August 25, 2025
Ocid Oosting’s successful BSc thesis Presentation
Last week, Ocid Oosting succesfully finished his Bachelor project at COPS! Ocid prepared his report entitled ‘Quantum dot emission in silicon 2D photonic crystals’ under supervision of Timon Vreman and Willem Vos, and we thank Kasper Wenderich (PCS) for being external examiner. Ocid prepared samples in the chemical lab, and performed experiments in the optical […]
July 29, 2025
COPS impact at the European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) in Delft
After the summer holidays, COPS will enthusiastically participate at The European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) in DELFT in Delft, 24-28 August. COPS will proudly present 8 exciting talks and posters, including numerous collaborations with the Langevin Institute (ESPCI, Paris) and the CNRS-LPMMC laboratory in Grenoble. Do come visit us and let’s have fun talking […]
July 11, 2025
Saxion Project Students complete their internship
Anouk ‘t Erve and Nyo Dijkstra have finished their projects on inkjet printing of colloidal suspensions, looking at the formulation of the suspension and surface pretreatment respectively. On Thursday 10 July they gave their final presentations in the COPS group meeting followed by a poster session at Saxion Enschede Well done to both and best […]
June 27, 2025
Recap of COPS’ impact at CLEO-Europe, Laser World of Photonics 2025
COPS has had a very exciting and successful time at CLEO Europe. Presenting 5 posters and 5 talks, including an epic sprint between lectures (check out the COPS YouTube soon). Missed us at CLEO? Don’t worry, we will also bring an impressive collection to EOSAM in Delft 24-28 Aug. Come see us there.    
June 19, 2025
COPS presentations at CLEO-Europe and Laser World of Photonics 2025 congress
This week (23-27 June), COPS will enthusiastically participate at CLEO-Europe and the Laser World of Photonics 2025 congress in sunny Munich (Germany). COPS is proud to present 10 exciting talks and posters, including numerous collaborations with the Langevin Institute (ESPCI, Paris) and the CNRS-LPMMC laboratory in Grenoble. Do come visit us and let’s have fun […]
June 19, 2025
Looking through opaque materials at NWO Teknowlogy (Utrecht)
June 19 COPS took the wavefront shaping demo setup to NWO Teknowlogy in Utrecht. As part of the innovation market, COPS used wavefront shaping to focus through scattering materials to demonstrate the power of the technique to a diverse audience.
June 11, 2025
Saxion Professional Assignment Students have started
Three second year chemistry students have begun their Professional Assignments at COPS. Anouk van ‘t Erve is working on inkjet printing of colloidal suspensions and how changing the composition of the suspension affects the print. Nyo Dijkstra is working on how pre-treating or modifying a surface will affect inkjet printing of colloids. Ellemieke de Heij […]
March 26, 2025
New exchange program between Kyoto Institute of Technology and COPS
It is a pleasure to announce a new chapter to the fruitful collaboration between the groups of Dr. Shun Takahashi from Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT, Japan) and COPS. The collaboration notably highlighted a three month sabbatical stay by Prof. Takahashi at COPS (see here) and joint research published in Physical Review (see: Tajiri2020, Takahashi2023). […]
March 13, 2025
COPS PhD Defence Andreas Schulz – March 14 2025
Andreas Stefan Schulz has successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 14 2025 in the Waaier 4 at the University of Twente. From UTwente News: PhD Defence Andreas Schulz | Spontaneous emission of precisely positioned quantum dots in 3D silicon photonic band gap crystals Andreas Stefan Schulz is a PhD student in the Complex Photonic […]
February 11, 2025
COPS logo on an apple pie!
Have you every wondered what an apple pie with our beautiful COPS logo tastes like? We found out! It tastes as delicious as it looks.
January 31, 2025
Saxion International Projectweek 2025 Student Projects hosted at COPS
This week Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede held its 2025 International Projectweek: This is a large vibrant event where many teams of enthusiastic students are offered challenges to “sink their teeth in”. As part of the Projectweek, COPS staff Geert Kamphuis, Melissa Goodwin, and Willem Vos proposed and supervised projects in optics, mechanics, […]
Image of the wavefront shaping demo setup at Physics at Veldhoven 2025
January 29, 2025
NWO Physics (in Veldhoven) 2025
NWO Physics 2025 was a great success: We have presented two posters, a talk, a photo, and a wavefront shaping demo setup to 1500 physicists! Here is a picture of the demo: It was fun to present a demo that contains real physics. Thanks to everyone for the nice interactions*, and we hope to see […]