| 3.4 FTMC
Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius | Lithuania
The Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC, http://www.ftmc.lt) is the largest scientific research institution in Lithuania carrying out a unique fundamental research and technological development works in scientific fields of laser technologies, optoelectronics, organic chemistry, biophotonics, functional materials, electronics, and related.
Department of Optoelectronics (DoO) of the FTMC is active in both fundamental and applied research in the fields of semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, THz spectroscopy and imaging.
Department of Molecular Compound Physics (DoMCP) of the FTMC has a long-lasting experience in the interaction of biological systems with nanomaterials, photoacoustics of complex bio-systems, nanotheranostics and biosensing.
Role and profile of key people
Prof. Dr. Irmantas Kašalynas (FTMC node PI), male, Senior researcher, a group leader, head of the Terahertz Photonics Lab in DoO. His current research interests include compact roomtemperature terahertz and sub-terahertz radiation emitters and detectors, beam filters and modulators, plasmon resonance devices, THz photonics and electronics.
Dr. Renata Karpicz, female, Senior researcher, a deputy of Head of the DoMCP and one of the leaders in research of kinetic processes in organic and hybrid materials. Her research interest includes spectroscopic characterization of organic, biological and inorganic materials, ultrafast excitation relaxation processes in organic molecular compounds.
Dr. Vytautas Janonis, male, Researcher, coauthor of 30 publications (WoS), he was principal implementer in 5 research projects. He has experience in modelling periodic structures and 2D material stacks (RCWA, FDTD methods), fabrication of semiconductor devices using photolithography, characterization using FTIR, THz spectroscopy and imaging.
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment
Clean room ISO5 and ISO7 R&D facilities (300 m2) including UV photo lithography, rapid thermal annealing, e-beam sputtering, reactive plasma etching, coating systems.
Spectroscopic THz imaging system; Toptica Frequency-Domain THz system Terascan 780 for 50GHz-2.0T; VDI Frequency Multipliers for 150/300/600 GHz Edinburg Instr. optically pumped THz laser (760GHz-7THz), QMC Instr. Ltd cryo-free superconducting THz bolometer system (100GHz-10 THz). UV-VIS-NIR spectrometer. Time-correlated single photon counting fluorescence spectrometer. Hamamatsu C5680 streak-camera based spectrometer. 2D spectroscopy setup with transient absorption measurements in fs-time resolution in UV and visible region. Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy setup.
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering microscope. Second harmonic generation microscope. Closed cycle cryostat for optical measurements vs temperature. Raman microscope inVia (Renishaw, UK). CST Studio & RCWA tools for EM modelling.
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