News
13 April 2024 – Recent update of LUMIN website.
09-13.04.2024 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at the International Conference PLMCN 2024 and delivered an Invited Talk (https://events.mifp.eu/PLMCN-2024/).
04-07.04.2024 – Prof. Ivan Savenko visited Dr. Meng Sun at the Beijing University of Technology and gave a talk.
23-24.03.2024 – Prof. Savenko participated at the interview of bachelor (4-year) students at SUSCTech (in Shenzhen) aiming at joint supervision of Master's students: GTIIT + SUSTech.
13.03.2024 – Great news! Former PhD student of the group, Dr. Kabyashree Sonowal (who recently defended her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Savenko), was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt foundation postdoctoral fellowship.
04.03.2024 – Prof. Savenko started to teach 13-week course on Statistical and Thermal Physics for 3rd-year students at GTIIT.
09-12.01.2024 – Prof. Savenko participated at the conference QLIN-2024 (International Conference in Quantum Light & Nanophysics) in Abu Dhabi with an Invited Talk, 'Photoinduced Anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional superconductors'.
04-10.12.2023 – We warmly welcome our visitor, Prof. Boris Altshuler (Columbia University, USA), who came to vist LUMIN team at GTIIT and give a colloquium talk 'Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity. Fundamental limit on the transition temperature'.
27-30.11.2023 – Prof. Savenko participated at the conference EPIC (Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference) in Singapore with an Invited Talk, 'Photoinduced Hall effect in 2D superconductors'.
14.11.2023 – Great news! Our manuscript, Second-order temporal coherence of polariton lasers based on an atomically thin crystal in a microcavity, which represents the collaboration with the experimental research groups in Germany has been published in Physical Review Letters: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.206901
01-10.11.2023 – We warmly welcome our visitor, Prof. Vadim Kovalev, who came to collaborate with us and give a Colloquium Talk at GTIIT (China).
04-08.11.2023 – We warmly welcome our visitor, Dr. Meng Sun, who came to collaborate with us and give a Talk at GTIIT (China).
11-15.09.2023 – Prof. Ivan Savenko together with Prof. Y.-H.Cho (KAIST, Korea) and Prof. T.C.H.Liew (NTU, Singapore) organized and held an International Workshop on Polaritons in Emerging Materials in Daejeon, Korea: https://pcs.ibs.re.kr/PCS_Workshops/PCS_PEM_Home_2023.html
01.08-05.09.2023 – Prof. Savenko taught an express Electromagnetism course for 2-year students at the GTIIT (Mostly devoted to Maxwell's equations in differential form).
19-21.07.2023 – Dr. Savenko participated at the SPP conference (Philippines) with an Invited Talk, 'Photoinduced supercurrents and Hall effect in 2D superconductors'.
21.07.2023 – We published a work on second-harmonic generation in the journal 2D Materials: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1583/ace45c
02.06.2023 – Dr. Savenko started his new position as an Associate Professor at the GTIIT (Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology) in Shantou, China.
01.06.2023 – PhD student of the Team, Mr. D. Ko, successfully defended his PhD thesis, 'Light matter interaction in 2D materials in weak and strong coupling regimes'. Congratulations!
30.05.2023 – PhD student of the Team, Ms. K. Sonowal, successfully defended her PhD thesis, 'Acoustoelectric transport and optical response in fluctuating regime in 2D materials'. Congratulations!
03.04.2023 – PhD students of the Team, K. Sonowal and D. Ko, submitted their PhD thesis for review. The defense is planned for the summer 2023.
01.03.2023 – A PhD student of the Team, K. Sonowal, won the Best Poster Prize for presenting the poster 'Valley spin-acoustic resonance in monolayer MoS2' at the WE-Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany
15.02.2023 – Prof. Savenko's final day at the PCS Center at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). From now on, he is an Associate Member of the Center.
14.10.2022 – Prof. Savenko received an official confirmation of his habilitation 'Photoelectric phenomena and superconductivity in hybrid Bose-Fermi systems based on two-dimensional semiconductor structures and graphene'.
