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Welcome to NanoteQ's page for presentations. On this page NanoteQ scientists can share some of their favorite presentations from conferences, colloquia, workshops... On this page PPT or video talks are presented with the references and papers used in those talks. You may also find slides and data sets that are associated with the presentation.
A topological oddity. This morphology referred to as a "SQUIRL" has some very bizarre properties. Notice the moiré fringes across the structure.
2D, Z2 Topological Insulators and Quantum Computing
References
Dec. 2025
Colloquium I, II, III, & IV (embargo-ed until summer 2026)
Abstract
We have developed a novel qubit architecture based on novel forms of quantum geometries constructed across 2D topological insulators. This series of talks provides: 1) a brief background from synthesis to state stabilization theory, 2) a view of qubit design and characterization 3) formation of gate logic and logic tables, and ending with our first registers. A number of references are key to understanding these talks and they care given to the left.
A New Perspective on Piezotronic and Thermoelectric Coupling: Flexible Platforms for Synergistic Energy Scavenging and Peltier-Caloric Effects
May 13-15. 2026
Colloquium (Orlando IMS Conference)
Abstract
Advances in the development of flexible piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials have provided an important avenue for the exploration of energy scavenging through the thermodynamic-coupling of orthogonal energy-scavenging modalities. Hybrid thermo/piezo-electric generator devices (T/PEGs) based on flexible, layered, thin-film architectures, have shown a kind of thermodynamic entanglement of the piezoelectric and Seebeck effects in which the efficacy of the effects depend on each other. The hallmark of this coupled thermodynamics lies in the non-additive power generation characteristic of the combined effects. Thus, under some conditions, the power generation efficiency from such a combination hybrid device can be made to exceed that of its two components independently. In this work, we show that a basic coupled heat engine model can provide important insight into the origins of synergistic power generation. But, these models also suggest the emergence of other combined thermodynamic properties such as a kinetically driven Peltier-Caloric Effect (PCE) traced to Onsager reciprocity. We report the observation of this effect in T/PEG systems as a confirmation of this perspective of thermodynamic inseparability.