Nanowire Photonics

Group leader: Dr. Jaime Gómez Rivas

The group Nanowire photonics is part of the Center for Nanophotonics at FOM Institute AMOLF and it is stationed in the Philips Research Laboratories at the High-Tech Campus in Eindhoven (The Netherlands).

We have started our research activities in April 2005. One of the goals of the group is to mediate the knowledge transfer between the Centre for Nanophotonics and Philips Research. The joint AMOLF/Philips group focuses on three topics:

1. III-V semiconductor nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
2. Complex metallic structuctures for enhanced, polarized and directional emission of light sources coupled to surface plasmon polaritons and particle plasmons.
3. Propagation and scattering of surface plasmon polaritons at THz frequencies.

Our research is intended to obtain a better fundamental understanding of the optical properties of nanowires and plasmonic structures and to demonstrate promising applications of these systems, such as biophotonic sensors and light sources and detectors.
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