Optics Research Group, Faculty of Applied Sciences
| Institute: | Delft University of Technology |
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| Address: |
Lorentzweg 1 2628 CJ Delft Netherlands |
| Website: | http://www.tudelft.nl/ |
| Contact person | Braat Joseph |
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Description
Delft University of Technology provides top-level technical and scientific education in a great number of disciplines. In order to do so, high-quality and innovative research is a pre-requisite. The research conducted by TU Delft is internationally respected by the scientific community as well as the business community. It is research that has determined the image of technical and scientific developments in the Netherlands since 1842. TU Delft wishes to function as an internationally prominent technological university, both in the field of education and in the field of research. The university is committed to the major social and technical scientific problems and challenges. It contributes to finding solutions for, and wishes to be appealed to in these matters.
The University of Delft offers sixteen distinct programmes of study, two part-time programmes, and a host of post-graduate courses. The Master of Science International Programme of TU Delft offers ten condensed engineering courses in the English language. Approximately eight per cent of the 13,000 students at TU Delft come from abroad. Well over 2,100 scientists work at TU Delft, including 200 professors.
Delft University of Technology desires to play an active role in the European integration of teaching and research activities. To this goal, the university participates in the European Leuven-network, consisting of the following university members including TU Delft:
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen (RWTH)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
- Imperial College of Science and Technology London (ICL)
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL)
- Groupement des Grandes Ecoles, Paris:
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP),
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM),
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP),
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA),
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (TELECOM),
- Ecole Nationale des Ponts et des Chaussées (ENPC)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Research at TU Delft is conducted by faculties, research schools, and research institutes. Annually, the research at TU Delft leads to an average of 185 dissertations and well over 3,350 scientific publications. TU Delft has selected 10 interdisciplinary technology themes that form the spearheads of its research. The themes are at the basis of seventeen interdisciplinary research programmes that were started in 1997 and 1998 at Interfaculty Research Centres, the DIOCs. TU Delft is also active in the field of research schools. Of particular importance for the research in this proposal is the research school DIMES (Delft Institute for Microelectronics and Submicron Technology). The subjects within this research school are, apart from device physics and design, the patterning of nano-structurs using electron beam pattern generation.
The Optics Research Group is part of the Department of Applied Physics. In this department, research groups are active in the fields of acoustics and seismics, nanophysics, charged particle optics, fluids sciences and transport phenomena, quantum transport, computational and theoretical physics. The optics research group focuses on teaching and research in the field of applied optics. Our aim is to pursue high-level research in the field of optical instrumentation and optical technology. Key areas of research are optical aperture synthesis, next-generation lithography and micro-optics. The group is participating in two EU-sponsored projects: CALCORR (LR, 4th framework) and APEX (optical communication technology).
The Optics Research Group is part of the Department Imaging Science & Technoloy which in turn is part of the faculty of Applied Sciences of Delft University of Technology. The teaching and research of the group focuses on wave propagation and imaging in various spectral regions that extend from TeraHertz frequencies to the Extreme Ultraviolet. Actual research topics are related to Extreme UV lithography, optical aperture synthesis, optical recording and Terahertz imaging. The group collaborates with TNO-TPD via the Knowledge Centre Optical Aperture Synthesis, an institute founded by Delft University and TNO.
Regarding its expertise in the field of micro-optics, at this moment the group is carrying out research on the design and detection/inspection of subwavelength structures with optical data storage as a possible application. Superresolution techniques and waveguiding probing are studied to achieve high-density and high-data-rate information retrieval. The group has state-of-the-art inspection means (SNOM and AFM microscopes) and has developed its own upgrades for amplitude and phase detection of scattered fields. In parallel, modelling activities are carried out using both commercial and in-house developed software.
