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Photonics @ Dutch Design Week

We are proud that our work on photonics is presented at the Drivers of Change exhibition of the Dutch Design Week (DDW). The DDW is the biggest design event in Northern Europe. It attracts more than 350,000 visitors from home and abroad. The Drivers of Change exhibition of TU/e presents the latest developments in the…
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October 20, 2019 0

Our start-up TeraNova is founded

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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September 18, 2019 0

Keynote presentation at IRMMW 2019

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.


September 14, 2019 0

Francesco Verdelli joins the group

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.


September 14, 2019 0

PEP lasing article top cited in 2018

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.


February 15, 2019 0

Sara Senoris Puentes starts PhD

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.


February 5, 2019 0

Dr. Shunsuke Murai joins SP 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.


January 16, 2019 0

NanoLEDs: bringing nanophotonics into solid-state lighting granted

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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December 15, 2018 0

Mohammad Ramezani gives an invited talk at ICSCE9

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


September 12, 2018 0

Ultrafast spectroscopy and nanophotonics lab moved to TU/e

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.


August 26, 2018 0