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FantastiCOF: Fabricating and Implementing Exotic Materials from Covalent Organic Frameworksbroad

FantastiCOF · Horizon Europe grant · 2022-11-01–2026-07-31

EC contribution

€2,383,360

Total cost

€2,383,360

Beneficiaries

7
About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 · scheme HORIZON-EIC · topic HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01. CORDIS record →

Objective

Superconducting devices based on Josephson Junctions (JJs) are among the most versatile devices in superconducting electronics. Yet challenges remain because conventional JJs are created using a variety of materials that have been identified as a source of noise, dissipation and dephasing, and also, that raise compatibility problems during the fabrication process. FantastiCOF aims at developing a disruptive methodology to prepare exotic highly crystalline superconducting moiré materials, which will exceed the current challenges and limitations of existing materials and methods. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the fabrication of low-noise JJ devices that will accelerate the development of the next generation of superconducting electronic devices with enhanced performance and sensitivity. FantastiCOF is an archetype of a perfectly balanced high risk/high gain project. It proposes visionary research to tackle the challenges in the synthesis of moiré materials and in the fabrication of low-noise JJs (ambitious and beyond the state-of-the-art), through the development of novel synthetic concepts (bottom-up) and the use of materials (2D covalent organic frameworks) with no precedents in the field, opening the door to a totally unexplored terrain (high risk), but providing tangible pathways towards achievements (solid risk assessment). The inherent high-risk is countered by a strongly interdisciplinary research team composed of 6 partners (5 academics + 1 SME) with different yet highly complementary backgrounds and demonstrated experience in their corresponding fields. Furthermore, FantastiCOF will have a high impact on a broad range of existing and emerging technologies that employ JJs (high gain), such as metrology, medicine, and quantum information technologies.

Beneficiaries (7)

OrganisationCountryRoleEC contributionSME
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA ES coordinator €798,750
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN BE participant €549,750
ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS CIC NANOGUNE ES participant €411,875
UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO PT participant €370,360
GRAPHENEA SEMICONDUCTOR SL ES participant €252,625 Yes
BASQUE CENTER FOR MACROMOLECULAR DESIGN AND ENGINEERING POLYMAT FUNDAZIOA ES thirdParty €0
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH CH associatedPartner

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