Category: Events

Francesco Verdelli obtains his PhD degree with the thesis “Plasmonic particle arrays for vibrational strong coupling and polaritonic chemistry”

In his PhD research, Francesco Verdelli investigated the strong interaction between molecular vibrations and surface lattice resonances. He introduced arrays of plasmonic particles as a novel platform for investigating strong coupling with molecular vibrations and manipulating chemical reactions under the strong coupling regime. Congratulations Francesco!

Program of the 2nd Dutch Symposium on THz Science and Technology announced

2nd Dutch THz Symposium

The symposium aims to bring together the Dutch research community in Terahertz science and technology and industry and interested users of terahertz technology. To register, please go to this link.

EuFlex/Technificient supports remote setups

We gladly announce that EuFlex/Technificient has supported our crowdfunding initiative to transform 9 experimental setups in remotely controlled setups, which will allow our students to continue their work in the lab from home, even in the case of a second lockdown or in quarantine. EuFlex/Technificient is a TU/e subsidiary acting as a matchmaker between the…
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Polaritons in Physical Chemistry

Our manuscript “Light–Matter Coupling Strength Controlled by the Orientation of Organic Crystals in Plasmonic Cavities” has been included in a new Virtual Issue on “Polaritons in Physical Chemistry”.  This issue features recent experimental and theory papers from The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters that describe the spectroscopy and…
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Crowdfunding for Remote Setups

During the lockdown months of March, April, and May all the labs got closed and the experimental research went into standby. All? not really. Niels van Hoof could continue his work from home with his fully remotely controlled setup. Niels is now writing the first and only scientific manuscript with experiments that were done during…
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Light–Matter Coupling Strength Controlled by the Orientation of Organic Crystals in Plasmonic Cavities

In our just accepted manuscript in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, we demonstrate the coupling of excitons in tetracene crystals to optical modes in open cavities formed by anisotropic arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles and investigate the coupling strength as a function of the alignment to the cavity field. This alignment is realized by rotating…
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Strong light–matter coupling and exciton-polariton condensation in lattices of plasmonic nanoparticles

Read our review on strong light-matter coupling and condensation of exciton-polaritons in arrays of nanoparticles published as an invited review in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

Lattice resonances in dielectric metasurfaces

Our numerical investigation of lattice resonances in periodic arrays of Si Mie scatterers has been published as an invited manuscript in the special issue Semiconductor Nanoresonators and Metasurfaces of the Journal of Applied Physics. Read more here.

Mohammad Ramezani defends his PhD thesis

We congratulate Mohammad for the achievement of his doctor degree. The PhD defense took place at the Eindhoven University of Technology on April 24th.