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 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 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 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 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.

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 →