2026

• Energy-dependent chemical interface damping induced by 1-decanethiol self-assembled monolayer on Au(111)
  Pfeiffer, Maurice; Vonbun-Feldbauer, Gregor; Khurgin, Jacob B.; Matts, Olga; Shqer, Ahmed; Mameka, Nadiia; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 130 (8): 3096-3101 (2026)
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• Engineered self-assembly of plasmonic gold nanoparticles into two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays within the pores of porous silicon membranes
  Barrios-Capuchino, Juan J.; Schuett, Robbert; Chilla, Gerwin; Huber, Patrick; Petrov, Alexander Yu.; Parak, Wolfgang J.; Schulz, Florian
  ChemNanoMat 12 (2): e202500594 (2026)
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• Optical push broom effect by a moving refractive index front in a silicon Bragg waveguide
  Zhang, Boyi; Li, He; Cai, Xinlun; Vega, Felix; Li, Juntao; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz
  Scientific Reports 16 (1): 3050 (2026)
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• Pulse compression by a refractive index front in periodically modulated silicon waveguide
  Zhang, Boyi; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Li, He; Cai, Xinlun; Li, Juntao; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Physical Review A 113 (1): 013515 (2026)
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2025

• Printing photonic-based thermal barrier coatings onto metal alloy
  Gomez Gomez, Alberto; Ribas Gomes, Diego; Winhard, Benedikt; Maragno, Laura G.; Jiménez, Antoine; Thibaudet, Marie; Brandt, Julia; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline
  Nature Communications 16 (1): 6034 (2025)
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• 2D photonic crystal emitter at 1,400°C for thermophotovoltaic energy harvesting
  Chirumamilla, Manohar; Vaidhyanathan Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel; Häntsch, Quynh Yen; Finsel, Maik; Shang, Guoliang; Rout, Surya Snata; Maiwald, Lukas; Krekeler, Tobias; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Pedersen, Kjeld; Vossmeyer, Tobias; Schneider, Gerold A.; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Cell Reports 6 (10): 102850 (2025)
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• Optical properties of nanoporous gold and their change upon electrochemical oxidation
  Pfeiffer, Maurice; Wu, Xinyan; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2025
  
• Water-based cylindrical metamaterials with radial anisotropy for electric field enhancement and suppression
  Brandt, Julia; Renner, Hagen; Langer, Dominik; Eich, Manfred; Kölpin, Alexander; Petrov, Alexander
  15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2025
  
• Elimination of dispersion ripples in a waveguide cavity using two slightly dispersion-shifted Bragg gratings
  Renner, Hagen; Preuß, Hendrik; Kondratyev, Nikita; Wildi, Thibault; Vega, Felix; Herr, Tobias; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz
  Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO 2025
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• Pulse-self-steepening via optical push broom
  Zhang, Boyi; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Lonshakov, Evgeny; Vega, Felix; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz
  Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO 2025
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2024

• Switchable 3D Photonic Crystals Based on the Insulator-to-Metal Transition in VO2
  Peng, Jun; Brandt, Julia; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Maragno, Laura G.; Krekeler, Tobias; Thonakkara James, Nithin; Henf, Julius; Heyn, Christian; Ritter, Martin; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline; Blick, Robert H.; Zierold, Robert
  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 16 (49): 67106-67115 (2024-12-11)
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• Chemical Interface Damping by Electrochemical Gold Oxidation
  Pfeiffer, Maurice; Wu, Xinyan; Ebrahimi, Fatemeh; Mameka, Nadiia; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (37): 15686-15693 (2024)
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• On-chip time lens via the optical pushbroom effect
  Zhang, Boyi; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Li, He; Cai, Xinlun; Renner, Hagen; Cordette, Steevy; Li, Juntao; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz
  16th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO-PR 2024
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• Size-dependent photoemission study by electrochemical coarsening of nanoporous gold
  Ebrahimi, Fatemeh; Wu, Xinyan; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Renner, Hagen; Mameka, Nadiia; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (31): 12777-13386 (2024)
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• Demystifying the semiconductor-to-metal transition in amorphous Vanadium pentoxide: the role of substrate/thin film interfaces
  Esther, A. Carmel Mary; Garlapati, Mohan Muralikrishna; Chirumamilla, Manohar; Da Silva Pinto Manoel W.; Ostendorp, Stefan; Peterlechner, Martin; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Divinski, Sergiy V.; Hahn, Horst; Wilde, Gerhard
  Advanced Functional Materials 34 (30): 2309544 (2024)
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• Reciprocally tailored transparent artificial media for frequency and direction dependent light trapping
  Mustafa, Meraj E; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Optical Materials Express 14 (5): 1281-1292 (2024)
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• On the applicability of the Maxwell Garnett effective medium model to media with a high density of cylindrical pores
  Brandt, Julia; Dittrich, Guido; Thelen, Marc; Renner, Hagen; Huber, Patrick; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Optical Materials Express 14 (4): 871-879 (2024)
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2023

