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Plasmonic Nanostructures - News

December 2024:
► Awards for best “pictures from the nanoworld” at the Symposium Nano-BW for Melanie Sommer and Nicolas Albenge - Congratulations!
► The group participates in the Symposium Nano-BW of the Network of Competence Functional Nanostructures in Bad Herrenalb

November 2024:
► M. Fleischer featured in the Presentation of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Nano-Phot Graduate School at the University of Technology of Troyes (Photoniques 128, p. 08 (2024))
► Bjarne Gutbrod returns to the group - Welcome!
► Lukas Lang wins a WE-Heraeus poster award - Congratulations!
► Joining the WE-Heraeus-Seminar “Uniting Today's Nanotechnology for Advancing Tomorrow's Semiconductor Physics”
► Nominated for the Dr. K. H. Eberle Research Award 2024
► Patrick Fritz joins the group - Welcome!

October 2024:
► Annika Mildner successfully defends her PhD thesis - Congratulations!
► Alessa and Jasmin Rettenmeier and Jannik Allnach join the group - Welcome!
► Group seminar in the black forest

September 2024:
► Article “Ultrafast and highly collimated radially polarized photons at room temperature from a colloidal quantum dot coupled to a hybrid nanoantenna" by A. Nazarov et al. accepted by ACS Photonics
► Aglaja Burk joins the group - Welcome!
► Our alumnus Fabian Strauß succesfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Nicolas Albenge is awarded the MNE poster prize in the track Sustainability - Congratulations!
► Participating in the 50th International Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) Conference in Montpellier, France
► Participating in the Sino-German Workshop "Nanoimaging and Nanofabrication: Seeing at the Nanometer Scale" at Westlake University in Hangzhou, P.R. China
► Our alumnus Jonas Haas succesfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

August 2024:
► Article "Higher-order cavity modes for SERS in a gold nanosphere-on-mirror configuration" by F. Schneider et al. accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
► Halimeh Akhondzadeh-Tezerjani and Sanaz Poshtmahi start their Focus Modules - Welcome!

July 2024:
► Participating in the 14th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META) in Toyama, Japan

June 2024:
► Felix Nägele successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Participating in the Core Facility LISA+ Young Researchers Day

May 2024:
► Jil Krämer joins the group - Welcome!

April 2024:
► Bjarne Gutbrod, Kilian Hettrich, Hanna Schacher and Michaela Zbytovska join the group - Welcome!
► Visiting the P. Zijlstra group at TU Eindhoven for a Ph.D. defense

March 2024:
► Nicolas Albenge joins the group - Welcome!
► Participating in the Bosch Spring School on AI in Industry
► The paper "Hexagonal arrays of plasmonic gold nanopyramids on flexible substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering" is highlighted in an article about the NMI Center for Nanoanalysis in the Expert Insights eBook "Nanoelectronics and its new materials – A new era of nanoscience" by Carl Zeiss Microscopy and Wiley

February 2024:
Article "Nano-antennas with decoupled transparent leads for optoelectronic studies" by M. Sommer et al. accepted by Nanotechnology

January 2024:
► Happy New Year 2024!
► Sandra Gocker completes her Master thesis - Congratulations!

December 2023:
► News article "New insights into the properties of optical chirality in nanostructures" published in attempto online
► Article "Decoding polarization in a single achiral gold nanostructure from emitted far-field radiation" by A. Mildner et al. accepted by ACS nano
► Maximilian Grimmer is awarded the 2nd prize for the best talk at the Symposium Nano-BW 2023 - Congratulations!
► Participating in the Symposium Nano-BW 2023 of the Network of Competence Functional Nanostructures in Bad Herrenalb

November 2023:
► Presentation at the Network Electron Microscopy Tübingen (NET) Meeting on November 15
► Lab tour for the Study Information Day Tübingen on November 22
► Article "Enhancing Fano resonances through coupling of dark modes in a dual-ring nanostructure" by M. Grimmer et al. accepted by Optics Express

October 2023:
► Part of the Paris-Saclay Plasmonics School (PS)2 2023
► Jannik Allnach joins the group for a Focus Module

September 2023:
Attending the 49th International Micro and Nano Engineering Conference MNE in Berlin
► Wei Tao successfully defends his PhD in Cotutelle with UTT Troyes - Congratulations!
Best MNO Young Researcher Talk Award for Maximilian Grimmer - Congratulations!
Participating in the Int. Workshop on Metallic Nano-Objects MNO in Troyes, France
Group retreat in the Black Forest

July 2023:
► Invited presentation at the META conference 2023 in Paris
► Article "Three-dimensional (3D) surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates: Fabrication and SERS applications" by A. Mukherjee et al. accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C

June 2023:
► Group punting tour on the Neckar
► Article "Strong light-matter coupling in pentacene thin films on plasmonic arrays" by C. Theurer et al. accepted by Nanoscale

April 2023:
► Article "Fano resonances in plasmonic ring-disc-pair systems" by W. Tao et al. accepted by Advanced Photonics Research
► Taking part in the Core Facility LISA+ PhD Day
► Maximilian Grimmer is awarded an LGF Grant and continues in the group - Congratulations!

