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Monday, 05 October, 2015

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Dr. Alexander Urban joins CeNS as a new extraordinary member

 

Alexander Urban studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He obtained his PhD in 2010 from the LMU Munich at the Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics of Professor Jochen Feldmann working on optothermal manipulation of phospholipid membranes and optical printing. In 2011 he joined the Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) at Rice University, Houston, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Professor Naomi Halas. Here he continued to study plasmonics, focusing on steam generation in plasmonic suspensions and three-dimensional clusters of metallic nanoparticles. In 2014 he returned to the Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics at the LMU Munich as a group leader. As such, his current research interests are still in plasmonics, but also in novel, exciting light-emitting nanoparticles, such as carbon dots and organic/inorganic perovskite nanocrystals. His group uses optical spectroscopy to investigate the fundamental properties of nanocrystals, and learn how to exploit them for application ranging from photodetectors and solar cells to LEDs and lasers.

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