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  1. FNP Prize 2025 – Recognition for Professor Wojciech Knap

We are proud to announce that Professor Wojciech Knap, DSc, PhD, lider of a research team at the CENTERA Laboratory operating within CEZAMAT, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), and researcher at the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IHPP PAS), has been awarded the 2025 Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) Prize in the field of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences.

The Foundation for Polish Science Prize, often referred to as the “Polish Nobel Prize”, is awarded for outstanding scientific achievements and discoveries that open new research horizons and make a lasting contribution to the advancement of civilization and culture.

Professor Knap was recognized for developing new methods of detecting, amplifying, and generating terahertz waves, which form the foundation for ultrafast wireless communication and breakthrough applications in medicine, industry, and telecommunications.

Research conducted by Professor Knap and his team enables overcoming technological limitations related to the use of terahertz radiation (THz). Thanks to their pioneering work, Poland has joined the world’s leading centers of THz technology research, securing an important place on the global map of innovation in solid-state physics and materials engineering.

The FNP Prizes are awarded by the Foundation Council through a competitive process. Laureates are selected from among candidates nominated by distinguished members of the scientific community. The final decision is made by the Council based on evaluations from independent international experts and reviewers.

We warmly congratulate Professor Wojciech Knap on this exceptional recognition and express our gratitude for his contribution to the development of Polish science and for strengthening CEZAMAT’s position as a research center of global significance.

Professor is carrying out a project at CEZAMAT (contract no. FENG.02.01-IP.05-T004/23) entitled “Center for Terahertz Research and Applications CENTERA2”, funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the European Funds for a Modern Economy Programme 2021–2027 (FENG). The project was awarded in a competition organized by the Foundation for Polish Science under Priority 2 “An environment conducive to innovation,” Measure 2.1 “International Research Agendas.”

Most important results

  1. “Hybridization of Terahertz Phonons and Magnons in Disparate and Spatially-Separated Material Specimens“. Białek M et al (from Poland and France) published 2024.11.22. in Adv Funct Mat {IF=18.5}
  1. “Extreme Terahertz Nonlinearity of AlGaN/GaN-Based Grating-Gate Plasmonic Crystals” Sai P et al (Poland, Germany, Ukraine, South Korea) published 2025.05.27/30 in Adv Optical Mater {IF=8.0}  .
  1. “Unveiling the Miniband Structure of Graphene Moire Superlattices via Gate-Dependent Terahertz Photocurrent Spectroscopy“. Delgado-Notario JA et al (Spain, Japan, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, China) published 2025.07.21. in ACS Nano {IF=16.0} .
  1. “Optical Bound States in the Continuum in Subwavelength Gratings Made of an Epitaxial van der Waals Material“. Pruszynska-Karbownik E et al (Poland only) published 2026.02.26. inACS Nano  {IF=16.1}