09-14.10.2022 – Prof. Savenko participated with an Invited Talk at the International Conference ICP2DC-2022: https://events.mifp.eu/ICP2DC-2022/.
19.04.2022 – Prof. Savenko did his habilitation defense, the topic reads 'Photoelectric phenomena and superconductivity in hybrid Bose-Fermi systems based on two-dimensional semiconductor structures and graphene'.
17.01.2022 – Our (theoretical and experimental) work made in collaboration with the groups of Profs. Cho and Choi (KAIST) has been accepted for publications in PRB Letters.
20-23.12.2021 – LUMIN Team organized a Workshop (Retreat) on 'Light-matter coupling in complex quantum systems using conventional approaches and machine learning'. It hapened in High1 resort in South Korea. KAIST and Korea University took part in the event.
23.11-07.12.2021 – Prof. Savenko went for a business trip to Novosibirsk (Russia) to work with our long-term collaborator and friend Dr. Kovalev, and also Drs. Entin and Chaplik.
01.11.2021 – Great news! Former PhD student of Prof. Savenko, Dr. Meng Sun, moved to China to overtake a faculty position in Physics.
28.06.2021 – Our manuscript, "Bose–Einstein condensate-mediated superconductivity in graphene" has been published as a Letter in 2D Materials journal. They only publish ~ 10-15 Letters per year! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1583/ac0b49
20.05.2021 – Our manuscript, Coherent Topological Polariton Laser, which represents the collaboration with the experimental research group in Würzburg, Germany has been published in ACS Photonics: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01958.
15.01.2021 – Our second paper with a Ph.D. student K. Sonowal has been published in Phys. Rev. B: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.024513.
01.02.2021 – Prof. Ivan Savenko has been awarded the 'Researcher of the year' award at IBS for 2020.
03.12.2020 – Our first paper with a Ph.D. student K. Sonowal has been published in Phys. Rev. B: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.235405.
01.09-10.12.2020 – Prof. Savenko have been giving a lecture course on "Advanced Solid-State Physics" at the Institute for Basic Science.
28.09-03.10.2020 – Prof. Savenko participates at the 14th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (NY, USA): https://congress.metamorphose-vi.org. He gives there an Invited Talk on "Valley Acoustoelectric Effect" (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.256801) at the special session "Physical Review Symposium" devoted to the selected publications in 2019-2020.
16.07.2020 – Our manuscript "Proposal for Plasmon Spectroscopy of Fluctuations in Low-Dimensional Superconductors" (published in PRL) has been highlighted in different news, including phys.org (https://aps.altmetric.com/details/82763998/news).
09.07.2020 – Prof. Ivan Savenko took part in the thesis defence (Soutenance) of Mr. Sergey Koniakhin via Zoom (in French) as an external committee member (Rapporteur). We congratulate Dr. Koniakhin and his supervisors, Prof. Dmitry Solnyshkov and Dr. Guillaume Malpuech, with a successful event and the PhD degree!
18.06.2020 – A great event in the LUMIN group: a PhD defence of Mr. Meng Sun. We congratulate Dr. Meng Sun and Prof. Ivan Savenko with this achievement!
16.06.2020 – We are happy to host the Zoom-seminar of Prof. Sergej Demokritov from the University of Münster, Germany. He gave a talk "Spatio-temporal dynamics of magnon BEC at room temperature".
18.05.2020 – Great news: Prof. Ivan Savenko in collaboration with Dr. Vadim Kovalev (Russia) got a manuscript published in Phys. Rev. Letters (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.207002). It is devoted to plasmon spectroscopy of fluctuations in low-dimensional superconductors.
07.05.2020 – We are happy to host the Zoom-seminar of Prof. Mikhail Glazov from the Ioffe Institute, Russia. He gave a talk "Valley Hall effect caused by the phonon and photon drag".
26.02.2020 – Great news: Dr. Kristian Villegas (now in Singapore) and Prof. Ivan Savenko in collaboration with Prof. Fedor Kusmartsev (UK) and Dr. Y. Luo (China) got a manuscript published in Phys. Rev. Letters (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.087701). It is called "Optical Transistor for Amplification of Radiation in a Broadband Terahertz Domain".
