Mission statement
The aim is to identify, understand, and control the nature of various physical phenomena and functionalities of condensed matter systems. We approach this problem using a variety of linear and non-linear optical techniques and by developing microscopic models to describe the observed phenomena.
Organization
The research group Optical Condensed Matter Physics is part of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, a research institute within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen. For education the group resorts under the school of Natural Sciences and Technology and actively takes part in the Physics Bachelor and Master programs, and in the Topmaster NanoScience.
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"The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalised States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors",
Artem A. Bakulin, Akshay Rao, Vlad G. Pavelyev, Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Dorota Niedzialek, Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne, and Richard H. Friend.
Science 335, page 1340-44 (2012)
University of Groningen press release
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"The active layer of the currently most efficient plastic photovoltaic cells is a blend of polymer and methanofullerene molecules. In their article M. S. Pshenichnikov et al. show that hole transfer upon methanofullerene excitation operates simultaneously with electron transfer as the charge generation process in plastic photovoltaics, at a staggering timescale of 30 fs." |
"Two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy reveals that water molecules possess much slower hydrogen bond dynamics in the hydration shell of hydrophobic molecular groups than in the bulk." |