News 2012
Baking
18.12.2012
Our students used advanced fabrication techniques to prepare some cookies for our Christmas party.
Habilitation
07.12.2012
We congratulate Dr. Ralf Vogelgesang for his habilitation!
Visit Prof. Engheta
06.12.2012
Prof. Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk on Thursday, 6th December. His talk is entitled "Of Light, Electrons, and Metastructures" and will take place at 13:00 in room 4.313 (Jürgen-Kuhl-Library, Pfaffenwaldring 57).
Group Trip
29.09.2012
Pictures from this year's group trip to the Elsass region in France (Goersdorf).
New PhD
28.09.2012
Congratulations to Richard Taubert for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.
Awards
21.09.2012
Our PhD students won several awards at the "Statusworkshop" of the "Kompetenznetz Funktionelle Nanostrukturen". Mario Hentschel ranked second in the photo contest "Images from the nano world". He also got an award for the second-best student talk. The best talk was given by our PhD student Bernd Metzger.
Poster Prize
07.09.2012
Our PhD student Bernd Metzger won one of the poster prizes (300 EUR) at NFO 12. Congratulations!
Award
22.08.2012
Our former PhD student and postdoc Dr. Na Liu received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She chose the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems as her host institution where she will become a group leader in the department of Prof. Dr. Joachim Spatz. The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award is the highest award of the Humboldt foundation and comes with 1.65 million Euros. She will use the money as seed for her future activitites in nanochemistry and nanobiology. Congratulations!
Visit Prof. Soukoulis
16.07.2012
Prof. Costas M. Soukoulis will speak about Photonic Metamaterials: Challenges and Opportunities (abstract). The talk takes places at Monday, 16th July, on 14:00 in room 4.342 (Jürgen-Kuhl-Library).
Volleyball Tournament
08.07.2012
Our team ranked 3rd at this year's SCoPE Volleyball Tournament.
Nobel Prize Winners Meeting
06.07.2012
We presented our metamaterial glucose sensor at the 62nd Lindau meeting of Nobel Prize winners. Laureates Dudley Herschbach (Harvard) and John Hall (Boulder) take a closer look.
Nanospots Film Festival
05.07.2012
Our short movie "Wasserstoff – aber sicher" was presented at the nanospots film festival as one of the ten best contributions. Please take also a look at the video special at Spiegel Online.
New PhD
29.06.2012
Congratulations to Marius Vieweg for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.
Group Picture
28.06.2012
Time for a new group picture.
New PhD
25.06.2012
Congratulations to Christian Wolpert for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.
Award
22.06.2012
Our PhD student Andreas Tittl receives the VDI Young Researcher Price. Congratulations!
New Position
31.05.2012
Farewell to our Postdoc Dr. Jens Dorfmüller who is now working at Bosch. We wish him all the best for the future.
Award
23.04.2012
Our PhD student Andreas Tittl receives the second prize (1000 EUR) in the competition for the Green Photonics Award of the Fraunhofer IOF for his work on plasmonic hydrogen sensors. Congratulations!
New Back Cover
02.04.2012
Our new pssb article Plasmonic antennas, positioning, and coupling of individual quantum systems appeared on the back cover of volume 249, issue 4.
Visit Prof. Kreibig
28.03.2012
Prof. U. Kreibig from RWTH Aachen visited our group and gave his opinion on "Beyond Mie theory and quantum plasmonics".
New Nature Communications Article
21.02.2012
Our new Nature Communications article "Octave-Wide Photonic Band Gap in Three-dimensional Plasmonic Bragg Structures and Limitations of Radiative Coupling" by R. Taubert, D. Dregely, T. Stroucken, A. Christ, and H. Giessen has now been published. This article has been chosen for the Featured Image in Nature Communications.
Ideas Contest
06.02.2012
Our project "Nichtinvasive Messung und Analyse des Glucosespiegels von Diabetespatienten mittels Metamaterialien" (Non-invasive measurement and analysis of the glucose level of diabetes patients with metamaterials) is among the ten winning projects of the "Ideenwettbewerb Biotechnologie und Medizintechnik" (Ideas contest biotechnology and medical technology).
New Cover
24.01.2012
Our new ACS Nano article Hole-Mask Colloidal Nanolithography for Large-Area Low-Cost Metamaterials and Antenna-Assisted Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Substrates appeared on the cover page of volume 6, issue 1.