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The system, manufactured by\u00a0<a title=\"Woollam website - opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jawoollam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J.A. Woollam<\/a>\u00a0is a unique tool that allows for the rapid determination of the linear opical properties (refractive index, absorption coeffient, depolarization factors, anisotropy) in a wide wavelength range spanning the UV, VIS, and NIR ranges (210nm-1690nm). For more information on this instrument, please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/laboratory\" target=\"_self\">Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a68668 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0a68668\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/2011-m2000-mapping-spectroscopic-ellipsometer-768x293.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1956\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/2011-m2000-mapping-spectroscopic-ellipsometer-768x293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/2011-m2000-mapping-spectroscopic-ellipsometer-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/2011-m2000-mapping-spectroscopic-ellipsometer-1024x390.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/2011-m2000-mapping-spectroscopic-ellipsometer.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f43f1ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f43f1ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"font-size-sm\"><i>M2000 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer with focusing optics.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-599148a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"599148a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Oleksandr Savchyn receives the CREOL Student of the Year Award.<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Thursday 4\/2\/2009<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfc15c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cfc15c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/studentoftheyear2009-768x410.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1957\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/studentoftheyear2009-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/studentoftheyear2009-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/studentoftheyear2009-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/08\/studentoftheyear2009.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e31935 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e31935\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"font-size-sm\"><i>David Hagan, Oleksandr Savchyn, and Bahaa Saleh (Dean) during the award ceremony.<\/i><\/span><\/p><p>On Thursday April 2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/kik\/people\" target=\"_self\">Oleksandr Savchyn<\/a>\u00a0received the 2008-2009 CREOL Student Of The Year Award for his research on silicon sensitization of of erbium in silicon-rich SiO2. The award was given for the high quality research as well as for his general dedication to science. As the winner of the award, Alex presented his research results in front of 150 visitors at the\u00a0<a title=\"AD2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/Partnerships\/Affiliates\/AffiliatesDay2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009 CREOL Affiliates Day<\/a>.<\/p><p>Alex&#8217; research topic focuses on the use of silicon nanocrystals as an optical sensitizer for erbium ions in silica. Erbium ions exhibit a well known optical transition at 1.5 um used for gain and lasing in the telecommunications industry. When Alex started his work it was commonly assumed that the effective optical absorption cross-section of erbium ions (Er3+) could be dramatically enhanced by co-doping Er doped SiO2 with silicon nanocrystals. A large collection of publications in top journals by many independent research groups appeared to support this view. While Alex&#8217; initial task was to optimize Er and Si doped SiO2 for gain applications, his consistently thorough data collection and analysis posed some difficult questions. The wealth of high-precision results on erbium and Si nanocrystal emission lifetimes, intensities, and absorption cross-sections that he collected pointed to a major problem with models proposed in the literature. Alex was able to take seemingly contradictory results and develop a new theory that attributes a large part of the Er sensitization to Si-related luminescence centers in the SiO2, not to Si nanocrystals as was previously thought. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html#2007-savchyn-prb\" target=\"_self\">publication in Physical Review B<\/a>, Alex and his collaborators at UCF demonstrated that this new model could account for many of the existing observations in the literature. His findings have recently been corroborated by an independent research group who used atom tomography to arrive at the same conclusion.<\/p><p>Since his initial findings, Alex has published another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html#2008-savchyn-prb\" target=\"_self\">extensive Physical Review B publication<\/a>\u00a0on the effect of hydrogen passivation on silicon-sensitized Er excitation in SiO2, as well as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html#2008-savchyn-apl\" target=\"_self\">Applied Physics Letters publication<\/a>\u00a0detailing the temporal dynamics of the Er excitation in this material. A fourth article is currently under review for publication in Applied Physics Letters, and additional studies on gain measurements on this material are ongoing. Importantly, his theory opens up new avenues for achieving optical gain in a silicon-based optical material, and will likely have a major impact on this research field.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eddb543 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eddb543\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>NSF CAREER Award for Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics group<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Thursday 2\/1\/2007<\/span><br \/><br \/>On February 1, 2007, the Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics group was awarded an NSF Career award for the program &#8220;CAREER: Silicon Compatible Hybrid Nanophotonic Systems&#8221;. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program offers the National Science Foundation&#8217;s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.