On July 15, 2015 Javier Aizpurua has been officially appointed as the Director of Centro de Fisica de Materiales, CSIC-UPV/EHU (Center for Materials Physics)! Despite the plethora of new responsibilities, and a slight modification of his sitting arrangements, Javier will … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Dr. Ameen Poyli!
Ameen has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: Theory and simulation of the optical response of novel nanomaterials. From visible to terahertz Ameen has been with us for a few years, and he has been working on a number of … Continue reading
Research on modes hybridization in dielectric dimers published in ACS Photonics
Research prepared in the collaboration with groups of Boris Chichkov in Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. in Hannover, Germany, has been published in ACS Photonics. In this paper we report the optical response of dielectric sub-micrometer particle dimers with resonances in … Continue reading
Research on plasmon-enhanced luminescence published in Optics Express
Our research, prepared in collaboration with the group of Luisa Bausa in Departamento de Física de Materiales and Instituto Nicolás Cabrera of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid has been published in Optics Express. Abstract: We show the possibility of controlling … Continue reading
Lucie Štolcová and Mario Zapata visit our group!
Lucie is a PhD student at the Czech Technical University in Prague in the team of Jan Proska. She specializes in the preparation of SERS-active substrates and will be staying with us for 4 weeks. Mario Zapata Herrera, a PhD … Continue reading
“Light in the nanoscale” at the Pint of Science
Last Monday, as a part of the Pint of Science event, Javier Aizpurua and Luis Liz-Marzan – Scientific Director and a group leader in CIC biomaGUNE – delivered a lecture to the general public about peculiar properties of light in … Continue reading
Research on quantum plasmonics published in Nano Letters
Research paper entitled: Atomistic Near-Field Nanoplasmonics: Reaching Atomic-Scale Resolution in Nanooptics prepared in a collaboration between the groups of Daniel Sanchez-Portal (Material Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU, and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)), Andrey Borisov (Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay ISMO, CNRS-Université … Continue reading
Research on THz plasmonic nanoantennas published in Phys. Rev. B
Research paper prepared as a collaboration of our group with researchers of the Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, in the Netherlands has been published in Physical Review B. The paper, entitled “Active loaded plasmonic antennas at terahertz frequencies: Optical control of … Continue reading
Research from our group published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Research paper prepared in our group, in collaboration with researchers in Macquire University in Australia, and University Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, has been published in Physical Review Letters. The paper, entitled Isotropically polarized speckle patterns, discusses a surprising effect … Continue reading
Laura Sánchez García is visiting our group!
Laura is a PhD student at the Departamento de Física de Materiales of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, working in the Laser Spectroscopy Research Group led by Luisa Bausá. She is visiting us for a month, starting on January 12th.