Microphotonics

News:

• 2025-05-08: Max Yan will take part in programme committee of PhotonicSweden's annual conference "Optics & Photonics in Sweden conference 2025", to be held in Kista, Stockholm, during 21-23 October.
• 2025-04-24: Together with RISE scientist Oskars Ozolins, we have secured a "SSF Research Institute PhD student" grant on hollow-core fiber technology for 3.25 MSEK.
• 2025-04-09: Microphotonics group recuits one PhD student, one postdoc (by employment), and one postdoc (by scholarship), all on development of hollow-core fiber. (Deadline for PhD position is extended to May-19)

Current and previous research projects:

• Hollow-core optical fiber
• Thermal-emission based IR light source
• Passive radiative cooling
• Near-field enhanced radiative heat transfer
• Metamaterial-based terahetz hollow waveguide
• Photonic integrated circuit
• Cellulose-based optics and photonics
• Surface/bulk acoustic wave for microwave filter

Sponsors:

• VR (The Swedish Research Council)
• Vinnova (The Swedish Innovation Agency)
• SSF (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research)
• ÅFORSK (The ÅForsk Foundation)
• STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and High Education)
• KEMPE (The Kempe Foundations)
• ESA (European Space Agency)

Previous group members:

• 3 postdocs
• 2 PhDs as main supervisor (currently one is working at ASML, The Netherlands, and the other at Apple, San Jose, USA) 
• 10 PhDs as co-supervisor (3 are ongoing at KTH)
• 1 Licentiate as co-supervisor
• 10+ Master students