March 2023:
► Benedikt Hettesheimer joins the group - Welcome!
► Felix Blendinger successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Invited talk at the 7th Thermal Probe Workshop in Zurich
► Andreas Weber completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

February 2023:
► Visiting collaboration partners at TU Eindhoven
► Article "Shape-altering flexible plasmonics of in-situ deformable nanorings" by W. Tao et al. accepted by Nano Convergence

January 2023:
► Article "Micro-ellipsometry of square lattices of plasmonic nanodiscs on dielectric substrates and in metal-insulator-metal configurations" by E. Bortchagovsky, C. Simo et al. accepted by Micro and Nano Engineering
► Sandra Glocker starts her Master thesis - welcome back!
► Happy New Year 2023!

December 2022:
► The book "Optical Nanospectroscopy - Applications", Editors: A. J. Meixner, M. Fleischer, D. P. Kern, E. Sheremet and N. McMillan, is published by de Gruyter
► Maximilian Grimmer completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Sandra Glocker completes her Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Participating in the Nano-BW Symposium in Bad Herrenalb with an invited talk and 3 posters

November 2022:
► Pablo Campillo-Jimenez starts an internship - welcome!

October 2022:
► Article "Spectral exploration of asymmetric bowtie nanoantennas" by H. Hu et al. accepted by Micro and Nano Engineering
► Patrick Kelp completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

September 2022:
Group-dig to support the local dry-wall culture
► Christian Simo wins a MNE Micro-Nano-Graph Contest Award - Congratulations!
► Participating in the 48th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering MNE2022 in Leuven, Belgium

August 2022:
► Article "Gradient SERS substrates with multiple resonances for analyte screening: Fabrication and SERS applications" by A. Mukherjee et al. accepted by Molecules
► Lars Konermann completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Oceane Guillot completes her Master project - Congratulations!

July 2022
► Florian Laible is awarded the Dr. Friedrich Förster Award 2022 - Congratulations!
► Nicolas Bader completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Melanie Sommer returns - welcome!

June 2022:
► Invited Talk and Poster at the 95th IUVSTA Workshop on Plasmonic Thin Films in Guimarães, Portugal
► Participating in the CIVIS International School on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies in Carry-le-Rouet, France

May 2022:
► Melanie Sommer completes her Master thesis - Congratulations!

April 2022:
► Maximilian Grimmer, Sandra Glocker and Patrick Kelp join the group - welcome!
► Lukas Lang and Nadim Shaqqura return to the group - welcome!

March 2022:
► Lukas Lang in collaboration with the group of P. Zijlstra at TU Eindhoven completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

February 2022:
► Lars Konermann joins the group - welcome!
► Océane Guillot joins the group as part of her Master in Nanophotonics at University of Troyes - welcome!

January 2022:
► Christian Simo re-joins the group for his PhD - welcome!
► Happy New Year 2022!

December 2021:
► Nicolas Bader joins the group, and Fabian Voigt returns - welcome!
► Pascal Bieschke returns to the group as HiWi - welcome!

November 2021:
Press release "Keeping data secure on the internet: quantum encryption advances at Hebrew U" appeared on joint ACS nano article with HUJI
► Thomas Goschurny joins the group in a collaboration with AG Meyer, NMI Reutlingen, and NanoScale Systems GmbH
► Article "Hexagonal arrays of plasmonic gold nanopyramids on flexible substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering" by C. Simo et al. accepted by Nanotechnology

October 2021:
Cover for Advanced Optical Materials Article appeared
► Article "Overcoming the Rate-Directionality Tradeoff: A Room-Temperature Ultrabright Quantum Light Source" by H. Abudayyeh et al. accepted by ACS Nano
► Highlight-talk at the Symposium Nano-BW 2021 of the Network of Competence Functional Nanostructures

September 2021:
► Adrian Greichgauer and Lydia Fichte complete their Master and Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Participation in the Micro and Nano Engineering Conference MNE in Turin with talks and poster

August 2021:
Visit by our collaboration partners from NAS of Ukraine
► Fabian Voigt completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Lukas Lang rejoins the group - Welcome!
► Project by F. Laible chosen in the program MINT Innovations by the Vector Foundation - Congratulations!

 

July 2021:
► Invited Talk at the 11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics META 2021
► Participating in the Summer School on Surface Plasmons PSM-SP 2021 in Paris-Saclay
► The work L. Seitl et al. (Nanotechnology 31, 075301 (2020)) was highlighted in the Review Article "A review of defect engineering, ion implantation, and nanofabrication using the helium ion microscope" by F. I. Allen (Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 12, 633-664 (2021))

June 2021:
► Review article "Mechanically tunable nanogap antennas: Single structure effects and multi-structure applications" by F. Laible, A. Horneber und M. Fleischer accepted by Advanced Optical Materials
► Invited talk at the 64th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication EIPBN 2021
► Andreas Weber re-joins the group - Welcome!