28.01.2020 – Ms. Kabyashree Sonowal joins the group as a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology (UST, Daejeon, Korea).
11.12.2019 – Ms. Kabyashree Sonoval has been officially accepted as a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology (UST, Daejeon, Korea). She will soon become a member of our team.
02-06.12.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated in an International German-French-Korean Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics in Würzburg, Germany with an Invited Talk.
21-26.10.2019 – We warmly welcome our visitor, Dr. Alexander Cerjan (Pennsylvania State University, USA), who came to give a seminar talk at our Center and spend a week with us.
09-21.09.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at (i) the Russian Conference on Physics of Semiconductors (Novosibirsk, Russia) and (ii) the International Conference OECS (St.-Petersburg, Russia).
27.08.2019 – Great news: Dr. Kristian Villegas, Meng Sun and Prof. Ivan Savenko in collaboration with Dr. Vadim Kovalev (Novosibirsk) got a manuscript published in Phys. Rev. Letters. It is called "Unconventional Bloch-Grüneisen scattering in hybrid Bose-Fermi systems".
15.08.2019 – Our manuscript "Valley Acoustoelectric Effect" (published in PRL) has been highlighted in different news, including phys.org (https://aps.altmetric.com/details/62745863/news) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousto-electric_effect).
29.07-10.08.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at the International Workshop and Conference "Weyl Fermions in Condensed Matter" with an Invited Talk.
22-27.07.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at the International Conference "META 2019" with an Invited Talk.
16.07.2019 – Ms. Kabyashree Sonoval joins LUMIN team as a summer trainee till mid-September 2019. We wish her fruitful and pleasant stay in our group and IBS!
02-06.06.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at the International Conference "PLMCN 20" with a Talk.
26.06.2019 – Great news: Prof. Ivan Savenko in collaboration with Drs. Vadim Kovalev and Alexander Kalameitsev (Novosibirsk) got a manuscript published in Phys. Rev. Letters. It is called "Valley Acoustoelectric Effect".
24.06.2019 – Dogyun Ko (joint Master/PhD student) has successfully passed his mid-term examination and became a PhD student. Congratulations!
17-21.06.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko and a PhD student Meng Sun participated at the International Workshop "Recent Advances in Topological Photonics" (https://pcs.ibs.re.kr/PCS_Workshops/PCS_TopPhot.html) held at IBS PCS
12.06.2019 – Prof. Ivan Savenko participated at the PhD thesis proposal of Hyun Gyu Song at KAIST as an examiner.
20-24.05.2019 – Profs. Ivan Savenko, Sven Höfling, and Mikhail Glazov organized and held an International Workshop "Spintronics and Valleytronics of Two-dimensional Materials" (https://pcs.ibs.re.kr/PCS_Workshops/PCS_SpinVall.html)
16.05.2019 – Dr. Kristian Villegas left the group to start his new Research Fellow position at the NTU, Singapore. Farewell, Kristian!
29-30.04.2019 – IBS hosted the 2nd Advisory Board Meeting. We thank all the members of our Advisory Board for their multiple important comments and suggestions!
24-26.04.2019 – All the team members participated at the annual meeting of the Korean Physical Society ("KPS"). Meng Sun and Kristian Villegas delivered talks, Ivan Savenko chaired a session on "Non-hermitian topology".
01.02.2019 – We have started our Green's Functions problem solving class.
23-25.01.2019 – All the team members participated at the 3rd PCS Internal Workshop (Retreat).
15.01.2019 – Dr. Sukjin Yoon left the group. Farewell!
06-10.11.2018 – PhD students Meng Sun and Dogyun Ko and Prof. Ivan Savenko took part at the ICTP Asian Network School of Complex Condensed Matter Systems - https://indico.cern.ch/event/745791/overview, where Prof. Savenko gave a Lecture on light-matter coupling phenomena.
11.10.2018 – We warmly welcome our visitor, Prof. Dmirti Kvon, who came to give a seminar talk at our Center.
17-21.09.2018 – Prof. Savenko participated at the International Conference "Metanano 2018" (https://metanano.ifmo.ru) with an Invited Talk.
