Lightmatters
The Mann lab


 

Research. What determines the properties of matter, like its color? Textbooks will tell you that these properties are due the interactions among and between electrons and phonons, and that photons play no role.

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. If you are interested, please see if there are vacancies available or reach out.

     
News
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:


To see a full list of publications, click here.

      
Team. Lightmatters is led by Dr. Sander Mann, assistant professor in physics at the van der Waals-Zeeman Institute at the University of Amsterdam. To learn more, 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 
Email: s.mann at uva.nl
Twitter: sander_mann

Address click here.