<br \/><br \/>The proposed work aims to advance the field of silicon photonics by taking advantage of the unique optical properties of nanostructured materials. Silicon photonics is a rapidly developing technology that will replace existing copper interconnects on computer chips with optical interconnects. This radical change in chip design promises to dramatically increase the performance of computers by increasing data transfer speeds and reducing the thermal load on electronic circuits. The success of silicon photonics relies on the integration of on-chip light sources and miniature optical waveguides. The main goals of this research program are the development of nanostructured semiconductor light sources and nanoscale metal waveguides for integration into the silicon photonics platform. The light source will consist of semiconductor elements and rare earth ions, embedded in silica based oxides. The electronic properties of the non-stoichiometric oxides enables efficient excitation of the rare earth ions, resulting in the emission of 1.53 um light that can be used to transport information. Additionally, nanoscale waveguides based on the use of charge waves or surface plasmons will be fabricated. The hybrid integration of these two nanophotonic optical elements could play a central role in silicon photonics.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Nanoscale focusing with &#8216;perfect lens&#8217; demonstrated.<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Wednesday 11\/08\/2006<\/span><br \/><br \/>In 2000 it was predicted by Professor Pendry at Imperial College (UK) that a thin metal film could act as a unique type of lens that could produce images with a resolution better than the diffraction limit. The prediction appeared to contradict generally accepted theories, and caused significant discussion in the scientific community. In a recent experimental study\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#grady\" target=\"_self\">Grady Webb-Wood\u00a0<\/a>performed direct measurements of the focusing effect using a thin gold film as the metal lens. In these studies the tip of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/laboratory.html#nsom\" target=\"_self\">near-field microscope<\/a>\u00a0is used as a nanoscale light source. We demonstrate optimum focusing at a frequency coinciding with the localized surface plasmon wavelength, as predicted by theory. For more information, have a look at the article\u00a0<a title=\"Perfect lens abstract\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html#2006-perfectlens\" target=\"_self\">publications section<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>UCF participating in three new MURI awards<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Thursday 03\/02\/2006<\/span><br \/><br \/>Reported by the\u00a0<a title=\"FRC\" href=\"http:\/\/frc.accrisoft.com\/index.php?src=news&amp;prid=38&amp;category=News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Research Consortium<\/a>: Governor Jeb Bush congratulated Florida&#8217;s university-based research community on their outstanding performance in the 2006 Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant program. The University of Central Florida (UCF) received three of 30 grants awarded to 20 universities. The MURI grants awarded total more than $150 million, with Florida&#8217;s grant contracts expected to be valued at approximately $15 million. [..]<br \/><br \/>Two of the University of Central Florida awards came out of the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence; the third is from UCF&#8217;s Institute for Simulation and Training. [.. At CREOL, one award including] Dr. Van Stryland as Principal Investigator, with Dr. Pieter Kik as co-PI, will study &#8220;Ultrafast Switching for Optical Imaging.&#8221; Other institutions participating with CREOL as the lead are Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and University of Arizona. Additionally, Dr. Stryland is also a participant on a MURI award to Kent State, led by Dr. Palffy-Muhoray, to study Negative Index Materials. Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/documents\/muri-awards.pdf\">full text (PDF)<\/a><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Near-field enhanced plasmon coupler explained<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 08\/04\/2005<\/span><br \/><br \/>In today&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"SPIE\" href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/Conferences\/Programs\/05\/am\/conferences\/index.cfm?fuseaction=5927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plasmonics session<\/a>\u00a0at the SPIE conference in San Diego,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#amitabh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amitabh Ghoshal<\/a>\u00a0presented his simulation results of a nanostructure designed to interface effectively between a laser beam and tightly confined surface plasmons propagating along a metal surface. He showed that by placing an array of silver nanoparticles near a silver-SiO2 interface, one can coherently excite surface plasmons. Additionally he demonstrated that the excitation efficiency can be optimized by shape-tuning the local plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles. This type of resonantly tuned plasmon coupler can play the role of a &#8216;optical bond pad&#8217; that links fiber optics to future plasmon integrated optical circuits. The article can be found in the\u00a0<a title=\"Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html\" target=\"_self\">publications section<\/a>, and the presentation can be viewed and downloaded from the\u00a0<a title=\"Presentations\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/talks.html\" target=\"_self\">Talks<\/a> page.