2012

Tomás Palacios , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, November 22, 2012, Graphene-based Electronics for RF Communications and Sensing

Alexander Balatsky, Nordita, 08 November 2012, Dirac materials

Dominique Vuillaume, Institute for Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, CNRS, University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, November 01, 2012, Pavlov's Dog associative learning demonstrated on synaptic-like organic transistors

Vladimir Manucharyan, Harvard, October 04, 2012, Superconducting proximity effect in InAs nanowires at the level of individual Cooper pairs and quasiparticles

Ken Teo , AIXTRON, Cambridge, UK, September 06, 2012, Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene: Equipment Perspectives and Challenges

Ute A. Kaiser , Central Facility of Electron Microscopy, Electron Microscopy of Materials Science, Ulm University, Germany, May 10, 2012, Low-Voltage TEM to explore physics and chemistry of low-dimensional carbon-based materials on the atomic scale

John M. Martinis , University of California, Santa Barbara, April 26, 2012, Design of a Superconducting Quantum Computer

Ondrej L. Krivanek , Nion, Kirkland, WA, USA (www.nion.com) and Dept. of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, March 29, 2012
 Atom-by-atom imaging and spectroscopy with the scanning transmission electron microscope
 

2011

Erika Andersson, December 15, 2011, Quantum limited measurements

Sergey O. Demokritov , Institute of Applied Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, November 24, 2011, Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons at room temperature

Andrej Zaikin, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, November 10, 2011, Shot noise and Coulomb effects on local and non-local electron transport in superconducting heterostructures

Hugues Pothier,  CEA Saclay, November 03, 2011,Quasiparticle poisoning of Andreev states in superconducting atomic contacts

Serge Haroche, Professeur Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, October 20, 2011, Titel: Quantum feedback control of non-classical microwave fields in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics experiments

Gianluigi Catelani, Yale University, October 13, 2011, Title: Quasiparticle effects in superconducting devices

Zhi-Xun Shen , Stanford University, April 14, 2011, Title: Physics of Topological Quantum Matter

Alberto F. Morpurgo University of Geneva, March 10, 2011,Titel: Normal and superconducting transport through a gated 3D topological insulator

Christian Schönenberger , University of Basel, February 17, 2011 , Title: Cooper-pair splitter: towards an efficient source of spin-entangled EPR pairs

David Haviland , Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, January 27, 2011, Title: Measuring Atomic Forces with Nonlinear Dynamics

2010

Paulo Santos , Paul Drude Institute Berlin November 25, 2010, Title: Electronic control of semiconductor structures using acoustic fields

Morten R Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame, USA , November 23, 2010, Title; Exotic Twisters – Pauli Paramagnetic Effects on the Superconducting Vortices in CeCoIn5

Fabien Portier, CEA Saclay ,October 28, 2010,Title: Finite Frequency Shot Noise and Photon Statistics.

Konrad Lehnert, Jila, Boulder, September 30, 2010,Title: Sensing the quantum motion of a nanomechanical oscillator.

Yuli Nazarov ,TU Delft, September 23, 2010, Title: Phase-slip oscillators and Cooper pair boxes.

Yoshinao Mizugaki and Hiroshi Shimada from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, September 03, 2010 

H. Takayanagi , Tokyo University of Science, August 19, 2010, Title: Transport Characteristics of a Superconductor-Based LED.

Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland, March 18, 2010, Title: Quantum electromechanical systems: engineering quantum coherence.

Lorenzo Maccone, MIT Boston, March 04, 2010, Title: Quantum Physics and the arrow of time.

Gervasi Herranz , Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, February 25, 2010, Title: Electronic properties of the quasi-2D electron gas at the polar LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface.

2009

Markus Oberthaler, University of Heidelberg, December 10, 2009, Title: Slicing ultracold gases - Josephson physics and entanglement

Dima Golubev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, November 19, 2009, Title: Non-local effects in superconductors.

Chang Tsuei, IBM Research (Yorktown Heights), October 29, 2009, Title: Pairing Symmetry in High-Temperature Superconductors: Cuprates and Iron Pnictides

Mark Dykman, University of Michigan, October 08, 2009, Title: Quantum activation and quantum measurements.

