We recently demonstrated evidence of non-radiative energy transfer mediated and boosted by the polaritonic states under the regime of strong coupling. When the donor and acceptor molecules are placed in a cavity, to form hybrid light-matter states with the vacuum field, the rate of energy transfer is multiplied by a factor of 7 compared to the situation outside the cavity. This work has just been published in Angewandte Chemie and you can read it here
Shaojun Wang has left Strasbourg after more than 4 years in our team, for a postdoctoral position in the group of Pr Gomez Rivas at DIFFER in Eindhoven. We wish him and his family all the best for the future !
A new year is starting and we wish all the best to our past and present collaborators all around the world ! To start on a good basis, we welcome two new postdoctoral researchers in our group this week :
The first one, Robrecht Vergauwe, is not an unknown as he already spent a month with us last autumn. He prepared his PhD (entitled Study of the conformational dynamics of the von Willebrand factor with single molecule fluorescence microscopy) in Leuven under the supervision of Johann Hofkens and defended in 2014. He is back now for a longer stay and will share his time between our team and Vladimir Torbeev’s group for a project at the interface with biology.
The second one,Stefano Azzini defended a PhD in physics in Pavia in 2013 and specialized himself on optical properties of micro and nano cavities integrated in semi conductors. He then joined Joël Bellessa’s group in Lyon at Institut Lumière-Matière for a first postdoctoral position. If you have any question about entangled photons or Tamm plasmons, please come and meet him !
Aurélien Drezet, who was a postdoc in our group in 2007-2008, now (and since 2008) chargé de recherche in Néel Institute in Grenoble, is visiting us for two days. He will give a seminar tomorrow, the 14th of October, at 2pm in ISIS, entitled Plasmonic Leakage Microscopy : classical, quantum and chiral aspects.
Our paper entitled Conductivity in organic semiconductors hybridized with the vacuum field has been published online in Nature Materials yesterday. We show that one can enhance the mobility of carriers, and thus the conductivity, in organic semiconductors, by placing them under the strong coupling regime.
A News and Views in the same edition is also highlighting our work. Congratulations to all our co-workers !
We are pleased to announce the PhD defense of Shaojun Wang on Friday September 11. His work, entitled Strong light-molecule coupling: routes to new hybrid materials, has been performed under the supervision of Pr. Ebbesen. The defense will take place at the Salle des thèses, Nouveau Patio on Esplanade Campus, at 10am.
The pot de thèse will then take place at the 6th floor of ISIS.
Related to this and to the venue of two external jury members, Mikael Käll (Chalmers University in Göteborg) and David Norris (ETH, Zürich) there will be a mini-symposium Labex NIE on Thursday 10. at 2pm at IPCMS (more information)
Atef Shalabney who was a postdoc for two years and a half in our group will fly back in Israël next Saturday. We wish him and his family good luck for the future !
Dr. Hidefumi Hiura, from Smart Energy Research Laboratory at NEC Corporation, will join our lab as a visiting scientist from May 15. and for two months. If you wish to meet him, please note that he will be installed in the 106 room of ISIS.