Big congratulations to Gloria for her great AEP honor’s thesis work, and we wish her the best on her research at ICFO! To kick off the semester we welcome two new undergraduate students, Guanzhong and Daniel from C&CB – looking forward to working with you!

 

And we had two exciting papers accepted over the break. Aleesha and Trevor’s study of the role of disorder in strong coupling and the (alleged) ultrastrong coupling regime was accepted in the Rising Stars collection of Advanced Optical Materials! Sometimes the simplest description isn’t the best, but we found it can nonetheless be straightforward to account for the significant impact of broadening on the states formed under strong coupling. Hopefully this tool will let us better understand the functional behavior of polaritons!

 

And David and Julia’s investigations of ultrafast quenching dynamics in [3]-cumulenes was accepted in Photochem and highlighted on the homepage. Now we can start to tackle the harder problem of what happens in the solid state!