Research activities Surface Photonics

Our research topics are:

Nanowires
Semiconductor nanowires as one-dimensional structures and building blocks for nano-devices have received increasing attention in recent years. The progress in growth has led to the first succesful demonstration of devices based on nanoscale semiconductors. All these advances have generated an intense interest in the physical, chemical and material science communities in developing new nanoscale materials, novel nanoscale characterization tools and novel functionalities.
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Optical Plasmonics
In traditional light sources such as incandescent lamps, about 90 % of the energy used is wasted producing heat. Fluorescent lamps are about four times more energy efficient, but still, a significant fraction of the energy is wasted. Not much progress has been made in the energy efficiency of conventional light sources within the past decades.  read more >>

THz plamonics
Our activities in THz plasmonics are performed within in the European project ULTRA (Ultra-fast Electronics for Terahertz Rapid Analysis in Compact Lab-on-Chip Applications. read more >>

Long-range surface polaritons
Thin films of almost any material, surrounded by a dielectric with low index of refraction, can guide electromagnetic radiation if they are sufficiently thin compared to the wavelength. read more >>