The Academy funds optic materials research for a million euros
4.1.2007
The optic materials research projects to be funded in co-operation with the Academy of Finland and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) have been selected. The Finnish-Russian research co-operation consist of a total of six projects running for three years (2007-2009). The Academy will support the Finnish partners with a total of one million euros. The topic of the joint call was selected based on the requirement that there is high level scientific know-how present in both countries.
One of the selected projects is a joint project between the Helsinki University of Technology and the Saratov Institute of radiotechnics and electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences. In the project the processes of interaction between light and materials oscillations (plasmons) in nanoporous metal structure, metamaterial, are investigated. From the practical point of view the accomplishment of this research project will result in a novel optical super-lens which allows us to obtain an image of objects with the resolution determined by the period of the void lattice, which is assumed to be much smaller than the optical wavelength. Applications may be found in many areas of nano-technology including biosensor technology, control of surface epilayers, optoelectronics, and photolitography. The Finnish part of the project is headed by professor Sergei Tretyakov.
Funded projects are:
Adaptive fiber-optic interferometers for monitoring of ultra-small deformations under industrial environment
- Professor Alexei Kamchiline, University of Kuopio
- Professor Yuri N. Kulchin, Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Russian Academy of Sciences
Optical Investigations of Novel Carbon Nanohybrid Material - NanoBuds (Fullerene Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes)
- Professor Esko Kauppinen, Helsinki University of Technology
- Dr. Elena D. Obraztsova, Natural Sciences Center of General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Optical investigation of the structure and dynamics of functional nanomaterials
- Professor Helge Lemmetyinen, Tampere University of Technology
- Professor Michael G. Kuzmin, Moscow State University
Optical properties of GaN and GaAsN nano- and microstructures in terahertz spectral range
- Professor Harri Lipsanen, Helsinki University of Technology
- Professor Dmitry A. Firsov, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University
Calixarene containing star polymers as molecular containers for a photo physically active elements of supramolecular ensembles
- Professor Heikki Tenhu, University of Helsinki
- Professor Andrey V. Tenkovtsev, Institute of macromolecular compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences
Optical properties of metallic metamaterials
- Professor Sergei Tretyakov, Helsinki University of Technology
- Dr. Vyacheslav V. Popov, Saratov Institute of radiotechnics and electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences
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There will a new topical joint call by the Academy and RFBR in 2007. The Finnish part is announced in Academy's January 2007 call for applications and is named "Funding of joint projects in the field of material engineering and biosciences with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research".
More information:
- Programme Manager Mr. Petri Ahonen, Academy of Finland, tel. +358 9 7748 8300, petri.ahonen@aka.fi
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