Alpuim Group

Alpuim Group

The Alpuim Group works with 2D materials and devices focusing on CVD growth, transfer, and device fabrication using clean-room technology, and Raman imaging for structural characterization. Particular attention is given to biosensing devices, where immuno-assays and DNA sensor chips based on graphene liquid-gate FETs were developed. The device’s specificity for particular biomarkers is achieved by functionalizing the graphene channel. Attomolar DNA detection is achieved with high sensitivity and dynamic range. In the framework of the project NeuralGRAB funded by “La Caixa” Foundation, we are working with the Porto Medical School and the Madrid Astrobiology Center to achieve brain activity recording of a panel of neurotransmitters (Dopamine, GABA, Glutamate) with physiological spatiotemporal resolution using multiplexed graphene transistor platforms and high-speed electronics developed in the group. CMOS heterogeneous integration is also under development and the first CMOS and graphene chiplets will be achieved under the Chips JU program, in a collaboration with the Fraunhofer-IZM, Berlin.

The Alpuim Group is active in flexible electronics, developing 2D materials-based inks, pastes, and slurries so that inkjet, screen-printing, or spray coating are available to deposit materials from the liquid phase to fabricate flexible devices at low cost. The research applications under development are electromagnetic shielding coatings, membranes for efficient liquid filtration, and energy harvesters based on transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). New projects based on the group’s recent results on crossbar vertical MoSe2 memristors are underway.

The group’s research activity includes fabricating single-photon emitters on demand from defects in h-BN in collaboration with the Nieder Group and photodetectors and current-controlled spintronic devices based on topological insulators in collaboration with the Sadewasser and F.L. Deepak groups.

Research Lines:

  • 2D materials-based chemical sensing
  • Advanced processing of 2D materials
  • Graphene-based materials for flexible electronics, energy, and environmental applications

Team

Alumni

Projects

NeuralGRAB

Graphene aptasensor bioelectronics: a neural interface for neurotransmission probing in neurological disorders

2DM4EH

Energy harvesters based on engineered 2D materials

ASCENTPlus

Access to European Infrastructure for Nanoelectronics

ASCENTPlus

Access to European Infrastructure for Nanoelectronics

GEMIS

Graphene-enhanced Electro-Magnetic interference Shielding

Graphresp

A point-of-care and at-home digital device for non-invasive multiplexed diagnosis of clinical and resistant respiratory infections

ON4SupremeSens

Graphene and novel thin films for super resolution microscopy and bio-sensing

2D_PHOT

Two Dimensional Materials for Photonic Devices

NanoTRAINforGrowthII

INL Fellowship programme in nanotechnologies for nanomedicine, energy, ICT, food and environment applications

MULTIMAL

A point-of-care device for non-invasive multiplexed diagnosis of malaria

GNESIS

Graphenest’s New Engineered System and its Implementation Solutions

FROnTHERA

Frontiers of technology for theranostics of cancer, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases

NBFS

Nanotechnology based functional solutions

Publications