Nano-Optics News

Even in the quantum world, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Scientists will investigate this collective behaviour of quantum systems in a new Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (CRC/TR) of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Among them: numerous working groups from the Max Planck…

Congratulations! On November 19, 2020, Yazgan successfully defended his doctoral PhD thesis on “Electrostatic Trapping and Anomalous Diffusion of Gold Nanoparticles“

Congratulations! On November 13, 2020, Daqing received the German Physical Society (DPG) dissertation award (AMOP Section) for his dissertation “Coherent Coupling of a Single Molecule to a Fabry-Perot Microcavity“.

DPG Dissertation Awards Winners

Partial cloaking of a gold particle by a single molecule: In an interview with "Welt der Physik", Johannes Zirkelbach explains exactly how this effect works.

Welt der Physik

Physics Today wrote an article about one of our newest publications.

Nanoparticle turns partially transparent

In fruitful collaboration with the group of Charles Adams in Durham, we have developed a nanoscopic vapor cell. Our first paper has just appeared at Physical Review Applied and was also selected as Editor’s Suggestion. 

Physical Review Applied