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02/18/2026

Triple success on postdoc fellowship applications

Congratulations to Junho Kim, Mitchell Harling, and Xiao Tan on their successful fellowship applications.

02/11/2026

Changki Moon's new paper in LSA

First time electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is used as a light source for optogenetic experiments

10/31/2025

Malte is elected full member of acatech

Official reception as new member at the annual meeting in Berlin

04/25/2025

EXIST funded start-up project on our new polariton filter technology

Our new polariton filters are poised to enable new real-world applications due to €1.1M EXIST-FT funding.

02/21/2025

Dr Tomasz Plaskocinski wins MSCA fellowship

Fellowship allows Tomasz to work on intracellular lasers for the next two years - stay tuned!

01/20/2025

Record polariton lasers published in Nature Communications

Dr Florian Le Roux's Schlieren textures and rough topography make organic polariton lasers better!

12/11/2024

‘Strong’ filters – Innovative technology for better displays and optical sensors

New research at HCNB has shown how the quantum mechanical principle of strong coupling opens unrivalled possibilities…

07/14/2024

‘Proof of Concept’ grant from the European Research Council

Team at HCNB that conducts research on novel spectral filters for used in a wide range of optical and sensor…

06/06/2024

Using droplet microlasers to measure forces in living matter

Deformable microlaser force sensing

03/07/2024

Lit from within: tiny wireless bulbs

Wireless magnetoelectrically powered organic light-emitting diodes

01/19/2024

World's fastest hyperspectral microscope for characterization of biointegrated lasers

Hyperspectral confocal imaging for high-throughput readout and analysis of bio-integrated microlasers

10/03/2023

Loosing focus can be a good thing

Orientation distributions of vacuum-deposited organic emitters revealed by single-molecule microscopy

08/17/2023

New paper in Nature Electronics

Good things take time… We just published our work on OLED-on-CMOS integration for high-resolution optogenetics in Nature…

08/01/2023

ERC Proof of Concept Grant “CELL-FORCE”

This translational research grant will allow us to validate our Elastic Resonator Interference Stress Microscopy (ERISM)…

07/11/2023

GoBio Initial application by Dr Andreas Mischok selected for funding

The FluoPolar project will develop lensfree lab-on-chip fluorescence microscopy by integrating polariton filters on CCD…

06/03/2023

Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Micro, Nano and Biosystems

The second GRC on Lasers in Micro, Nano and Biosystems took place in June 2023 at the Mount Snow Resort in Vermont. The…

04/15/2023

ERC Advanced Grant “HyAngle” funded

Prof. Malte Gather receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for his work on overcoming the fundamental…

03/15/2023

Publication on Efficient polariton OLEDs in Nature Photonics

Using strong coupling of photons and excitons in OLEDs can yield devices with high brightness and improved colour…

01/17/2022

ERC Starting Grant to Marcel Schubert

Marcel Schubert, recently appointed a junior professor at the Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, has received…

07/08/2021

Humboldt Research Fellowship to Dr Florian Le Roux

Dr Florian Le Roux just received a highly prestigious two year Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von…

02/12/2021

Three new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows in the Gather Lab

We are delighted to announce that Dr Angel Fernandez Bravo, Dr Andreas Mischok and Dr Changki Moon from the Gather Lab…

12/07/2020

Guiding fruit fly larvae with arrays of μOLEDs

In our new publication in Nature Communications we show how light from an array of miniature organic LEDs can be used to…

12/07/2020

The lightest light – the future of digital displays and brain science

In our new publication in Nature Communications we report on making the most durable, lightweight and thinnest light…

11/23/2020

"Some (don't) like it hot"

Our latest paper on making top-emitting OLEDs more temperature stable for thin-film encapsulation by ALD has just…

11/09/2020

How efficient is my (O)LED? Our step-by-step paper on a simple & open source setup for complete OLED characterization provides an answer. Somehow long overdue in literature...

The accurate characterization of thin‐film light emitting diodes (LEDs)—including organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs),…

08/27/2020

ERISM cell force measurements reveal: The protein Willin/FRMD6 influences neuronal differentiation of mammalian cells

In a cooperation with the groups of Frank Gunn-Moore (School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK) and Kishan…

06/15/2020

“A Beating Laser”

Our paper on lasers that beat to the rhythm of the heart has just appeared in Nature Photonics (DOI 10.1038/s41566-020-0…

03/12/2020

The force of cancer? Collaboration with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York

Our recent study in collaboration with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York shows the first direct…

06/28/2018

Forces applied by cells from the kidney?

In collaboration with Paul Reynolds of the St Andrews School of Medicine, Nils Kronenberg has used our previously…