Fotonics and Semiconductor Nanofysics

2012.2.21
Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, MSc.
Experimental Demonstration of a Novel Superconducting Photon Number Resolving Detector Design, Part 1

Dr. Giulia Frucci
Experimental Demonstration of a Novel Superconducting Photon Number Resolving Detector Design, Part 2

2012.2.14
Jia Wang, MSc.
Position-controlled [100] InP Nanowire Arrays

Dr. Andre Henriques, Univers. de Sao Paulo
Optical manipulation and detection of spin orientation by light pump-probing

2012.2.7
Prof.dr. Paul Koenraad
State of the Union

2012.1.31
Dr. Moïra Hocevar
Light emitting hybrid silicon/III-V nanowires

Dr. Sébastien Plissard
High mobilities in InSb nanowires

2012.1.24
Sartoon Fattahpoor, MSc.
Fabrication and characterization of coupled ridge waveguide - photonic crystal system on GaAs membrane

Döndü Sahin, MSc.
Integrated Single Photon Detectors

2011.12.13
Dr. Otto Muskens, University of Southampton, UK
Active control of light at the nanoscale using nanowires and nano antennas

2011.12.6
Dr. Rob van der Heijden
Nanophononics for nanowire thermoelectric energy conversion

Thuy Vu, MSc.
Direct correlation of crystal structure and optical

2011.11.29
Tian Xia, MSc.
Growth and nanofabrication of aligned quantum dot-photonic crystal cavities

Steven Grijseels, MSc.
Electrically tunable g-factor in vertically stacked (In,Ga)As Quantum Dots

2011.11.22
Zili Zhou, MSc.
Direct measurement of the hotspot relaxation time in superconducting nanowires

Matthias Skacel, MSc.
Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities

2011.11.15
Angela Gamouras, BSc., Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, (CAN)
Optically engineered ultrafast pulses for controlled rotations of exciton qubits in semiconductor quantum dots

Erwin Smakman, MSc.
An X-STM Study of GaSb/GaAs Quantum Dots and the Bi-Stable Behavior of Si in GaAs

2011.11.8
Dr. Robert Johne
Quantum state transfer based on dynamic control of solid state cavity quantum electrodynamics

Salman Mokhlespour, MSc.
Radiative coupling in QD lattices

2011.11.1
Dr. Thang Hoang
Toward on chip spectral tuning and filtering of single semiconductor quantum dots

Ir. Tilman Zehender
Crystal phase: how size influences growth

2011.10.18
Leonardo Midolo, MSc.
Double membrane NOEMS for wavelength-tunable photonic crystal cavities

Adam Urbanczyk, MSc.
Epitaxial Silver Nanocrystal Grown by MBE

2011.10.11
Prof.dr. Paul Koenraad
Artificial Atoms in Semiconductors

2011.10.4
Francesco Pagliano, MSc.
Fast electrical control of InAs quantum dots in Photonic Crystal diodes

Dr. Chaoyuan Jin
Optical Control Of Q-factor: Toward Cavity Quantum Electrondynamics

2011.27.9
Dr. Sébastien Plissard
How to find the G spot with InSb nanowires?

Dr. Moïra Hocevar
Towards optically active Si nanowires

2011.22.9
Prof.dr. Michael E. Flatté, University of Iowa (USA) & part-time professor Phys PSN
Spin transport in semiconductors

2011.20.9
Prof.dr. Paul Koenraad
Counting Atoms

Juanita Bocquel, MSc.
Manipulation of the valence and ionization states of a single Fe impurity in GaAs by STM

2011.13.9
dr. Giulia Frucci
Optical Characterization of Superconducting Multi-Photon Detectors

Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, MSc.
Design and realization of cryogenic readout for superconducting photon number resolving detectors

2011.7.9
Prof. dr. Alper Kiraz, Koç University, Istanbul (T)
Some Applications in Micro and Nano-Photonics using Liquid Microdroplets and Single Molecule Tracing

2011.6.9
MSc. Gabriele Bulgarini, TU Delft (NL)
Single photon emission and detection with nanowire quantum dots

2011.22.6
Prof. Toropov, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Enhancement of excitonic emission in semiconductor heterostructures due to coupling to plasmons in a metal particle

Döndü Sahin, MSc.
Fabrication of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors on high quality NbN film on GaAs

Thuy Vu, MSc.
Photoluminescence of wurzite and zincblende InP nanowires

2011.20.6
Prof. Arthur R. Smith, Director, Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute Department of Physics & Astronomy Ohio University Athens
Investigating magnetic nitride surfaces using STM and spin-polarized STM

2011.14.6
Tian Xia, MSc.
Growth and characterization of low density InAs/GaAs quantum dot towards site-controlled quantum dots emitting at 1300nm

Sartoon Fattahpoor, MSc.
Nonlinear processing using cavity QED in quantum dot-photonic crystal system

2011.7.6
Yannik Fontana, Msc. of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
MBE based III-V nanowire structures for photovoltaics

2011.27.5
Prof. Osamu Wada, Kobe University, Japan, and National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Semiconductor Nanostructure-Based Devices for Power-Efficient Photonic Systems

