Seminar: "Optical Antennas for Single Emitters"

Optical Antennas for Single Emitters
Tim H. Taminiau, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, Spain)

Thursday, June 3rd
4pm in Barus and Holley 190

Brief Biography: Tim Taminiau is a visiting researcher in the Division of Engineering at Brown University. Tim received his M.Sc. in Applied Physics from the University of Twente in 2005, and is currently completing his Ph.D. with Professor Niek van Hulst at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain. During his graduate studies, Tim has also had visiting appointments at the California Institute of Technology and the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM). In 2008, Tim gave a keynote presentation at the 10th International Near-Field Optics Conference, and in 2009, he was an invited speaker at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Meeting and the Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS). His extensive work on enhancing and redirecting single molecule and quantum dot emission with optical antennas has been published in Nano Letters, Nature Photonics, and Physical Review Letters.