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Pore-spanning membranes (PSMs) provide a highly attractive model system for investigating fundamental processes in lipid bilayers. We measure and compare lipid diffusion in the supported and suspended regions of PSMs prepared on a microfabricated porous substrate. Although some properties of the…

In 2013, a summer school on Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics was held at Les Houches, France. The book covering many of the lectures is now available!

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Congratulations! During the 2018 DPG spring meeting in Berlin, Mahdi Mazaheri won the EPL poster award of the DPG biological physics division. The title of the poster is: "High-speed imaging of rotational diffusion of a gold nanorod on a supported lipid bilayer".

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Cellular secretion of proteins into the extracellular environment is an essential mediator of critical biological mechanisms, including cell-to-cell communication, immunological response, targeted delivery, and differentiation. The field of secretomics has thus emerged in the past decades in an…

Strong light-matter interactions at the single emitter-level have been so far achieved via narrowband cavities with very high quality factors (Q) or via plasmonic nanoantennas at the cost of significant radiation quenching in the metal. In this work, we propose an unexplored mechanism for…

Nanoscopic sources of photons, switches, and memories are in high demand as building blocks for quantum optical networks. Equally important are solutions for efficient “wiring” of these elements. An attractive approach to address these issues is to couple solid-state quantum emitters to a…