2011.17.5
Erwin Smakman, MSc.
Spin-Polarized STM and Iron Dislocation Networks

Zili Zhou, MSc.
Investigation of Nanoscale Single/Multi-photon Detectors

2011.10.5
Dr. Robert Johne
Single photon absorption in a quantum dot-cavity system

Salman Mokhlespour, MSc.
Quantum Optics of Quantum Dots

2011.3.5
Ir. Ineke Wijheijmer
An overview of my work at PSN

Joost van Bree, MSc.
A small tale about R544 and its twin

2011.19.4
Dr. Arjan Sprengers
Waveguide superconducting single-photon detectors

Ir. Tilman Zehender
InP- and InGaAs-Nanowires: Growth and shape control

2011.5.4
Dr. Thang Hoang
Single quantum dots emit single photons into the slow-light mode of a photonic crystal waveguide: photon guns on a chip

2011.22.3
Dr. Lou-Fé Feiner
Au-assisted versus self-assisted growth of GaAs nanowires

Leonardo Midolo, MSc.
Electromechanical Photonic Crystal Cavities

2011.18.3
Guest speaker: Prof. Xavier Marie, Université de Toulouse
Optical and Electrical Spin Injection in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

2011.15.3
Ir. Joris Keizer
Droplet Epitaxy Revisited

Jia Wang, MSc.
Selective growth of InAs quantum dots or quantum wires on InP (100) by self-organized anisotropic strain engineering in selective-area chemical beam epitaxy

2011.8.3
Dr. Jos Haverkort
Nanowire solar energy conversion

Dr. Jens Garleff
Experimental evidence for a lower limit of infinity

2011.3.1
Dr. Moïra Hocevar
Crystal structure transfert into Si nanotubes

Samuel Mauger, MSc.
Is Mn:InSb a disordered dilute magnetic semiconductor?

2011.22.2
Prof.dr. Andrea Fiore
Towards Quantum Optics at the Nanoscale

Matthias Skacel, MSc.
Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy of Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities

2011.15.2
Dr. Chaoyuan Jin
Mode coupling between heterostructure cavities for the dynamic Q tuning

Dr. Sébastien Plissard
Lollipops, Mushrooms, Magnums and Nanowires

2011.8.2
Juanita Bocquel, MSc.
Internal charge transfer observed on a single Fe impurity in GaAs

Francesco Pagliano, MSc.
Photonic Crystal Diode fabrication towards Dynamic Control of photon-exciton coupling

2011.1.2
prof.dr. Paul Koenraad
State of the Union

2011.25.1
prof.dr. Jaime Jómez Rivas
Surface Photonics: A bird’s-eye view of the research at AMOLF/Philips

2010.14.12
Joost van Bree, MSc.
g-factors and diamagnetic coefficients of InAs/InP QDs

Erwin Smakman, MSc.
GaSb Quantum Dots & Spin-Polarized STM

2010.7.12
prof.dr. Erik Bakkers
Update and periodic nanowire structures

dr. Giulia Frucci
Towards high system detection efficiency single photon detectors for telecom wavelengths

2010.30.11
Döndü Sahin, MSc.
Fabrication and Characterization of NbN Superconducting Thin Films

Mehmet Dündar, MSc.
Photonic crystal nanocavity work at Harvard University and at TU/e

2010.23.11
ir. Tilman Zehender
Growth of InP-Nanowires

Thuy Vu, MSc.
A study on coupling effects in Metamaterials

2010.16.11
dr. Arjan Sprengers
A continuous flow helium cryostat for electrical and optical characterizations of waveguide single photon detectors

Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, MSc.
Towards High Efficiency Photon-Number-Resolving Superconducting Single Photon Detectors

Dr. Magnus Borgström, Lund University
Nanowires with promise for photovoltaics

2010.11.11
dr. Matthias Ediger, Cavendish Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge
3D magneto-optics: a comprehensive approach to the investigation of nanostructures

2010.11.9
ir. Ineke Wijnheijmer
Nanoscale Potential Fluctuations in (GaMn)As/GaAs Heterostructures due to Interstitial Manganese: From Individual Ions to Charge Clusters and Electrostatic Quantum Dots

dr. Thang Hoang
Single semiconductor quantum dots in ridge and photonic crystal waveguides: steps toward the realization of photonic integrated circuits

2010.10.26
Jiayue Yuan, MSc.
Optical properties of 1.55-µm InAs/InP (100) quantum dots with a thin GaAs interlayer grown by MOVPE

Dr. Robert Johne
Quantum state preparation in a quantum dot-cavity system

2010.10.19
Ir. Murat Bozkurt
X-STM Analysis of Mn in a strain field and a B-field

Salman Mokhlespour, MSc.
Modification of the TRDR Decay Time

2010.10.12
Leonardo Midolo, MSc.
Coupled membranes for tunable photonic crystal cavities

Bowen Wang, MSc.
Thermal and Optothermal tuning of Liquid Crystal infiltrated InGaAsP Photonic Crystal nanocavities

