Optical Nanotechnology / Nano-Optics

Institute of Physics - Karl Franzens University Graz

Group leader Joachim R. Krenn



Our research program is devoted to the investigation of the physical concepts of a subwavelength light technology (Nano-Optics), mainly based on plasmonic excitations in metal nanostructures and including molecules, quantum dots and porous silicon.

Our experimental methods include scanning near-field optical microscopy, electron-beam-lithography, micro-absorption, fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy, nonlinear optics and femtosecond laser techniques.

Associated to our group is the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Nanoscale Research which screens the results of our research for technological applications.


    NEWS

    January 16-20, 2012: Yang Zhang from our ARTIST project partner group in Orsay joins us for a week of lab work: Welcome!

    Dezember 12-14, 2011: Nordin Felidj and Johan Grand from ITODYS, Univ Paris 7 join us for a brief research visit: Welcome!

    October 7, 2011: Our most popular papers, Opt. Commun. 220, 137 (2003) and Opt. Lett. 23, 1331 (1998) have reached more than 500 citations (source: Web of Knowledge).


News Archive

Poster Archive
High-resolution plasmon leakage microscopy
Optics Express 19, 25749 (2011)
Elastomer waveguide attenuator
Appl. Phys. B 104, 931 (2011)

Particle plasmon sensing
Optics Express 19, 9213 (2011)
Energy transfer in 2D quantum dot aggregates, Phys. Status Solidi 208, 710 (2011)
Nanoparticle roughness
Phys. Rev. B 83, 081412(R) (2011)


J.R.Krenn 20.1.2012