Introduction video TOPSQUADThe introduction video to the TOPSQUAD project has been selected to be featured during the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Days 2020. Our video made it through the top 10 of the EIC Pathfinder FET projects video’s participating at the Spotlight video challenge organised by the Future Tech Week, an initiative of the European Innovation Council Pathfinder. Future Tech Week will take place within Hub 8 for the European Innovation Council and is listed in the programme as Voices from the Future: EIC Pathfinder projects, stories, people, visions. Our video will appear on September 23 in the session taking place between 11:30 and 13:30, which includes a roundtable on Global Systems Science and a presentation from the EIC Advisory Board’s Jerzy Langer.Read more
First TOPSQUAD tutorialIn this first tutorial, Georgios Katsaros from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria explains the concept of holes. Starting from the analogy between holes and air bubbles in sparkling water and continuing with the explanation of the energy dispersion relation, he comes to the existence of two types of holes: heavy holes and light holes. This brings him further to the concept of the so-called spin-orbit interaction, a key property used in the TOPSQUAD project. This will be the subject of a future tutorial.Read more