May 2021:
► Participation in the 6th European Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas BioMAT 2021

April 2021:
► Lydia Fichte and Fabian Höhnert join the group - Welcome!
► Lukas Lang joins the group - Welcome!

March 2021:
► Maher Mansour accomplishes his Practical Work Experience
► Christian Simo completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Article "Microellipsometry study of plasmonic properties of metal-insulator-metal structures with ordered lattices of nanoparticles" by E. Bortchagovsky et al. accepted by J. Appl. Phys.
► Article "Sensitive interferometric plasmon ruler based on a single nano-dimer" by O. Hauler et al. accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C
► Participating in the DPG Spring Meeting

February 2021:
► Felix Nägele wins a PhD grant for the promotion of graduates (LGF) - Congratulations!
► Sevcan Atilgan completes her Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Melanie Sommer continues her work in the group - Welcome!
► C. Simo gives a talk in the Organ-on-Chip Seminar of the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute NMI
► Maher Mansour and Darius Hoven join the group - Welcome!

January 2021:
► Happy New Year 2021!

December 2020:
► Article "Atomic layer deposition of bioactive TiO2 thin films on PEEK for orthopedic implants" by F. Blendinger et al. accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
► Melanie Sommer completes her Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Fabian Strauß completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► The paper L. Seitl et al. (Nanotechnology 31, 075301 (2020)) was highlighted in the Review Article "Helium-ion-beam nanofabrication: extreme processes and applications" by S. He et al. (Int. J. Extrem. Manuf. 3, 012001 (2021))

November 2020:
► Omar Tanirah successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Fabian Voigt joins the group - Welcome!

October 2020:
► Article "Enhancement of the second harmonic signal of nonlinear crystals by a single metal nanoantenna" by E. Gürdal et al. accepted by Nanoscale
► Wei Tao joins the group after starting his Cotutelle at UTT Troyes

September 2020:
► Editorial for the Thematic Issue "Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas" by M. Fleischer, D. Zhang and A. J. Meixner accepted by the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, for the full Thematic Issue see https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/series/67
► Invited presentation at the European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) with accepted Proceedings article
► Article "Selectively accessing the hotspots of optical nanoantennas by self-aligned dry laser ablation" by C. Schäfer et al. accepted by Nanoscale

August 2020:
► Samuel Struzek successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Anke Horneber joins us as Postdoc - Welcome!
► Benjamin Trzeciak continues as student assistant

July 2020:
Dominik Riedt starts his Focus Module - Welcome!
► Benjamin Trzeciak successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Felix Nägele joins the group - Welcome!

June 2020:
► Article "Structure-transport correlation reveals anisotropic charge transport in coupled PbS nanocrystal superlattices" by A. Maier et al. accepted by Advanced Materials

May 2020:
► Invited online-talk at the Plasmonica Workshop "Sensing" of the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics
► Article "Enhanced two-photon photoluminescence assisted by multi-resonant characteristics of a gold nanocylinder" by A. Movsesyan et al. accepted by Nanophotonics
► Adrian Greichgauer joins the group - Welcome!

April 2020:
► Emre Gürdal successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Pascal Bieschke successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!
► Article "Passivated electrode side walls by atomic layer deposition on flexible polyimide based samples" by M. Westerhausen et al. accepted by Microelectronic Engineering
► Fabian Strauß, Christian Simo and Melanie Sommer join the group - Welcome!

March 2020:
► Stay home & stay healthy!
► Article "Enhancement of the second harmonic signal of nonlinear crystals by self-assembled gold nanoparticles" by E. Gürdal et al. accepted by The Journal of Chemical Physics
► Miro Pfeilsticker re-joins the group as student assistant
► Andreas Weber successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

February 2020:
► Christoph Dreser successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Article "A flexible platform for controlled optical and electrical effects in tailored plasmonic break junctions" by F. Laible, K. Braun et al. accepted by Nanophotonics
► Michael Meixner successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► The final bilateral Workshop in the BWS plus project "Light-Matter-Interaction in the Context of Core Facilities" takes place at the University of Technology Troyes on February 10-12 with 17 participants from Tübingen
► Florian Laible successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

January 2020:

Happy New Year 2020!

December 2019:
► Article "Accessing the hotspots of cavity plasmonic modes in vertical metal-insulator-metal structures for surface enhanced Raman scattering" by F. Dai et al. accepted by Advanced Optical Materials
► Visit from Prof. Anne-Laure Baudrion and Prof. Pierre-Michel Adam from University of Technology Troyes, France
► Article "Nanoscale plasmonic phase sensor" by F. Wackenhut et al. accepted by Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
► Article "Direct phase mapping of the light scattered by single plasmonic nanoparticles" by O. Hauler et al. accepted by Nanoscale
► Luzie Günther and Viktor Schiff join the group as as student assistants - Welcome!

