Ultrafast Bio and Nanophotonics
The Ultrafast Bio- and Nanophotonics group is devoted to the study of light-matter interactions and its use to develop technologies that impact the societal challenges wellbeing, safe & secure society as well as an urban society.
Research lines:
- Development and application of advanced bioimaging and sensing technologies
- Development of photonic integrated devices
- Single-molecule detection for quantum photonics
We are using optical labels to track smart drug delivery systems, and other innovative nanomaterials in interaction with cells and biological tissues using advanced fluorescence and nonlinear spectroscopy e.g. to measure intracellular temperature.
We use and develop new imaging techniques such as super-resolution microscopy techniques and light sources, such as quantum and plasmonic LEDs.
Our femtosecond laser sources can be used for laser-based micro-nanofabrication, e.g. of photonics crystals or 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering using two photon polymerisation.
Nonlinear multi-photon FLIM imaging modes are developed for deep tissue and cell metabolic studies.
Join the Ultrafast Bio- and Nanophotonics group!
We invite motivated students from the Bioengineering, Physics, Chemistry and related areas to contact us for possibilities to conduct research internships or #master projects in our group!
Highly motivated PhD candidates and postdocs with nanophotonics research experience, please contact jana.nieder@inl.int for further information on funding opportunities (e.g. #FCT grants, #Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship grants and others) to join the team.
Projects
Publications
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3D Polymer Architectures for the Identification of Optimal Dimensions for Cellular Growth of 3D Cellular Models
POLYMERS, 2022Room-temperature emitters in wafer-scale few-layer hBN by atmospheric pressure CVD
FLATCHEM, 2022Spike propagation in a nanolaser based optoelectronic neuron
, 2022Cellular Interaction of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Polymer and Hydrogel 3D Microscaffold Templates
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2022Design and manufacture of an all-polymeric integrated multimode interferometer for visible photonics
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2022Emerging Optical Materials, Devices and Systems for Photonic Neuromorphic Computing feature issue (vol 12, pg 1214, 2022)
OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS, 2022Emerging Optical Materials, Devices and Systems for Photonic Neuromorphic Computing: introduction to special issue
OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS, 2022Resonant Tunneling Diode Nano-Optoelectronic Excitable Nodes for Neuromorphic Spike-Based Information Processing
PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, 2022Spectral imaging and nucleic acid mimics fluorescence in situ hybridization (SI-NAM-FISH) for multiplex detection of clinical pathogens
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2022Spectral-temporal luminescence properties of Colloidal CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots in relevant polymer matrices for integration in low turn-on voltage AC-driven LEDs
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2022Surface Passivation of III-V GaAs Nanopillars by Low-Frequency Plasma Deposition of Silicon Nitride for Active Nanophotonic Devices
ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 2022Two-photon polymerization simulation and fabrication of 3D microprinted suspended waveguides for on-chip optical interconnects
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2022 -
All-Dielectric Synthetic-Phase Metasurfaces Generating Practical Airy Beams
ACS NANO, 2021Design and Fabrication of 3D Interconnects for Photonic Neuronal Networks Using Two-Photon Polimerization
2021 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO), 2021Highly-efficient GaAs/AlGaAs Nanopillars and NanoLEDs via SiNx Surface Passivation
2021 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE & EUROPEAN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC), 2021Lipid Nanosystems and Serum Protein as Biomimetic Interfaces: Predicting the Biodistribution of a Caffeic Acid-Based Antioxidant
NANOTECHNOLOGY SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS, 2021Photonic polymeric structures and electrodynamics simulation method based on a coupled oscillator finite-difference time-domain (O-FDTD) approach
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2021Ultra broadband few cycle laser pulses for simultaneous multi-color fluorescence microscopy applications via the SyncRGB-FLIM method
ADVANCES IN MICROSCOPIC IMAGING III, 2021Ultra-broadband few-cycle laser pulses for advanced multi-color FLIM-microscopy
2021 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE & EUROPEAN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC), 2021Magnetic Field Mapping Around Individual Magnetic Nanoparticle Agglomerates Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION, 2021 -
Efficient light extraction in subwavelength GaAs/AlGaAs nanopillars for nanoscale light-emitting devices
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2020NanoLEDs for energy-efficient and gigahertz-speed spike-based sub-lambda neuromorphic nanophotonic computing
NANOPHOTONICS, 2020CLeANFIT - Contact-Less Axial Nearfield-Based Fluorescence Imaging Topography: A Method for 3D Micro- and Nanotopography Characterization
ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES, 2020Multi-beam two-photon polymerization for fast large area 3D periodic structure fabrication for bioapplications
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2020Physical Limits of NanoLEDs and Nanolasers for Optical Communications
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, 2020Prediction of paclitaxel pharmacokinetic based on in vitro studies: Interaction with membrane models and human serum albumin
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS, 2020Mapping intracellular thermal response of cancer cells to magnetic hyperthermia treatment
NANOSCALE, 2020Environmentally friendly luminescent solar concentrators based on an optically efficient and stable green fluorescent protein
GREEN CHEMISTRY, 2020Fabrication and characterization of luminescent Pr3+ doped fluorapatite nanocrystals as bioimaging contrast agents
JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE, 2020Mode-field switching of nanolasers
APL PHOTONICS, 2020 -
Graphene setting the stage: tracking DNA hybridization with nanoscale resolution
2D MATERIALS, 2019Differences in the optical properties of valve and girdle band in a centric diatom
INTERFACE FOCUS, 2019GFP fluorescence peak fraction analysis based nanothermometer for the assessment of exothermal mitochondria activity in live cells
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2019Resonant Tunneling Diode Photonics
, 2019SyncRGB-FLIM: synchronous fluorescence imaging of red, green and blue dyes enabled by ultra-broadband few-cycle laser excitation and fluorescence lifetime detection
BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS, 2019Phasor-assisted nanoscopy reveals differences in the spatial organization of major nuclear lamina proteins
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH, 2019 -
Photochromic control of a plasmon-quantum dots coupled system
NANOSCALE, 2018Plug and Play Anisotropy-Based Nanothermometers
ACS PHOTONICS, 2018Structure-based optics of centric diatom frustules: modulation of the in vivo light field for efficient diatom photosynthesis
NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 2018Nonvolatile Reconfigurable Phase-Change Metadevices for Beam Steering in the Near Infrared
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 2018The UV filtering potential of drop-casted layers of frustules of three diatom species
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2018Purcell Effect in the Stimulated and Spontaneous Emission Rates of Nanoscale Semiconductor Lasers
IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 2018