Vahid Sandoghdar
Vahid Sandoghdar (born April 29, 1966 in Tehran ) is an Iranian physicist who deals with quantum optics and nano-optics .
Sandoghdar went to the USA in 1983 and studied physics at the University of California, Davis with a bachelor's degree in 1987 and at Yale University with a doctorate in 1993. In his dissertation, he studied atoms in micro-cavities, the Lennard-Jones Potential and the Casimir Polder forces between atoms and surfaces. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the École normal supérieure in Paris and studied whisper gallery fashions in silicon microspheres. From 1995 to 2001 he was at the University of Konstanz and developed methods to examine the interaction of light and matter in the nano range by combining scanning probe microscopy ( optical scanning near-field microscope ) and laser spectroscopy. After completing his habilitation in Konstanz in 2001, he was a full professor at the ETH Zurich in the laboratory for physical chemistry. There he founded the Network of Optical Sciences (optETH) and the Zurich Center for Imaging Science and Technology (CIMST). Since 2012 he has been a professor with a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the same time director at the Erlangen Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light .
He deals with optical recognition and spectroscopy of single molecules and nanoparticles and the development of ultra-high resolution optical microscopy with applications in biology, solid state physics and quantum optics. For example, it was possible to observe individual viruses on surfaces using the light they reflect. At ETH Zurich, he and his team built the smallest possible optical transistor.
In 2010 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council .
Fonts
- Y. Rezus, S. Walt, R. Lettow, G. Zumofen, A. Renn, S. Götzinger, V. Sandoghdar: Single-photon Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 2012, 093601
- P. Kukura, H. Ewers, C. Müller, A. Renn, A. Helenius, V. Sandoghdar: High-speed nanoscopic tracking of the position and orientation of a single virus, Nature Methods 6, 2009, p. 923
- Jan Zitzmann, Gert Zumofen, Vahid Sandoghdar Photon Pairs : Together through thick and thin , Physik Journal, Issue 9, 2002
- Beating the diffraction limit, Physics World, September 2001
- Trends and developments in scanning near-field optical microscopy, in Allegrini, Garcia, Marti (Ed.) Int. School Physics Enrico Fermi, 2001
Web links
- Biography at the MPG
- Website of his department at the MPI for the Science of Light
- Biography at the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Vahid Sandoghdar - Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2011 (DE), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation film, 2011 on youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Hwang, Pototschnig, Lettow, Zumofen, Renn, Götzinger, Sandoghdar: Single molecule optical transistor , Nature, Volume 460, 2009, 76
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| SURNAME | Sandoghdar, Vahid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |