Author: jgomez

Yu-Chen Wei wins one grant of the Taiwanese Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program

The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal of this program is to encourage qualified individuals to gain research experience overseas, develop their global perspective, and strengthen international collaborations for a…
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December 10, 2023 0

Surface Photonics wins all the poster prizes at the Integrated Photonics annual retreat

Congratulations to Mohamed Abdelkhalik for winning the prize of the 1st poster session with his poster “Metasurfaces to improve optoelectronic Devices “, and to Masoumeh Goudarzi and Maira Beatriz Pérez Sosa for sharing the prize of the 2nd poster session with the posters “Innovation in optical wireless communication” and “Nanophotonic metasurfaces for optical wireless communication”.


December 10, 2023 0

Lian wins the NNV AMO MSc thesis prize award

Lian de Jong has received the prize for the best MSc thesis from section Atom, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO) of the Dutch Physics Association (NNV). The prize was handed to Matthijs Berghuis in the yearly meeting of NNV AMO on Oct. 11th. The prize was sponsored by the utoptics foundation. You can read more…
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October 12, 2023 0

Room temperature condensation in a Bound State in the Continuum

We have demonstrate room temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of organic polaritons in a Bound State in the Continuum (BIC). The BIC is an optical mode with virtually no losses in an array of Si nanoparticles, which leads to a very low condensation threshold. You can read more here.


October 12, 2023 0

Lian de Jong graduates Cum-Laude

On May 15th we celebrated the Cum-Laude graduation of Lian de Jong. Lian has worked over the past year on her master’s thesis titled “Strong light-matter coupling in P3HT-C60 organic photovoltaic cells”. In this work, she has shown that it is possible to improve the internal quantum efficiency of organic materials in solar cells by…
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May 30, 2023 0

Stan defends his PhD thesis

We congratulate Stan for the successful defense of his thesis on May 26th.


May 26, 2023 0

PhD thesis: Gabriel Castellanos

Please, send an e-mail to j.gomez.rivas at tue.nl if you would like to receive a copy of this thesis.


May 26, 2023 0

SCOLED granted!

The EU H2020-pathfinder proposal SCOLED has been awarded. In this project, we will develop nanophotonic OLEDs together with researchers from Aalto University (Prof. Törma), Turku University (Dr. Daskalakis), The University of Exeter (Prof. Barnes), and The Autonoma University of Madrid (Dr. Feist).


November 21, 2022 0

Gabi obtains his PhD

We congratulate Gabi for the successful defense of his thesis “Controlling Light-Matter Interactions in Silicon Metasurfaces”, which was defended in Eindhoven on October 6th.


October 29, 2022 0

THz sheet conductance measured in WS2 micro-crystals

Using a unique optical pump-THz near-field microscopy, we have measured the sheet conductance in WS2 micro-crystals despite their small size compared to the wavelength of THz radiation. Read more here.


October 28, 2022 0