News
21.03.2022 - New Article in Science
Kudos to Felice, Josephine and alumni Gian-Lorenzo for their outstanding working on Quantum Hall Effect! The article can be found hereexternal page
09.02.2022 - Pr. Faist elected to the US National Academy of Engineering!
Prof. Faist was elected at external page US National Academy of Engineering as an international member, recognising his "contributions to the development of mid-infrared & terahertz quantum cascade lasers". Congratulaion! Please also see the external page original Tweet from the Physics Department of ETH.
25.01.2022 - IQCLSW is back for its 2022 edition!
The conference IQCLSW, organized by our group, will take place in 2022 from the 23rd to the 28th of August at ETH Zürich and in Monte Verità. Don't miss out and check our website to know more about the dates for the submission process!
24.01.2022 Visit our students in Photonics West!
From RF injected THz QCLs to generation of fs pulses with mid-IR QCLs, do not hesistate to chat with our students: David Stark, Philipp Täschler, Barbara Schneider, Paolo Micheletti, Urban Senica and Andres Forrer!
15.01.2022 Low threshold QCL in Nature Communications
Check out our latest work on ultra-low threshold QCLs, using small volume devices and wavefront engineering, published in external page Nature Communications. A milestone on the path towards compact QCLs for portable applications. Congrats Zhixin and Filippos !
16.12.2021 Highlight as most read featured article!
Congratulations to Filippos Kapsalidis whose paper is among the most read papers this year! Link from APL external page here.
13.12.2021 Cover of Laser & Photonics Review
Our recent work on "Controlling Quantum Cascade Laser Optical Frequency Combs through Microwave Injection" has been selected to be on the cover. Congratulation Barbara! More info external page here.
03.09.2021 Best Student Presentation Award IRMMW 2021
Congratulations to Shima Rajabali (1st place) and Zhixin Wang (3rd place) for winning Best Student Presentation Awards at IRMMW-THz 2021.
10.08.2021 Exploring the limits of light–matter coupling at the nanoscale
In nanophotonic devices, light and matter can be coupled in ways that give rise to new quantum phenomena. Theoretical and experimental work now establishes that are physical limits to just how strong light–matter coupling can be made in such systems.
Check out our recent work on external page Nature Photonics by Shima Rajabali and her collaborators. Also recommend to read the press release.
15.07.2021 New appointments at EPFL
Dr Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus (*1988), currently Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Electrical and Micro Engineeringin the School of Engineering. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus conducts research into photonics with an emphasis on the development of transducers for terahertz and sub-terahertz frequencies. Her work has applications in areas that include metrology, THz frequency control and THz signal generation. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus is well known for her innovative ideas in the wider field of nanotechnology. Her research, both fundamental and applied, presents a remarkable opportunity for EPFL and will have significant implications for new optical technologies.
08.04.2021 Best Student Presentation Award of CLEO/Europe EQEC 2021
Congratulations to Shima Rajabali on winning external page Best Student Presentation Award in CLEO/Europe EQEC 2021.
09.03.2021 Department news
Our recent work got selected as the news of ETH Zurich Physics Department: Lights on for silicon photonics
17.02.2021 Featured article on APL
external page "Mid-infrared quantum cascade laser frequency combs with a microstrip-like line waveguide geometry" got selected as the featured article by external page Applied Physics Letters.
31.08.2020 One week to IQCLSW2020
Only one week to IQCLSW2020, an online meetup with tutorials, keynotes and invited speakers on quantum cascade lasers and related topics.
12.05.2020 Prof. Jérôme Faist selected as IEEE fellow
Prof. Jérôme Faist is elevated to IEEE fellow for his contributions to quantum cascade lasers and infrared QCLs.
20.03.2020 COVID-19 for Physict: why we should act decisively
Prof. Jérôme Faist presented his opinions and comments on the actions against COVID-19.
Please refer to the page: https://qoe.ethz.ch/education/covid.html for more information.
06.03.2020 Dr. Scalari appointed as professor of ETH
At its last meeting, Dr. Giacomo Scalari from QOE Group, is appointed by the ETH Board as the one of the 19 new professors at the request of the President of ETH Zurich, Joël Mesot.
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Giacomo Scalari!
Please refer to the website: https://www.phys.ethz.ch/news-and-events/d-phys-news/2020/03/new-appointments.html for more information.
06.03.2020 Dr. Scalari appointed as professor of ETH
At its last meeting, Dr. Giacomo Scalari from QOE Group, is appointed by the ETH Board as the one of the 19 new professors at the request of the President of ETH Zurich, Joël Mesot.
