Self-organized Nanomaterials for tailored optical and electrical properties

 

 ABOUT NANOGOLD

NANOGOLD is a Framework Programme 7 project funded by the European Commission. The project was launched in August 2009 and it is going to run for 3 years.


The NANOGOLD project aims at the fabrication and application of bulk electro-magnetic metamaterials. We will apply self-organization of organic-inorganic composite materials containing resonant entities. To tune and optimize electromagnetic properties, resonance and interference at different length scales will be implemented. In such a way we will obtain bulk optical metamaterials with unprecedented properties operating in spectral domains appropriate for photonics that can be used in applications. Proof of principle devices will be the outcome of the project.

 NANOGOLD AT GLANCE                

Mission:  Fabrication and application of bulk electro-magnetic metamaterials.

Project Coordinator:  Toralf Scharf (Optics and Photonics Laboratory, EPFL)
                               email: toralf.scharf@epfl.ch

Web: www.nanogold.epfl.ch   

Contract number: NMP - 228455

Duration: 08/2009 - 07/2012

Partners:

  • Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Institute of  Microtechnology, Optics and Photonics Technology
  • University of Hull, Department of Chemistry, Liquid crystal and advanced organic materials group
  • Friedrich SchillerUniversityJena, Institute for Condensed Matter Theory and SolidState Optic
  • University of Patras, Department of Materials Science, Molecular theory group
  • University of Heidelberg, Physical Chemistry, Surface Spectroscopy and  Nanochemistry (08.2009 - 01.2011)
  • University of Calabria, Physics Department, Liquid Crystal Laboratory
  • The University of Sheffield, Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Supramolecular Structures Group
  • Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials - METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL
  • University of Geneva, Physical Chemistry Department, Surfaces Chemistry and Nanosciences Laboratory (02.2011 - 07.2012)

 

The NANOGOLD project is co-financed by the European Commission under the

Seventh Framework Programme.

 

Mid-Term Review meeting, Jena (D), January 2011

Back : Alexandros Vanakaras (UPAT), Vassilis Yannopapas (UPAT), Thomas Bürgi (UNIGE), Julie Lenoble Zwahlen (EPFL), Stefan Mühlig (JENA), Demetri Photinos (UPAT), Toralf Scharf (EPFL, coordinator)

Front: Carsten Rockstuhl (JENA), Goran Ungar (USFD), Georg Mehl (UHULL), Sergei Tretyakov (VI), X. Mang (USFD), Alastair Cunningham (UNIGE), Tobias Kienzler (JENA), Bai-Jia "Rocket" Tang (UHULL), José Dintinger (EPFL), "Eric" Chi-Hao Yu (UHULL), Roberto Caputo (UNICAL), Cesare Umeton (UNICAL)

General Assembly, Cetraro (I), June 2011

Sergei Tretyakov (VI), Georg Mehl (UHULL), Demetri Photinos (UPAT), "Eric" Chi-Hao Yu (UHULL), Goran Ungar (USFD), Chris Schubert (UHULL), Bai-Jia "Rocket" Tang (UHULL), Tobias Kienzler (JENA), Cesare Umeton (UNICAL), Houda Sellame (EPFL), Carsten Rockstuhl (JENA), Mohamed Farhat (JENA), Alastair Cunningham (UNIGE), José Dintinger (EPFL), Toralf Scharf (EPFL), Luciano De Sio (UNICAL), Ugo Cataldi (UNICAL), Roberto Caputo (UNICAL), Xiangbing Zeng (USFD)