Photonic Engineering Research Group

The activity of the GRIFO (Photonic Engineering Research Group) of the University of Alcala is very intense in terms of scientific production. In particular, we work in the research line of distributed fiber optic sensors, in the field of development and manufacture of photonic materials and devices based mainly on group III nitrides, and in the application of ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials with perovskite structure with different compositions for energy harvesting systems. 

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INVITACION SEMINARIO

INVITACION SEMINARIO

Dentro del Máster en Ingeniería Fotónica nos agrada invitar a la Comunidad Universitaria al siguiente evento:       

Seminario dentro del Máster en Ingeneniería Fotónica (https://www.uc3m.es/master/miphot)

Título: ” Hybrid devices for fun and technology: new routes to exploit 2D materials”,

Ponente: Daniel Granados Ruiz, IMDEA Nanociencia

Fecha y lugar: 10 de marzo a las 10:00 en la sala 1 del departamento de Electrónica.

               

               

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TREMORS Project

TREMORS Project

The TREMORS Project, promoted by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), seeks to develop pioneering technology for detecting seismicity at sea with a precision level far superior to the tools currently available to seismologists. This technology will help to better study seismic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis.

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Defense of Doctoral Thesis

Defense of Doctoral Thesis

The reading and defense of the Doctoral Thesis presented by Ms. Laura Monroy Lafuente, entitled: "Optimization of passive ultrafast fiber lasers based on Indium Nitride for novel applications" directed by Dr. Miguel González and Fernando B. Naranjo, Full Professor of the Department of Electronics of the UAH, was held on February 14, 2023, at 10:30 a.m., in the Rectorate of the UAH with the presence of the experts Full Professor Óscar Esteban, PhD. David Salido and PhD. Arnaud Mussot, members of the court that have evaluated the work.

After the defense, discussion of the thesis and the written assessment, the president of the court publicly communicated the qualification obtained by the doctoral student with maximum distinctions.

 

 

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Research Lines

  • Distributed Fiber Sensors.

    In the last five years, the activity in The Photonics Engineering Research Group GRIFO has been very intense in terms of scientific production. In particular, in the research line of distributed fiber optic sensors 2016 was a particularly important year as a new technique for distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) was demonstrated by the group. Since then, this technique has been at the core of many investigations of this group in the last five years, as it offers disruptive properties that have not only spurred the interest of the scientific community, but also from commercial companies which license the patents associated to the technique and have developed it into commercial products (particularly Omnisens, CH, and Aragon Photonics, ES).

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  • Ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials with perovskite structure for energy harvesting systems.

    Integration, characterization, modelling (FEM) and application to electronics of ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials with perovskite structure with different compositions. That line has evolved in the combination of these piezoelectric materials with magnetic materials to manufacture multiferroic materials (in a single phase and composites) for energy harvesting systems.

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  • Fabrication of materials and photonics devices.

    The group has been involved in the field of development and fabrication of materials and photonics devices based mainly on group III nitrides. Within these research lines, the group has a deep expertise in the deposition of metals and III-Nitrides by sputtering on several kind of surfaces, like standard optical fibre, flexible substrates, sapphire and Silicon.

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