Check out our latest publication in ACS Photonics! Inspired by kirigami, we design a nanopatterned silicon membrane that supports a strong optical resonance which can be tuned over a large spectral range through simple mechanical stretching. This novel structure combines the best of two worlds into a multifunctional metastructure: the internal rotations and reconfigurations of mechanical metamaterials with the optical resonances of photonic metasurfaces.

Our new article in Advanced Optical Materials just became available online! Here, we demonstrate how binary blazed gratings patterned in a monolayer 2D semiconductor enable electrically selective beam steering, despite the lack of propagation phase.

The PhD defence took place at UvA’s historic Agnietenkapel on March 19, 2025.

We have an opening for an exciting postdoc position: combining non-local metasurfaces with monolayer 2D semiconductors to study dynamic wavefront shaping! Find the full project description on the UvA website.

Check out our latest publication in ACS Photonics, where we demonstrate optical edge detection of micro-scale objects with a simple layer stack that supports Tamm Plasmon Polaritons!