Niels Quack
Professor Niels Quack | |
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![]() Niels Quack in 2020 | |
Born | 1980 (age 43–44) |
Nationality | Switzerland Germany |
Known for | Photonic MEMS Diamond photonics |
Parent | Martin Quack |
Academic background | |
Education | Engineering |
Alma mater | EPFL ETH Zurich |
Thesis | Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Jürg Dual |
Other advisors | Ming C. Wu |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Engineering |
Sub-discipline | Microengineering |
Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Main interests | Photonic Micro- & Nanosystems Micro- and Nanofabrication Photonic MEMS Diamond Photonics |
Website | https://q-lab.epfl.ch |
Niels Quack (born 1980 in Göttingen) is a Swiss and German engineer specialized in optical micro engineering. He is a SNSF professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and director of the Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at its school of engineering.[1][2][3][4]
Career
[edit]Quack studied engineering at EPFL and received his master's degree in 2005. He then joined Jürg Dual's Institute for Mechanical Systems at ETH Zurich as a PhD student and graduated in 2010 with a thesis on "Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters."[5][4] In 2011, he went to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Ming C. Wu's Integrated Photonics Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley. From 2014 to 2015, he was senior microelectromechanical systems engineer with Sercalo Microtechnology Inc.[6]
Since 2015, he has been an SNSF Assistant Professor with the EPFL, and head of the Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at its school of engineering.[1][2][3]
Research
[edit]The research interests of Quack's group include photonic micro- and Nanosystems Engineering for integrated transducers.[7] They focus on diamond photonics and silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS),[8] and photonic switches and tunable optical microsystems that find application in information and communication technologies,[9] and emerging fields such as quantum information[10] and artificial intelligence.[11]
Quack's research has been featured in several international news outlet's such as Inside Unmanned Systems,[12] Swissinfo,[13] Phys.org,[14] Bilan,[15] Laser Focus World,[16] and Enerzine.[17] His research is also introduced in online videos such as the OSA stories[18] and the H2020 Morphic Project.[19]
Distinctions
[edit]Quack has been an associate editor Journal of Optical Microsystems,[20] Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3),[21] and Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.[22] He has been a steering committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN),[23] and served as general chair of the IEEE OMN 2018[24] and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics.[25]
He is a senior member of IEEE,[23] a member of The Optical Society, and a life member of SPIE.[26]
He is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award by Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2020.[27][28]
Most cited papers
[edit]- Mi, Sichen; Kiss, Marcell; Graziosi, Teodoro; Quack, Niels (2020). "Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond". Journal of Physics: Photonics. 2 (4): 042001. Bibcode:2020JPhP....2d2001M. doi:10.1088/2515-7647/aba171. S2CID 225374811.
- Mi, Sichen; Toros, Adrien; Graziosi, Teodoro; Quack, Niels (2019). "Non-contact polishing of single crystal diamond by ion beam etching". Diamond and Related Materials. 92: 248–252. Bibcode:2019DRM....92..248M. doi:10.1016/j.diamond.2019.01.007. S2CID 139239450.
- Kiss, Marcell; Graziosi, Teodoro; Toros, Adrien; Scharf, Toralf; Santschi, Christian; Martin, Olivier J. F.; Quack, Niels (2019). "High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching" (PDF). Optics Express. 27 (21): 30371–30379. Bibcode:2019OExpr..2730371K. doi:10.1364/OE.27.030371. PMID 31684285. S2CID 207899402.
- Errando-Herranz, Carlos; Takabayashi, Alain Yuji; Edinger, Pierre; Sattari, Hamed; Gylfason, Kristinn B.; Quack, Niels (2020). "MEMS for Photonic Integrated Circuits". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 26 (2): 1–16. arXiv:2212.05169. Bibcode:2020IJSTQ..2643384E. doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2943384. S2CID 204201509.
- Quack, Niels; Sattari, Hamed; Takabayashi, Alain Yuji; Zhang, Yu; Verheyen, Peter; Bogaerts, Wim; Edinger, Pierre; Errando-Herranz, Carlos; Gylfason, Kristinn B. (2020). "MEMS-Enabled Silicon Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits". IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 56 (1): 1–10. Bibcode:2020IJQE...5646841Q. doi:10.1109/JQE.2019.2946841. hdl:1854/LU-8652980. S2CID 204923614.
- Seok, Tae Joon; Quack, Niels; Han, Sangyoon; Muller, Richard S.; Wu, Ming C. (2016). "Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers". Optica. 3 (1): 64. Bibcode:2016Optic...3...64S. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.3.000064.
- Quack, Niels; Seok, Tae Joon; Han, Sangyoon; Muller, Richard S.; Wu, Ming C. (2016). "Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches". IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 28 (5): 561–564. Bibcode:2016IPTL...28..561Q. doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2515106. S2CID 20993686.