November 2019:
► Article "Strong second-harmonic generation from Au-Al heterodimers" by J. Wang et al. accepted by Nanoscale
► Aylin Kayacik re-joins the group as a student assistant - Welcome!

October 2019:
► Paul Strauss starts his joint Bachelor thesis with Prof. Broch's group - Welcome!
► Dana Ramadan starts her practical work experience - Welcome!
► Article "Miniaturized fractal optical nanoantennas defined by focused helium ion beam milling" by L. Seitl, F. Laible et al. accepted by Nanotechnology
► Pascal Bieschke starts his Master thesis - Welcome!
► Hao Hu joins the group for his jointly supervised PhD from University of Troyes - Welcome!
► PhD student networking day organized by the Core Facility LISA+
► Participation in 3-day Training School in the frame of the BWS plus project "Light-Matter Interaction in the context of Core Facilities" at the University of Technology Troyes

September 2019:
► EMBC conference paper "Characterization of biostable atomic layer deposited (ALD) multilayer passivation coatings for active implants" by M. Westerhausen et al. published
► Talks at the MNE conference in Rhodes, Greece
► Presentations at the NANOP conference in Munich
► Prof. Gagik Shmavonyan from National Polytechnic University of Armenia joins the group as visiting DAAD professor - Welcome!
► Sevcan Atilgan starts her Master thesis - Welcome!

August 2019:
► Eric N'dohi successfully completes his Master thesis in collaboration with UTT Troyes

July 2019:
► Invited talks at the META conference in Lisbon, Portugal
► Fang Dai successfully defends her PhD in Cotutelle at UTT Troyes and returns as a Postdoc

June 2019:
► Inaugural Lecture "When light meets metal nanostructures" by Monika Fleischer on June 26
► Annika Bräuer gives a talk at the Network Electronmicroscopy Tübingen meeting on June 26
► Article "Relative spectral tuning of the vertical vs. base modes in plasmonic nanocones" by J. Fulmes et al. accepted by Nanotechnology
► Jia Tang starts her PhD - Welcome!
► Andreas Weber starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

May 2019:
► New project "Advanced model systems simulating cell/bacteria interactions at the interface between implant and soft tissue" granted
► Christoph Dreser gives a talk at the EIPBN conference in Minneapolis
► Research visit from Dr. Artur Movsesyan, University of Technology Troyes

April 2019:
► Samuel Struzek starts his Master thesis - Welcome!
► Simon Dickreuter successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!
► Miró Pfeilsticker successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Pranoti Kshirsagar (external PhD at the NMI) successfully defends her PhD - Congratulations!

► ... start of the Full Professorship "Nanostructuring for Nano-Optics"

March 2019:
End of the Juniorprofessorship...
► Michael Meixner starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!
► Sebastian Röhler (NMI / AG Kern) successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

February 2019:
► Article "Shaping and polarizing fluorescence emission of a polycrystalline organic semiconductor film by plasmonic nanogratings" by D. Gollmer et al. accepted by JOSA B
► Article "Plasmonic mode conversion in individual tilted 3D nanostructures" by C. Dreser et al. accepted by Nanoscale
► Eric N'Dohi from UTT Troyes starts his Master thesis - Welcome!
► Benjamin Trzeciak starts his Master thesis - Welcome!
► On February 6-8, the bilateral Workshop "Nano-Optics, Nano-Spectroscopy & Nano-Fabrication" within the project "Light-Nanomatter-Interaction in the Context of Core Facilites", part of the Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium for university students - BWS plus, a programme of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, will take place in Tübingen with guests from the University of Technology Troyes, France - see Flyer and Article in attempto online
► Article "Time-effective strategies for the fabrication of poly- and single-crystalline gold nanostructures by focused helium ion beam milling" by F. Laible et al. accepted by Nanotechnology

January 2019:
Article "Saliva-coated titanium biosensor detects specific bacterial adhesion and bactericide caused mass loading upon cell death" by Z. Xu et al. with the involvement of LISA+ accepted by Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Happy New Year 2019!

December 2018:
► Viktor Schiff successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Visit and seminar talk by Dr. René Kullock from University of Würzburg
► Julia Fulmes successfully defends her PhD - Congratulations!

November 2018:
► The topical issue "Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas" of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Eds. A. J. Meixner, D. Zhang and M. Fleischer, is available open access here
► 100 years voting right for women - infos and events in Tübingen
► Article on the October LISA+ Training School appears in attempto online
► On 12 November another Symposium of the Network Electron Microscopy Tübingen NET takes place at the NMI Reutlingen

October 2018:
► Training School by the Core Facility LISA+ for participants from the University of Technology Troyes in the frame of the BWS plus project Light-Nanomaterials-Interaction in the Context of Core Facilities
► Visits from University of Technology Troyes in the DAAD personal project exchange
► Fabian Schmid successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Luiselotte Rausch and Miró Pfeilsticker start their Bachelor theses - Welcome!
► Lisa Seitl successfully completes her Master thesis - Congratulations!

