N. Asger Mortensen is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from where he also received the MSc, PhD, and Dr. Techn. degrees in 1998, 2001, and 2006, respectively. .. read more

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Recent news:

 

  • December 2011: The Sapere Aude young elite researcher program awarded to Dr. Jijngjing Zhang. The list of recipients also includes Dr. Jesper Goor Pedersen who received his PhD from this group. More information is available here. 

  • November 2011: Søren Raza receives the DOPS Junior Award from the Danish Optical Society.

  • November 2011: Paper by Dr. Martijn Wubs on the list of "Most read Photonics and Nanotructures articles". More information availble here.

  • November 2011: Newton International Fellowship awarded to Dr. Jingjing Zhang. The fellowship allows her to carry out research over a two-year period in the group of Prof. A. Zayats, King's College London (UK).

  • November 2011: N. Asger Mortensen invited to give a one-hour tutorial talk on plasmonics and non-local response at the POEM2011 in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China.

  • November 2011: Dr. Sanshui Xiao and Dr. Martijn Wubs promoted to associate professors.

  • October 2011:  Dr. Jingjing Zhang promoted to assistant professor.

  • October 2011: Participation in new Centre of Excellence on 'Nanostructured Graphene', granted by Danish National Research Foundation. The centre is headed by Prof. Antti-Pekka Jauho. More information available here.

  • October 2011: NNT2011 Best poster award to Alexander Christiansen, Jeppe Clausen, and co-workers for their work on "Large area color effects in polymer replica of black silicon".

  • October 2011: Paper in New Journal of Physics, co-authored by Martijn Wubs, becomes 'Editors' Choice'.

  • September 2011: Paper on nonlocal response, published in PRB Rapid Publications, becomes 'Editors' Suggestion'.

  • August 2011: 'Best presentation award' to Prof. N. Asger Mortensen for his invited talk on quenched transmission of light through ultrathin metal films at "Nanostructured Thin Films IV" (SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA)

  • May 2011: Dr. Jingjing Zhang secures an individual grant of 1.8 MDKK for metamaterial research from the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP).

  • May 2011: Paper in the April 11 issue of Opt. Express the 5th most downloaded paper in April.

  • April 2011: Experimental demonstration of compact carpet cloaking with the aid of sub-wavelength silicon grating structures (see OSA press release). For media coverage, see e.g.  physicsworld.com,  ScienceNews.org, 2physics.com.

  • February 2011: Dr. Jingjing Zhang co-authors paper in Nature Communications on macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light.

  • December 2010: Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2010. Dr. Jingjing Zhang is a co-author of paper on cloaking [ arXiv:1012.2783 ], entering at a 4th place.

  • December 2010: Søren Raza receives the QNLO predoc award from the Quantum and Nonlinear Optics graduate school, www.QNLO.dk.

  • October 2010: Dr. Jesper Goor Pedersen receives "Direktør P. Gorm-Petersens Mindelegat", recognizing his PhD work on electrons and photons in periodic structures.

  • July 2010: Elton Bitincka defended his MSc thesis at "Sapienza" Univ. of Rome (work performed at DTU Fotonik). He received the maximum score (101/110) with Cum Laude. Moreover, the Commission added a special honour mention: "printing dignity"

  • June 2010: Dr. Wei Yan (presently at KTH) to receive Hans Christian  Ørsted postdoctoral fellowship for metamaterial research. 

  • June 2010: Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation supports NanoPlast consortium by granting 50 MDKK (total budget of ~100 MDKK).  

  • June 2010: Best poster award to Jure Grgic for slow light paper presented at The International Conference on Nanophotonics (Tsukuba, Japan).

  • May 2010: Prof. N.A. Mortensen approved by OSA's Board of Editors to serve as an Associate Editor for Optics Express.

  • April 2010: Invited book chapter (co-authored with Prof. Anders Kristensen) on optofluidic light sources published in Handbook of Optofluidics (CRC Press).

  • March 2010: Program for Sino-Danish Scientific and Technological Cooperation supports network activity with Prof. Sailing He at Zhejiang Univ. (ZJU).

  • November 2009: Two invited book chapter (co-authored with Prof. Anders Kristensen) on optofluidic dye lasers and micro-droplet dye lasers published in international series on Optofluidics.

  • June 2009: Dr. Jingjing Zhang (presently at ZJU, China) to receive Hans Christian  Ørsted postdoctoral fellowship for metamaterial research. 

  • January 2009: Recently published APL number one on the Top 20 most Downloaded Articles

  • December 2008: Jointed paper with the group of Prof. Anders Kristensen featured on the cover of the APL December 8 issue. [Christiansen et al., APL 93, 231101 (2008)]

  • October 2008: Dr. Sanshui Xiao and Prof. N. Asger Mortensen share the EOS Prize 2008 with KTH-professor Min Qui for their joined authorship on a theoretical paper on light-transmission through sub-wavelength holes.

