Tuesday | May 29, 2012

GaN, graphene and other extreme materials of future electronics

Prof. Tomás Palacios

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
NIM_Palacios_29_05_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | May 22, 2012

Towards integrated quantum information photonics circuit: Fabrication and characterization of waveguide superconducting single photon detectors

Döndü Sahin

TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
NIM_SFB_631_Sahin_22_05_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | April 24, 2012

Analysis and design of binary message passing decoders

Prof. Gerhard Kramer

Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, TU München, Germany
Kramer_24_04_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | April 03, 2012

Efficiency of multi-exciton generation in colloidal nanostructures

Dr. Alexander L. Efros

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
NIM_SFB_631_Efros_03_04_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | March 13, 2012

The role of surfaces in the electronic and optical properties of nanowires and nanowire heterostructures

Dr. Yann-Michel Niquet

Institute for Nanosciences and Cryogenics (INAC), CEA Grenoble , France
NIM_Niquet_13_03_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Monday | March 12, 2012

Diamond nanophotonics

Birgit Hausmann

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
NIM_SFB_631_Hausmann_12_03_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Thursday | February 23, 2012

(Al,Ga,In)N/GaN-based heterostructures: Physics and devices

Dr. Patrick Waltereit

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, Freiburg, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Waltereit_23_02_12.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | February 07, 2012

Electronic recombination at c-Si/a-Si:H interfaces: g-tensor calculations for (quasi-)metallic systems

Dr. Uwe Gerstmann

Universität Paderborn, Germany
Gerstmann_07_02_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | January 31, 2012

Tailor-made molecules in physical experiments

Prof. Marcel Mayor

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland
NIM_Mayor_31_01_12.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | January 24, 2012

Processing diamond for devices towards neuro interfaces and implant fabrication

Dr. Philippe Bergonzo

CEA-Saclay, France
NIM_Bergonzo_24_01_12.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 20, 2011

Si and Ge nanowires as building blocks for novel devices

Dr. Alois Lugstein

Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU, Wien, Austria
NIM_SFB_631_Lugstein_20_12_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 13, 2011

Quantum optics with quantum dots in photonic nanowires: Basics and application to "ultrabright" single-photon sources

Prof. Jean-Michel Gérard

Institute for Nanosciences and Cryogeny, CEA, Grenoble, France
NIM_SFB_631_Gerard_13_12_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | December 06, 2011

Fundamental quantum optical hybrid-systems for nanophotonics: Photons, plasmons & nano-diamonds

Prof. Oliver Benson

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Benson_06_12_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Wednesday | November 30, 2011

InGaAs/GaAsSb: A new material system for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

Prof. Gottfried Strasser

Center for Micro- and Nanostructures and Institute for Solid-State Electronics, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria
NIM_SFB_631_Strasser_30_11_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | November 22, 2011

Growth of Sb-based semiconductor nanowires

Prof. Lucia Sorba

NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
NIM_SFB_631_Sorba_22_11_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | November 15, 2011

3D InGaN/GaN nanostructures: Building blocks of future light emitting diodes

Dr. Martin Strassburg

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Strassburg_15_11_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | October 04, 2011

Addressing phonons in semiconductor quantum dot-QED: Entanglement, non-equilibrium phonon, and photon distributions

Dr. Alexander Carmele und Julia Kabuß

Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Carmele-Kabuß_04_10_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum EG 0.001

Tuesday | July 19, 2011

Nanoscale imaging, optoelectronics, and plasmonics in mid-infrared

Prof. Mikhail A. Belkin

The University of Texas, Austin, USA
NIM_Belkin_19_07_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | July 12, 2011

Towards nano-MRI in mesoscopic transport systems

Prof. Martino Poggio

Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
NIM_SFB_631_Poggio_12_07_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | July 05, 2011

Optical gain in polar and semipolar (Al,In)GaN laser diodes

Prof. Ulrich T. Schwarz

Department Optoelectronic Modules, Fraunhofer IAF, Freiburg, Germany
NIM_Schwarz_05_07_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | July 05, 2011

III-nitride nanowires for optoelectronic applications: Growth and characterization

Dr. Raffaella Calarco

Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin, Germany
sonderseminar_calarco_05_07_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Monday | July 04, 2011

