Research Areas

• 1. Nano-optics (experimental)

   

  With our home-built apertureless scanning near-field optical microscope (aSNOM), we

  • Record eigenmodes
  • Map emission patterns

  on materials such as:

  • Nano-plasmonic structures
  • Meta-materials
  • Quantum dots
  • Laser diodes

• 2. Nano-optics (simulations)

   

  With the multiple-multipole (MMP) method, we simulate the optical behavior of structures relevant to our experiments, both in near and far-field.

• 3. Green Functions and LDOS Simulations

   

  Modeling of general phenomena that can be done with the Green functions formalism:

  • Scattering phenomena
  • Density of states

  This applies to a variety of fields:
  

  • (Near-field) optics
  • Electronics
  • Acoustics

• 4. Solid-State Spectroscopy

   

  During my Ph.D. work, I acquired a variety of standard optical spectroscopy methods, most importantly:

  • Raman spectroscopy
  • Brillouin spectroscopy
  • Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy

• {Inactive}

   

  Former members of the research group are usually listed as "inactive", when they do not participate anymore in the ongoing research of our group.