Funded by the National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation, the Consolidación Investigadora program aims to strengthen researchers’ career paths by creating permanent institutional positions, launching and consolidating research projects, and upgrading facilities, laboratories, and equipment.
In the latest funding round, IFIMAC member Carlos Antón Solanas secured support for his POEM project (Photon cOrrelation from interlayer Excitons in Moiré heterobilayers). POEM seeks to develop a new generation of quantum light sources based on atomically thin materials, exploring how engineered excitons in twisted WSe₂/MoSe₂ heterobilayers can emit correlated single photons with controllable polarization and propagation pathways. These advances open new possibilities for quantum communication, sensing, and photonic information processing. By bringing together quantum optics, two-dimensional materials, and moiré physics, the project aims to establish scalable solid-state platforms for future quantum technologies.
