. Tsapenko, Josef Breu, Zhipei Sun, Qiang Zhang, Esko Kauppinen, Bo Peng, Olli Ikkala 2024 Advanced Science

Understanding the growth mechanisms of γ-GeSe for polymorph-selective large-area deposition

Joong Eon Jung, Sol Lee, Hani Kang, Myeongjin Jang, Jinsub Park, Mustonen Petri, Harri Lipsanen, Zhipei Sun, Hoon Hahn Yoon, Kwanpyo Kim 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry C
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
Research portal

Contact:
Professor Harri Lipsanen
Email: harri.lipsanen at aalto.fi
Tel.: +358 50 4339 740

Postal address:
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 13500, 00076 Aalto, Finland

Visiting address:
Micronova, 4th floor, room 4186
Tietotie 3, 02150 Espoo

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