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. 

News

Rompiendo Barreras en la Ciencia

Rompiendo Barreras en la Ciencia

Entrevista a Dra. Sonia Martín López 

En un sector tradicionalmente dominado por hombres, la óptica y la fotónica han sido campos de gran innovación y desarrollo en las últimas décadas. En esta entrevista con Sonia Martín López, nos comparte su trayectoria, los retos que ha enfrentado y sus expectativas sobre el futuro de la óptica y su impacto en los proyectos SAFE Y SUBMERSE. 

https://areamujersedoptica.wordpress.com/septiembre-2024-entrevista-a-sonia-martin-lopez/

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GRIFO in EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw

GRIFO in EMRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw

Dr. Michael Sun, Postdoctoral fellow at the Phonics Engineering Group of the University of Alcalá,

gave an oral presentation at the European Material Research Society  (EMRS) Fall Meeting,

in Warsaw, Poland, from September 16 to 19, 2024

entitled “Impact of deposition temperature on InN/Si(100) solar cell device efficiency”.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AOP 2024

AOP 2024

The 6th International Conference on Application of Optics and Photonics will take place July 16 to 19, 2024, at the University of Aveiro, in Aveiro, Portugal.

Full Professor Prof. Miguel González Herráez's talk about Understanding the Ocean Using Submarine Optical Fibre Cables.

Optics conference Plenary Sessions .

 

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Research Lines

  • 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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  • 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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