The first interdepartmental start-up company, TeraNova B.V., has been founded (www.teranova.nl). TeraNova B.V. is an initiative of the Applied Physics research group Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics (Prof. Jaime Gómez Rivas) and Electrical Engineering research group Integrated Circuits (Prof. Marion Matters-Kammerer). Besides Gómez Rivas and Matters-Kammerer, also Dr. Mohammad Ramezani (Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics) and Ing. Corné…
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Stan ter Huurne has given a keynote presentation at the IRMMW conference in Paris. Stan presented the work that he done together with Niels van Hoof on modes with infinite lifetime (bound states in the continuum) at THz frequencies. Niels also presented the work on THz near-field microscopy.
On September 1st, Francesco Verdelli joined the Surface Photonics group. Francesco will work on a PhD project on polaritonic chemistry in collaboration with the group of Andrea Baldi. We welcome Francesco to the the group.
Our manuscript Plasmon -Exciton-Polariton Lasing, describing the first demonstration of exciton polariton condensation in a plasmonic cavity, in on the top 15 most cited articles of Optica in 2018.
Sara Senoris Puentes has joined the group Surface Photonics to complete a PhD. Sara has obtained her bachelor degree at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and her master at the University Autonoma of Madrid. We welcome Sara to the group.
Dr, Shunsuke Murai, assistant professor at Kyoto University, will join the Surface Photonics group during 2019 for a research sabbatical. Dr. Murai’s scientific interest is on the relationship between optical properties and the structure of matter at a mesoscopic scale. We welcome Shunsuke to the group.
Our proposal NanoLEDs: bringing nanophotonics into solid-state lighting, submitted together with AMOLF and Lumileds, has been granted in the High-Tech Systems and Materials call of NWO. In this project, we will quantitatively study the implementation of nanostructured surfaces designed to interact optimally with the emission of LEDs to boost blue light emission and white light…
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Mohammad Ramezani, PhD student at Surface Photonics group, presented his works on Plasmon-Exciton-Polariton Lasing as an invited speaker in 9th International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems (ICSCE9) in Montreal, Canada (July 2018). The content of his talk comprised of photoluminescence properties of Plasmon-Exciton-Polariton lasing and its ultrafast dynamics using transient absorption spectroscopy
On August 23rd we moved the optical tables from DIFFER to our new lab at the TU/e. In the coming weeks we will have the ultrafast spectroscopy and nanophotonics lab up and running.
News and Views published in Nature Nanotechnology describing the recently published article “Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure” by Iranzo et al.