2010.10.6
Prof. Richard Warburton, University of Basel
Single spins in InGaAs quantum dots

2010.10.5
Adam Urbanczyk, MSc.
Hybrid metal nanocrystal-semiconductor QD nanostructures

Sartoon Fattahpoor, MSc.
Single photon all-optical switching with photonic crystal nanocavities

2010.9.28
Matthias Skacel, MSc.
Low Temperature Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities

Dr. Jens Garleff
Type-II GaSb/GaAs Quantum Dots for Memory Storage Applications studied by X-STM

2010.9.21
Joris Keizer, MSc.
XSTM vs. 3DAP: Fight of the Century

2010.9.14
Samuel Mauger, MSc.
A new room temperature magnetic semiconductor studied by X-STM

Jia Wang, MSc.
Combining selective area growth and self-organized strain engineering for site controlled local QD arrays grown by CBE

2010.9.7
Dr. Moïra Hocevar, guest postdoc
Si/III-V nanowire heterostructures for single photon detection

2010.6.29
Döndü Sahin, MSc.
Superconducting Films for Integrated Quantum Photonic Technologies

dr. Giulia Frucci
Fiber coupled superconducting photon detectors for telecom wavelengths

2010.6.22
Dr. Jos Haverkort
Multi-junction solar cells

2010.6.16
Prof. Mark Hopkinson, University of Sheffield
MBE growth of self-assembled quantum dots; opportunities and limitations

2010.6.15
Prof. Andrea Fiore
Static and dynamic control of exciton-photon coupling

Dr. Robert Johne
Towards Quantum Gates with Quantum Dots

2010.6.10
Dr. Armando Rastelli, University of Dresden
Positioning and stressing self-assembled quantum dots

2010.6.3
Prof. Peter Smereka, University of Michigan
Computations of Strained Heteroepitaxy using Kinetic Monte Carlo

2010.6.1
Dr. Rob van der Heijden
Photonic Crystals in Sydney

2010.5.25
Dr. Hina Ashraf
Calibration gratings for ASML YieldStar tool

Adam Urbanczyk, MSc.
Strain-driven alignment of In nanocrystals on InGaAs quantum dot arrays and coupled plasmon-quantum dot emission

2010.5.18
Francesco Pagliano, MSc.
Dynamic Control of Cavity QED

Dr. Hao Wang
InAs quantum dots integration epitaxy

2010.5.11
Juanita Bocquel, MSc.
Cross-Sectional STM on II-VI semiconductor materials/ Magnetic Force Microscopy for the study of magnetic semiconductors

Joost van Bree, MSc.
Many-body exciton states in self-assembled quantum dots coupled to a Fermi sea

2010.5.4
Drs. Rienk Algra
Twins in nanowires

Dr. Thang Hoang
Micro-photoluminescence study of single InAs quantum dots in GaAs/AlGaAs ridge waveguides

2010.4.27
Dr. Lutz Geelhaar, Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin
Nucleation and growth of collector-induced and self-induced GaN nanowires - a comparison

Dr. Elmuez Dawi
Principles of plasmonic nanoconcentrator solar cell

Bowen Wang, MSc.
Biosensor based on photonic crystal slot nanobeam

2010.4.20
Dr. Jens Garleff
LDOS of Mn acceptors below GaAs(110)

Dr. Andrei Silov
DC Problem

2010.4.13
Dr. Arjan Sprengers
The QUANTIP project, Waveguide single-photon detectors using superconducting nanowires

Dr. Marcel Verheijen
(S)TEM tomography, A means to obtain 3-D information on the nanoscale

2010.4.6
Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, MSc.
Superconducting Single Photon Detectors on Optical Microcavities

Maarten van Weert, MSc.
Quantum dots in vertical nanowire devices

2010.3.30
Dr. Lou-Fé Feiner
Twinning superlattices in VLS (vapour-liquid-solid) grown nanowires

2010.3.25
Prof.dr. J.T. Devreese and Prof.dr. J. Tempère, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Metallic and semiconductor nanoshells as a probe of many-body physics

2010.3.23
Ineke Wijnheijmer, ir.
Vector magnetic field microscopy using nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond

2010.3.16
Matthias Skacel, MSc.
Low-Temperature Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities

2010.3.9
Jiayue Yuan, MSc.
Distribution, size, and number control of 1.55-μm InAs QDs on multifaceted InP nanopyramids by selective area epitaxy

2010.3.2
Dr. Emanuele Pelucchi, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
High purity MOVPE at Tyndall National Institute: fabrication and characterization of inno

2010.2.23
Salman Mokhlespour, MSc.
Photonic density of states in QD lattices

2010.2.9
Murat Bozkurt, MSc.
Modeling & Characterization of Doped and Undoped QDs

2010.2.2
Leonardo Midolo, MSc.
Double membrane NEMS for static control of photonic crystal cavity resonance

2010.1.26
Dr. Erik Bakkers
Introduction to Nanowires

2010.1.21
Dr. Mark A. Reed, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering, Yale University
Molecular Transistors

2010.1.12
Prof.dr. Paul Koenraad
State of the Unit PSN

2010.1.8
Dr. Giulia Frucci
Quantum Transport in low-dimensional Si/SiGe and AlGaN/GaN systems