Ida Juliane Bundgaard new POLIMA PhD student

POLIMA is happy to announce that Ida Juliane Bundgaard has started as a Ph.D. student at the center. She has an educational background in engineering, with both her bachelor's and master’s degree in Physics and Technology being obtained at the TEK-faculty at the University of Southern Denmark.

Ida is not entirely new to POLIMA as both her bachelor's and master’s theses were written under the supervision of members of the center. Her bachelor's was written under the supervision of Prof. Christos Tserkezis and Dr. P. Elli Stamatopoulou, the focus of the thesis was analytically describing Mie-resonant systems and investigating the role of non-local effects of plasmonic materials when strongly coupled to excitonic materials in multilayer particles. The results of the thesis were eventually published under the title “Quantum-informed plasmonics for strong coupling: the role of electron spill-out”, an article about that process can be found here.

For her master’s thesis, Ida focused on the creation of structural colours from transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanoparticle arrays. TMDs have a high refractive index, and as such can sustain strong Mie resonances – the interaction between the Mie resonances of each individual particle in the array can create transmission or reflection spectra which are very different from the single particle and thus the corresponding colours may be tailored.

As a Ph.D. student, her research will focus on the manipulation of light-matter interactions in both the weak and strong coupling regime using primarily dielectric nano-architectures – the usefulness of this spans from the selective enhancement or quenching of fluorescence in emitters to frameworks for long-lasting Mie-excitons.