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 →

Nature Nanotechnology has published a News and Views report on the Nature paper Revealing the quantum regime in tunnelling plasmonics, Nature 491, 574–577 (2012). The report by Niek van Hulst: Plasmon quantum limit exposed. Read more about the paper here.

  Javier Aizpurua gave an interview to “Diario Vasco”, discussing the research conducted in our group. Read the interview (in spanish)  

Javier Aizpurua was interviewed in the radio program “A hombros de gigantes” (in Spanish) in National Spanish Radio Station, Radio 5, November 19th, 2012. You can listen to it here: interview in Radio 5  or on the Radio 5 website

Ruben Esteban and Javier Aizpurua from the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Materials Physics Center (CFM), in collaboration with researchers from the research group of Jeremy Baumberg from University of Cambridge and Andrei Borisov from Universite Paris-Sud, have observed … Continue reading →

Ameen Poyli and Mikolaj Schmidt participated in the Spanish Nanophotonics Conference which took place in the charming city of Carmona in the early October of 2012. Ameen presented his finding in a talk Multiscale Theoretical Modelling of Plasmonic Sensing of … Continue reading →