September 2018:
► Nadim Shaqqura successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!
► Talk and Session Chair at the conference MNE in Copenhagen, Denmark
► Visit at UTT Troyes as part of DAAD project support and BWS plus project on Core Facility exchange

August 2018:

Talk, session chairing and five posters at the conference NFO in Troyes, France

► Article "Graphene-based transparent microelectrodes for electro- and opto-physiology applications" by P. Kshirsagar et al. accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies

► Viktor Schiff starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

► Jasmin Moser successfully completes her Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

► Invited review article "Active optical antennas driven by inelastic electron tunneling" by K. Braun et al. accepted by Nanophotonics

July 2018:

► Fabian Strauß successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

Andreas Horrer successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

► Jonas Haas is awarded the Dr. Friedrich-Förster-Prize 2018 - Congratulations!

► Article "Continuous reversible tuning of the gap size and plasmonic coupling of bow tie nanoantennas on flexible substrates" by F. Laible et al. accepted by Nanoscale

June 2018:

Article "Self-assembled quasi-hexagonal arrays of gold nanoparticles with small gaps for surface-enhanced Raman spectrosocpy" by E. Gürdal et al. accepted by Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology (Thematic Issue Optically and Electrically Driven Nanoantennas)

► Christian Simo starts his Focus Module - Welcome!

► Fabian Schmid starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

May 2018:

► Article "Nonlinear plasmonic behavior of nanohole arrays in thin gold films for imaging lipids" by N. Subramaniyam et al. accepted by Applied Physics Letters

► Article "Plasmonic trapping potentials for cold atoms" by M. Mildner et al. accepted by Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

► Invited talk at the Ringberg Symposium 2018 "Detection and Actuation at the Nano- and Microscales in Fluids" of the Max-Planck-Society

► Visit by P.M. Adam and A.L. Baudrion from the UTT Troyes, France, in the frame of the PPP Programme by German Academic Exchange Service DAAD

► Visit by a Delegation from University of Leeds to LISA+

► Benjamin Trzeciak successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

► Elena Bez successfully completes her Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

 

April 2018:

► Article "Single particle dark-field spectroscopy of spherical dimers with down to sub-10 nm gaps fabricated by the annealing of nano-pillars" by S. Dickreuter et al. accepted by Nanophotonics

► The work on Collective SHG Effects in Oligomers is featured in the Opli: Photonics and Lasers magazine Newsletter

► Article "Mapping the electric field distribution of tightly focused cylindrical vector beams with gold nanorings" by J. Fulmes et al. accepted by Optics Express

► Hand-over at the NMI Reutlingen on April 13: Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland takes over as head of the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute

► Nadim Shaqqura starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

► Lisa Seitl starts her Master thesis - Welcome!

► Jasmin Moser starts her Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

March 2018:

► Article "Collective effects in second-harmonic generation from plasmonic oligomers" by G. Bautista, C. Dreser et al. accepted by Nano Letters

► Article "Carrier recombination and plasmonic emission channels in metallic photoluminescence" by J. Wang et al. accepted by Nanoscale

► Article "Semitransparent carbon microelectrodes for opto- and electrophysiology" by P. Kshirsagar et al. accepted by Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

► Fabian Strauß starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

► Invited participation in the COST Connect Event "Quantum - where will the next jump go?" in Warsaw

February 2018:

► Article "Novel advanced scoping meta-review methodology for defining a graduate level textbook in an emerging subject area" by S. Perry et al. accepted by LIBER Quarterly

► Boris Stamm (NMI) successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

► Invited talk at the Nanoscale Quantum Optics Conference in Prague

Kick-off Workshop for the BWS plus project "Light-Matter Interaction in the Context of Core Facilities" with the Meixner/Zhang and Brecht groups at the UTT Troyes, France

January 2018:

► Julian Wanner successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

► Andreas Dörr successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

► Jonas Haas successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

Happy New Year 2018!

December 2017:

Lars Lüder successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

Habilitation Committee for Dr. Thomas Maurer, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

November 2017:

Brian Paquelet-Wütz successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

Florian Laible speaks at the NET-Symposium of the Network Electron Microscopy Tübingen

The group takes part in the Taiwan-Germany Workshop on Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy in Tübingen

External PhD defense by Matthias Schwille at the TU Dresden

Annual science taster studies for pupils on November 2

Harsh Thakkar starts a lab internship in the group - Welcome!

 

October 2017:

Valentin Henken-Mellies successfuly completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

Elena Bez and Benjamin Trzeciak start their Bachelor theses - Welcome!

Lars Lüder visits the Rapaport group at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a Short-Term Scientific Mission of the COST Action Nanospectroscopy

Group Seminar at the Kniebis

Management Committee and Working Groups Meeting of COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy in Braga

Talk and Poster at the Topical Workshop on Single Quantum Emitters in Braga, Portugal

Paper "Compact plasmonic optical biosensors based on nanostructured gradient index lenses integrated in microfluidic cells" by Andreas Horrer et al. accepted by Nanoscale

September 2017:

Talk, Poster & Session Chair at the MNE Conference in Braga, Portugal

Paper "Enhancing light absorption in organic semiconductor thin films by 1D gold nanowire gratings" by Dominik Gollmer et al. accepted by Phys. Rev. Mater.

