BME FIEK
Opening hours
M-Th: 8:00–16:00
F: 8:00–13:00
Associate Professor
Dr. Péter Makk
PhD
H-1111 Budapest, Muegyetem rkp. 3
+3614633056
Faculty
Department
Research keywords:
· spintronics
· graphene
· twistronics
· Nanoelectronics
· quantum dots
· hybrid structures, superconductivity
· molecular electronics
· 2d van der Waals materials
Publications
Levente Szabó, Gábor Erdei, Pál Maák: Optical analysis of Müller glia cells as light transporters through the retina, Biomedical Optics Express 13(12), 6335-6356 (2022).
B. Fülöp, A. Márffy, S. Zihlmann, M. Gmitra, E. Tóvári, B. Szentpéteri, M. Kedves, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Fabian, C. Schönenberger, P. Makk, Sz. Csonka, Boosting proximity spin orbit coupling in graphene/WSe2 heterostructures via hydrostatic pressure, npj 2D Materials and Applications 5, 82 (2021), PI was co-supervisor of this project. First demonstration of increased proximity effect by pressure, CA
L. Wang, P. Makk, S. Zihlmann, A. Baumgartner, D. Indolese, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger, Mobility Enhancement in Graphene by in situ Reduction of Random Strain Fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett., 124, 157701 (2020), the PI was a supervising postdoc, CA
L. Wang, S. Zihlmann, MH Liu, P. Makk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Baumgartner, C Schönenberger, New Generation of Moiré Superlattices in Doubly Aligned hBN/Graphene/hBN Heterostructures, Nano Letters, 19, 2371 (2019), First demonstration of double-superlattice, PI was project supervising postdoc
L. Wang, S. Zihlmann, A. Baumgartner, J. Overbeck, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Makk, C. Schönenberger, In Situ Strain Tuning in hBN-Encapsulated Graphene Electronic Devices, Nano Letters 19, 4097 ( 2019), the introduction of new straining method, PI co-guided the project, CA
JG Roch, G. Froehlicher, N. Leisgang, P. Makk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger, RJ Warburton, Spin-polarized electrons in monolayer MoS2, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 432 (2019), First demonstration of magnetism in MoS2
D. Indolese, R. Delagrange, P. Makk, JR Wallbank, K. Wanatabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schönenberger, Signatures of van Hove Singularities Probed by the Supercurrent in a Graphene-hBN Superlattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 137701 (2018), SC currents induced to the superlattice used to extract the DOS
S. Zihlmann, AW Cummings, JH Garcia, M. Kedves, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Schonenberger, P. Makk, Large spin relaxation anisotropy and valley-Zeeman spin-orbit coupling in WSe2/graphene/h -BN heterostructures, Phys. Rev. B, 97, 075434 (2018) First detection of spin relaxation anisotropy via low-T quantum transport measurements
C. Handschin, P. Makk, P. Rickhaus, M.-H. Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Richter, C. Schönenberger, Fabry-Pérot resonances in a graphene/hBN Moiré superlattice, Nano Letters 17, 328 (2017), First study used to confine electrons in cavity using superlattice. PI was the Postdoc guiding the work, CA
P. Rickhaus, P. Makk, M.-H. Liu, E. Tóvári, M. Weiss, R. Maurand, K. Richter, C. Schönenberger, Snake trajectories in ultraclean graphene pn junctions, Nature Communications 6, 6470, (2015), First paper demonstrating snake states in graphene. PI was the supervising postdoc and shared first author
Awards
2021 Bolyai Memorial plaque from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences2021 Gyulai Prize from the Hungarian Physical Society
2018 Marie Curie Fellowship
2017 Bolyai Fellowship from Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2012 Sciex postdoctoral fellowship
2010 2nd place at University Research Grant
Projects
Current listhttps://nanoelectronics.physics.bme.hu/Quantum_projects
Grants (as PI):
• FlagERA network 2DSOTECH, 2Dimensional van der Waals Spin-Orbit Torque Technology, 2022-2025, 140 kEUR
• Momentum Grant, most prestigious research grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 700 kEUR, Tuning synthetic correlated phases in van der Waals heterostructures, 2021-2026
• Marie Curie Grant (Topograph), 2018-2020, 146 kEUR
• Bolyai Fellowship, Ballistic graphene nanocircuits, 13 kEUR, 2017- 2020, evaluated “excellent”
• FlagERA network TopoGraph – consortium leader - Engineering topological superconductivity in graphene, EU Commission, NKFIH), 2017-2022, 560 kEUR
• OTKA FK123894, Ballistic electron transport in low dimensional nanostructures, NKFIH, 2017-2021, 115 kEUR, evaluated excellent
• OTKA PD121052 “Ballistic electron transport in hybrid nanostructures“ research fund from Hungarian Science Fund, 2016-2018, 27kEUR
• Bolyai scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015, 13kEuro, not started due to going abroad
• Paul Scherrer Institute, SLS beam-time grant, 2014
• Sciex postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss government, 2012, 80kCHF
Conferences
Talks, invited talks and posters in more than 20 conferences, including• Graphene Week, Spintech, Condensed Matter in Paris, International Winterschool on
Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, CMD2020GEFES, Frontiers in Quantum Engineered Devices,
International conference on molecular electronics, Moriond: Quantum Transport in Nanophysics, GM2016 international conference
Non-conference talks:
• Meeting of the Physical Society, MAFIHE/IAPS Summerschools on Nanophysics, Swiss Nanoscience Institute annual meeting, Annual meeting of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, BME Science Camp summer school, BME Science Campus
Membership and representation of the research group in several research networks
• 2021-2025 2DSOTech FlagERA network (BME), 2021-2025 SuperGate FET open network (BME), 2019-2023 AndQC FET open network (BME), 2018-2022 SuperTop QuantERA network (BME), 2018-2022 Topograph Flagera network (Coordinator), 2016-2019 iSpinText Flagera network (UniBas, BME), 2012-2017 Quantum Science and Technology Network, QSIT-NCCR (UniBas), 2013-2018 Graphene Flagship, Spintronics WP (UniBas), 2014-2016 Swiss two-dimensional material meetings (UniBas), 2012-2014 EU research network SE2ND (BME and UniBas), 2010-2012 EU research network FunMols (BME).