The second issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including twelve research articles covering all aspects of light-matter interactions.
About Eva Rittweger
Eva is one of the editors for Advanced Optical Materials. Her responsibilities also include peer-review editing for Advanced Materials and the Macromolecular Journals. She studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and the University of California Berkeley. After her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for biophysical chemistry in Göttingen, she worked at the German cancer research center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.
Plasmonic Response of Metal-Infiltrated Protein Crystals
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Scientists at the University of Southampton find strong absorption in metal-infiltrated crystals, which they assigned to localized surface plasmon modes.
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Advanced Optical Materials publishes first issue
February 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The first independent issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including a review on magnetoplasmonics as well as ten excellent, original research articles.
Recent Trends in Shape-Memory Polymers
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Trend article by Andreas Lendlein discusses the main synthetic challenges of designing shape-memory polymers.
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Single Polymer Chain Folding – A Review
January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
C. Barner-Kowollik highlights the most recent progress in the area of single polymer chain folding, aimed at mimicking natural biomacromolecules.
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Maximum Resolution through Solid Immersion
December 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Stefan Hell and co-workers have achieved maximum spatial resolution in far-field optical imaging by applying solid immersion lenses to stimulated emission depletion microscopy.
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Advanced Optical Materials Issue 4
November 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Issue 4 of Advanced Optical Materials covers optical cloaking, holography, lithography, and more. All articles are free to read.
Highly Unidirectional Emission from Ultrahigh-Q Microcavities
October 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A new type of on-chip microcavities has been realized, which features both highly unidirectional emission and ultra-high-Q factors in the near infrared.
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Towards Quantum Dot Lasers with Temperature Independent Threshold
October 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Carefully engineered CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum dots show an almost constant amplified spontaneous emission threshold over a temperature range from 5–325 K.
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Near-Field Enhancements along Ring-Shaped Nanostructures
September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The near-field enhancement on the surface of ring-shaped gold nanostructure becomes homogeneous through circularly polarized light.
