The 683. WE-Heraeus Seminar on "Physics and Applications of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors" in Bad Honnef concluded with more than 50 exciting oral and poster contributions from leading experts in the field. Congratulations to Simone Frasca (EPFL & JPL), Steffen Doerner (KIT) and Daniela Salvoni (Naples) for winning the poster prizes.

Simone's review on waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD) was published in Nanophotonics. Check out the open access article for all you ever wanted to know about SNSPD integrated with nanophotonic devices.

Alexander Eich joins the group as PhD-student. Welcome Alexander!

Matthias Häußler joins the group as PhD-student. Welcome Matthias!

Our group is expanding into brand new office and laboratory spaces in the recently opened Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN). 

Our new UHV Magnetron Sputter System arrived safely in Münster. It will become part of the Münster Nanofabrication Facility MNF. Happy sputtering!

We are happy to announce the 683rd WE-Heraeus-Seminar on the "Physics and Applications of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors", which we are co-organizing with Tim Bartley (Paderborn), Aleksandr Korneev (Moscow) and Döndü Sahin (Bristol). The 5-day workshop will take place from November 12.-16. 2018 at the Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef (Germany) and is generously supported by the Wilhelm & Else Heraeus Foundation. We will have a very exciting program and invite postdocs and Phd-students to submit abstracts until June 30th!

Philip, Jan, Martin & Matthias are presenting our work at the DPG Spring Meeting in Erlangen. Check out their contributions Q 40.17, Q 40.19, Q 51.69 and Q 64.8!

Martin Wolff joins the group as PhD-student. Welcome Martin!

Jun.-Prof. N. Guggenberger of Münster's Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law (ITM) and the RWTÜV-Stiftung invite for an event discussing opportunities, legislation and regulation of Blockchain technology on November 7th at Erbdrostenhof Münster. We will also be discussing how quantum technology could affect Blockchain implementations: register here!
Read a news article about how the event went: here!

Visit us at the "Highlights der Physik" science fair from September 19.-23. on Münster's Schlossplatz!
In collaboration with The Institute of Photonic Sciences - ICFO (Barcelona, Spain) and qutools GmbH (Munich, Germany) we are presenting an interactive experiment where you can test the predictions of quantum physics yourself!