报告题目：ALCHEMY OF THE XXI CENTURY: DIGITAL SYNTHESIS OF QUANTUM MATERIALS
报 告 人：Ivan Božović，Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Science (SHARPS)
内容摘要：Atomic-layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy (ALL-MBE) is a new technique developed in the last few decades to synthesize functional quantum materials, including high-temperature superconductors (HTS), other complex oxides, and two-dimensional materials such as graphene and borophene. It also enables one to synthesize novel metastable materials that cannot be synthesized by standard methods. Several examples are presented of ALL-MBE alchemy — the creation of artificial materials with novel and unique electronic properties. The ability to engineer the materials at a single-atomic monolayer level has also enabled important discoveries of novel physical phenomena and effects in HTS cuprates and beyond. This talk is aimed at a broad non-specialist audience, so the emphasis will be on painting the big picture and pointing at the goals we hope to reach eventually. One of these is to discover a new material that superconducts at room temperature and ambient pressure. Another is to build an HTS-based, desktop-size neuromorphic computer, approaching the human brain's neuroncount (10-100B) and power consumption (10W), as the ultimate platform for Artificial Intelligence of the future.
报告人简介：Ivan Božović received Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Belgrade University, Yugoslavia, where he was later a professor and the Department Head. Subsequently, he worked at Stanford University (1986-89), the Varian Research Center (1990-1999), Oxxel, Bremen, Germany (1999-2002), Brookhaven National Laboratory (2003-2024), Yale University (2014-2024), and Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Science (2024-).He is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Science, Professor Honoris Causa of the University of Montenegro, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He received the APS McGroddy Prize for Materials Physics, the Bernd Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials, the SPIE Technology Award, M. Jaric Prize, BNL Science and Technology Prize, etc. He was elected as Max Planck Lecturer, Van der Waals Lecturer, and (twice) Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Principal Investigator. Ivan's research interests include fundamental physics of condensed states of matter, unconventional superconductivity, innovative methods of thin film synthesis and characterization, and nano-scale physics. He published 11 research monographs and about 350 research papers, including over 30 in Science and Nature journals.