• Iridium-based selective emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications
  Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Chirumamilla, Manohar; Krekeler, Tobias; Ritter, Martin; Raudsepp, Ragle; Schieda, Mauricio; Klassen, Thomas; Pedersen, Kjeld; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Störmer, Michael
  Advanced Materials 35 (41): 2305922 (2023-10-12)
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• Maxwell Garnett effective medium model for dielectric materials with high filling fraction of cylindrical pores
  Brandt, Julia; Dittrich, Guido; Huber, Patrick; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials 2023)
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• Chemical interface damping by electrochemical oxidation of gold
  Pfeiffer, Maurice; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (Meta 2023)
  
• Material systems for metamaterial based selective thermal emitters
  Eich, Manfred; Störmer, Michael; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Petrov, Alexander
  13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2023
  
• 10 dB emission suppression in a structured low index medium
  Saha, Soumyadeep; Mustafa, Meraj E; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 40 (4): 900-904 (2023-04)
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• Light reflection from structured media
  Petrov, Alexander
  Habilitation - Technische Universität Hamburg (2023)
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2022

• Inverse design of nanophotonics devices and materials
  Wiecha, Peter R.; Petrov, Alexander; Genevet, Patrice; Bogdanov, Andrey
  Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 52: 101084 (2022-12)
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• Machine learning models for photonic crystals band diagram prediction and gap optimisation
  Nikulin, A.; Zisman, I.; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander Yu.; Itin, Alexander
  Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 52: 101076 (2022-12)
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• 10 dB emission suppression in low contrast 3D quasiperiodic structure
  Mustafa, Meraj E; Saha, Soumyadeep; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2022)
  
• Nanoporous gold as an active plasmonic metamaterial
  Petrov, Alexander; Pfeiffer, Maurice; Wu, Xinyan; Eich, Manfred
  12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2022)
  
• Which factor determines the optical losses in refractory tungsten thin films at high temperatures?
  Arya, Mahima; Ganguly, Ankita; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Rout, Surya Snata; Gurevich, Leonid; Krekeler, Tobias; Ritter, Martin; Pedersen, Kjeld; Störmer, Michael; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Chirumamilla, Manohar
  Applied Surface Science 588: 152927 (2022-06-30)
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• Control over light emission in low-refractive-index artificial materials inspired by reciprocal design
  Maiwald, Lukas; Sommer, Timo; Sidorenko, Mikhail S.; Yafyasov, Ruslan R.; Mustafa, Meraj E; Schulz, Kai Marvin; Rybin, Mikhail V.; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Advanced Optical Materials 10 (1): 2100785 (2022-01)
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2021

• Omnidirectional photonic bandgap in two-dimensional photonic quasicrystal made of near-transparent dielectric material
  Yafasov, Ruslan; Sidorenko, Mikhail S.; Rybin, Mikhail V.; Petrov, Alexander; Sayanskiy, Andrey
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2015 (1): 012164 (2021-11)
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• Direct Plasmonic Excitation of the Hybridized Surface States in Metal Nanoparticles
  Khurgin, Jacob B.; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Uskov, Alexander V.
  ACS Photonics 8 (7): 2041-2049 (2021-07-21)
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• Fourier optics with linearly tapered waveguides: light trapping and focusing
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Renner, Hagen; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  APL Photonics 6 (6): 066108 (2021-06)
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• Unprecedented thermal stability of plasmonic titanium nitride films up to 1400 °C
  Krekeler, Tobias; Rout, Surya Snata; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Störmer, Michael; Arya, Mahima; Ganguly, Ankita; Sutherland, Duncan S.; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey; Ritter, Martin; Pedersen, Kjeld; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Chirumamilla, Manohar
  Advanced Optical Materials 9 (16): 2100323 (2021-08-18)
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• Light stopping by reflection from a moving index front
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Holtorf, Jannik; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2021)
  