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Giacomo Scalari!
Please refer to the website: https://www.phys.ethz.ch/news-and-events/d-phys-news/2020/03/new-appointments.html for more information.
06.09.2019 Get ready for IQCLSW 2020!
It is our great pleasure to hold the QCL workshop IQCLSW on September 6 - 11 th 2020 at Monte Verita, Switzerland.
Please refer to the website: https://iqclsw.phys.ethz.ch/ for more information.
05.09.2019 Outstanding Student Paper Awards IRMMW 2019
Congratulations to Felice Appugliese and Shima Rajabali for winning Outstanding Student Paper Awards at IRMMW-THz 2019.
28.08.2019: METAS Metrology Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Ileana Cristina Benea Chelmus for winning the METAS Metrology Prize at the 2019 SPS Meeting, "for her excellent work in terahertz quantum optics with ultra short pulses".
19.07.2019: Young Researcher Award
Kudos to Gian Lorenzo Paravicini for winning the Young Researcher Award at the 21st International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures for the paper "Magneto-transport in 2DEG ultrastrongly coupled to a cavities vacuum-field". Congratulations for this outstanding result!
12.07.2019: The THz QCL is getting hotter
Thanks to a strong optimization of the 2-well design of the THz Quantum Cascade Laser, Faist team overcame the "barrier" of the 200 K and managed to operate a THz QCL up to 210.5 K as shown in a external page recently published paper. The paper has also been cited by Optics & Photonics news at the following external page link.
25.06.2019: 2019 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize for fundamental aspects
The Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) assigned the prestigious EPS-QOED Thesis Prize for fundamental aspects to Ileana Cristina Benea-Chelmus for the outstanding results on "Terahertz quantum optics with ultra-short pulses" she achieved during her PhD in our group. Kudos to Cristina! More details at the following external page link.
12.04.2019: sciencealert.com talks about the last scientific news of Faist group
We are glad to see that our last results on external page Vacuum Field Fluctuations attracted the attention of sciencealert.com's staff. Please, enjoy the reading of a divulgative and precise explanation of our research on external page sciencealert.com.
10.04.2019: A new technique to measure Electric Field Fluctuations is now on Nature
Congratulations to Ileana Cristina Benea-Chelmus and Francesca Fabiana Settembrini for the outstanding work carried on the vacuum field fluctuations and now published on Nature with the title external page Electric field correlation measurements on the electromagnetic vacuum state. Need a quick intro to the topic? Listen to Cristina's podcast at this external page link!
12.02.2019: Prof. Jérôme Faist wins the Julius Springer Prize
We are proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Faist has won the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics and his incredible contribution to the development of the Quantum Cascade Laser. Read more about the motivation at the following external page link.
05.02.2019: Best student paper award at SPIE Photonics West 2019
Congratulations to Francesca Fabiana Settembrini for her excellent result and achievement at external page SPIE Photonics West 2019, where her presentation titled "Direct field correlation measurements on THz modes with sub-unity photon occupation number" has been awarded with the Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics Best Student Paper Award. Kudos to Fabiana!
31.01.2019: A Nature Physics to start the year
Congratulations to Gian Lorenzo Paravicini Bagliani and Felice Appugliese for their outstanding job titled "Magneto-transport controlled by Landau polariton states" and recently published on Nature Physics. Read more about it external page here!
12.09.2018: Outstanding student paper at IRMMW THz 2018
Congratulations to Janine Keller for winning the outstanding student paper award thanks to her work titled "Critical mode softening in ultra-strong coupling of Landau level transitions to THz metamaterials beyond the Hopfield model" at the external page IRMMW THz 2018 conference in Nagoya, Japan.
18.05.2018: Another Cover for the Faist Group
Thanks to the brilliant efforts of our PhD students, Yves Bideaux and Filippos Kapsalidis, the inside front cover of Laser & Photonics Review is signed by the Faist group. Find external page here the cover and the related article.
08.04.2018: Nature cover features Faist group collaboration
The cover of external page Nature Volume 556 Issue 7699 features the result of a joint collaboration involving the University of Paris Diderot, the University of Leeds and the QOE group of ETH Zürich. Read the article at the following external page link.
21.08.2017: Keynote talk at IRMMW 2017 by Ileana Cristina Benea-Chelmus
Ileana Cristina Benea-Chelmus, PhD student in Quantum Optoelectronics group, will give a keynote talk entitled Quantum Theory Of Fast Electro-optic Correlations at the external page IRMMW Conference starting on August 27th in Cancun, Mexico.