List of Publications

  1. Dub M, Sai P, Ivonyak Y, But DB, Kacperski J, Prystawko P, Kucharski R, Slowikowski M, Cywinski G, Knap W, Rumyantsev S: “Control of the unscreened modes in AlGaN/GaN terahertz plasmonic crystals“. J Appl Physics 2024; 137(19): 193013 [https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0190483] {IF=3.2} published 2024.05.15.
  1. Kruszewski P, Sai P, Krajewska A, Sakowski K, Ivonyak Y, Jakiela R, Plesiewicz J, Prystawko P: “Graphene Schottky barrier diode acting as a semi-transparent contact to n-GaN“.  AIP Adv 2024; 14(7):75312 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0210798]  {IF=1.4} published 2024.07.12 online.
  1. Jana D, Vaclavkova D, Mohelsky I, Kapuscinski P, Cho CW, Breslavetz I, Białek M, Ansermet J-Ph, Piot BA, Orlita M, Faugeras C, Potemski M: “Magnon gap excitations in van der Waals antiferromagnet MnPSe3“. Sci Rep 2024; 14(1):17502 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67356-4] {IF=3.8} published 2024.07.30.
  1. Dub M, Sai P, Prystawko P, Knap W, Rumiancev S: “Absorption Spectra of AlGaN/GaN Terahertz Plasmonic Crystals—Experimental Validation of Analytical Approach” Nanomaterials 2024; 14(18):1502 [http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano14181502] {IF=4.4} published 2024.09.16.
  1. Yavorskiy D, Ivonyak Y, But B, Karpierz K, Krajewska A, Haras M, Sai P, Dub M, Kazakov A, Cywiński G, Knap W, Łusakowski J: “Pressure tuning of HgCdTe epitaxial layers—the role of the highly disordered buffer layer“. J Phys D Appl Phys 2025; 58; 025304; [doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad80a2] {IF=3.1} aop 2024.10.16.
  1. Kapuscinski P, Slobodeniuk AO, Delhomme A, Faugeras C, Grzeszczyk M, Nogajewski K, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Potemski M: “Rydberg series of intralayer K-excitons in WSe2 multilayers“. Phys Rev B 2024; 110, 155439 . [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.155439] {IF’23=3.2} published 2024.10.30.
  1. Le Mardelé F, Mohelsky I, Jana D, Pawbake A, Dzian J, Lee W-L, Raju K, Sankar R, Faugeras C, Potemski M, Zhitomirsky ME, Orlita M: “Tuning THz magnons in a mixed van-der-Waals antiferromagnet“. Phys Rev B 2024; 110, 174414. [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.174414] {IF’23=3.2} published 2024.11.08.
  1. Białek M, Todorov Y, Stelmaszczyk K, Szwagierczak D, Synkiewicz-Musialska B, Kulawik J, Pałka N, Potemski M, Knap W: “Hybridization of Terahertz Phonons and Magnons in Disparate and Spatially-Separated Material Specimens“. Adv Funct Mat 2024, 2416037; [DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202416037] {IF=18.5} published 2024.11.22.
  1. Rodek A, Hajdel M, Oreszczuk K, Kafar A, Aktas M, Marona Ł, Potemski M, Skierbiszewski C, Kossacki P: “Hybrid Electroluminescence Device for On-Demand Single Photon Generation at Room Temperature” Adv Optical Mater 2025, 2401879; [https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202401879] {IF=8.0} Published 2025.02.18.;
  1. Rehman A; Petriakov V; Yahniuk I; Kazakov A; Rogalska I;  Grendysa J; Marchewka M; Haras M;  Wojtowicz T;  Cywiński G; Knap W;  and Rumyantsev S: “Temperature and electron concentration dependences of 1/f noise in Hg1−xCdxTe – evidence for a mobility fluctuations mechanism“. Nanoscale 2025, 17: 7281-8 Advance Article   [https://doi.org/1039/D4NR04494K]  {IF: 5.8} Published 2025.02.21.
  1. Yavorskiy D, Le Mardelé F; Mohelsky I; Orlita M; Adamus Z; Wojtowicz T; Wróbel J; Karpierz K; Łusakowski J: “Low-energy excitations in multiple modulation-doped CdTe/(CdMg)Te quantum wells“. Phys Rev B 2025, 111, 125414; [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.125414] {IF: 3.2} published 2025.03.20.