Surface-tethered (bio)macromolekular nanostructures for nanomechanical sensing and novel detection platforms

Prof. Stefan Zauscher

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, USA
SONDERSEMINAR_Zauscher.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Tuesday | June 28, 2011

Charge and spin sensing using self-assembled quantum dots

Dr. Mete Atature

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
NIM_SFB_631_Atature_28_06-11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | June 14, 2011

Optical networks and the utilization of semiconductor optical amplifiers

Prof. Franko Küppers

Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany
NIM_Küppers_14_06_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | June 07, 2011

Control and manipulation of spontaneous emission using dielectric and metallic nanostructures

Dr. Michael Kaniber

WSI & Zentrum für Nanotechnologie und Nanomaterialien, Technische Universität München, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Kaniber_07_06_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | May 31, 2011

Improving quantum cascade lasers with photonic band and electromagnetic engineering

Dr. Raffaele Colombelli

Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
NIM_Colombelli_31_05_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | May 31, 2011

Spatial emission structures and solitons in broad-area VCSELs

Dr. Thorsten Ackemann

University Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ackemann_31_05_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Friday | May 27, 2011

Optical devices using heterogeneous integration technology toward on-chip interconnection

Prof. Nobuhiko Nishiyama

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Nishiyama_27_05_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Thursday | May 26, 2011

Non-equilibrium dynamics of localized phonons in semiconductors: Isotope effects

Prof. Stefan K. Estreicher

Physics Department, Texas Tech University, USA
NIM_Estreicher_26_05_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | May 17, 2011

Detection and manipulation of quantum states in self-organized (InGa)As nanostructures

Prof. Axel Lorke

Faculty of Physics and CeNIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Lorke_17_05_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Friday | May 13, 2011

Exploring semiconductor functionality at extreme length scales: Macroscopic thermal spintronics and 3D nanowire heterostructures

Prof. Roberto C. Myers

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
NIM_SFB_631_Myers_13_05_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Tuesday | May 10, 2011

Spontaneous formation of nanostructures at surfaces

Prof. Klaus Wandelt

Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany
NIM_Wandelt_10_05_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | May 03, 2011

Semiconductor nanowires for future electronic devices

Dr. Heike Riel

IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
NIM_SFB_631_Riel_03_05_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum 0.001

Wednesday | April 13, 2011

From kinetic screening to thermodynamic characterization

Dr. Michael Schräml

Roche Diagnostics, Penzberg, Germany
NIM_Schräml_13_04_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | April 08, 2011

Optical characterization of organometallic molecules and of mesoscopic soft condensed matter structures

Dr. Emanuela Margapoti

Istituto per lo Studio del Materiali Nanostrutturati, Bologna, Italy
NIM_Margapoti_08_04_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum

Thursday | April 07, 2011

Electron spin manipulation in gate-defined GaAs and Si quantum dots

Dr. Lars Schreiber

TU, Delft, The Netherlands
NIM_SFB_631_Schreiber_07_04_11.pdf    

ZNN Seminarraum 0.001

Tuesday | March 01, 2011

Photonic crystal VCSELs for emerging applications

Prof. Kent D. Choquette

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Illinois, USA
NIM_Choquette_01_03_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Thursday | February 24, 2011

Quantum optics and electronics studies of single and coupled quantum dot structures

Dr. Gareth J. Beirne

Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Beirne_24_02_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum

Tuesday | February 15, 2011

Modelling electronic properties of core-shell nanowires

Dr. Guido Goldoni

Dipartimento di Fisika, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
NIM_SFB_631_Goldoni_15_02_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | February 08, 2011

NV centers in diamond for magnetic field sensing at the nanoscale

Dr. Friedemann Reinhard

3. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
NIM_Reinhard_08_02_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | February 01, 2011

Semiconductor sources of photon pairs

Prof. Gregor Weihs

University of Innsbruck, Austria
NIM_SFB_631_Weihs_01_02_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | January 18, 2011

Silicon photonics: A new technology platform to enable low cost and high performance photonics

Prof. Lorenzo Pavesi

Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy
NIM_Pavesi_18_01_11.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum

Tuesday | January 11, 2011

Quantum electrodynamics with quantum dots in photonic nanostructures

Prof. Peter Lodahl

DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark
Lodahl_11_01_11.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 14, 2010