Brian Paquelet-Wütz spends a research visit at the University of Technology Troyes in France

Delegation Member of the Tübingen Research World Tour to South Korea

PhD Committee and Symposium Talk at Chalmers University, Sweden

Talk by Fang Dai at the ICES Conference in Munich

Julian Wanner starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

August 2017:

Manuel Martina successfully defends his PhD - Congratulations!

Thomas Günkel successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

July 2017:

Invited talk at the 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics META in Incheon-Seoul, South Korea

Andreas Dörr starts his Master thesis - Welcome!

Research visit by Artur Movsesyan, University of Troyes, France, in the frame of the COST Action MP1403 Nanoscale Quantum Optics - Welcome!

June 2017:

Symposium of the Network Electronmicroscopy Tübingen NET with participation of LISA+ on 28/6 in the New Eye Clinic in Tübingen, for program see Flyer

Collaboration visit by Prof. Vial and Prof. Adam from University of Technology Troyes, France

Fang Dai gives a talk at Or-Nano Nancy 2017

Lars Lüder and Jonas Haas start their Master theses - Welcome!

May 2017:

Patricia Blach successfully completes her Master thesis - Congratulations!

Brian Paquelet Wütz starts his Master thesis - Welcome!

COST Action workshop and Talk at the IMDEA Madrid

May 11, 2:00-5:30 PM: Women in Physics - What's the matter? See Flyer

Punitkumar Makani starts his practical work experience - Welcome!

April 2017:

Seminar talks at Georgia State University and the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Invited talk at the IEEE-NEMS (Int. Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems), UCLA, USA

Thomas Günkel starts his Bachelor thesis - Welcome!

Lukas Jakob starts his project work - Welcome!

March 2017:

Article by M. Martina et al. makes the title page of Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 171

Group-Travel to the COST Action Nanospectroscopy conference Optical Nanospectroscopy IV in Lisbon with invited talk, talk and posters

February 2017:

Workshop on the textbook "Optical Nanspectroscopy" by the COST Action Nanospectroscopy

Project sketch by Dominik Gollmer is supported by a donation - congratulations!

Christoph Dreser wins a PhD grant for the promotion of graduates (LGF) - congratulations!

Inauguration Symposium for the new helium neon ion microscope of the Core Facility LISA+ on February 10, 2017

January 2017:

Paper on template-stripped TERS probes by M. Martina accepted in Microelectronic Engineering

Oleksandra Shevtsova starts her Practical Work Experience - Welcome!

Colloquium talk by Prof. Michael Giersig, Freie Universität and Helmholtz-Center Berlin

Happy New Year 2017!

December 2016:

Repeat research visit by Dr. Nagarajan Subramaniyam, Aalto University, Finland

November 2016:

Marvin Bende successfully completes his Bachelor Thesis - Congratulations!

Patricia Blach starts her Master Thesis - Welcome!

Peter Deibert starts his Practical Work Experience - Welcome!

The Natural Science Taster Studies for school pupils again take place these autumn holidays.

October 2016:

Simon Prautzsch successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

Fatima Noureddine, Viktoria Wedler and Sarah El-Asfar start their Practical Work in the Group - Welcome!

Invited presentation at the PIER Graduate School in Hamburg

Joint Training School on Raman and Correlative Surface Analytics on Carbon Nanomaterials with the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute NMI in Reutlingen, supported by the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy and the Core Facility LISA+

 

 

 

September 2016:

Plenary Speaker at the 13th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia

Session Chair and Poster Presentations at the MNE 2016 in Vienna, Austria

COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy Management and Working Group Meetings & invited talk at the Topical Meeting on Nanoparticles in Warsaw, Poland

The Core Facility LISA+ features in the new Tübingen Research Campus video

Group Retreat at the Kniebis in the Black Forest

Markus Schreiyäck successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - Congratulations!

Simon Schlipf successfully completes his Master thesis - Congratulations!

Valentin Henken-Mellies is starting his Maser Thesis - Welcome!

Gwanhoo Yoon is finishing his DAAD-NSF research visit in the group.

August 2016:

The new helium neon ion microscope for the Core Facility LISA+ has arrived!

Aylin Kayacik and Pascal Bieschke successfully complete their Bachelor theses and continue their work as a student assistants - Congratulations!

July 2016:

Invited talk at the META 2016, Malaga, Spain

Research visit by Gwanho Yoon, PhD Student of Pohang University of Science and Technology POSTECH, Korea, in the group - Welcome!

Dominik Gollmer successfully defends his PhD thesis - congratulations!