  1. Sai P, Korotyeyev VV, But DB, Dub M, Yavorskiy D, Lusakowski J, Slowikowski M, Kukhtaruk S, Liashchuk Y, Han JW, Böttger C, Pashkin A, Winnerl S, Knap W, Mittendorff M: “Extreme Terahertz Nonlinearity of AlGaN/GaN-Based Grating-Gate Plasmonic Crystals“. Adv Optical Mater. 2025, 2500716 [https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202500716] {IF=8}  published 2025.05.27/30.
  1. Sai P, Dub M, Ivonyak Y, Slowikowski M, Krajewska A, Korotyeyev V, Knap W: “Comparative study of graphene and metal-based grating-gate terahertz plasmonic structures“. J Appl Phys 2025; 137(21): 213103 [https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0273253] {IF 2.5} published 2025.06.02.
  1. Solarska W, Grymuza M, Kubisa M, Ryczko K, Pfeffer P, Korona KP, Karpierz K, Yavorskiy D, Adamus Z, Wojtowicz T, Łusakowski J: “Experiment and 𝑘𝑝 analysis of the luminescence from modulation-doped CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells in magnetic fields“. Phys Rev B 2025; 112: 045413 [https://doi.org/10.1103/57md-14wx] {IF=3.7} published 2025.07.11.
  1. Delgado-Notario JA, Power SR, Knap W, Pino M, Cheng JL, Vaquero D, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, Velázquez-Pérez JE, Meziani YM, Alonso-González P, Caridad JM: “Unveiling the Miniband Structure of Graphene Moire Superlattices via Gate-Dependent Terahertz Photocurrent Spectroscopy“. ACS Nano 2025, 19(N):27338−27350 [https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c05306]  {IF=16.0} published 2025.07.21. .
  1. Sitek J, Sitek W, Conran B, Wang XC, McAleese C, Kaleta A, Kret S, Pasternak I, Zdrojek M, Strupinski W: “Technological limitations of solid-source chemical vapor deposition of van der Waals heterostructures“. Sci Rep 2025; 15(1): 28517 [[https://doi.org/1038/s41598-025-13921-4] {IF=3.8} published 2025.08.05. .
  1. Yahniuk I, Kozlov DA, Moldavskaya MD, Golub LE, Bel’kov VV, Dmitriev IA, Krishtopenko SS, Teppe F, Ivonyak Y, Bercha A, Cywiński G, Knap W, Ganichev SD: “Positive terahertz photoconductivity in CdHgTe under hydrostatic pressure“. Phys Rev B 2025; 112, 075417 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/hfn6-v2y6] {IF=3.7} published 2025.08.13.
  1. Dub M, Sai P, Ivonyak Y, Prystawko P, Knap W, Rumyantsev S: “Effect of current on terahertz plasmons in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures“. Appl Phys Lett 2025; 127: 101704 [doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0285068] (IF=3.6} published 2025.09.11.
  1. Jana D, Acharya S, Orlita M, Faugeras C, Pashov D, van Schilfgaarde M, Potemski M, Koperski M: “Deconstruction of the Anisotropic Magnetic Interactions from Spin-Entangled Optical Excitations in van der Waals Antiferromagnets“. Adv Sci 2025, e05834; [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202505834] {IF=14.1} published 2025.11.07.
  1. Jana D, Vaclavkova D, Ulaganathan RK, Sankar R, Orlita M, Faugeras C, Koperski M, Zhitomirsky ME and Potemski M: “Strong and selective magnon-phonon coupling in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CoPS3“. Phys Rev B 2025; 112, 165427; [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/8f92-lt57 ] {IF 3.7} published 2025.10.24
  1. Yavorskiy D, Suffczyński J, Kowerdziej R, Strzeżysz O, Wróbel J, Knap W, Białek M: “Terahertz Magnon-Polariton Control Using a Tunable Liquid Crystal Cavity“. ACS Photonics 2025; 12: 6762 [https://doi/org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c01879] {IF=6.7} published 2025.12.05.
