Month: February 2015

The nanowire antenna for light: controlling the direction of light leaving a nanowire

Optoelectronic components are getting smaller and smaller. Lasers and light emitting devices (LEDs) are no exception to this shift and are getting to be at the nanometer scale. Working on this scale introduces various challenges, one of them is that the manipulation of the light emission from these devices becomes increasingly difficult. Researchers from AMOLF,…
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February 7, 2015 0

Jaime Gómez-Rivas moves Surface Photonics research from AMOLF to DIFFER

On July 1st 2015, the research group in Surface Photonics lead by Jaime Gómez Rivas, will officially become part of FOM Institute DIFFER. The group will continue its unique mix of applied and fundamental research to focus on integrated photonics and apply THz spectroscopy to study charge dynamics in materials for solar fuels. The Surface…
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February 3, 2015 0

ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop a new THz instrument

Jaime Gómez Rivas, group leader of the Surface Photonics group, has been awarded with a European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant of 150 k€ to develop a new instrument consisting of an optically pumped THz near-field microscope and a far-field spectrometer. This instrument will enable the researchers to measure the ultra-fast response of…
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February 3, 2015 0