Louis Gaudreau
Louis Gaudreau
Adjunct Professor



Department of Physics

Biography

At the SPIN (Spins and Photons in Nanostructures) Lab, we focus our research on the experimental study of quantum optoelectronic and quantum transport phenomena in reduced dimensionality systems to develop future quantum technologies. We perform experiments on novel 2D materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, WSe2, etc.) and Van der Waals heterostructures made with them as well as 2D quantum wells based on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. We further reduce the dimensionality by fabricating quantum devices which include 1D channels and 0D quantum dots.

Selected publications

  • Gaudreau, L., Studenikin, S., Sachrajda, A. S., Zawadzki, P., Kam, A., Lapointe, J., Korkusinski, M., & Hawrylak, P. (2006). Stability Diagram of a Few-Electron Triple Dot. Physical Review Letters, 97(3).
  • Konstantatos, G., Badioli, M., Gaudreau, L., Osmond, J., Bernechea, M., De Arquer, F. P. G., Gatti, F., & Koppens, F. H. L. (2012). Hybrid graphene–quantum dot phototransistors with ultrahigh gain. Nature Nanotechnology, 7(6), 363–368.
  • Gaudreau, L., Granger, G., Kam, A., Aers, G. C., Studenikin, S., Zawadzki, P., Pioro-Ladrière, M., Wasilewski, Z. R., & Sachrajda, A. S. (2012). Coherent control of three-spin states in a triple quantum dot. Nature Physics, 8(1), 54–58.
  • Busl, M., Granger, G., Gaudreau, L., Sánchez, R., Kam, A., Pioro-Ladrière, M., Studenikin, S., Zawadzki, P., Wasilewski, Z. R., Sachrajda, A. S., & Platero, G. (2013). Bipolar spin blockade and coherent state superpositions in a triple quantum dot. Nature Nanotechnology, 8(4), 261–265.
  • Brenneis, A., Gaudreau, L., Seifert, M., Karl, H., Brandt, M. S., Huebl, H., Garrido, J. A., Koppens, F. H. L., & Holleitner, A. W. (2015). Ultrafast electronic readout of diamond nitrogen–vacancy centres coupled to graphene. Nature Nanotechnology, 10(2), 135–139.
  • Reserbat-Plantey, A., Schädler, K. G., Gaudreau, L., Navickaite, G., Güttinger, J., Chang, D. E., Toninelli, C., Bachtold, A., & Koppens, F. H. L. (2016). Electromechanical control of nitrogen-vacancy defect emission using graphene NEMS. Nature Communications.

Research interests

  • Qubits
  • Quantum circuits and devices
  • Van der Waals hetrostructures
  • Optoelectronics
  • Low dimensional systems