Our master and bachelor projects are offered within the quantum transport group, contact Ronald Hanson if you are interested by one of our projects.

PhD and postdoc positions

Developing high performance quantum detectors

We will develop high performance single photon detectors with high system detection efficiencies and low noise levels, a challenging project combining nanofabrication and quantum optics experiments. The detectors will be based on superconducting nanowire devices and will be designed to reach unprecedented detection efficiencies to enable new experiments such as the closing of the detection loophole in entanglement experiments. This work will be carried out in Grenoble to take advantage of the outstanding nanofabrication facilites available there, in close collaboration with the Zwiller group in Delft.

A postdoc position and a PhD position are currently open for this project. contact: v.zwiller@tudelft.nl

 

Master projects and Bachelor projects

Are available year round. Contact us to discuss possible projects.

Completed master projects

• Niels Los: Integrated semiconductor photon sources and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
  September 2013              

 

• Aafke van den Berg: Time-bin entanglement with a single quantum dot
  February 2012              

 

• Iman Esmaeil Zadeh: Multi-Pixel Superconducting Single Photon Detectors: Towards Imaging Sensors
  September 2011              

 

• Andika Asyuda: Transfer of Nanowire Quantum Dots in a Polymer Film
  August 2011             

 

• Paul Alstein: Towards fast light at the single photon level
  July 2011              

 

• Maaike Witteveen:Hong-Ou-Mandel interference in surface plasmon waveguides
  February 2011              

 

• Esteban Bermúdez Ureña: Towards efficiency enhancement in superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
  August 2010              

 

• Maria Barkelid: Single Silicon p-i-n Nanowire Avalanche Photodiodes for Single Photon Detection
  April 2010

 

• Gerben Tuin: Optical characterization of Wurtzite Indium Phosphide
  February 2010            
  Work done at Lund University in the group of Prof. L. Samuelson

 

• Antal van Kolck: THz time domain spectroscopy gain measurements on THz quantum cascade lasers
  January 2010,  work done at ETH Zurich in the group of Prof. J. Faist

 

• Benny Koene: Excitation, guiding and detection of single plasmons
  December 2009         

 

• Anne Hidma: Charge tunable single nanowire quantum dots
  November 2009

 

• Ataklti Gebremedhin: Conversion of photons to electrons in a single nanowire quantum dot
  July 2007         

 

• Sander Dorenbos: Fabrication and characterization of superconducting detectors for single photon counting
  February 2007               

 

• Freek Kelkensberg: Nano-LEDs for quantum optics
  June 2006

 

Completed PhDs

• Gabriele Bulgarini: Nanowire-based Quantum Photonics

May 2014           

 

• Barbara Witek: Quantum Dot Spin Engineering for Quantum Optics
  

April 2014    

 

• Reinier Heeres: Quantum Plasmonics
  November 2012     

 

• Sander Dorenbos: Superconducting Single Photon Detectors
  October 2011           

 

• Umberto Perinetti: Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  February 2011          

 

• Maarten van Weert: Quantum Dots in Vertical Nanowire Devices
  June 2010           

 

• Maarten van Kouwen: Opto-Electronics on Single Nanowire Quantum Dots
  June  2010