12.05.2017: European Phys. Society thesis prize for Faist group graduate
Gustavo Villares, a recent graduate of the Faist group received the thesis prize of the external page Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society for his thesis on Quantum cascade laser frequency combs for spectroscopy applications. Congratulations to the winner!
05.03.2017: Faistgroup on Twitter
You can now also stay in touch with the Faist group through our Twitter account Faistgroup_ETH at external page https://twitter.com/Faistgroup_ETH. Looking forward to being in touch!
02.02.2017: Two best paper awards for Faist group at SPIE Photonics West
Two members of the Faist group won Best paper awards at this year's Photonics West. Congratulations to Janine Keller (best paper in "Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXI" ) and Cristina Benea Chelmus (best paper in "Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications X")!
30.01.2017: Faist group Spin-off IRsweep releases first commercial mid-IR frequency comb spectrometer
The ETH Spin-off company IRsweep released the first commercial mid-IR spectrometer at at SPIE BiOS/Photonics West. You can find more about the instrument at the external page company homepage.
20.01.2017: ETH medal for Gustavo Villares
Congratulations to Gustavo Villares, who received the ETH medal for this Ph.D. thesis on QCL combs for spectroscopy applications. The medal is awarded by the rector of ETH for outstanding theses.
19.12.2016: Giacomo Scalari receives ERC consolidator grant
Giacomo Scalari will use his ERC Consolidator Grant to create on-chip, self-referenced frequency combs operating in the THz spectral range, where there is currently no compact comb source available. These devices will be appealing for metrology and material inspection, non-invasive imaging for medical applications, and wireless communication. Giacomo is one of three recipients of an ERC consolidator grant at ETH.
03.10.2016: Article published in OPTICA
New results about "Short pulse generation and mode control of broadband terahertz quantum cascade lasers" were published in OPTICA in collaboration with TU Vienna. Read all the details in the external page full text article.
30.09.2016: IRMMW-THz 2016 Best Student Presentation Awards go to Markus Rösch (1st) and Gian Lorenzo Paravicini Bagliani (3rd)
Two faist Gruop members were among the winners of the 'Best Student Presentation Awards' at IRMMW-THz 2016 in Copenhagen. Congratulations to the winners Markus Rösch (1st prize) and Gian Lorenzo Paravicini Bagliani (3rd prize). Find more information at external page http://www.irmmw-thz2016.org/.
30.09.2016: IRMMW-THz 2016 Best Poster Award goes to Janine Keller
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Janine Keller, who won the Best Poster Award at the external page IRMMW-THz 2016 conference in Copenhagen.
13.09.2016: Invited presentation about ultra-strong coupling in LC cavities at IRMMW-THz 2016
Gian-Lorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani will give an invited presentation about Gate tunable Magneto-Plasmon ultrastrongly coupled to LC cavity at IRMMW THz 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark end of September. Find out more at external page http://www.irmmw-thz2016.org/.
13.09.2016: Invited presentation about ultra-strong coupling in LC cavities at IRMMW-THz 2016
Gian-Lorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani will give an invited presentation about Gate tunable Magneto-Plasmon ultrastrongly coupled to LC cavity at IRMMW THz 2016 in Copenhagen end of September. Find out more at external page http://www.irmmw-thz2016.org/.
03.07.2016: Faist group member honoured at TST 2016
Ph.D. Student Janine Keller is honoured at the external page 5th EOS Topological Meeting on Terahertz Science & Technology (TST2016) for her oral presentation "Ultra-Strong coupling with spin-split heavy-hole cyclotron resonances in strained Ge quantum wells". Congratulations!
30.06.2016: Conference paper price at "New Terahertz Sources and Emerging Applications"
The award of the "Rank Prize Funds" at the symposium "New Teraherrtz Sources and Emerging Applications" for "Best short paper" was awarded to Faist group Ph.D. student Markus Rösch. The symposium took place 13.06-16.06 in Grasmere, UK.
01.06.2016: Recent work on THz QCL combs highlighted in Nature Photonics
The recent Faist group publication external page Appl. Phys Lett. 108, 171104 (2016) got highlighted by Nature Photonics: "Now, Markus Rösch and colleagues from ETH Zurich have developed an on-chip THz dual-comb set-up that does not require a fast detector. Two THz QCLs were processed next to each other by dry-etching techniques on the same chip and connected individually to two current sources."
28.02.2016: Best paper award at Photonics West
The best student paper award at the conference "Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications IX" at Photonics West 2016 went to Faist group member Cristina Benea Chelmus for her paper "external page Measuring intensity correlations of a quantum cascade laser around its threshold at sub-cycle timescales". Congratulations!