  • Juli 2008: Prof. N. Asger Mortensen is a nominated Young Researcher Participant in the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics organized by the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

  • June 2008: the research group joins the Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

  • April 2008: The group participates in the newly established VKR Center of Excellence for "NAnophotonics for TErabit Communications" granted by the Villum Kann Rasmusen Foundation. The center is headed by Prof. Jesper Mørk and the theory work package is headed by N. Asger Mortensen.

  • January 2008: Prof. N. Asger Mortensen receives the Young Elite Researcher Award.

 

  • November 2007: Dr. Sanshui Xiao receives a talent grant from the Danish Research Councel for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP) for a three-year Assistant Professorship within theory of nanoplasmonic sensors.

 

  • July 2007: Invited paper in the "Optofluidics" special issue of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics edited by Prof. D. Erickson.

 

  • March 2007: Prof. N. Asger Mortensen receives Statoil prisen 2007.

 

Features & press coverage:

 

  1. H.K. Tokle
    "DTU artikel om avancerede lysledere får europæisk pris" (in Danish)
    CampusXpress●DTU, issue 43 (October 26, 2004). 

  2. J. Ramskov
    "Europæisk optikpris til tre DTU-forskere" (in Danish)
    Ingeniøren, issue 44 (October 29, 2004).

  3. H.K. Tokle
    "DTU's første doktor i fotoniske krystalfibre" (in Danish)
    DTU AVISEN, issue 5 (April 28, 2006).

  4. D. Nikbin
    "Levitated dye droplets show lasing action"  
    Optics.org (June 16, 2006).

  5. M. Dinnetz

    "MIC's First Doctor of Technology"

    MIC annual report 2005-2006 (March, 2007).

  6. P.K. Nielsen
    "Ny visionær forskning forbedrer naturens materialer" (in Danish)
    FTP press release (March 2, 2007). 

  7. N. Østergaard 
    "DTU vil udvikle miniantenne til anti-terror" (in Danish)

    Ingeniøren, issue 9 (March 2, 2007). 

  8. P. Hoffmann

    "Statoil-prisen 2007 til Niels Asger Mortensen" (in Danish)

    DTU news release (March 16, 2007).

  9. M. Larsen

    "Niels Asger Mortensen hædret med Statoil-prisen 2007" (in Danish)

    Jern og Maskinindustrien (March 19, 2007).

  10. C. Legaard

    "Hæder og 100.000 kroner til nano-forsker" (in Danish)

    Erhvervsavisen (March 20, 2007).

  11. P. Brinch

    "Statoil-prisen marts 2007 går til Niels Asger Mortensen" (in Danish) 

    Statoil press release (March 21, 2007).

  12. P. Hoffmann
    "Årsfesten 2007" (in Danish)
    DTU Avisen, issue 6 (June 4, 2007).

  13. K. Jagadeesan
    "Optofluidic sensors using photonic crystal waveguides"
    Frost & Sullivan Technical Insights (June 22, 2007).

  14. T. Bjerre
    "Ti nye teknologiske fremskridt i støbeskeen med 94 millioner kroner fra Højteknologifonden" (in Danish)
    Højteknologifonden press release (July 3, 2007).

  15. D. Lundsgaard
    "Høreapparater med bedre forståelighed og trådløs energiforsyning" (in Danish)
    ØrstedDTU news release (July 5, 2007). 

  16. L. Wessel
    "Tema: Forskerkarriere" (in Danish)
    Ingeniøren, issue 5 (February 1, 2008).

  17. "Quantum physics: Missing holes add up"
    Nature 452, 785 (2008).

  18. "Kulstof som kvantecomputer"
    Aktuel Naturvidenskab, issue 2, (2008)

  19. S. Hildebrandt
    "Drop biobrændstofferne - sats på atomkraft" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (July 3, 2008).

  20. P. Jørnø
    "De bryder naturens grænser" (in Danish)
    Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen (July 10, 2008).

  21. S. Hildebrandt
    "Nyt 3D-material kan gøre objekter usynlige" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (August 12, 2008).

  22. "Nanomodifioitu grafeeni saattaa mahdollistaa kvanttilaskennan" (in Finnish)
    Polysteekki, issue 2 (2008).

  23. S. Hildebrandt
    "Ny sensor gransker molekyler med langsomt lys" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (September 30, 2008). 

  24. S. Hildebrandt
    "Spejlvendte molekyler jages på dansk grund" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (September 30, 2008); jp.dk (September 30, 2008).

  25. R. Engelhardt
    "Bremset lys ser bedre" (in Danish)
    Ingeniøren, issue 40 (October 3, 2008).

  26. S. Hildebrandt
    "Dansker opfinder ny metode til at guide lys"
    videnskab.dk (August 20, 2009).