Metasurfaces for strong light-matter coupling
Prof. Jaime Gómez Rivas
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jaime recieved a phd from the University of Amsterdam, and did a postdoc at the Institute of Semi-conductor Technology at Aachen University. He then moved back to Amsterdam to become the leader of the Nanowire Photonics Group at the FOM institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) before accepting a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2016. Jaime is co-fouder of the TeraNova company (teranova.nl). Jaime is a pioneer in the utilization of metal nanoparticle arrays for strong light-matter coupling, and investigates how molecular electronic transitions interact with electromagnetic fields to form hybrid light-matter states. By coupling molecules to nanoparticles arrays, he and his team have demonstrated polariton lasing and condensation at room temperature as well as enhanced exciton propagation (in collaboration with us). He currently focusses on so-called bound states in the continuum (optical modes without any loss) both in the visible and at THz frequencies.
