Congratulations to Prof. Giacomo Scalari, who has been elected as a Fellow of Optica. He now joins the ranks of just over 2,800 Optica members who have received this distinction.
The award recognizes his pioneering contributions to the field of light-matter interactions in the strong-coupling regime, leveraging terahertz and mid-infrared radiation.
Read the full press release from ETH Zürich at the link below.
Our study done in collaboration with the group of Professor Eugene Demler, entitled "Casimir stabilization of fluctuating electronic nematic order," has been published in in Nature Communications.
This article builds on ongoing work in the group studying the interaction of vacuum fluctuations with quantum materials, focusing on the Casimir stabilization of fluctuating electron nematic order.
Our collaborators from EPFL published their work, entitled "Metasurface-enhanced mid-infrared imaging spectroscopy with broadband quantum cascade lasers" in Nature Communications.
Providing the QCLs used in this study and collaborating to install them in the setup was a great opportunity, and we're very happy to see the results are finally out!
Congratulations to Diego Piciocchi for winning the poster prize at IQCLSW 2026! The conferece took place from June 29 to July 03, 2026, in Séte, France.