Ultrafast nanoplasmonics: From nanoantennas to microinterferometers

Prof. Rudolf Bratschitsch

Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
NIM_Bratschitsch_14_12_10.pdf    

ZNN Seminarraum

Thursday | December 09, 2010

Huge metastability and reentrant phases in a magnetic two-dimensional hole system

Prof. Werner Wegscheider

Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
NIM_SFB_631_Wegscheider_09_12_10.pdf    

ZNN Seminarraum

Wednesday | December 08, 2010

Electrochemical bioanalysis using DNA and protein assemblies as recognition layer

Prof. Fred Lisdat

Biosystems Technology, University of Applied Sciences, Wildau, Germany
NIM_Lisdat_08_12_10.pdf    

WSI Seminarraum, S 101

Tuesday | December 07, 2010

A semiconductor deterministic bright source of entangled photon pairs

Prof. Pascale Senellart

Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures CNRS, Marcoussis, France
Senellart_07_12_10.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum

Tuesday | November 23, 2010

III-V semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronics

Dr. Lutz Geelhaar

Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Geelhaar_23_11_10.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | November 23, 2010

Nanotechnologies for spectroscopy at LLNL

Dr. Tiziana Bond

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
NIM_Bond_23_11_10.pdf    

ZNN, Seminarraum

Tuesday | November 02, 2010

Imaging particle plasmons using optical and electron microscopy

Prof. Ulrich Hohenester

Universität Graz, Graz, Austria
Hohenester_02_11_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | October 19, 2010

Infineon IMM (Industrie and Multimaket) Power Technologies in Villach

Dr. Lutz Görgens and Dr. Walter Rieger

Infineon, Villach, Austria
NIM_Görgens_Rieger_19_10_10.doc    

WSI seminarraum S 101

Friday | July 02, 2010

Microsphere resonator arrays for photonics and biomedical optics applications

Prof. Vasily Astratov

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
NIM_Astratov_02_07-10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum Container

Thursday | June 24, 2010

Role of exciton dephasing and background photons in a QD-nanocavity system

Dr. Takehiko Tawara

NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Tawara_24_06_10.doc    

WSI, Foyer

Tuesday | June 22, 2010

Optical detection and imaging at the single-photon level

Prof. Andrea Fiore

COBRA Research Institute, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Fiore_22_06_10.doc    

WSI Seminarraum S101

Tuesday | June 15, 2010

Rapid surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) diagnostic assays

Prof. Patrick Johnson

University of Wayoming, Laramie, USA
NIM_Johnson_15_06_10.doc    

WSI Seminarraum S101

Tuesday | May 25, 2010

Controlling single spins in diamond

Dr. Feder Jelezko

Univeristät Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Jelezko_25_05_10.doc    

WSI, Senarraum S101

Tuesday | April 27, 2010

Materials relevant for solar energy conversion: What can we learn from multi-frequency EPR?

Dr. Alexander Schnegg

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany
Schnegg_27_04_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S101

Tuesday | April 20, 2010

Nanoscale electro-thermal energy conversion devices and measurements

Prof. Ali Shakouri

Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
NIM_Shakouri_20_04_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum, S 101

Tuesday | February 16, 2010

Few-cycle THz studies of quantum cascade laser active regions and resonators

Prof. Karl Unterrainer

Photonics Institute and Centre for Micro- and Nanostructures, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Unterrainer_16_02_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | February 09, 2010

Graphene quantum devices

Prof. Christoph Stampfer

RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
NIM_SFB_631_Stampfer_09_02_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S101

Tuesday | February 02, 2010

Gradient force transduction and self-oscillation of nanomechanical resonators

Dr. Eva Maria Weig

Center for NanoScience & Fakultät für Physik, LMU, Munich, Germany
NIM_Weig_02_02_10.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Thursday | December 24, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Wavepacket modelling of mesoscopic transport

Dr. Tobias Kramer

Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | December 18, 2009 | 00:00 AM

Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in a two-dimensional trap

Prof. David W. Snoke

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 15, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Chemistry for nanopore analytics

Dr. Stefan Howorka

University College London, London, UK
NIM_Howorka_15_12_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 01, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Cavity quantum electrodynamics in quantum dot – Micropillar systems

