Welcome to the research page
The research of the Carroll Group can really be seen in continuity with Siegmar Roth's 4C11 group at MPI-FKF in Stuttgart, Germany. Interests and approaches overlap strongly and share in perspective. Though Dr. Roth has since retired, he, and his students remain active collaborators and friends - influencing the directions of the group at WFU.
image above - Siegmar's birthday conference (2015) and meeting of the 4C11 Society. Held at the MPI-FKF in Busnau outside of Stuttgart.
Today our work is carried out at the NanoteQ Center at Wake Forest University. The facility is incredibly well equipped to do everything from synthesis and characterization of novel new topological systems, to the full scale fabrication and integration of quantum circuits along with testing down to 300 mK and 12T.
Organic and Hybrid Composite Technologies:
Interactions between low dimensional materials and light - this is for applications in sensor technology, light emitting devices and solar devices. Our work has focused heavily on two platforms: the FIPEL (a field-induced polymer electroluminescent lamp) which we believe to allow for electrically driven organic lasers. and 3D megastructures for solar collection made from polymers.
Meta-structural control over Onsager Entanglement and the development of high performance, thermal/piezo/tribo scavenging technologies - with applications in wearable electronics and mobile power generation. The example of this work is PowerFelt - a fabric that generates power from the heat and motion of the body.
Layered 2D systems in Seebeck Ion Transport - applications in biomedical devices, desalination systems, and battery technologies. This work is aimed at the integration of ion transport devices into the human body to replace function or enhance therapeutic intervention.
you can learn more about the organics group here: www.syntheticmetals-wake.org
Quantum Information Sciences:
Development of topologically complex quantum geometries for use in information processing - with applications to quantum computing, quantum sensing, and time crystals. Our work is aimed at the creation of stable high temperature quantum bits (qubits) using unique 2D manifolds with a some degree of higher-dimensional symmetry breaking, allowing for the establishment of a set of edge states that are entangled and robust to thermal noise. We work together with a rather large collaborator group.
You can learn more at www.qcwg-wake.online