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>New article on Si optical nanocrystal memory published<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 09\/28\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>Today the results of an experimental study on a propotype Si based optical memory were published on the\u00a0<a title=\"AIP\" href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/dbt\/dbt.jsp?KEY=APPLAB&amp;Volume=85&amp;Issue=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIP<\/a>\u00a0website. The device makes use of the fact that light emission from Si nanocrystals can be turned off by charging the nanocrystals (adding electrons or holes). This phenomenon allows us to read out the charge state of a nanocrystal using optical methods. The nanocrystals in this study are embedded in a specially designed transistor gate stack, allowing for simultaneous optical and electrical access to the nanocrystals. To download the article, visit the\u00a0<a title=\"Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html\" target=\"_self\">publications section<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Group celebrates one-year anniversary<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Wednesday 09\/01\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>Today marks the beginning of the second year of nanophotonics research in our group. In the past year we have grown from one employee to six group members, including the two latest additions to our group:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#alex\" target=\"_self\">Alex Savchyn<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#forrest\" target=\"_self\">Forrest Ruhge<\/a>. The coming year promises to be an exciting period for the group, with results from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#amitabh\" target=\"_self\">Amitabh&#8217;s<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#grady\" target=\"_self\">Grady&#8217;s<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#karthik\" target=\"_self\">Karthik&#8217;s<\/a>, projects coming in, and new research on integrated optical microlasers starting, including two enthusiastic new researchers to make this program a success.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Congratulations to Grady for passing the Qualifier Exam!<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Thursday 08\/26\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>Passing the qualifier exam at CREOL is one of the major hurdles on the way to obtaining the Optics PhD. The qualifier is a two-day exam inlcuding problem sets from many areas in optics, including optical materials properties, interference and diffraction, geometrical optics, guided wave optics and more. To get a flavor of what we put our students through at the School of Optics, have a look at the\u00a0<a title=\"qualifier exam requirements\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/Academics\/Current\/HandbookPhD.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qualifier exam requirements<\/a>. Congratulations to Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics student\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html#grady\" target=\"_self\">Grady Webb-Wood<\/a> for passing this grueling exam!<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Interactive class website based on SharePoint<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 07\/05\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>This coming Fall term, the class\u00a0<i>Fundamentals of Optical Science<\/i>\u00a0taught by Prof. Kik will make use of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sharepoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SharePoint technology<\/a>. This document sharing platform developed by Microsoft allows for a quick and easy setup of an interactive website, including message boards, polls, and more. The new class site is accessible to anyone at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.optics.ucf.edu\/OSE5312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharepoint.optics.ucf.edu<\/a> . Depending on the outcome of this experiment a similar format may be adopted for other core courses taught at the College of Optics and Photonics in the near future.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Joint project for UCF, UF, and Ocean Optics<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Wednesday 04\/14\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>Today it was officially announced that a team of researchers from UCF (<a href=\"http:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">Kik group<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/random.creol.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dogariu group<\/a>), UF Gainesville (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.img.ufl.edu\/php\/memberpublic.php?id=37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nishida group<\/a>) together with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanoptics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Optics<\/a>\u00a0was selected by the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence to work on a joint research project on\u00a0<i>Tunable Plasmon Optical nanosensors for Biochemical Detection<\/i>. The project has a one year duration with a possible extension to two years.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Nanolunch celebrates its six-month anniversary<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 04\/04\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>NanoLunch was started at the end of November in 2003 as a way for faculty to stay in touch with colleagues that are active in nanoscience. The lunch occurs every two weeks at noon, and is attended by people from various departments, including the School of Optics, Physics, Chemistry, and Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering. Present today were Kurt Busch, Pieter Kik, Stephen Kuebler, Eloy Hernandez, and Andy Winningham. UCF faculty that would like to know more, please see the\u00a0<a title=\"Information about the NanoLunch initiative\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/nanolunch.html\" target=\"_self\">NanoLunch info page<\/a><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Amitabh Ghoshal becomes Kik group&#8217;s first e-beam lithography specialist<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Friday 03\/12\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>On Friday Amitabh Ghoshal completed an intensive two-week training session on the brand new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.semiconation.com\/WebSite\/SC_SEMI.nsf?opendatabase&amp;path=\/website\/products.nsf\/(ALLIDs)\/8ACC799EC2C9F3CFC1256A420053A16A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leica 5000+<\/a>\u00a0e-beam lithography system which was recently installed in CREOL&#8217;s 5000 sq. ft. cleanroom as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/TheCollege\/FPCE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPCE<\/a>. The system will allow us to produce nanostructured samples over 600um x 600um areas with a spatial resolution better than 10 nm. Due to the sensitive nature of the equipment only a limited number of operators will be allowed to use the system. As one of these lucky few Amitabh Ghoshal will be our group&#8217;s supplier of nanostructures for many (but not too many) years to come!