June 2016:

Visit & seminar talk by Dr. Johannes Kern, University of Münster

Dr. Christian Schäfer wins the Dr. Friedrich-Förster-Prize 2016 in physics by University of Tübingen - Congratulations!

Invited talk at the Symposium Nanospectroscopy of the Conference Nanometrology France 2016 in Paris

May 2016:

Invited talk at the Int. Conference Thermec in Graz, Austria

Talk by C. Dreser at the EIPBN Conference in Pittsburgh, USA

Invited talk at the WE-Heraeus-Workshop Ultrafast phenomena at nanostructures in Les Houches, France

Nonlinear Plasmonics, Rome

April 2016:

Aylin Kayacik, Simon Prautzsch, Pascal Bieschke and Markus Schreiyäck start their Bachelor theses, and Eelco Empting starts as a student assistant - welcome!

Invited talk and session chair at the Sino-German Symposium on Nano-Photonics and Nano-Optoelectronics in Herrenberg

March 2016:

The group participates in the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy Conference Optical Nanospectroscopy III in Rome

Pranoti Kshirsagar starts her PhD work at the NMI Reutlingen - welcome!

February 2016:

Philip Schilling successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - congratulations!

Excursion with the lecture Semiconductor Technology to the Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg

January 2016:

The University of Tübingen Magazine ATTEMPTO! publishes a portrait of the Core Facility LISA+

Lauro Conti successfully completes his Diplom thesis - congratulations!

The article Capturing molecules with plasmonic nanotips in microfluidic channels by dielectrophoresis, Lab Chip 15, 1066 (2015), is one of the top 30 most downloaded articles published in Lab on a Chip in 2015, and has been included in the 2015 Most Downloaded Articles collection

Happy New Year 2016!

December 2015:

Research visit by Dr. Marta Michalska-Domanska, Military University of Technology Warsaw, Poland

Invited talk at the 12th Sensor-Symposium Dresden

COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy Editor Meeting in Berlin

November 2015:

Jan Grauel successfully completes his Bachelor thesis - congratulations!

Talk "antennas for light" in the annual science taster course for pupils

Project meeting at University of Technology Troyes, France

October 2015:

Research visit by Dr. Nagarajan Subramaniyam, Aalto University, Finland

Fang Dai is starting a year of her co-supervised thesis with UTT Troyes at Tübingen - welcome!

Seminar talk and external referee at Signe Damm's viva at University College Dublin, Ireland

 

September 2015:

Short cameo in the Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg (28.9.2015, 19:30, minute 21:14)

Session Chairing at the MNE Conference in The Hague (left: nano-topographical image, prepared with the NanoFrazor by SwissLitho AG (now Heidelberg Instruments))

WG & MC Meeting of the COST Action Nanospectroscopy in London

Topical Meeting Nanospectroscopy for Medical Applications in London

Christoph Dreser starts his PhD work in the group - welcome!

Philipp Schilling and Simon Schlipf start their external theses - welcome!

August 2015:

Invited article for the special issue Nanospectroscopy in Anal. Bioanal. Chem. accepted

Invited talk at the SPIE Optics + Photonics in San Diego, USA

Timo Schössler, Lars Lüder and Jonas Haas successfully complete their Bachelor theses - congratulations!

 

July 2015:

Double feature: Articles accepted in Nanoscale and in Faraday Discussions

Christian Schäfer successfully defends his PhD thesis - congratulations!

July 28/29: Workshop Correlative AFM & Raman Imaging at the NMI Reutlingen

July 22: Participating in the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's Research Day in Stuttgart

Christoph Dreser successfully finishes his Master thesis - congratulations!

Emre Gürdal wins a PhD grant for the promotion of graduates (LGF) - congratulations!

Organization of a Special Session (with Hyuck Choo, Caltech) and invited talk at the PIERS Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic

June 2015:

Invited talk at the 11th International Conference on Optics of Surfaces and Interfaces OSI, Austin, USA

Invited talk at the Surface Plasmons and Plasmonics Workshop in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (image by Marco Smerieri)

Chairing the special COST Action MP1302 session "Nanospectroscopy" at the SPP7 conference in Jerusalem

May 2015:

Izabela Kaminska from University of Torun, Poland, is staying for a research visit in the group.

Christoph Dreser is visiting the nano-optics group of Martti Kauranen at University of Tampere, Finland.

April 2015:

Research stay of Fang Dai from Université de Technologie Troyes in Collaboration with University of Tübingen

Timo Schössler, Lars Lüder, Jonas Haas und Jan Grauel start their Bachelor work in the group. Welcome!

Evening lecture "Properties and effects of light" in the Tübingen General Studies lecture series

Invited talk at the Discussions on Nano & Mesoscopic Optics (DINAMO), El Chalten, Argentinia

March 2015:

Invited talk at the 13th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials (ICFPAM), Marrakech, Morocco

Participating in the COST Action Nanospectroscopy Conference "Optical Nanospectroscopy II" in Dublin with 9 posters and 1 talk

Simon Schlipf successfully finishes his Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!