Gerd Schön, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, October 02, 2009, Title: Bidirectional Single-Electron Counting and the Fluctuation Theorem

John Clarke, UC Berkeley,  September 10, 2009, Title:  Flux 1/f Noise in Qubits and SQUIDs: Localized Metal-Induced Gap States at the Metal-Insulator Interface

Matthias Eschrig, University of Karlsruhe, May 14, 2009 ,Title: Exotic Superconductivity induced by Interfaces and Surfaces

Paul Richards, UC Berkeley, May 08, 2009, Titles: Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Development of Detectors for Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves

Johannes Majer, Atominstitut Vienna, May 07, 2009 , Title: Hybrid Quantum Systems: Integrating Atomic and Solid-State Qubits

Ulrich Dahmen, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA, April 27, 2009, Title: Studying Atomic Mechanisms of Interface Motion by In-situ Electron Microscopy

Jens Koch, Yale University, USA, February 26, 2009, Title: Quantum Coherence in Circuits with Josephson Junction Arrays

Jim Sauls, Northwestern University, USA, February 19, 2009, Title: Quantized Vortices

Mark Blamire, University of Cambridge, February 12, 2009, Title: Josephson junctions with unconventional barriers

Mikael Afzelius, University of Geneva, GAP-Optique, Department of Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland, January 15, 2009, Title: Solid-state Quantum Memory for Long-distance Quantum Communication

Yung Woo Park, Seoul National University, Korea, January 8, 2009, Title: Nano probes for the conductivity studies of single molecule, single polymer nanofiber, carbon nanotube and PEAPOD (moving quantum dots in carbon nanotube)

2008

Enrique Solano, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, November 20, 2008, Title: Quantum optics versus circuit QED: different answers to similar questions

Ann Marshall, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, November 13, 2008, Title: TEM Studies of Semiconductor Nanowire Growth Mechanisms and Morphologies

Øystein Fischer, Université de Genève, November 7, 2008, Title: Exploring High Temperature Superconducting Cuprates and Pnictides with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Joe Aumentado, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 23, 2008, Title: Microwave SQUID Amplifiers at NIST

Matthias Graf, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, August 28, 2008, Title: Torsional oscillators and the entropy dilemma of putative supersolid Helium-4

John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley, May 22,  2008, Title: l/f Flux Noise in Qubits and SQUIDs: The Saga Continues

Thierry Martin, Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, and Université de la Mediterranée, May 8, 2008, Title: The noise is the signal: measuring current fluctuations at high frequencies in nanophysics

Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research (Zurich), April 8,  2008, Title: Nanotechnology, the Key to a Sustainable World."

Cristián Urbina, CNRS, CEA-Saclay, April 3, 2008, Title:  Josephson Effect Through One Atom

Oleg Astafiev, NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories, Tsukuba, March 6,  2008, Title: Lasing on a single artificial-atom

Fred Wellstood, University of Maryland, Maryland, February 21,  2008, Title: Two level fluctuators in charge and phase qubits

Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH, Zurich, 31st of January 2008:
"Photons, Qubits and Computers - A Quantum Mechanics Lab on a Chip"

2007

Frederic Pierre, Phynano team, Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures (LPN) - CNRS, Marcoussis, France, December 13, 2007, Title: Impedance composition laws in mesoscopic circuits: Experimental test of the dynamical Coulomb blockade theory generalized to coherent conductors

Andrew J. Ferguson, Cavendish Laboratory , Cambridge, November 29, 2007, Title: Time-resolved measurements of quasiparticle tunnelling

Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, November 15, 2007, Klein tunneling and Andreev reflection in graphene

Andre Geim, University of Manchester, Cambridge, November 1, 2007, Title: Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland

Jukka Pekola, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, October 11, 2007, Title: Metal-superconductor tunnel junctions as kT and e pumps

John R. Kirtley, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 13th of September 13, 2007,Titel:  Fun and games with the SQUID microscope

Albert Fert, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, and CNRS/THALES, France, June 5, 2007, Title: Spin transport between spin-polarized sources and drains: advantage of carbon nanotubes on semiconductors

William Oliver, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, May 24, 2007, Title: Mach-Zender Interferometry and Microwave-Induced Cooling in qubits

Federico Capasso, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 11, 2007, Title: Coherent instabilities and giant optical nonlinearities in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Vincent Bouchiat, Institut Louis Néel, Grenoble, France, May 3,  2007, Title: Carbon Nanotube Superconducting Quantum Interference Device