<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Pieter Kik appointed as affiliate Professor of Physics<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Friday 02\/27\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>In today&#8217;s faculty meeting at the Physics department, Pieter Kik was accepted as Affiliate Professor in Physics. This status strengthens the ties with the Physics department, and allows physics students to obtain their PhD in the Kik group. To read more about research in the Physics department, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Physics Homepage<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>New article on near-field focusing appears online<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 01\/26\/2004<\/span><br \/><br \/>Today a theoretical study of near-field focusing by Kik, Maier, and Atwater was published on the\u00a0<a title=\"AIP\" href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/dbt\/dbt.jsp?KEY=PRBMDO&amp;Volume=69&amp;Issue=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIP<\/a>\u00a0website. The article studies the regeneration of optical near-fields using surface plasmons at a metal-dielectric interface. Such near-field focusing could have applications in data storage, lithography, and near-field optical microscopy. To download the article, visit the\u00a0<a title=\"Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/publications.html\" target=\"_self\">publications section<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Ocean optics donates equipment to Kik group<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 12\/10\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/><a title=\"Ocean Optics Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanoptics.com\/homepage.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean optics<\/a>\u00a0recently became an Industrial Affiliate of the School of Optics. Associated with this new relationship were equipment donations to several faculty at CREOL. Our group requested the\u00a0<a title=\"DH2000 info\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/laboratory.html#wls\" target=\"_self\">DH2000<\/a> fiber coupled light source. This piece of equipment allows us to perform absorption measurements on small sample areas in our Near-field Optical Microscope.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Students complete training on the NSOM<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 11\/25\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>This week Matthias Kress from\u00a0<a title=\"Witec Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witec.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Witec<\/a>\u00a0visited CREOL to finalize the installation of our near-field scanning optical microscope (see our\u00a0<a title=\"An inside view of our facilities\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/laboratory.html\" target=\"_self\">lab<\/a>) and to instruct the students on the use of the microscope. The timing could not have been better: Grady, Amitabh, and Karthik could all attend, and heard the ins and outs of the microscope during the two day training session. Several test scans were completed successfully, and the system is now in full working order.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Item America to aid Kik group in outfitting lab<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 11\/24\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>After today&#8217;s visit to the School of Optics, Manager Todd Hoffman of\u00a0<a title=\"Homepage of Item America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itemamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Item America<\/a>\u00a0agreed to assist the Kik group in designing equipment racks for the nanophotonics characterization lab. The racks will be built using the extensive selection of\u00a0<a title=\"Item America online catalog\" href=\"http:\/\/katalog.item-international.com\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">construction elements<\/a> available from Item. The joint project will enable the group to set up high-end equipment racks at a significantly reduced cost, while giving Item the opportunity to learn about the specific requirements in an optics research environment.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Kik group quadruples in size<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 11\/17\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>Three students joined the group this week. Grady Webb-wood and Amitabh Ghoshal are joining as Graduate students in the group, and Karthik Narayanan joins for a six-month Master&#8217;s thesis project. All three will initially work on projects involving surface plasmons. For info about the students, see the\u00a0<a title=\"Members of the Kik Group\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/people.html\" target=\"_self\">people section<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Spectra Physics 2060-RS Kr laser arrives<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 11\/10\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>The recently ordered Spectra Physics 2060-RS laser has arrived. The small-frame laser can emit lines from 350-800nm, giving us a broad range of wavelengths for plasmon excitation at metal surfaces. Output power will be in the 50+ mW range for each individual line.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Workshop on High-Resolution Optical Microscopy<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Friday 10\/24\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>This workshop was co-organized by\u00a0<a title=\"Witec Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witec.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Witec<\/a>, vendor of scientific equipment, and the Kik group at the School of Optics. In three thirty-minute talks the over fifty attendees heard about the ins and outs of several state-of-the-art microscopy techniques.<\/p><p><a title=\"Klaus Weishaupt at Witec\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witec.de\/company\/people.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Klaus Weishaupt<\/a>, co-founder of Witec opened the workshop with an extensive overview of the Witec AlphaSNOM system, that enables the user to do (among other things) Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, and Atomic Force Microscopy. The second presentation was given by\u00a0<a title=\"Pieter Kik - contact info\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/contact.html\" target=\"_self\">Pieter Kik<\/a>, who talked about the special features that make NSOM a powerful tool for studying surface plasmons. In the final talk of the day,\u00a0<a title=\"Prof. Kevin Belfield - contact info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/index.php?URL=belfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Kevin Belfield<\/a>\u00a0discussed the most important characteristics of multi-photon fluorescence microscopy.