Menno Poot studied Applied Physics at TU Delft in the Netherlands and obtained his PhD at the university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. Before joining TUM, he was a Rubicon Fellow at the department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University (U.S.A.). In May 2017 Professor Poot was awarded a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professorship at the Physics Department of TUM, where he is leading a research group which focuses on quantum technologies.
Selected Awards
2010, NWO “Rubicon” postdoctoral fellowship
2001, “P-in-1” scholarship from TU Delft
2001, CIVI award for the best first-year student in Applied Physics at TU Delft
2000, “Sterbeurs” scholarship for outstanding students awarded by TU Delft
Research Interests
The research interests of Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Menno Poot include studying the dynamics of nanomechanical resonators at extremely low temperatures, just a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero. At such temperatures, resonators are in their quantum ground state and their behavior can be probed using extremely sensitive optomechnical techniques. Another area of research concerns quantum optics. Here, photonic chips are made with functionality to generate, manipulate, and detect single photons. The flexible platform which Professor Poot developed uses opto-electromechanical devices to control the path which photons take, as well as superconducting single-photon detectors.
Selected Publications
Schuck, C.; Guo, X.; Fan, L.; Ma, X.; Poot, M.; Tang, H. X.: Quantum interference in heterogeneous superconducting-photonic circuits on a silicon chip. Nature Communications 7, 2016, 10352.
Poot, Menno; van der Zant, Herre S.J.: Mechanical systems in the quantum regime. Physics Reports 511 (5), 2012, 273-335.
Bagheri, Mahmood; Poot, Menno; Li, Mo; Pernice, Wolfram P. H.; Tang, Hong X.: Dynamic manipulation of nanomechanical resonators in the high-amplitude regime and non-volatile mechanical memory operation. Nature Nanotechnology 6 (11), 2011, 726-732.
Poot, M.; Etaki, S.; Mahboob, I.; Onomitsu, K.; Yamaguchi, H.; Blanter, Ya. M.; van der Zant, H. S. J.: Tunable Backaction of a DC SQUID on an Integrated Micromechanical Resonator. Physical Review Letters 105 (20), 2010.
Poot, M.; van der Zant, H. S. J.: Nanomechanical properties of few-layer graphene membranes. Applied Physics Letters 92 (6), 2008, 063111.
Hoch, David; Yao, Xiong; Poot, Menno: Geometric Tuning of Stress in Predisplaced Silicon Nitride Resonators. Nano Letters 22 (10), 2022, 4013-4019 more…BibTeX
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Terrasanta, Giulio; Sommer, Timo; Müller, Manuel; Althammer, Matthias; Gross, Rudolf; Poot, Menno: Aluminum nitride integration on silicon nitride photonic circuits: a hybrid approach towards on-chip nonlinear optics. Optics Express 30 (6), 2022, 8537 more…BibTeX
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Yao, Xiong; Hoch, David; Poot, Menno: Relaxation and dynamics of stressed predisplaced string resonators. Physical Review B 106 (17), 2022 more…BibTeX
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2021
Hoch, David; Haas, Kevin-Jeremy; Moller, Leopold; Sommer, Timo; Soubelet, Pedro; Finley, Jonathan J.; Poot, Menno: Efficient Optomechanical Mode-Shape Mapping of Micromechanical Devices. Micromachines 12 (8), 2021, 880 more…BibTeX
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Terrasanta, G; Müller, M; Sommer, T; Geprägs, S; Gross, R; Althammer, M; Poot, M: Growth of aluminum nitride on a silicon nitride substrate for hybrid photonic circuits. Materials for Quantum Technology 1 (2), 2021, 021002 more…BibTeX
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2019
Fong, King Yan; Jin, Dafei; Poot, Menno; Bruch, Alexander; Tang, Hong X.: Phonon Coupling between a Nanomechanical Resonator and a Quantum Fluid. Nano Letters 19 (6), 2019, 3716-3722 more…BibTeX
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2018
Davidovikj, Dejan; Poot, Menno; Cartamil-Bueno, Santiago J.; van der Zant, Herre S. J.; Steeneken, Peter G.: On-chip Heaters for Tension Tuning of Graphene Nanodrums. Nano Letters 18 (5), 2018, 2852-2858 more…BibTeX
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