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OMEL welcomes Sander Vonk

Sander Vonk

October, 2024. OMEL welcomes Sander Vonk as scientific assistant. During his Ph.D. research, he worked on his thesis entitled "Bright Materials, Better Future: Exploring multiexciton emission and upconversion" under the supervision of Dr. Freddy Rabouw at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Sander will continue his work in the group as a postdoctoral researcher starting in January 2025.

OMEL welcomes David Seda

David Seda

March 2024. OMEL welcomes David Seda as a new Doctoral student. David obtained his Master’s degree in Micro- and Nanosystems from ETH Zürich. He completed his Master's Thesis investigating advanced sensing fibers at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Yoel Fink. Previously, he worked on “Nanoimprint Lithography of Optical Fourier Surfaces” at OMEL, discovering his interest in optics in addition to his passion for nanofabrication.

Barry Award 2023

“Congratulations to Muriel Haug and Hannah Niese, this year’s winners of the 2023 Barry Service Award of OMEL.”

Download The Barry Service Award (PDF, 38 KB) of OMEL recognizes team members who selflessly contribute to the well-being of the group. It was established in 2016 and is named after the mountain rescue dog external page Barry der Menschenretter (1800–1814), arguably the most famous St. Bernard who ever lived. According to legend, he saved over 40 lives from treacherous alpine conditions.”
 

Congratulations to Alexander  Hernández Oendra     

alex defense

November, 2023. Alexander successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Low-Dimensional Metal-Organic Chalcogenide Semiconductor Nanocrystals Synthesis, Characterization, and Modification of Optical Properties”. Congratulations.

 

Congratulations to Deepankur Thureja

Deepankur Defense

August, 2023. Deepankur successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Electrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons”. Congratulations.

Recent Publications

Enlarged view: Marianne Publikation

external page Understanding Optical Gain: Which Confinement Factor is Correct?

M. Aellen, D. J. Norris

ACS Photonics 9 (11), 3498-3505 (2022).

Ankur Nature Paper

external page Electrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons

D. Thureja, A. Imamoglu, T. Smoleński, I. Amelio, A. Popert, T. Chervy, X. Lu, Song Liu, K. Barmak, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. J. Norris, M. Kroner, P. A. Murthy


Nature 606 (7913), 298-304 (2022).

Ario Publikation

external page Nanophotonic Approach to Study Excited-State Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

A. Cocina, R. Brechbühler, S. J. W. Vonk, J. Cui, A. A. Rossinelli, H. Rojo, F. T. Rabouw, D. J. Norris

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 4145–4151 (2022).

 

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