Dr. Florian Dirnberger
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
Cavity-controlled magnetic excitons in van der Waals magnets
Research Group on Excitonic Quantum Materials
Academic Career and Research Areas
After graduating with a PhD in physics from the University of Regensburg in 2019, Dr. Dirnberger received a Walter-Benjamin Fellowship from the German Research Foundation to investigate novel light-matter interactions at City College of New York. From 2023 to 2024, he continued his work at Dresden University of Technology, before establishing an independent Emmy Noether research group at Technical University of Munich in Fall 2024.
My group investigates phenomena of optics and photonics in quantum materials. At the center of our efforts are two-dimensional magnetic materials. Unraveling the novel phenomena that emerge from interactions between their optical and magnetic excitations may pave the road towards innovations in magneto-optics. With the Emmy Noether grant, we aim to demonstrate a number of new magneto-optic device concepts, such as magnetically controlled lasers with programmable multi-bit data storage capabilities.
Awards
- MCQST Seed Funding (2024)
- Emmy Noether Grant (2024)
- MRS Distinguished Presenter Award (2023)
- Walter Benjamin Fellowship (2019)
Key Publications (all publications)
F. Dirnberger, J. Quan, R. Bushati, G. Diederich, M. Florian, J. Klein, Z. Sofer, X. Xu, A. Kamra, A. Alù, V. M. Menon, "Magneto-optics in a van der Waals magnet tuned by self-hybridized polaritons", Nature, 620, 533-537 (2023)
AbstractF. Dirnberger*, R. Bushati, B. Datta, A. Kumar, A. H. MacDonald, E. Baldini, V. M. Menon, Spin-correlated exciton-polaritons in a van der Waals magnet, Nature Nanotechnology, 17, 1060–1064 (2022)
AbstractF. Dirnberger, J. D. Ziegler, P. E. Faria Junior, R. Bushati, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Fabian, D. Bougeard, A. Chernikov, V. M. Menon, Quasi-1D exciton channels in strain-engineered 2D materials, Science Advances 7, eabj3066 (2021)
AbstractF. Dirnberger, M. Kammermeier, J. König, M. Forsch, P. E. Faria Junior, T. Campos, J. Fabian, J. Schliemann, C. Schüller, T. Korn, P. Wenk, D. Bougeard. Ultralong spin lifetimes in one-dimensional semiconductor nanowires Applied Physics Letters 114, 202101 (2019)
AbstractS. Furthmeier†, F. Dirnberger†, M. Gmitra, A. Bayer, M. Forsch, J. Hubmann, C. Schüller, E. Reiger, J. Fabian, T. Korn, D. Bougeard, Enhanced spin–orbit coupling in core/shell nanowires, Nature Communications 7, 12413 (2016).
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