ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2010
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Florian Marquardt and his team carry out research into nanomechanical systems that are smaller than the width of a human hair. These systems are driven only by the pressure of light and their vibrations simultaneously retroact on the light field. The researcher hopes to record mechanical movements in the nanometre scale as precisely as possible. With this work, Marquardt hopes to open up new applications in signal and information processing, for example in optomechanical circuits or in biophysics.