Material optics and plasmonics

Research focuses on the structural and optical properties of nanomaterials and 2D materialsbased on theoretical approaches and numerical simulations. We are interested in the physical phenomena influencing the optical responses of materials and more specifically in the links between these and plasmonic excitations.

Although our research into the importance of electromagnetic fields at the atomic scale is primarily fundamental in character, we are careful to keep a strong link with experiment and applications.

At the technical level, we combine classical electrodynamics(DDA) to account for the optical and electron energy loss responses of structured systems and quantum methods(TB, DFT) to study the electronic properties of materials with, in some cases, the contribution of artificial intelligence.

Promoter (PI): Luc Henrard

Luc Henrard, a member of the Physics Department, is also affiliated with the naXys and NISM (Research cluster HPC-MM).

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Post-doctorants

• Waqas Zulfiqar
• Emerick Guillaume

Doctors

• Aylin Melan
• Hassen Haddad
• Alexandre Cloots in co-diplomation with UCLouvain - Main promoter : Professor Xavier Gonze.

Scientific collaborators

• Mohamed Achehboune | Assistant Professor - UM6P, BenGuerir, Marocco
• Khawla Chaoui | PhD Student - University of 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Algeria
• Peter Vancso |Senior Scientist - Centre for Energy Research - Budapest, Hungary