Joint work with the group of Philippe Tassin on realizing a quasi-bound state in the continuum in a cavity optomechanical system has now been published in Phys Rev B. This work analyzes simple experimental setups how to realize a high optical Q optomechanical microcavity. Thanks to the great work by Cindy!

We welcome Paul to our lab who joins the maglev team as a PostDoc. He will join our efforts in coupling the motion of levitated particles to superconducting circuits. Excited to see the first signals! Good luck!

Our paper describing new results related to the two-dimensional material heterobilayer system of MoSe2/WSe2 has been published in Nature communications, read it here.

We have found two types of localized exciton emissions in this heterobilayer system, where we attribute one of them to defect-localized excitons and the other one to moiré-localized excitons. Moreover, at strong excitation and elevated temperatures we observe emission originating from biexcitons – for the first time.

Congrats to this exciting work, mainly to Hanlin, who was the major driving force behind the project! A wonderful collaboration with the groups of Ermin Malic, Sanshui Xiao, Zhipei Sun, and Saroj Dash!

Fabian joined the 794. WE-Heraeus-Seminar in Bad Honnef on Exploiting Levitated Particles in the Quantum Regime. He presented our work on levitating superconducting microparticles. Great to join the levitation community!

Our work on microcavity-based optomechanics got published in Optics Express. Congrats to the team, a wonderful and essential collaboration between experiment and theory.

Our work shows that we get optomechanical effects beyond “canonical optomechanics” in a cavity optomechanical systems that confines light to micron-scale length with the help of a photonic crystal mirror and DBR. Have a read here.