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PhD thesis: Yichen Zhang

Click here to download: Long-range surface polaritons in thin layers of absorbing materials (2011)


March 15, 2018 0

PhD thesis: Silke Diedenhofen

Click here to dowload: Propagation of Light in Ensembles of Semiconductor Nanowires (2010). FOM valorization chapter prize winner of 2011.


March 15, 2018 0

Accepted manuscript in ACS Photonics

In this manuscript we show that surface lattice resonances arising from different in-plane diffraction orders in the lattice can couple with molecular excitons, leading to plasmon-exciton-polaritons with distinct dispersion and thus different group velocities. This manuscript is part of the special issue on strong coupling that resulted from the workshop SCOM 2016.


February 22, 2018 0

Gabriel Lozano wins the Junior Researcher Physics prize of the Spanish Royal Society of Science

The prize was given for his “unique capacity to study fundamental physical phenomena at the highest level, giving rise to remarkable results and the ability of obtaining relevant applications from his research”. Gabriel was a postdoc in our group at AMOLF and Philips from 2011 until 2014. During this period he investigated the application of…
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October 11, 2017 0

Said Rodriguez starts group at AMOLF

Our former PhD student Said Rodriguez has been appointed as project leader at the NWO Institute AMOLF to start the group “Interacting Photons”. Said got his PhD (‘Cum Laude’) at TU Eindhoven, having worked at AMOLF and Philips. His PhD thesis was awarded with the FOM Prize for the best Physics PhD thesis in 2015…
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October 11, 2017 0

Fundamental research for photonic applications. (in Dutch)

Interview with Jaime Gomez Rivas at Brainport Eindhoven about his recently awarded NWO Vici-grant.   Source: http://www.brainport.nl/nieuws-ontwikkelingen/fundamenteel-onderzoek-voo…


April 19, 2017 0

Transferring light properties to materials (Video)

Jaime Gómez Rivas has been awarded with a NWO Vici-grant. In this video he explains what he is going to do with the 1.5 million euro grant: improving the charge transport in materials by transferring properties of light to those materials. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bT9PbzjqYg


April 18, 2017 0

Publication on near-field microscopy of coupled scatterers at THz frequencies

Accepted manuscript in Applied Physics Letters on THz microscopy of near-field coupled metallic resonators which exhibit electromagnetically induced transparency. In this work we map out electric near-fields in amplitude and phase, corresponding to the hybrid modes generated through near-field coupling between two resonant gold scatterers. The manuscript can be found at the following link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4978031


March 21, 2017 0

Photonics expert Jaime Gómez Rivas wins prestigious Vici grant

February 17th 2017 Jaime Gómez Rivas, group leader at DIFFER and professor at the Applied Physics faculty of Eindhoven University of Technology, has won one of the 34 prestigious Vici grants of NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The 1.5 million euro Vici grants is intended for premier scientists in their fields, to set…
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February 17, 2017 0