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Marian Florescu 


Senior Lecturer

Ph.D., 2003 -University of Toronto


Advanced Technology Institute
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey, GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0)1483 686813
Fax: +44(0)1483 686081
Email: m.florescu@surrey.ac.uk

Marian


RESEARCH INTERESTS


Micro- and Nano-Photonics

  • Photonic band gap formation in non-crystallographic photonic structures
  • Nonlinear optics and all-optical information processing in micro-structured photonic materials
  • Thermal radiation in nano-structured photonic materials; thermal management and thermophotovoltaic energy conversion systems

Linear optical quantum computing in photonic nanostructures

  • Single-photon sources and detectors
  • Quantum memory and loss quenching in quantum information systems

Nano-electronics and spintronics

  • Spin and electronic properties of quantum dots: spin dephasing and relaxation


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Effects of random link removal on the photonic band gaps of honeycomb networks ", Applied Physics Letters 97, 452523 (2010).
  • Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Designer disordered materials with large complete photonic band gaps", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 20658 (2009).
  • Christian Schuler, Christian Wolff, Kurt Busch, and Marian Florescu, "Thermal radiation from finite photonic crystals", Applied Physics Letters 95, 241103 (2009).
  • Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Complete band gaps in two-dimensional photonic quasicrystals", Physical Review B 80, 155112 (2009).
  • Marian Florescu, Kurt Busch and Jonathan P. Dowling, "Thermal radiation in photonic crystals", Physical Review B Rapid Communications 75, 201101 (R) (2007);
  • Marian Florescu and Pawel Hawrylak, "Spin relaxation in lateral quantum dots: Effects of spin-orbit interaction", Physical Review B 73, 045304 (2006);
  • Marian Florescu, Stefan Scheel, Hartmut Haeffner, Hwang Lee, Dmitry V.Strekalov, Peter L. Knight, and Jonathan P. Dowling, "Single photons on demand from 3D photonic band-gap structures", Europhysics Letters 69 (6), 945 (2005).
  • Marian Florescu and Sajeev John, "Resonance fluorescence in photonic band gap waveguide architectures: Engineering the vacuum for all-optical switching", Physical Review A 69, 053810 (2004).
  • Marian Florescu and Sajeev John, "Single-atom switching in photonic crystals, Physical Review A 64, 033801 (2001).


Latest news:


September 5, 2011

I have joined University of Surrey as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics and the Advanced Technology Institute.



October 5, 2010

Manuscript accepted for publication by APL

Our work on effects of random link removal on the photonic band gaps of honeycomb networks has been accepted for publication by Applied Physics Letters.


July 5, 2010

NSF Eager grant

Our  proposal "Hyperuniform disordered photonic band gap materials" has been selected to be funded by the NSF, ECCS Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems.


June 5, 2010

Times Magazine Photo Essay

Images from our recent work on disordered hyperuniform photonic band gaps have been selected by the Times Magazine Photo Essay "Seeking Art in Science".


April 21, 2010

Herta Leng Lecture

This year's Herta Leng Lecture at the Renslaeer Polytechnic Institute is "Photonic Band Gap Materials: A New Frontier in Modern Optics".  


December 22, 2009

Celebrate Princeton Invention

Our work on on hyperuniform disordered materials has been presented at "Celebrate Princeton Invention" forum.  


November 3, 2009

Disordered hyperuniform PBG materials

Our work on "Designer disordered materials with large complete photonic band gaps", has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 20658 (2009).  


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Last updated: 11/14/2010