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OMEL was established in 2010 to develop and investigate optical materials that exhibit new physical phenomena.

OMEL welcomes David Seda

March 2024. OMEL welcomes David Seda as a new Doctoral student. David obtained his Master’s degree in Micro- and Nanosystems from ETH Zürich. He completed his Master's Thesis investigating advanced sensing fibers at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Yoel Fink. Previously, he worked on “Nanoimprint Lithography of Optical Fourier Surfaces” at OMEL, discovering his interest in optics in addition to his passion for nanofabrication.

“Congratulations to Muriel Haug and Hannah Niese, this year’s winners of the 2023 Barry Service Award of OMEL.”

“DownloadThe Barry Service Award (PDF, 38 KB) of OMEL recognizes team members who selflessly contribute to the well-being of the group. It was established in 2016 and is named after the mountain rescue dog external pageBarry der Menschenretter (1800–1814), arguably the most famous St. Bernard who ever lived. According to legend, he saved over 40 lives from treacherous alpine conditions.”

Congratulations to Alexander Hernández Oendra

November, 2023. Alexander successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Low-Dimensional Metal-Organic Chalcogenide Semiconductor Nanocrystals Synthesis, Characterization, and Modification of Optical Properties”. Congratulations.

Congratulations to Deepankur Thureja

August, 2023. Deepankur successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Electrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons”. Congratulations.

Recent Publications

external pageUnderstanding Optical Gain: Which Confinement Factor is Correct?

M. Aellen, D. J. Norris

ACS Photonics 9 (11), 3498-3505 (2022).

external pageElectrically tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons

D. Thureja, A. Imamoglu, T. Smoleński, I. Amelio, A. Popert, T. Chervy, X. Lu, Song Liu, K. Barmak, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. J. Norris, M. Kroner, P. A. Murthy

Nature 606 (7913), 298-304 (2022).

external pageNanophotonic Approach to Study Excited-State Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

A. Cocina, R. Brechbühler, S. J. W. Vonk, J. Cui, A. A. Rossinelli, H. Rojo, F. T. Rabouw, D. J. Norris

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 4145–4151 (2022).

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We utilize nanotechnology to create and investigate advanced optical materials not found in nature. Our goal is to study their fundamental properties and explore their use in new optoelectronic devices.

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