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Every year the Scientific American publishes the “The Top 10 Emerging Technologies” of the year. This year the, the research on metalenses is among these emerging technologies. For several years, our group is studying these new kinds of lenses that have only the thickness of a fraction of a human hair and several interesting properties.

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Universität Paderborn und Beijing Institute of Technology kooperieren auf dem Gebiet der optischen Technologien zur Realisierung Nanophotonischer Elemente.

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[Translate to English:] Foto (Universität Paderborn, Besim Mazhiqi)

After a one year research stay in our group Bingyi Liu is leaving us for finishing his PhD at Harbin Institute of Technology in China. We wish him a successful graduation.

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Our group participates in the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar in the "Physics Center" Bad Honnef on ultrafast quantum phenomena in the near-field.

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Prof. Schmid und Prof. Zentgraf erläuterten in einem öffentlicher Abendvortrag die Bedeutung der Forschung der Physik-Nobelpreisträger 2018 im Bereich der Laserphysik.

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Clarivate Analytics, known for their internet platform Web-of-Science, announces the Highly Cited Researchers List 2018, a list of elite scientists and social scientists identified through analysis of highly cited papers. In the category "Cross-Fields" Professor Zentgraf is listed as one of the most cited researchers.

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At this years Commencement Ceremony, Daniel Frese, Rene Geromel and Felicitas Walter received their certificates. We like to congratulate all three group members and wish them still much success for their future career.

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We welcome our new guests Tianyou Li (Beijing Institute of Technology) and Teanchai Chantakit (Kasetsart University) and wish them a pleasent stay at UPB.

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Dr. Sergey Kruk from the Australian National University is visiting our group in Paderborn. He will join our reseach on optical metasurfaces for a period of three weeks.

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Winner of the award for the best master's thesis in the field of natural and engineering sciences M.Sc. Philip Georgi.

The University Society awarded the prize for the best Master Thesis in the subject Natural Science and Engineering to Philip Georgi. The prize was handed over at the New Years reception of the University Paderborn.

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After sucessful installation our new OPA laser system is in operation. For future experiments we will have access to even shorter laser pulses over a wide tuning range.

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Scientific exchange about current research topics in the field of nano optics at the NANOP conference in Barcelona.

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We welcome Florian Spreyer and Sophia Thies as new group members.

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Fuyong Yue (left) from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Satayu Suwannasopon (right) from the Kasetsart University in Bangkok.

Fuyong Yue from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Satayu Suwannasopon from Kasetsart University in Bangkok spend some weeks in our group to work on their PhD projects.

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Our review article about nonlinear metasurfaces is now published in Nature Reviews Materials. The article gives an overview of the recent research in the field of optical metasurfaces for the control of nonlinear light propagation and generation.

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