January 2015:

All the best for the International Year of Light 2015!

Emre Gürdal starts his PhD in the group. Welcome!

Florian Laible starts a scholarship in the group. Welcome!

Joseph Marae Djouda from University of Technology Troyes visits the group. Welcome!

December 2014:

The article "Capturing molecules with plasmonic nanotips in microfluidic channels by dielectrophoresis" appears in Lab on a Chip.

On December 10th a colloqium is held in honour of Dieter Kern with the guest speaker Enzo di Fabrizio (KAUST Saudi Arabia).

Lauro Conti starts his Diplom thesis. Welcome!

Fang Dai starts her PhD shared between University of Technology Troyes and the Tübingen group. Welcome!

November 2014:

Annika Bräuer spends a research visit at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in the context of the COST Action Nanospectroscopy.

 

October 2014:

Simon Schlipf starts his Bachelor Thesis - Welcome!

Guan-Fu Lin starts a Lab internship - Welcome!

Advances in Engineering highlights the article "Parallel fabrication of plasmonic nanocone sensing arrays" in the section "Nanotechnology".

Women in Nanoscience publishes a blog entry on Monika Fleischer.

Visit by the collaborators Pierre-Michel Adam and Anne-Laure Baudrion from Université de Technologie Troyes, France.

October 6/7: Working Groups Meeting of the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy in Troyes.

Andreas Horrer spends a research visit at the Université de Technologie Troyes in the framework of the programme Procope.

September 2014:

Monika Fleischer and Guillermo Villanueva (EPFL Lausanne) win the MEE Young Investigator Award and Lectureship 2014!

The awards are presented at the plenary session of the Micro and Nano Engineering Conference in Lausanne on September 24. (Picture: Alain Herzog, EPFL Lausanne)

Dieter Kern is awarded the MNE 2014 Fellowship Award - many congratulations!

Y. Ipek and E. Gürdal successfully finish their Diplom theses - Congratulations!

M. Fleischer lectures together with N. van Hulst, R. Gordon and E. die Fabrizio at the NFO-13 School in Snowbird, Utah, organized by A. Weber-Bargioni.

August 2014:

M. Fleischer and H. Choo (Caltech) organize the Special Session "Advanced Micro-/Nanofabrication for Optical Sensing and Imaging Applications" at the PIERS in Guangzhou, China.

Brian Paquelet-Wütz and Richard-Santiago Schäufele successfully complete their Bachelor degrees and continue as research assistants - Congratulations!

June/July 2014:

Gordon Research Conference "Plasmonics" in Newry, Maine, USA. Including lobster.

Brian Paquelet-Wütz and Richard-Santiago Schäufele enter their Bachelor, Christoph Dreser starts his Masters. Welcome!

March 30th to April 4th, 2014:

The group takes part in the DPG Spring Meeting in Dresden with two talks, six posters and a minibus.

March 23th-28th, 2014:

The 1st annual COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy conference Optical Nanospectroscopy I takes place in Tübingen organized by M. Fleischer and D. Zhang.

March 2014:

Annika Bräuer starts her PhD thesis work in the group. Welcome!

Christoph Dreser and Tobias Menold successfully complete their Bachelor theses. Congratulations!

December 2013:

The back cover of the journal Small illustrating the article Parallel fabrication of plasmonic nanocone sensing arrays has appeared.

December 13th, 2013:

The group participates in the LISA+ Symposium at University of Tuebingen.

November 15th, 2013:

With a Kick-Off Meeting in Brussels, the European COST Action MP1302 Nanospectrosopy has officially started.

M. Fleischer is elected Action Chair by the assembled Management Committee.

November 8th, 2013:

The Association of Female Scientists in Baden-Württemberg (VBWW) presents the Maria Gräfin von Linden-Award 2013 to Prof. Monika Fleischer for her presentation "Gold-Nanocones as optical antennas".

"With this award the scientific results and didactic abilities of early stage scientists are distinguished. On the occasion of the VBWW Symposium on November 8th, 2013 in Heidelberg, Ms. Fleischer presented her project in a convincing and outstanding manner. "

(Picture: E. Zuber-Knost, VBWW)

November 2013:

Simon Dickreuter, Tobias Menold and Christoph Dreser join the group. Welcome!

October 2013:

First snow of the winter at the group workshop at Kniebis in the Black Forest.

Yagmur Ipek and Emre Gürdal join the group. Welcome!

538. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar "Light at the Nanotip: Scanning near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy", August 4-8, 2013

Organizers: Monika Fleischer & Dai Zhang, University of Tübingen

Le Portail de l'Université de Technologie de Troyes, 21.3.2013:

Annual report by Carl-Zeiss-Foundation for the business year 2011/2012, p. 34

(© Carl-Zeiss-Foundation, Stuttgart, February 2013):

Kaiser Friedrich Research Prize for the Optical Technologies 2011, www.kaiser-friedrich-forschungspreis.de (PhotonicNet GmbH):