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Acknowledgments
part B3) is acknowledged, for instance, concerning Raman spectroscopy of 2D
materials, joint supervision of project students, and helpful discussions.
• Similarly, I am grateful to Prof. H. G. Roskos from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and his group members, such as Dr. A. Soltani, F. Walla, M. Wiecha,
and co-workers, for their help and support in the study of 2D materials and
nanophotonic structures with their s-SNOM technique, which allowed rasterprobe optical nanoscopy of various vdW monolayers and stacks prepared in my
team, for instance, on top of circular nanogratings. This collaboration also enabled
uncomplicated AFM topography analysis and fruitful discussions.
• Furthermore, I am grateful to Prof. G. Witte and his group members, such as D.
Günder, who generously helped to acquire AFM topography maps of 2D materials
and to use facilities such as his group’s glovebox.
• Also, I would like to thank Prof. V. Evtikhiev and his group from the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the kind support with nanostructuring efforts
regarding III/V semiconductor structures.
• Furthermore, I would like to thank Prof. P. J. Klar and his Micro-/Nanostructure
Physics Group at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen for the helpful and uncomplicated access to the MiNa clean-room facilities via the Semiconductor Photonics
group Marburg subscriptions which enabled the production, microstructuring, and
contacting of various types of samples. Particularly, frequent technical support by
Dr. T. Henning and co-workers is acknowledged.
• Special thanks are devoted to Dr. L. Dominici and Dr. D. Sanvitto, from the Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Research Council (NANOTEC-CNR)
in Lecce, Italy, for enabling a valuable collaboration on the coherent manipulation and control of exciton–polaritons in optical microcavities, for their helpful
discussions and support of our joint investigations in an ongoing project (DFG
RA2841/9-1)—promising novel insights. Particularly, I want to thank both Italian
partners for their trustful, friendly and positive attitude, which encouraged me to
follow my project aims and promoted the opportunity of joint research targeted
together years ago.
• I am also grateful to Prof. S. Höfling, Dr. C. Schneider, and co-workers from
the University of Würzburg for the successful long-term cooperative research on
microcavity polaritons and their supply of excellent MBE-grown samples from the
Gottfried-Landwehr-Labor für Nanotechnologie (formerly known as Mikrostrukturlabor der Technischen Physik). In this context, many thanks are devoted to
former supervisors Professors A. Forchel, S. Reitzenstein, L. Worschech, M.
Kamp for their guidance and support in various quantum optics and nanophotonics works at the Technische Physik, Würzburg, to cooperation partners, such
as Dr. A. V. Chernenko (Chernogolovka, Russia), Dr. N. Y. Kim (Stanford University, USA), and many others, to all my former students (be it directly supervised
or co-supervised under the guidance of my ‘Doktorvater’ Prof. S. Reitzenstein)
and co-workers, many of whom carried on the inherited work on polariton lasers
and condensates, such as J. Fischer, M. Amthor, A. Schade, S. Brodbeck, and K.
Winkler.
Acknowledgments
part B3) is acknowledged, for instance, concerning Raman spectroscopy of 2D
materials, joint supervision of project students, and helpful discussions.
• Similarly, I am grateful to Prof. H. G. Roskos from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and his group members, such as Dr. A. Soltani, F. Walla, M. Wiecha,
and co-workers, for their help and support in the study of 2D materials and
nanophotonic structures with their s-SNOM technique, which allowed rasterprobe optical nanoscopy of various vdW monolayers and stacks prepared in my
team, for instance, on top of circular nanogratings. This collaboration also enabled
uncomplicated AFM topography analysis and fruitful discussions.
• Furthermore, I am grateful to Prof. G. Witte and his group members, such as D.
Günder, who generously helped to acquire AFM topography maps of 2D materials
and to use facilities such as his group’s glovebox.
• Also, I would like to thank Prof. V. Evtikhiev and his group from the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the kind support with nanostructuring efforts
regarding III/V semiconductor structures.
• Furthermore, I would like to thank Prof. P. J. Klar and his Micro-/Nanostructure
Physics Group at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen for the helpful and uncomplicated access to the MiNa clean-room facilities via the Semiconductor Photonics
group Marburg subscriptions which enabled the production, microstructuring, and
contacting of various types of samples. Particularly, frequent technical support by
Dr. T. Henning and co-workers is acknowledged.
• Special thanks are devoted to Dr. L. Dominici and Dr. D. Sanvitto, from the Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Research Council (NANOTEC-CNR)
in Lecce, Italy, for enabling a valuable collaboration on the coherent manipulation and control of exciton–polaritons in optical microcavities, for their helpful
discussions and support of our joint investigations in an ongoing project (DFG
RA2841/9-1)—promising novel insights. Particularly, I want to thank both Italian
partners for their trustful, friendly and positive attitude, which encouraged me to
follow my project aims and promoted the opportunity of joint research targeted
together years ago.
• I am also grateful to Prof. S. Höfling, Dr. C. Schneider, and co-workers from
the University of Würzburg for the successful long-term cooperative research on
microcavity polaritons and their supply of excellent MBE-grown samples from the
Gottfried-Landwehr-Labor für Nanotechnologie (formerly known as Mikrostrukturlabor der Technischen Physik). In this context, many thanks are devoted to
former supervisors Professors A. Forchel, S. Reitzenstein, L. Worschech, M.
Kamp for their guidance and support in various quantum optics and nanophotonics works at the Technische Physik, Würzburg, to cooperation partners, such
as Dr. A. V. Chernenko (Chernogolovka, Russia), Dr. N. Y. Kim (Stanford University, USA), and many others, to all my former students (be it directly supervised
or co-supervised under the guidance of my ‘Doktorvater’ Prof. S. Reitzenstein)
and co-workers, many of whom carried on the inherited work on polariton lasers
and condensates, such as J. Fischer, M. Amthor, A. Schade, S. Brodbeck, and K.
Winkler.