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Photonics Initiative Seminar: Rainer Hillenbrand
February 3, 2026 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Rainer Hillenbrand, CIC nanoGUNE Polaritonic Insights from Near-field Nanoscopy: Flat-Band Ultrastrong Coupling and Plasmons in Gold Monolayers Abstract - Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and nanoscale Fourier-transform infrared (nano-FTIR) spectroscopy probe light–matter interactions at the nanoscale using the sharp tip an atomic force microscope (AFM) as an optical antenna. The illuminated tip generates Read More
Photonics Initiative Seminar: Itai Cohen
February 9, 2026 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Itai Cohen, Cornell University Electronically Integrated Autonomous Microscopic Robots Abstract - What would we be able to do if we could build electronically integrated machines the at a scale of 100 microns? At this scale, semiconductor devices are small enough that we could put the computational power of the spaceship Voyager onto a machine Read More
Photonics Initiative Seminar: Javier Garcia De Abajo
February 19, 2026 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Javier Garcia De Abajo (ICREA)