• Optical Properties of the Refractory Metals at High Temperatures
  Chirumamilla, Manohar; Arya, Mahima; Ganguly, Ankita; Rout, Surya Snata; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Krekeler, Tobias; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2021)
  
• Time lens induced by optical pushbroom effect
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Renner, Hagen; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2021)
  
• Tailoring disorder and quality of photonic glass templates for structural coloration by particle charge interactions
  Häntsch, Quynh Yen; Shang, Guoliang; Lei, Bo; Winhard, Benedikt; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Holm, Elizabeth; Schneider, Gerold A.; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline
  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13 (17): 20511-20523 (2021-05-05)
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• Influence of alumina addition on the optical properties and the thermal stability of titania thin films and inverse opals produced by atomic layer deposition
  Waleczek, Martin; Dendooven, Jolien; Dyachenko, Pavel N.; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Blick, Robert H.; Detavernier, Christophe; Nielsch, Kornelius; Furlan, Kaline P.; Zierold, Robert
  Nanomaterials 11 (4): 1053 (2021-04)
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• Improved thermal stability of zirconia macroporous structures via homogeneous aluminum oxide doping and nanostructuring using atomic layer deposition
  Gehensel, Raphael J.; Zierold, Robert; Schaan, Gunnar; Shang, Guoliang; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Blick, Robert H.; Krekeler, Tobias; Janßen, Rolf; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline
  Journal of the European Ceramic Society 41 (7): 4302-4312 (2021-07-01)
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• Structural degradation of tungsten sandwiched in hafnia layers determined by in-situ XRD up to 1520 °C
  Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Chirumamilla, Manohar; Rout, Surya Snata; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline; Krekeler, Tobias; Ritter, Martin; Becker, Hans Werner; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Störmer, Michael
  Scientific Reports 11 (1): 3330 (2021-02-08)
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2020

• Pulse time reversal and stopping by a refractive index front
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Holtorf, Jannik; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  APL Photonics 8 (5): 080801 (2020-08)
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• Conductive and radiative heat transfer inhibition in YSZ photonic glass
  Shang, Guoliang; Dyachenko, Pavel N.; Leib, Elisabeth; Vossmeyer, Tobias; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Ceramics International 11 (46): 19241-19247 (2020-08-01)
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• Photonic glass based structural color
  Shang, Guoliang; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  APL Photonics 6 (5): 060901 (2020)
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• High-Contrast Structural Color Based on Photonic Glass from Core-Shell Particles
  Petrov, Alexander; Shang, Guoliang; Maiwald, Lukas; Eich, Manfred
  Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting (LEOS 2020)
  
• High-contrast structural color based on photonic glass from core-shell particles
  Petrov, Alexander; Shang, Guoliang; Maiwald, Lukas; Eich, Manfred
  Applications and Technology (CLEO_AT 2020)
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• Size Dependent Absorption and Hot Electron Emission from Nanoporous Gold
  Petrov, Alexander; Graf, Matthias; Arya, Mahima; Eich, Manfred
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2020)
  