  1. Bulmer J, Kovacs C, Bullard T, Ebbing C, Haugan T, Pokharel G, Wilson SD, Balakirev FF, Valenzuela OA, Susner MA, Turner D, Fu PY, Kulka T, Majewski J, Lebedeva I, Milowska KZ, Lekawa-Raus A, Marganska M: “Competing conduction mechanisms in high performance carbon nanotube fibers“. Carbon 2026; 248: 121162 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2025.121162] {IF: 11.6} published 2025.12.17.
  1. Dub M, Sai P, Ivonyak Y, Krajewska A, Knap W, Rumyantsev S: “Enhancement of AlGaN/GaN Grating-Gate Terahertz Plasmonic Crystal Functionality Using Graphene“. Intl J High Speed Electr & Sys, 2026; 2641001 [https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129156426410016] {IF=??} published 2026.01.10.
  1. Mohelsky I, Le Mardelé F, Dzian J, Wyzula J, Sun XD, Cho CW, Piot BA, Shankar M, Sankar R, Ferguson A, Santos-Cottin D, Marsik P, Bernhard C, Akrap A, Potemski M, Orlita M: “Dynamics of surface electrons in a topological insulator: Cyclotron resonance at room temperature“. Phys Rev B 2026; 113(4): L041201 [https://doi.org/10.1103/v51q-61b4] {IF=3.7} published 2026.01.23.
  1. Oreszczuk K, Rodek A, Kuna M, Kazimierczuk T, Nogajewski K, Howarth J, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, Potemski M, Kossacki P: “Formation of excitonic complexes in monolayer MoSe2 probed by excitation correlation spectroscopy“. 2D Materials 2026; 13(1): 015029 [doi: 10.1088/2053-1583/ae3d48] {IF=4.3} published 2026.02.05.
  1. Olkowska-Pucko K, Wozniak T, Blundo E, Zawadzka N, Kipczak U, Faria PE Jr, Szpakowski J, Krasucki G, Cianci S, Vaclavkova D, Jana D, Kapuscinski P, Pawbake A, Badola S, Grzeszczyk M, Cecchetti D, Pettinari G, Antoniazzi I, Sofer Z, Plutnarová I, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Faugeras C, Potemski M, Babinski A, Polimeni A, Molas MR: “Extremely High Excitonic g Factors in 2D Crystals by Alloy-Induced Admixing of Band States“. Phys Rev Lett 2026; 136(7): 076901 [doi: 10.1103/lx4n-7bb7] (IF=2.2} published 2026.02.17.
  1. Otsuji T, Ryzhii VI, Boubanga-Tombet SA, Yadav D, Satou A, Suemitsu T, Tang C, Tamura K, Fukidome H, Suemitsu M, Knap W, Meziani YM, Narahara K, Ryzhii M, Shur MS: “Recent advances in the physics of Dirac plasmons in graphene and related 2D materials and their THz device applications“. Appl Phys Express 2026; 19(2): 020103 [doi: 10.35848/1882-0786/ae3e37] {IF=2.2} published 2026.02.23.
  1. Pruszynska-Karbownik E, Fas T, Branko K, Yavorskiy D, Stonio B, Bozek R, Karbownik P, Wrobel J, Czyszanowski T, Stefaniuk T, Pacuski W, Suffczynski J: “Optical Bound States in the Continuum in Subwavelength Gratings Made of an Epitaxial van der Waals Material“. ACS Nano 2026; 20(9): 7426 [doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5c12870] {IF=16.1} published 2026.02.26.
  1. Dub M, Sai P, Yavorskiy D, Ivonyak Y, Seweryn A, Godlewski M, Prystawko P, Kucharski R, Cywiński G, Knap W, Rumyantsev S: “Effect of temperature on 2D terahertz plasmons in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures“. Sci Rep 2026; 16(ii): 12163 [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-41524-0] [IF’2024=3.9] published 2026.03.05.
  1. Yahniuk I, Dmitriev IA, Shilov AL, Mönch E, Marocko M, Eroms J, Weiss D, Sadovyi P, Sadovyi B, Grzegory I, Knap W, Gumenjuk-Sichevska J, Wunderlich J, Bandurin DA, Ganichev SD: “Strongly nonlinear Bernstein modes in graphene reveal plasmon-enhanced near-field magnetoabsorption“. Phys Rev B 2026; 113(12):125418 [https://doi.org/10.1103/32bf-v28g] {IF=3.7} published 2026.03.12.
The project is co-financed by the European Union through the European Funds for Smart Economy 2021-2027 (FENG), Competition of the Foundation for Polish Science, Priority 2 Innovation-friendly environment, Measure 2.1 International Research Agendas. Project No. FENG.02.01-IP.05-T004/23

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