Nanowire Photonics

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  • FOM-Philips industrial partnership program Improved Solid State Light Sources granted with 1.1 MEuro from 2010 till 2014.
  • Our research on plasmonic crystals of nanoantennas has been highlighted in the Scientific section of the national Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblaad. Read more.
  • Enhanced light emission with plasmonic crystals of nanoantennas published in Physical Review Letters. Download the article here.
  • FOM program Nanophotovoltaics granted with 2.1 Meuro from 2009 till 2013.
  • Our research on antireflection nanowire layers has been highlighted by Physics World, Technology Review and Photonik.
  • Antireflection layers based on semiconductor nanowires published in Advanced Materials. Read more.
  • Cover of Advanced Functional Materials with our work on nanowires. Download the article here.

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    Welcome to the home page of the group Nanowire Photonics. This group is part of the Center for Nanophotonics at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (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 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 four related 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.
    4. Long-range surface polaritons.

    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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