Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Holleitner's (*1973) research area is topological and nanoscale quantum materials, nanofabrication as well as atomistic optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials and ultrafast on-chip THz electronics.

Prof. Holleitner studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and the University of Nottingham (UK). He received his PhD in 2002 on the topic of coherent states in quantum dots in the group of Prof. Jörg Kotthaus at LMU. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) in the group of Prof. David Awschalom at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). Subsequently, Alexander Holleitner was junior professor for nanoscience at the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) at LMU. Since 2007, he is professor at TUM in the field of nanoscale optoelectronics. In 2020, he joined the directorship of the Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) and now heads the chair as well as the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (ZNN) at TUM.

Awards

  • Top Teaching Trophy (T3), Munich School of Engineering (MSE) (2018)
  • Top Teaching Trophy (T3), Munich School of Engineering (MSE) (2017)
  • Consolidator Grant "Real-time nanoscale optoelectronics" (NanoREAL), European Research Council (ERC)

Troue M, Figueiredo J, Sigl L, Paspalides C, Katzer M, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, Selig M, Knorr A, Wurstbauer U, Holleitner AW: “Extended Spatial Coherence of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe2\WSe2 Heterobilayers”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2023; 131:036902.

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Mitterreiter E, Schuler B, Cochrane KA, Wurstbauer U, Weber-Bargioni A, Kastl C, Holleitner AW: “Atomistic Positioning of Defects in Helium Ion Treated Single-Layer MoS2”. Nano Lett. 2020;  20:4437.

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Klein J, Lorke M, Florian M, Sigger F, Sigl L, Rey S, Wierzbowski J, Cerne J, Müller K, Mitterreiter E, Zimmermann  P, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, Wurstbauer U, Kaniber M, Knap M, Schmidt R, Finley JJ, Holleitner AW: “Site-Selectively Generated Photon Emitters in Monolayer MoS2 via Local Helium Ion Irradiation”. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2755.

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Miller B, Steinhoff A, Pano B, Klein J,  Jahnke F, Holleitner A, Wurstbauer U: “Long-Lived Direct and Indirect Interlayer Excitons in van Der Waals Heterostructures”. Nano Lett. 2017; 17:5229.

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Kastl C, Karnetzky C, Karl H,  Holleitner AW: “Ultrafast Helicity Control of Surface Currents in Topological Insulators with Near-Unity Fidelity”. Nat Commun 2015; 6:1.

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