Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy and Tomography

Collaborators

• Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry
  Dr. Rainer Hillenbrand is spending his sabbatical at the University of Rochester to apply near-field Raman microscopy for nanoscale imaging of plasmon resonant nanostructures. Further he wants to combine tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and scattering-type near-field infrared spectroscopy. His nano-photonics group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry is developing and applying latter for chemical and structural nanoscopy and to study phonon polaritons on nanostructured surfaces .
  
  
• Infineon Technologies AG
  Dr.Jesper Wittborn, failure analysis expert for Infineon, and his company are highly interested in subsurface microscopy and are currently exploring areas for future collaboration. See a picture of his latest visit in Rochester here.
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania/Bioengineering
  Dr. John Schotland's research is focused on theoretical optical physics with applications to biomedical imaging and nano-optics. Areas of current interest include optical tomography, optical imaging of nanoscale systems, and the use of quantum states of light for optical imaging. Inverse problems, particularly inverse scattering problems, are a unifying theme which connects these areas. See a picture of his latest visit in Rochester here.
  
  
• FEI
  Michael Burns is the corporate contact at FEI, where lenses are fabricated on the back side of of Si substrates using their laser assisted etching technique.
  
  
• IBM Burlington
  In collaboration with IBM, the NAIL technique developed by Unlu has been implemented and surpasses the state-of-the-art imaging capabilites of the semi-conductor industries and sets new standards for optical resolution in "through-substrate" imaging.
  

Recent Conferences

• Nanophotonics '05
• Surface Plasmon Photonics 2