<br \/><br \/>The workshop concluded with a live demonstration of the AlphaSNOM system in the NanoPhotonics Characterization Lab (CREOL Room 247), where a select group of attendees quizzed Klaus on the system&#8217;s capabilities. Thanks to a special arrangement with Witec (see news item below), the system will remain in the NanoPhotonics Characterization Lab. Anyone who was not able to join the demonstration, feel free to drop by for a private tour.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Kik group becomes demo site for Witec in the Southeast<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Thursday 10\/23\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>After weeks of negotiations, vendor of scientific equipment\u00a0<a title=\"Witec Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witec.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Witec<\/a>. and the Kik group arrived at an attractive arrangement. As of today the Kik Group is the proud owner of the\u00a0<a title=\"AlphaSNOM product page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.witec.de\/prod\/snom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AlphaSNOM<\/a> system (and, unbelievably, it was installed in the lab one day later). The system, which was used by Witec as a demo system for two years, will be the centerpiece in the group&#8217;s NanoPhotonics Characterization Lab. As part of the arrangement, the system will stay accessible to potential buyers. This allowed Witec to offer the system at a significantly discounted price. We owe Witec a lot of thanks for giving the group some financial breathing room in the early days!<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Idealab donates software licenses to Kik group<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 10\/20\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/><a title=\"Idealab Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idealab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idealab<\/a>, maker of the popular search program\u00a0<a title=\"X1 software page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.x1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X1<\/a>\u00a0have donated five X1 licenses to the Kik group. The licenses are the reward for a series of product improvement suggestions, the last one being &#8220;<i>Award users who make more than 30 useful suggestions per year with company stock or a free cup of coffee.<\/i>&#8221; X1 can be best described as a &#8216;local google&#8217; that generates a local full-text index of all your e-mail, contacts, files, and attachments for fast searching. The most amazing feature of this program is its speed: the results are updated\u00a0<i>live<\/i> for each additional letter you add to your search terms. We thank Idealab for giving the Kik group millisecond access to gigabytes of data!<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Conference on Surface Plasmon Optics<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Sunday 9\/21\/2003 &#8211; Thursday 9\/25\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>The ESF conference on Surface Plasmon Optics took place in Granada, Spain from\u00a0September 21 through 25. Present at the conference were 100 scientists from the surface plasmon community. The conference was a great success, featuring many high-quality talks on topics ranging from single particle studies to surface plasmon mediated data storage. Have a look at the\u00a0<a title=\"Selected presentations in HTML format\" href=\"https:\/\/kik.creol.ucf.edu\/talks.html\" target=\"_self\">talks<\/a> section for the slides of the presentation I gave on metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Kickoff at the School of Optics coming up<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Tuesday 8\/19\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>On September 2nd 2003 the Kik group will come into existence at CREOL. My office will be located in Room 270. First order of business will be meeting with students, and setting up the lab in room 247. Students that are interested in sub-wavelength scale imaging, near-field optics, and nanofabrication: drop by for a chat!<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #00aa00;\"><b>Changes on the job front<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Monday 6\/9\/2003<\/span><br \/><br \/>I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Optics at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Optics<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; also known as CREOL &#8211; at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Central Florida<\/a>\u00a0in Orlando. The School of Optics is one of three institutions in the US that offers graduate degrees in optics (the others being\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.optics.arizona.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OSC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.optics.rochester.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IoO<\/a>). The School of Optics is located on the main campus of the University of Central Florida, one of the ten state universities in Florida. It was established in 1963, and over the last 40 years has grown to almost 40,000 students.<br \/><br \/>At CREOL there are currently 38\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/People?role=Faculty\">faculty<\/a>\u00a0members and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/People?role=Associated%20Faculty\">associated faculty<\/a>, 39\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/People?role=Research%20Scientist\">research scientists<\/a>\u00a0and 142\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/People?role=Student\">graduate students<\/a>. I will join this impressive optics team starting September 2003. As an Assistant Professor I will set up a research group in nanophotonics, investigating the special optical properties of nanostructured materials. For more information on research plans and possibilities for joining or collaborating, contact me at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kik@creol.ucf.edu\">kik@creol.ucf.edu<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News DURIP Award for Mapping Spectroscopic Ellipsometer2011 The NPNO group was awarded the ARO DURIP grant for a High-Speed Scanning Spectroscopic Ellipsometer for the Rapid Optical Mapping of Large-Area Plasmonic Nanocomposites. The system, manufactured by\u00a0J.A. 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