People

Group Leader

Prof. dr. ir. C.H. (Caspar) van der Wal

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PhD's and Postdocs

Carmem Maia Gilardoni (Postdoc 2021-2022)

• Topic: Quantum optics with defects in SiC
• Email: C.Maia.Gilardoni@rug.nl
• Tel. +(31) 50 363  8974
• Office: 5113.0139

Joop Hendriks (PhD student 2020-2023)

• Topic: Quantum optics with defects in SiC
• Email: J.Hendriks@rug.nl
• Tel. +(31) 50 363  4974
• Office: 5113.0227

Bachelor and (Top) Master Students

We have always options for projects but can only host a few projects at the same time. Contact us in any case (early!).

Previous Team Members: Staff

Previous Team Members: Students

• Sietse Dijt (Topmaster Nanoscience literature study with report 2022)
  Towards Quantum Biosensing with Defect Spins in Silicon Carbide
• Amara Zahid (short Top Master project 2021)
  On designing SiC waveguide structures
• Irina Ion (Physics Master project 2019-2020)
  Thesis title: Microwave driving of transition metal defect spins coupled to nuclear spins in SiC
  
• Danny van Hien (Applied Physics Master project 2018-2019)
  Thesis title: Time-resolved experiments on molybdenum impurity spins in silicon carbide
• Robbert Julius (Applied Physics Bachelor project, with Honours College extension, 2019)
  Waveguiding in highly p- and n-doped silicon carbide
• Pieter Wolff (Applied Physics Bachelor project 2019)
  Modelling time-resolved photo-luminescence of multi-level quantum emitters
  
• Wastu Ginanjar (Applied Physics Bachelor project 2019)
  Level structure and selection rules for transitions of quantum emitters in silicon carbide
• Miina Leiviska (Topmaster Nanoscience literature study with report 2019),
  Spin- and optically-active transition-metal defects in SiC
• Hans Beukers (Physics Master project 2018-2019, collaborative project carried out at QuTech TU Delft, group prof. Ronald Hanson)
  Thesis title: Improving coherence of quantum memory during entanglement creation between nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond – The cure for quantum Alzheimer?
  (Winner MSc thesis prize)
• Frits Kernkamp (Applied Physics Master project 2017-2018)
  Thesis title: Towards transport measurements of chiral induced spin selectivity in organic molecules on graphene: Theoretical foundations and experimental design
  
