May 02, 2018
Emanuel-Goldberg- and Harry-Dember-prizes 2018 awarded
Mona Kliem and Edvard van Sieleghem - Dember-prize awardees 2018
At 20 April 2018 the Dresden photonics colloqium took place for the 25th time. It was hosted in the Hermann-Krone-building by the Robert-Luther-foundation and the center for applies photonics (ZAP) e.V.. This event provided the framework for the award ceremony for the best degree theses in the field of optics and photonics.
Dr. Simonas Krotkus (3 from left), Goldberg prize awardee 2018
The Emanuel-Goldberg-prize of the Robert-Luther-foundation 2018 endowed with 2.000€ was awarded to Dr. Simonas Krotkus and to Dr. Yoonseok Park. Mr. Krotkus was concerned with orthogonal lithographic structuring of organic surfaces to integrate OLED into displays in his excellent dissertation ”Advances in Organic Displays and Lighting: Towards Planar Lithographic Integration of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes”. Mr. Park analyzed in his outstanding dissertation “Light trapping substrates and electrodes for flexible organic photovoltaics” different approaches to improve the efficiency of flexible organic solar cells by advanced light trapping. Both awardees were recognized for their combination of skillful experimental settings and deep understanding of the theoretical background. Their research aimed to find solutions for application driven problems in organic electronics. Meanwhile, Mr. Park accepted a postdoc position in Chicago and took part at the award ceremnoy via video conference - a novelty.
The Haary-Dember-prize of the ZAP e. V. endowed with 1.000€ was awarded to MSc Mona Kliem for her master thesis „Dispersion und Lasermoden in strukturierten, organischen Mikrokavitäten“ and MSc Edward van Sieleghem for his master thesis „Interference effects in infrared scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy“. Mr. van Sieleghem graduated from the European Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Program. He investigated scattering processes in IR-scattering near-field scanning optical microscopes (IR-s-SNOM). Ms. Kliem analyzed structured organic micro-cavities for novel organic devices based on micro-lasers.
Prof. Achim Mehlhorn, the former rector of the TU Dresden, reminded in his honorific speech the eponyms of the prizes - both were renowned Scientists working in Dresden in the first half of the 20th century in photo physics. Both were prohibited to teach at the TU Dresden by the Nazi regime and emigrated, due to their jewish origins. Prof. Bertram Batlogg (ETH Zürich) presented in a very entertaining and interesting lecture the "physics of a cell phone".