• Spectrally Selective Emitters Stable up to 1400°C for Thermophotovoltaic Applications
  Chirumamilla, Manohar; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Knopp, Katrin; Krekeler, Tobias; Graf, Matthias; Jalas, Dirk; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting (LEOS 2020)
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• Surface templated inverse photonic glass for saturated blue structural color
  Shang, Guoliang; Pagnan Furlan, Kaline; Janßen, Rolf; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Optics Express 6 (28): 7759-7770 (2020-03-16)
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• Thermal stability of tungsten based metamaterial emitter under medium vacuum and inert gas conditions
  Chirumamilla, Manohar; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Rout, Surya Snata; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Scientific Reports 1 (10): 3605 (2020)
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• Optical reflection from a free carrier-induced front in a slow light waveguide
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Jalas, Dirk; O'Faolain, Liam; Li, Juntao; Krauss, Thomas F.; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Proceedings of SPIE: 112850R (2020)
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• Front induced transitions in slow light and dispersive waveguides
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Baba, Toshihiko; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Proceedings of SPIE: 112962O (2020)
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• Linear Schrödinger equation for front-induced transitions close to the band edge
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Renner, Hagen; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  The International Society for Optical Engineering (11274): 1127404 (2020-02)
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• Front induced transitions: Refractive index fronts in dispersive waveguides
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Renner, Hagen; Baba, Toshihiko; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Proceedings of SPIE: 113581H (2020)
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• Optical push broom in a silicon waveguide
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelaziz; Li, He; Cai, Xinlun; Li, Juntao; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Proceedings of SPIE: 113580D (2020)
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2019

• Front-induced transitions
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Baba, Toshihiko; Eich, Manfred; Petrov, Alexander
  Nature Photonics 11 (13): 737-748 (2019-11-01)
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• YSZ Hollow Sphere Photonic Glasses: Tailoring Optical Properties for Highly Saturated Non-Iridescent Structural Coloration
  Häntsch, Quynh Yen; Shang, Guoliang; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Schneider, Gerold A.
  Advanced Optical Materials 18 (7): 1900428 (2019-09-01)
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• Transparency induced in opals via nanometer thick conformal coating
  Shang, Guoliang; Furlan, Kaline P.; Zierold, Robert; Blick, Robert; Janßen, Rolf; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Scientific Reports 1 (9): 11379 (2019-12-01)
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• Linear Schrödinger equation with temporal evolution for front induced transitions
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Renner, Hagen; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Optics Express 15 (27): 21273-21284 (2019-07-22)
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• Metamaterial emitter for thermophotovoltaics stable up to 1400 °C
  Chirumamilla, Manohar; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Knopp, Katrin; Krekeler, Tobias; Graf, Matthias; Jalas, Dirk; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Scientific Reports (9): 7241 (2019-05-10)
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• High Temperature Optical Metamaterials
  Petrov, Alexander; Chirumamilla, Manohar; Krishnamurthy, Gnanavel Vaidhyanathan; Knonn, Katrin; Krekeler, Tobias; Graf, Matthias; Jalas, Dirk; Ritter, Martin; Störmer, Michael; Rich, Manfred
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2019)
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• Advancing the fabrication of YSZ-inverse photonic glasses for broadband omnidirectional reflector films
  Rosário, Jefferson J. do; Häntsch, Quynh Yen; Pasquarelli, Robert M.; Dyachenko, Pavel N.; Vriend, Eleonora; Petrov, Alexander; Furlan, Kaline P.; Eich, Manfred; Schneider, Gerold A.
  Journal of the European Ceramic Society 11 (39): 3353-3363 (2019)
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• Surface-to-Volume Ratio Drives Photoelelectron Injection from Nanoscale Gold into Electrolyte
  Graf, Matthias; Jalas, Dirk; Weissmüller, Jörg; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  ACS Catalysis 4 (9): 3366-3374 (2019-04-05)
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• Highly selective photonic glass filter for saturated blue structural color
  Shang, Guoliang; Häntsch, Quynh Yen; Furlan, Kaline P.; Janßen, Rolf; Schneider, Gerold A.; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  APL Photonics 4 (4): 046101 1-7 (2019)
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• Front-induced intraband indirect photonic transition in slow-light waveguide
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Jalas, Dirk; O'Faolain, Liam; Li, Juntao; Krauss, Thomas F.; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: 109211Y (2019)
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• Linear Schrödinger equation with temporal evolution for front-induced indirect transitions in highly dispersive waveguides
  Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Renner, Hagen; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Proceedings of SPIE: 109211Z (2019)
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• Free-carrier detection in a silicon slab via absorption measurement in 2D integrating cells
  Fohrmann, Lena Simone; Lotfi, Nima; Alzein, Bilal; Gaafar, Mahmoud Abdelazis; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred
  Optics Letters 1 (44): 175-178 (2019-01-01)
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