The group of Prof. Dorota A. Pawlak at Ensemble3 Centre of Excellence led a highly collaborative research effort embracing materials technological, experimental and theoretical achievements, which provided the route to the realization of an innovative light source based on a glass composite yielding ultrafast and narrow, amplified luminescence.

Quantum-dot-populated plasmonic nanocavities in the material enable multiscale light enhancement that was studied experimentally by the researchers at Ensemble3, University of Warsaw, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (now Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics) and Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences, and theoretically by the group of Prof. OrtwinHess at TrinityCollegeDublin.

This research spanning several years of work was published in Nature Communications 2024, 15, 3309 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47539-3).

Congratulations to all the co-authors!

Title: Ultrafast photoluminescence and multiscale light amplification in nanoplasmonic cavity glass

Authors: Piotr Piotrowski, Marta Buza, Rafał Nowaczyński, Nuttawut Kongsuwan, Hańcza B. Surma, Paweł Osewski, Marcin Gajc, Adam Strzep, Witold Ryba-Romanowski, Ortwin Hess and Dorota A. Pawlak

This work was supported financially by: TEAM/2016-3/29 grant within the TEAM program of the Foundation for Polish Science co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund, ENSEMBLE3 Project (MAB/2020/14) which is carried out within the International Research Agendas Programme (IRAP) of the Foundation for Polish Science co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund and Teaming Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission, MAESTRO project “New Generation Plasmonic Materials” financed by the National Science Center of Poland (G.A. 2011/02/A/ST5/00471) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) via grant number 18/RP/6236.