EU and national grants
Advanced GeSi components for next-generation silicon photonics applications (SIPHO-G)
Consortium:
EC ICT 5.0 Mio. € (nextnano: 305,000 €) - January 2021 to December 2024
Goal: To develop germanium-silicon Quantum-Confined-Stark-Effect electro-absorption modulators (EAM) and Avalanche Photodetectors (APD)
Innovative Training Network in
Quantum Semiconductor Technologies exploiting Antimony (QUANTIMONY)
Consortium:
EC MSCA-ITN-ETN 3.8 Mio. € (nextnano: 252,788 €) - December 2021 to November 2024
Goal: To provide high-level training to early stage researchers in the field of III-Sb semiconductor science and technology
Electronic generation and detection in nanoelectronic devices at the picosecond scale (UltraFastNano)
Consortium:
EC FET Open 3.3 Mio. € (nextnano: 290,000 €) - January 2020 to December 2024
Goal: To develop Electronic Flying Qubits
Far-infrared Lasers Assembled using Silicon Heterostructures (FLASH)
Consortium
EC FET Open 3.2 Mio. € (nextnano: 307,500 €) - November 2017 to July 2021
Goal: To develop a SiGe THz Quantum Cascade Laser
Success story: The FLASH project resulted in the foundation of a new company in 2021: nextnano Lab SAS
nextnano Lab is an R&D company based in the Grenoble area, France.
Its main activity is to develop modeling and simulation tools in the field of solid-state quantum physics, in particular for semiconductor quantum devices.
nextnano Lab develops simulation tools for quantum transport based on the nonequilibrium Green’s function framework,
such as the nextnano.NEGF sofware which is commercialized by nextnano GmbH.
The most prominent application are Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs).
nextnano Lab is a simplified joint-stock company jointly owned by Dr. Thomas Grange and nextnano holding GmbH.
Thomas was working in the FLASH project on the modeling of silicon-germanium based terahertz QCLs and is now Chairman and Research & Development Director of nextnano Lab.
nextnano GmbH acknowledges 12 days of business coaching services offered by the European Innovation Council pilot as part of the FLASH project to commercialize results.
Innovationsgutschein Bayern, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Technologie (Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Technology)
Project: “Berechnung von Halbleitermaterialparametern mit Ab Initio Methoden” (Calculation of semiconductor material parameters with ab initio methods)
4,800 €, 2021-5636-NE-02, 2021
Project: “Simulation von Quantenkaskadenlasern mit neuartiger Methode” (Simulation of Quantum Cascade Lasers with novel method)
6,000 €, 2016-4414-NE-12, 2017
EXIST-SEED program “University-based start-ups” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)