Block, Alexander (Date of defense: 2019-09-06)
Heat transport in solids is one of the oldest problems in physics, dating back to the earliest formulations of thermodynamics. The classical laws of heat conduction are valid as long as the observed ...
Woessner, Achim (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)
Plasmons are charge oscillations coupled to electromagnetic radiation. One of their most intriguing properties is their deep subwavelength confinement resulting in strongly enhanced light-matter ...
Hancu, Ion Michael (Date of defense: 2019-01-18)
The emission and detection of light is a main pillar of both fundamental research and the advancement of modern technologies. From digital communications and quantum computing to novel cancer treatments ...
Noyan, Mehmet Alican (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
Liquid and solid repellent surfaces are key to many industries. For example, construction industry benefits from self-cleaning windows, cements, paints, roof tiles, and corrosion resistant surfaces, ...
Volpe, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2012-05-10)
El control dinámico y determinístico de la luz en una escala espacial por debajo de la longitud de onda es un requisito clave para ampliar los conceptos y las funcionalidades de la macro-óptica hasta ...
Neumann, Lars (Date of defense: 2012-04-18)
Un tema central en la ciencia y la tecnología es la exploración y explotación de sistemas cada vez más pequeños por medio de técnicas ópticas. A menudo, la longitud de onda viene dictada por el sistema ...
Curchod, Florian John (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
This thesis focusses on the essential features of Quantum Theory that are systems in an entangled state and Bell nonlocal correlations. Here, we take the angle of a resource theory and are interested ...
Ricci, Francesco, 1987- (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Levitodynamics addresses the levitation and manipulation of micro- and nanoresonators with the purpose of studying their dynamics. This emerging field has attracted much attention over the last few years ...
Wolter, Benjamin (Date of defense: 2018-02-26)
One of the grand challenges of modern science is to image chemical reactions and biological functions while they are taking place. To realize these molecular movie, experimental techniques need to resolve ...
Supic, Ivan (Date of defense: 2018-09-19)
The last two decades have been a very fruitful period for the fundamental research related to quantum information theory. Today we have a fairly good understanding of how intrinsically quantum properties ...