Nanowire Photonics

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Enhanced light emission with plasmonic crystals of nanoantennas published in Physical Review Letters. Download the article here. Our research has been highlighted in the Scientific section of the national Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblaad: Nano-goudstaafjes in een rooster werken als antennes die elkaar versterken read more

Cover of Advanced Functional Materials Vol. 18, Iss. 1039 with our work on nanowires. Download the article here.

Read our article on plasmonics recently published in the special issue of the New Journal of Physics.Download the article here.

Harvesting light using semiconductor nanowires...read more
Moth eyes inspire more efficient solar cell... read on Physics World
Mottenaugen für Solarzellen.... read more in Technology Review.
Effektivere Solarzellen und Detektoren durch nanostrukturierte Oberflächen... read more in Photonik.

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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 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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