Dr. Stephan Reitzenstein

Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
NIM_Reitzenstein_01_12_09.docx    

WSI S101

Tuesday | November 24, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Wavepacket modelling of mesoscopic transport

Dr. Tobias Kramer

Universität Regensburg, Germany

WSI, S101

Tuesday | June 23, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Quanteneffektbauelemente für Wärmebildkameras – Farbe im Infrarot

Martin Walther

Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik IAF, Freiburg, Germany

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | June 19, 2009 | 14:15 PM

Solitonic microlasers and polarization competition in broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Thorsten Ackemann

SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ackemann_19_06_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | June 16, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals: suppression of nonradiative Auger processes

Alexander L. Efros

Center for Computational Material Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | April 24, 2009 | 14:00 PM

Radiative cascades in semiconductor quantum dots

Prof. David Gershoni

Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
SeminarGershoni.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | March 20, 2009 | 13:00 PM

Electrical detection of surface plasmons and single plasmon sources

Dr. Frank Koppens

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Koppens.pdf    

Seminarraum, S 101

Thursday | March 05, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Control and readout of the electron spin of individual atoms in silicon

Dr. Andrea Morello

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Morello_05_03_09.pdf    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Spin dynamics in semiconductors: Manipulating spin by electric fields

Peter Schwab

FB Physik, Augsburg, Germany

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | February 03, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Selective excitation of single spins in a nanowire quantum dot

Maarten van Weert

Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, Netherlands
van_Weert_03_02_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Thursday | January 29, 2009 | 13:00 PM

From single-atom spectroscopy via lifetime enhanced triplet transport to Kondo physics in MOSFETs

Dr. Sven Rogge

Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Rogge_29_01_09.pdf    

WSI Seminar Room S101

Tuesday | January 27, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Photonic crystals: Properties, modeling and applications

Wolfgang Freude

Institute of High-Frequency and Quantum Electronics (IHQ), Karlsruhe, Germany

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | January 23, 2009 | 13:00 PM

Ultrafast, nonlinear, and quantum nanoplasmonics

Mark I. Stockman

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
NIM_Stockman_23_01_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | January 20, 2009 | 17:15 PM

Coherent optical control of semiconductor quantum dots

Andrew Ramsay

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ramsay_20_01_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Friday | January 16, 2009 | 13:00 PM

Indistinguishable photons from the resonance fluorescence of a single quantum dot in a microcavity

Serkan Ates

Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen, Stuttgart, Germany
Ates_16_01_09.doc    

WSI, Seminarraum S 101

Tuesday | December 16, 2008 | 17:15 PM

Optical control of a single manganese spin in a quantum dot

Dr. Lucien Besombes

CNRS, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France
NIM_Besombes_16_12_08.pdf    

WSI seminar room (S 101)

Wednesday | November 26, 2008 | 17:15 PM

Nanowire transistor arrays for bioelectronic applications

Prof. Dr. Sven Ingebrandt

University of Applied Sciences, Kaiserslautern, Germany

WSI seminar room (S 101)

Tuesday | November 04, 2008 | 17:15 PM

Semiconductor quantum dot single photon sources

Dr. Sven Höfling

Universität Würzburg, Germany

WSI seminar room (S 101)

Tuesday | February 26, 2008 | 13:00 PM

Licht aus Kristallen - Leuchtdioden erobern unseren Alltag

Dr. Stefan Illek

OSRAM, Regensburg, Germany

WSI seminar room (S 101), Am Coulombwall 3, Garching

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News at the WSI

14 May 2012

Two doctoral candidates from Walter Schottky Institut establish a new company   more

20 Mar 2012

Researchers at the Walter Schottky Institut demonstrate versatility of solid-state protein sensor   more

01 Dec 2011

CeNS publication award for L. Prechtel et al.   more

02 Nov 2011

Rohde & Schwarz Award for Jia Chen   more

24 Oct 2011

Prof. Jonathan Finley receives Prize for Good Teaching 2010 from the Bavarian Ministry for Science, Research and Arts.   more

Forthcoming seminars

May 29, 2012

GaN, graphene and other extreme materials of future electronics   more

May 22, 2012

Towards integrated quantum information photonics circuit: Fabrication and characterization of waveguide superconducting single photon detectors   more