• Freddie Hendriks (Physics Master project 2017-2018)
  Thesis title: Spin-active color centres in silicon carbide, fundamental description and novel experimental techniques
• Xiangyang Wei (Nanoscience Top Master project 2017-2018)
  Thesis title: Optical waveguides formed by silicon carbide on doped substrates: For enhanced optical manipulation of defect spin qubits in silicon carbide
• Wessel Brinkhuis (Applied Physics Bachelor project 2018)
  Thesis title: Towards slow light with inhomogeneous ensembles of color centers in silicon carbide: Modeling inhomogeneous broadening in SiC c-axis divacancies
• Feitze van Zwol (Physics Master project 2016-2017)
  Thesis title: Instrumentation development of a high-resolution two-laser spectroscopy setup and its applications to solid state devices
• Carmem Maia Gilardoni (Nanoscience Top Master project 2016-2017)
  Thesis title: Transport Properties of Graphene Field Effect Transistors Functionalized with Photosystem I
• James Lyon (Bachelor project 2017, collaboration with SRON)
  Thesis title: Performance Analysis of Low Temperature Superconducting Flux Pump
• Fran Simic (Bachelor project 2017)
  Thesis title: Single-mode waveguiding in n-doped 4H-SiC
• Robert van der Velde (Bachelor project 2017)
  Thesis title: Waveguiding in highly n-doped silicon carbide
• Elias Brul (Bachelor project 2017)
  Thesis title: Mechanical and Electrical characterization of Photosystem I adsorbed on graphene
• Floris van Nyendaal (Bachelor project 2017)
  Thesis title: Photoresponse of a Graphene-based Si/SiO2 Field-Effect Transistor
• Evelien Zwanenburg (Bachelor project 2016)
  Thesis title: Conducting probe measurements of photo-active photosystem I monolayers on graphene
• Maarten Degen (Nanoscience Top Master project 2015-2016, exchange visit to MIT)
  Thesis title: Engineering, control and effects of field amplitude distributions in solid-state devices with nanoscale optical emitters
• Tom Bosma (Physics Master project 2015-2016)
  Thesis title: Electron and Spin Transport in Graphene and Metallic Channels with Photosystem I Monolayers
• Mikhail Dryzhov (Bachelor student honors project 2015-2017)
  Thesis title: Preparation and characterization of self-assembled photosystem-I on graphene
• Joop Adema (Bachelor project 2015)
  Thesis title: Excited State Spectroscopy and Optical Bleaching in c-axis divacancies in Silicon Carbide
• Feitze van Zwol (Bachelor project 2015)
  Thesis title: Simulations on single-mode waveguides in GaAs
• Henry de Vries (Bachelor project 2015)
  Thesis title: Optimizing Photoluminescence Retrieval from Gallium Arsenide in a Fiber-Based Cryogenic Environment
• Camiel van Hooff (Bachelor project 2015, collaboration with SRON)
  Thesis title: On the Development of a Far-infrared Thermal Image Generator
• Hallo Arbely (Bachelor project 2015, collaboration with SRON)
  Thesis title: Calculations of Higher Modes in Pyramidal Horn Antennas
• Xu Yang (Thesis project top master NanoScience 2014-2015)
  continued as a PhD student in our team
  Thesis title: Controlling Optical Interactions with Divacancy Spin Ensembles in Silicon Carbide: Towards a Quantum Memory
• Sebastien Volker (Master project 2014-2015)
  continued on a management trainee position at UMCG Groningen
  Thesis title: Simulating the Emission of Spontaneous Spin-Flip Raman Photons from Ensembles of Donor-Bound Electrons in n-GaAs
• Urvashi Gupta (Master research project 2014-2015, exchange student from IISER India)
  continued to finish her master degree in India
• Carmem Maia Gilardoni (Exchange student project 2014)
  continued to finish her bachelor degree in Brazil, and came back to Groningen for the Nanoscience Top Master Program
• Angad Singh (Research internship, visiting student 2014)
  continued to finish his bachelor degree in India
• Xavi Bonet Monroig (Erasmus bachelor project 2014)
  continued to finish his bachelor degree in Valencia, Spain, and in master studies
• Diederik Perdok (Master project 2012-2013)
  continued as a research assistant in our team
• Jorrit Sloot (Bachelor and Master project 2010-2012)
  continued as consultant data analytics at Deloitte
• Olger Zwier (Master project 2011-2012)
  continued as PhD student in our team
• Jakko de Jong (Master project 2011-2012)
  continued as PhD student in our team
• Rianne Lous (Top Master student 2011-2012, exchange visit to Harvard)
  continued as PhD student in the group of prof. Grimm, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Innsbruck, Austria
• Rob Bremer (Master student 2011-2012)
  continued on an industrial career
• Jasper van der Velde (short Top Master project 2011)
  continued as PhD student in the group of prof. Cordes in Groningen
• Morten Bakker (Top Master project 2009-2010)
  continued as PhD student in the group of prof. Bouwmeester in Leiden

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PERIOD TO BE COMPLETED 2008-2011
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• 2008 Andrii Rudavskyi (Topmaster research project), Optical probing of spin dynamics in devices etched in GaAs heterostructures.
• 2008 Sander Kamerbeek (Bachelor research project), Optical waveguides in semiconductor heterostructures.
• 2008 Brian Smith (Topmaster literature study with report), Solid-state quantum computing.
• 2008 Joost Flipse (Bachelor research project) Spin relaxation in quantum dots.
• 2008 Josbert Mulder (Bachelor research project) Low-noise detection scheme for optical studies on spins in semiconductors.
• 2007 Niels van der Kaap (Bachelor research project) Polarization maintaining fibers for addressing spin in semiconductors with a cryogenic microscope.
• 2007 Sander Kamerbeek (Bachelor instrumentation project), Automated measurements on quantum dots with rapid data transfer.
• 2007 Arjen van der Pal (Bachelor instrumentation project), Control of quantized conductance demonstration setup.
• 2006 Maksym Sladkov (Topmaster research project, with Prof. Bart van Wees), Microwave control of spintronics.
• 2006 Xinglan Liu (Topmaster literature study with report) Quantum optics wit BEC’s.
• Bram Slachter (Bachelor and Master project 2004-2006)
  continued as PhD student in the group of prof. Van Wees in Groningen, before going to ASML
• 2006 Bram Slachter (Topmaster research project, with Prof. Paul van Loosdrecht), Optical probing of spin dynamics in GaAs heterostructures.
• 2006 Bram Slachter (Topmaster literature study with report), Solid-state single-photon sources.
• 2006 Xinglan Liu (Topmaster research project) Quantum optics with semiconductors.
• 2006 Friederich Limbach (Bachelor research project), Ohmic contacts to GaAs heterostructures.
• 2005 Gabi Visanescu (Master research project), Microwave control of spintronics.
• 2004 Mikel Boute (Bachelor research project), Ohmic contacts to GaAs heterostructures.
• 2004 Francesco Maddalena (Topmaster literature study with report), Quantum dots.
• 2004 Bram Slachter (Bachelor research project), Microwave control of spintronics.