October 31, 2018
New group member Marek Kozoň
Marek Kozoň is starting as a new member at COPS. He will work on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Maxwell Equations under supervision of Prof.dr.ir. J.J.W. van der Vegt and Prof.dr. W.L. Vos.
October 27, 2018
STW Perspectief project “Free form scattering optics” kicked off!
The STW perspectief project “Free form scattering optics” had its kick-off meeting on Friday 26th October, 2018. The project, led by Willem Vos (COPS) and Wilbert IJzerman (TUe & Signify) is a collaboration between academic partners from the TU Delft, the TU Eindhoven and the UT (COPS) with several industrial partners. The meeting took place […]
October 24, 2018
New group member João Martins
João Martins is starting as a new group member and will work on the optical measurements of near-infrared emitting quantum dots and will study the impact of the Förster resonance energy transfer on the lifetimes of the emitters.
September 10, 2018
COPS bachelor student Jelle Kuyper graduated
On August 24, COPS bachelor student Jelle Kuyper graduated with a colloquium on his bachelor thesis “Nonreflecting boundary conditions for electromagnetic scattering problems”.
September 3, 2018
New PhD student Shweta Pal
Shweta Pal has started her PhD project on photon management in solar cells guided by Rebecca Saive.
September 3, 2018
New group member Marnix Rebergen
Marnix Rebergen is starting as a new group member and will work on the fabrication of effectively transparent contatcts in close collaboration with ETC Solar.
August 21, 2018
COPS participating in the Kick-In events
COPS is organizing three games for the Optical Golf as part of the Kick-In events. The activities will be from 28th till 29th of august.
August 20, 2018
UTwente spins-off solar high tech company ETC Solar B.V.
As of July 2018, the University of Twente and the Mesa+ institute welcome a new member to the spin-off family, continuing the remarkable success of the most entrepreneurial university. The high tech solar company ETC Solar B.V. was founded by Thomas Russell (Caltech, TU Delft graduate), Rebecca Saive (Assistant Professor at UT/COPS), and Harry Atwater […]
August 15, 2018
Tristan B.H. Tentrup awarded degree of doctor
Tristan has successfully defended his thesis with the title “HIGH-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM COMMUNICATION” on 20th July 2018 and has been awarded the degree of doctor (Ph.D.). The topic of the thesis is secure quantum communication in free-space line-of-sight applications and multimode fibers by exploiting the high dimensional spatial hilbert space for better security. The work was […]
August 3, 2018
Patent on “Optical key protected authentication and encryption” granted
A patent application on the special materials that make stable optical Physical Unclonable Functions by Pepijn Pinkse and Allard Mosk in collaboration with scientists from Schott AG, Germany, was granted by the European patent office. The patent was published under number EP 3 252 740 B1 and the official title is “Optical key protected authentication and encryption”
July 25, 2018
Veni grant Jelmer Renema
Jelmer Renema, a postdoc in the COPS group, has obtained a Veni grant from the Dutch funding agency NWO, to work on quantum photonics.
July 13, 2018
New PhD student Mario Vretenar
Mario Vretenar starts as a new PhD student at COPS. In his master thesis, Mario has worked on an optomechanical particle detector. Under the supervision of Jan Klaers, he will now work on complex systems of coupled photon Bose-Einstein condensates which can be employed as analog optimizers to solve computationally hard problems. It is expected […]