Taminiau, Tim Hugo (Date of defense: 2011-11-22)
The interaction of light with matter is a central topic in both fundamental science and applied technology. At the heart of this interaction lies the absorption or emission of a photon by an electronic ...
Mkhitaryan, Vahagn (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Photonics is a key enabling technology for many applications ranging from communications to energy and medicine. Its success is largely relying on our capability to appropriately control light in optical ...
Meng, Lijun (Date of defense: 2018-12-11)
Surface plasmons, which are characteristic oscillations of induced charges at metal surfaces that can interact strongly with light, are a key topic in nanophotonics. It can tightly confine the optical ...
Ghosh, Dhriti Sundar (Date of defense: 2012-10-11)
Transparent electrodes (TEs) are the essential elements of many optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, touch screens, organic LEDs, and LCDs. Consequently demand for TEs is growing very steeply and ...
Svozilík, Jiŕí (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
Non-classical correlations, usually referred as entanglement, are ones of the most studied and discussed features of Quantum Mechanics, since the initial introduction of the concept in the decade of ...
Martínez Saavedra, José Ramón (Date of defense: 2018-12-10)
Nanophotonics is one of today’s basic sciences and technologies: an in-depth understanding of the interaction between light and matter on the nano-scale, besides its intrinsic associated scientific ...
Yu, Renwen (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
In this thesis, we aim to explore several novel designs of nanostructures based on graphene to realize various functionalities. We briefly introduce the fundamental concepts and theoretical models used ...
Ortega. M, María A. (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
Nowadays cancer is a devastating illness, so its early diagnosis could represent a powerful advantage in the struggle to eradicate it. The most recent technologies allowed the development of sensing ...
Schwender, Jill (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and ...
Napolitano, Mario (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
In this manuscript we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of quantum-noise-limited measurement by nonlinear interferometry, or from another perspective, quantum-noise-limited ...