Iliyan Karadzhov, ESR1of the Nano-Glass project, recently attended the American Vacuum Society’s (AVS) 70th annual meeting. The scientific event took place in Tampa, Florida, from November 3rd to 8th, 2024.
Susana Plascencia, an early-stage researcher (ESR 4) within the NANOGLASS project, has joined LuxQuanta for a three-month secondment, her third secondment since she joined the NANOGLASS project. This stay will provide Susana with the opportunity to make significant progress in her individual research project on “Quantum memories based on rare-earth doped materials.”
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Iliyan Karadzhov (ESR1) has embarked on his third and final secondment at Corning Incorporated. This new training phase began on July 1st and continued though the end of the year at Corning’s Sullivan Park Research and Development facility.
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A team of researchers from ICFO and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) from Sweden reports on APL Photonics the first demonstration of a photon pair source based on a silicon core fiber. The novel platform offers a unique combination of low propagation losses, high nonlinearity and compactness making it a promising candidate for scalable quantum applications.
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A team of researchers from ICFO and Corning Incorporated has developed a new method for fabricating anti-reflective (AR) surfaces achieved through nano-structured surfaces using a lithography-free process. The innovative method, described in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, utilizes thermally dewetted silver as an etching mask to create nanohole structures on glass surfaces, significantly reducing light reflection.
A team of ICFO and Corning Incorporated researchers reports in Communications Materials journal the development of a durable and transparent antimicrobial surface containing copper nanoparticles. The nanostructured surface was obtained by dewetting ultrathin metal copper films on a glass substrate.
Three of the four NANO-GLASS project’s early-stage researchers (ESRs) are currently undertaking their second secondment at Corning’s Sullivan Park Research and Development facility in NY, USA. Alessia Mezzadrelli (ESR2), Davide Rizzotti (ESR3), and Susana Plascencia (ESR4) have embarked on this exciting journey.
Alessia Mezzadrelli , a NANOGLASS early stage researcher, recently debuted on the international stage by participating in the NANOP 2023 (Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics International Conference) in Barcelona from November 27 to 29.
Iliyan Karadzhov, early-stage researcher of the NANO-GLASS project (ESR1), attended the 69th American Vacuum Society (AVS) International Symposium & Exhibition. The event was held at Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, between 5-10 November 2023. Karadzhov presented a poster in the Advanced Surface Engineering section. The poster, entitled “Multifunctional optical surfaces using scalable nanostructuring”, offered an overview of his present Individual Research Project (IRP), focused on finding new ways to nanotexture optical glass to confer several useful properties on it at once. Besides presenting the poster, the ESR1 was able to attend talks on spectroscopic ellipsometry, thin films, surface science and technology.
The arrival of November not only marked the onset of a new month but also heralded a significant double academic milestone for the NANO-GLASS project. In detail, two of its early-stage researchers (ESRs), Alessia Mezzadrelli and Susana Plascencia, stepped into the spotlight to unveil their respective thesis proposals. Specifically, these presentations took place on November 3rd and November 6th, respectively. Moreover, the presentations served as a public platform, thereby providing these two young researchers with an opportunity to share their in-depth research and meticulously crafted plans to successfully achieve their individual research projects (IRP) goals
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement nº 956419