Lightmatters
The Mann lab
We are here to show that light in matter... matters. By structuring the material using nanophotonic engineering, light can play a dominant role in many material properties! This is well-known for the color: strong coupling between a material transition and an optical resonance results in a dramatically altered absorption spectrum. In the Lightmatters group we are extending this light-matter paradigm far beyond the color of a material: to thermal conductivity and topological order, for example. If you are interested, please see if there are vacancies available or reach out.
September 12th, 2024 Sander will give an invited talk at Metamaterials in Crete, Greece, on thermal radiation in complex systems.
September 19th, 2024 The Dutch newspaper NRC interviewed Sander about an article in Science Advances on Feline eye-inspired artificial vision.
Publications. Some recent papers from the group are:
- Broadband topological slow light through Brillouin zone winding, Physical Review Letters 127 (2021).
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Nonreciprocal Cavities and the Time-Bandwidth Limit, Optica 6 (2019).
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Intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces for high-contrast ultra-fast power limiting and optical switching, npj Nanophotonics 1 (2024).
To see a full list of publications, click here.
Vacancies. We are enthusiastically looking for a PhD student to join the group! The project focuses on manipulating thermal conduction in and thermal radiation from (meta)materials.
Contact
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