Steffen Trautmann – PhD student from Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology is visiting us for one month from September 22nd till October 22nd. Steffen is conducting his research in the group of Prof. Volker Deckert in Jena, Germany. Welcome!

Tomas, after finishing his M.Sc. at Brno Institute of Technology, is joining our team as a PhD student. Tomas has spent some time with us a while ago, and will now continue his research on plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies.

New post-doctoral researcher from China – Yao Zhang – joined our group. Yao received his M.Sc. in Condensed Matter Physics degree from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science         or Chinese Academy of Science in 2011, and joined the PhD program … Continue reading →

Kai-Qiang Lin – a student from Prof. Bin Ren’s group in Xiamen University is visiting our group for one month. Kai-Quiang will be working on modelling the hot-spots in plasmonic gap antennas for the Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Visit Kai-Qiang’s … Continue reading →

A new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to reality. A new method of building materials using light, developed by researchers … Continue reading →

Mario Zapata Herrea, a PhD candidate from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, is visiting our group for a 6-months period. Mario will be working on quantum-mechanical description of very small plasmonic nanoparticles.

Research of the group, published recently in Nature, has been highlighted in international press: Physics Today: Optical spectroscopy goes subnanometer (download as pdf) Nature Photonics: Seeing chemicals (download as pdf) NBC News: Now, a way to peer inside individual molecules … Continue reading →

We are happy to announce that Garikoitz Aguirregabiria Achuteghi and Pavlo Livchak have succesfully defended their Master theses! Garikoitz has been working over the last few months on extending the quantum corrected model (QCM) to various geometries of plasmonic dimers … Continue reading →

An international team, with the participation of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Centre of Materials Physics (CSIC-University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), has resolved and identified, with a hitherto unprecedented resolution, a single organic molecule using light. … Continue reading →

Three Master students have joined our group recently to work on their projects! Pavlo Livchak from Lviv Polytechnic National University is learning how to simulate the optical properties of complex nanostructures using COMSOL software; Tomas Neuman from Brno Technical University … Continue reading →