14-27.07.2018 – Prof. Savenko participated at the International Workshop "Quantum Light in Nanostructures (QLIN)" (http://events.mifp.eu/qlin-2018/) and International Conference "Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices (ICSNN 20)" (http://www.icsnn2018.com/index.php).
23-27.04.2018 – All the team members took part in two simultaneous evemts: International Workshop Meta-Optics and Metamaterials (http://pcs.ibs.re.kr/PCS_Workshops/PCS_MetaMeta.html) and Korean Physical Society (KPS) Spring meeting (https://www.neaspec.com/events/2018-kps-spring-meeting/).
01.04.2018 – Dr. Yuri Rubo finished his sabbatical and returned back to Mexico. Farewell!
31.03.2018 – Dr. Lauri Toikka left the group to take over a Research Fellow position at the Innsbruck University (Austria). Farewell!
23-29.03.2018 – Two members of the group, Ivan Savenko and Kristian Villegas, participated at the International Conference "Terametanano-3" in Uxmal, Mexico (https://www.mifp.eu/SCHOOLS/TERAMETANANO-3/venue.html).
03.02.2018 – We warmly welcome Dr. Denis Karpov from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. Karpov visits IBS PCS in the framework of our international collaboration.
31.01.2018 – We moved to new premises: now IBS has its own building in Daejeon.
05.01.2018 – We have got a paper published in Physical Review Letters on "Evolution of Temporal Coherence in Confined Exciton-Polariton Condensates" (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.017401). This work is a result of joint effort with our experimental collaborators from Würzburg, Germany.
20-24.11.2017 – Ivan Savenko gave an Invited Lecture at the Asian Network School and Workshop on Complex Condensed Matter Systems (Hanoi, Vietnam).
19-21.04.2017 – We took part at the organization of Korean Physical Society (KPS) Spring Meeting: Pioneer symposium "Nonlinear dissipative quantum Bose-Einstein condensates".
01.09.2017 – New team member, Dogyun Ko, joined our LUMIN team as a joint Master/PhD student.
08-10.11.2017 – We all took part at the PCS Internal Workshop during Retreat (STX Resort, Mungyeong, South Korea).
15-19.05.2017 – We have organised an International Workshop on Physics of Exciton-Polaritons in Artificial Lattices in Daejeon, Korea.
01.08.2017 – New team member, Dr. Lauri Toikka, joined our LUMIN team as a Research Fellow.
01.06.2017 – New team member, Dr. Kristian Villegas, joined our LUMIN team as a Research Fellow.
01.04.2017 – New team member, Prof. Yuri Rubo, joined our LUMIN team for one year of sabbatical.
01.01.2017 – Ivan Savenko has become affiliated with the UST - University of Science and Technology (Korea) as a Professor.
18.10.2016 – We warmly welcome our visitor at IBS, Prof. Mikko Möttönen from Aalto University, Finland and wish him pleasant stay at IBS.
01.10.2016 – New team member, Sukjin Yoon, joined our LUMIN team as a Research Fellow.
18.08.2016 – We warmly welcome Dr. Vadim Kovalev from Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. Dr. Kovalev visits IBS in the framework of our international collaboration on hybrid Bose-Fermi systems.
01.04.2016 - 17th International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (http://www.plmcn17.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html) this year was in March(28-31) in Nara, Japan. PLMCN series are devoted to fundamental and application-oriented problems relevant to the realization of a new generation of opto-electronic devices based on advanced low-dimensional and photonic structures, such as the polariton laser, optical circuits, single photon sources, etc.
Dr. Ivan Savenko participated at the conference with the talk "Full quantum treatment of the exciton-polariton condensation".
18-21.04.2016 – We warmly welcome our visitor at IBS, Dr. Hugo Flayac, from the EPFL, Switzerland. We have long-term well-established and very fruitful collaboration with Dr. Flayac and are glad to discuss with him future projects.
20.03.2016 – New team member, Mr. Meng Sun, joined our LUMIN group as a PhD student.
16.02.2016 – LUMIN team (Light-Matter Interaction in Nanostructures and Dissipative Condensates team) was founded.