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The team of the photonics institute participated in the Krebsforschungslauf 2018! 

Congratulations to Lukas Mennel for winning the student poster prize at the Graphene Week 2018!

Congratulations to Simone Schuler for winning the best student presentation at the Graphene Week 2018!

Congratulations to Martin Kainz for winning the student poster prize at the International Quantum Cascade Lasers School and Workshop 2018!

Congratulations to Thomas Lurf who graduated to D.I. with his master thesis " Design of hetergeneously integrated QCLs on SOI"

Welcome Dominik Theiner, Michael Jaidl and Simon Haberfellner as new diploma students to the Lab! 

Congratulations to Dominic Bachmann for receiving the award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his PhD thesis!

Congratulations to Benedikt Limbacher for receiving the award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his master thesis!

Lukas Dobusch 1987 - 2017

Congratulations to Ass. Prof. Thomas Mueller, PI of the Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronics Group at THzLabs, who has been awarded the license to teach Nanophotonics as "Privatdozent"!

Congratulations to Florian Höller for winnig the SEW-Eurodrive award for his diploma thesis! 

Congratulations to Benedikt Limbacher and Lukas Mennel for their successfull graduation to Dipl. Ing.!

Congratulations to Moritz Wenclawiak for winning the award for the best student poster at the OTST 2017 in London!

The two most recent publications by Dominic Bachmann et al. were featured in a press release of the TU Wien!

Welcome Aday Jose Molina Mendoza to THzLabs! Aday is a new PostDoc who is working in the Mueller Group.

Congratulations to Dominic Bachmann for his successful PhD thesis defense!

The article "High Performance Graphene Photodetectors Set Speed Record" about Simone Schuler's work has also been covered in a TU Wien press release!

Congratulations to THz-Labs alumumnus Christian Hartl for receiving the honorary prize of the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy for Master's thesis. Click here to read more.

The article "High Performance Graphene Photodetectors Set Speed Record" is online! (click here)

New Paper "Dispersion in a broadband terahertz quantum cascade laser" is published! (click here)

The article "Random lasers for broadband directional emission" was featured in Nature | News & Views

Congratulations to Moritz Wenclawiak for winning the EPL Best Presentation Award 2016 at the Terahertz Science Conference in Sicily!

Congratulations to Michael Krall for receiving the award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his PhD thesis!

Congratulations to Andreas Pospischil for receiving the Anton-Paar-Wissenschaftspreis for his PhD thesis! Click here to read more.

Congratulations to Marco Mercurio Furchi for his successful PhD thesis defense!

Congratulations to Sebastian Schönhuber for winning this year's student poster prize at the International Quantum Cascade Lasers School and Workshop!

Congratulations to Michael Krall and Andreas Pospischil for their successful PhD thesis defenses!

Congratulations to Christian Hartl for his graduation to Dipl.-Ing.!

Congratulations to Govinda Lilley for his successful PhD thesis defense!

Congratulations to Florian Höller and Matthias Paur to their graduation to Dipl. Ing.!

The article "Instant imaging with terahertz lasers" by ThzLabs-Researchers M. Brandstetter, C. Deutsch, M. Krall und Principal Investigator Karl Unterrainer in Compound Semiconductor Magazine about real-time imaging new Terahertz technology is now available online!

Congratulations to Michael Krall for receiving the award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology for his PhD thesis!

Welcome to our new PhD students Sebastian Schönhuber and Martin Kainz!

Congratulations to Jasmin Karaman for his graduation to Dipl. Ing.!

Welcome Christian Derntl and Johanna Rodehau-Noack to ThzLabs! Christian is a PhD student working for IR-On and Johanna is the new administrator for the project.

Welcome Moritz Wenclawiak to ThzLabs! Moritz is a new PhD student who is working for the project Nextlite.

IR-On researcher Christoph Deutsch received the Loschmidt-Prize for his work on novel material structures of Thz-quantum cascade lasers. For more details, click here or take a look at the original publication.

We welcome Verena Kopper to the THzlabs! Verena will work as a project manager for the TERACOMB project.

Coupled Microdisk Lasers featured in Nature Photonics | News and Views

LightPyCL is online! We have just released the first version of our high-performance PyOpenCL based physical raytracer on GitHub!

