Last week, during the celebration of the Gordon Research Conference on “Plasmonics and Nanophotonics” 2018 in Newry, Maine, Javier Aizpurua has been elected as Vicechair of the next GRC on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics in 2020, assisting the chair, Jennifer Dionne, … Continue reading →

A new publication of the group in Phys. Rev. X describes the dynamics of molecular vibrations in plasmonic cavities under “pulsed” laser illumination. The relatively short duration of the illuminating laser pulse (picosecond) induces novel nonlinear effects in the vibrations … Continue reading →

After more than three years, Yao Zhang moves on in his career and leaves our group.  Yao is going back to the University of Science and Technology of China, where he will work in Prof. Zhen-Chao Dong’s group in Hefei … Continue reading →

The highly-cited researchers list for 2017 has just been released on Nov. 16th. The leader of the “Theory of Nanophotonics group” at CFM and DIPC in San Sebastian, Javier Aizpurua, has been included as a member of it:   (https://clarivate.com/hcr/). … Continue reading →

A new PhD student, Antton Babaze, joins our group! Antton did his bachelor’s degree at the University of the Basque Country and the last September he finished the “Master’s in Physics and Mathematics (specialisation in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)” at the … Continue reading →

Alvaro Nodar, a new PhD student, joins our group! Alvaro has obtained his master’s degree at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he worked in the field of quantum optics, and where he has developed a lithography system for … Continue reading →

Work of our group about electron energy loss spectroscopy published in Nature Communications! We performed one of the first electron energy loss studies in the infrared spectral range merging experiment and theory and thus bringing important insights in physics of … Continue reading →

Exquisite control of the coherent interaction between a plasmonic mode and a single molecule with sub-nanometer spatial resolution has been demonstrated in the field of nanophotonics. The result has been published in Nature Communications.  Researchers from the Theory of Nanophotonics group … Continue reading →

When Optics goes Atomic The smallest lens in the world, capable to concentrate light down to dimensions of an atom, has been created. We have used gold nanoparticles as focusing lenses that allow to flex individual chemical bonds in molecules. … Continue reading →

Mikolaj Schmidt successfully defended his doctoral thesis: Classical and quantum approaches to the interaction of light and matter at the nanoscale Lately Mikolaj has been working in the field of quantum plasmonics, but his work covers also theory of classical … Continue reading →