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Dr. Thomas Taubner


  • Status: Postdoc the Brongersma Lab from May 2006 to Oct 2008
  • Thomas moved on to become a Junior Professor of Metamaterials and Nanooptics at RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • Current address:
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Taubner
  • I. Physikalisches Institut (IA), RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany
  • phone: +49-241-80-20312 (office), -27156(sekr.), -22331(fax)
  • email: taubner(at)physik.rwth-aachen.de

Research interests:

  • Current Research Project: Infrared Antennas for Near-field Microscopy

  • Phonon-Polaritons and Superlensing
  • Tip-enhanced near-field Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Infrared scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (s-SNOM)


Publications:

2008

  • Aizpurua, J., T. Taubner, F.J. Garcia de Abajo, M. Brehm, R. Hillenbrand (2008). “Substrate-enhanced infrared near-field spectroscopy.” Optics Express 16: 1529-1545.


  • 2007

  • Schuller, J.A., R. Zia, T. Taubner, M.L. Brongersma (2007). “Dielectric Metamaterials based on Electric and Magnetic Resonances of Silicon Carbide Particles.” Physical Review Letters 99: 107401.


2006

  • Taubner, T., D. Korobkin, Y. Urzhumov, G. Shvets and R. Hillenbrand (2006). "Near-field Microscopy Through a SiC Superlens." Science 313: 1595-1595.

  • Brehm, M., T. Taubner, R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann (2006). "Infrared Spectroscopic Mapping of Single Nanoparticles and Viruses at Nanoscale Resolution " Nano Letters 6(7): 1307-1310.

  • Huber, A., N. Ocelic, T. Taubner and R. Hillenbrand (2006). "Nanoscale Resolved Infrared Probing of Crystal Structure and of Plasmon-Phonon Coupling " Nano Letters 7(4): 774-778.


2005

  • Taubner, T., F. Keilmann and R. Hillenbrand (2005). "Nanoscale-resolved subsurface imaging by scattering-type near-field optical microscopy." Optics Express 13(22): 8893-8899.

  • Taubner, T., R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann (2005). "Effect of tip modulation on Image Contrast in scattering-type near-field optical microscopy." Journal of the Korean Physical Society 47: S213-S216.

  • Brehm, M., H. G. Frey, R. Guckenberger, R. Hillenbrand, D. Kazantsev, F. Keilmann, N. Ocelic and T. Taubner (2005). "Consolidating Aperturless SNOM." Journal of the Korean Physical Society 47: S80-S85.


2004 and before

  • Taubner, T., R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann (2004). "Nanoscale polymer identification by spectral signature in scattering infrared near-field microscopy." Applied Physics Letters 85(21): 5064-5066.

  • Taubner, T., F. Keilmann and R. Hillenbrand (2004). "Nanomechanical resonance tuning and phase effects in optical near-field interaction." Nano Letters 4(9): 1669-1672.

  • Taubner, T., R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann (2003). "Performance of visible and mid-infrared scattering-type near-field optical microscopes." Journal of Microscopy 210(3): 311-314.

  • Hillenbrand, R., T. Taubner and F. Keilmann (2002). "Phonon-enhanced light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale." Nature 418: 159-162.