Laser Physics upside down! Nature Communications 5, 4034, Presseaussendung

Micropillar Lasers featured in Nature Photonics | Research Highlights

Welcome Nikolaus Lehner to the lab! Nikolaus is a new diploma student working for the graphene team.

A new paper on resonant metamaterial detectors! Benz at al, Scientific Reports 4, 4269, Presseaussendung

Welcome Manuel Messner to the lab! Manuel is a new diploma student working for the project IROn.

The World’s Thinnest Solar Cells....read more

Joint Symposium of SFBs IROn & NextLite on March 13^th and 14^th at TU Vienna! more information

Open Doors at THzLabs! Read more..

Welcome Sebastian Schönhuber to the lab! Sebastian is a new diploma student working on THz QCLs.

New paper on THz micropillar lasers: Krall et al., Opt. Express  22, 274 (2014)

New paper on polarization selective spectroscopy of single nano-antennas: Lilley et al., Opt. Express 21, 30903 (2013)

Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and the THzLabs present a novel approach for precise biological imaging with applications for sensitive and dynamic samples. Read more (1).. Read more (2).. and the PNAS article.

Welcome Fabian Doná to the lab! Fabian is a mechanical engineer who will support our group as a technician.

We have new openings for 2 PhD students and 1 Master student! Read more..

New paper on ultrastrong coupling of THz metamaterials and intersubband transitions: Dietze et al., APL 103, 201106 (2013)

Welcome Dmitry Polyushkin in the THz Labs! Dmitry is a new postdoc working in the Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronics Group.

Our group builds the world's most powerful terahertz quantum cascade laser. Read more..

Save the date for our X-mas party: 12.12.2013

New paper on 0.5W THz emission from a QCL: Brandstetter et al., APL 103, 171113 (2013)

Congrats to Christoph Deutsch for the successful defense of his PhD thesis!

New paper on nonlinear THz TDS: Dietze et al., New J. Phys. 15, 065014 (2013)

Congrats to Alexander Urich for his successful PhD thesis defense!

New paper on high temperature lasing in InGaAs/GaAsSb THz QCLs: Deutsch et al., APL 101, 211117 (2012)

New paper on enhanced Raman interaction between Graphene and silver nanoislands: Urich et al., APL 101, 153113 (2012)

New paper on wafer bonded active regions for improved THz QCLs: Brandstetter et al., Opt. Express 20, 23832 (2012)

Congrats to Andreas Pospischil for receiving the Student Prize of the Austrian Physical Society for his diploma thesis. Read more..

Congrats to Dominic Bachmann and Daniel Dietze for this year's student poster award of the EOS Terahertz Science and Technology Meeting 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Read more..

New paper on nonlinear TDS on intersubband transitions: Dietze et al., Opt. Express 20, 23053 (2012)

We are proud to organize this year's International Quantum Cascade Lasers School and Workshop in Baden. Read more..

New paper on microcavity-integrated graphene photodetectors: Furchi et al., Nano Lett. 12, 2773 (2012)

Our group achieves a four fold improved terahertz emission from laser filaments and demonstrated a novel dynamic phase matching process in gallium phosphide crystals. Read more..

THzLabs @ the International THz Conference in Villach, Austria. Read more.. (Video on Kaernten TV)

The first Nano Photonics Meeting will take place at the Vienna University of Technology on 10.11. and 11.11.2011 (organized by GMe and SFB IROn). Read more..

Congrats to Thomas Müller for being awarded with the prestigious START price of the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Read more..

The Vienna Student Chapter of the OSA hosts the first Student Science Fair in Vienna. Read more..

Congrats to Alexander Benz for winning the Ressel price of the Vienna University of Technology. Read more..

We are proud to organize this year's THz Frischlinge meeting, a conference aiming on undergraduate and young graduate students. Read more..

Finally, our new laser tables have arrived!

Congrats to Daniel Dietze for this year's student poster award of the International Workshop on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology 2009, Santa Barbara, CA. Read more..

We proudly organize this year's European Semiconductor Laser Workshop ifrom 25.09. till 26.09.2009 in Vienna. Read more..

Congrats to Gernot Fasching who has been awarded with the prestigious Loschmidt price of the Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft in Vienna. Read more..