INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS BASED ON QUANTICOS POINTS AND 2D MATERIALS OF LOW COST AND HIGH PERFORMANCE

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Barcelona Province (NUTS ES511); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 235,950; EU co-financing EUR 117,975 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): PHOTODETECTION OF INFRARED LIGHT IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE FOR A HUGE NUMBER OF MODALITIES INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING, FOOD QUALITY INSPECTION, PROCESS MONITORING, BIOMEDICAL SENSING AS WELL AS IMAGING APPLICATIONS (NIGHT VISION, IMAGING IN ADVERSE CONDITIONS, HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING ETC.). SUCH MODALITIES HAVE IMMEDIATE APPLICATIONS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY FOR AUTONOMOUS OR ASSISTED DRIVING SYSTEMS, FOOD SORTING AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, FARMING, SECURITY INSPECTION, JUST TO NAME A FEW. AT THE MOMENT SUCH MODALITIES ARE USED AT A VERY LIMITED EXTENT AND THE REASON IS THE LACK OF PHOTODETECTOR TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN PROVIDE FOR LOW COST, HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SMALL FOOTPRINT PHOTODETECTORS THAT CAN BE ACCOMMODATED IN PORTABLE AND CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS. EVEN FOR THE SHORT WAVE INFRARED (900 ¿ 1700 NM) THE PHOTODETECTORS ARE BASED ON EXOTIC III-V SEMICONDUCTORS THAT ARE NOT CMOS COMPATIBLE AND VERY EXPENSIVE TO GROW AND HYBRIDIZE WITH CMOS ELECTRONICS. WHEREAS PHOTODETECTORS FOR EVEN LONGER WAVELENGTHS IN THE MID AND LONG WAVE INFRARED ARE EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE AND REQUIRE COOLING FOR SENSITIVE OPERATION AND STABILITY. INFRADET¿S AIM IS TO DEVELOP A NEW GENERATION OF PHOTODETECTORS THAT ARE BASED ON LOW COST MATERIALS, THAT ARE FULLY COMPATIBLE AND INTEGRABLE WITH CMOS ELECTRONICS AND THAT DELIVER SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE IN SENSITIVITY EVEN AT ROOM OR NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE. TO ACHIEVE THIS GRAND CHALLENGE INFRADET WILL MAKE USE OF THE SYNERGY OF TWO CLASSES OF MATERIALS WITH UNIQUE PROPERTIES: 2D MATERIALS AND COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS. 2D MATERIALS HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR THEIR VERY HIGH MOBILITY, THEIR VERY LOW THERMAL MASS AND BECAUSE THEIR 2-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTER ALLOWS FOR EXTREMELY EFFICIENT MODULATION OF THEIR CONDUCTIVITY THROUGH ELECTRONIC OR PHOTO-GATING EFFECTS. COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AS THEY ARE VERY STRONG ABSORBERS OF LIGHT WITH THE POSSIBILITY TO TUNE THEIR ABSORPTION THROUGH CONTROL OF THE SIZE OF THE NANOCRYSTALS. MOST [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on infrared photodetectors using quantum dots and 2D materials, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 235,950. It ran from January 2018 to December 2020 in Barcelona Province, Spain, with applications in various industries. Suggested technology pillar: sensing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.