- Behroozpour, Behnam; Sandborn, Phillip A. M.; Quack, Niels; Seok, Tae-Joon; Matsui, Yasuhiro; Wu, Ming C.; Boser, Bernhard E. (2017). "Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuit for 3D Microimaging". IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 52 (1): 161–172. Bibcode:2017IJSSC..52..161B. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2016.2621755. S2CID 12322886.
- Quack, Niels; Blunier, Stefan; Dual, Jurg; Arnold, Martin; Felder, Ferdinand; Ebneter, Christian; Rahim, Mohamed; Zogg, Hans (2008). "Tunable resonant cavity enhanced detectors using vertically actuated MEMS mirrors". Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. 10 (4): 044015. Bibcode:2008JOptA..10d4015Q. doi:10.1088/1464-4258/10/4/044015.
- Boero, G.; Utke, I.; Bret, T.; Quack, N.; Todorova, M.; Mouaziz, S.; Kejik, P.; Brugger, J.; Popovic, R. S.; Hoffmann, P. (2005). "Submicrometer Hall devices fabricated by focused electron-beam-induced deposition". Applied Physics Letters. 86 (4): 042503. Bibcode:2005ApPhL..86d2503B. doi:10.1063/1.1856134.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Q-LAB". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Diamond watch components – SNF". www.snf.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Faculty Members, STI, School of Engineering". sti.epfl.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ a b Quack, Niels (2009). Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters (Doctoral Thesis thesis). ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005994709. hdl:20.500.11850/22148.
- ^ Quack, Niels; Blunier, Stefan; Dual, Jurg; Felder, Ferdinand; Arnold, Martin; Zogg, Hans (September 2008). "Mid-Infrared Tunable Resonant Cavity Enhanced Detectors". Sensors. 8 (9): 5466–5478. Bibcode:2008Senso...8.5466Q. doi:10.3390/s8095466. PMC 3705514. PMID 27873824.
- ^ "Alumni – Integrated Photonics Laboratory". www.mingwulab.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Research Projects". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ Mi, Sichen; Kiss, Marcell; Graziosi, Teodoro; Quack, Niels (5 August 2020). "Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond". Journal of Physics: Photonics. 2 (4): 042001. Bibcode:2020JPhP....2d2001M. doi:10.1088/2515-7647/aba171. ISSN 2515-7647. S2CID 225374811.
- ^ Seok, Tae Joon; Quack, Niels; Han, Sangyoon; Muller, Richard S.; Wu, Ming C. (20 January 2016). "Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers". Optica. 3 (1): 64–70. Bibcode:2016Optic...3...64S. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.3.000064. ISSN 2334-2536.
- ^ Ramirez, Joan Manel; Malhouitre, Stephane; Gradkowski, Kamil; Morrissey, Padraic E.; O'Brien, Peter; Caillaud, Christophe; Vaissiere, Nicolas; Decobert, Jean; Lei, Shenghui; Enright, Ryan; Shen, Alexandre (March 2020). "III-V-on-Silicon Integration: From Hybrid Devices to Heterogeneous Photonic Integrated Circuits". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 26 (2): 1–13. Bibcode:2020IJSTQ..2639503R. doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2939503. ISSN 1077-260X. S2CID 203041885.
- ^ Kiss, Marcell; Mi, Sichen; Huszka, Gergely; Quack, Niels (3 December 2020). "Diamond diffractive optics—recent progress and perspectives". Advanced Optical Technologies. -1 (ahead-of-print): 19–30. doi:10.1515/aot-2020-0052. ISSN 2192-8576. S2CID 230621637.
- ^ "Small Diamonds May Soon Be Used to Recharge Civilian Drones in Flight". Inside Unmanned Systems. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "EPFL: vers des mécanismes horlogers en diamant". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Carving diamonds for optical components". phys.org. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Le diamant de labo, plus vrai que nature?". Bilan (in French). 6 July 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "StackPath". www.laserfocusworld.com. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Un diamant pour recharger les drones civils en vol – Enerzine" (in French). 10 December 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Niels Quack shares what excites him most about his work". OSA Stories. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ^ The H2020 Morphic Project, retrieved 20 April 2021
- ^ "Journal of Optical Microsystems". www.spiedigitallibrary.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Editorial Board". www.spiedigitallibrary.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Editor-in-Chief and Editors – IEEE Electron Devices Society". IEEE. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ a b "IEEE Xplore – Niels Quack". IEEE. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "OMN2018 – Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics 2018". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ "LATSIS2019 – Symposium Latsis 2019 on Diamond Photonics". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ "Niels Quack". spie.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Microsystems & Nanoengineering Summit 2020(MINE 2020): PAPER AWARD". mine2020.csp.escience.cn. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ Toros, Adrien; Kiss, Marcell; Graziosi, Teodoro; Sattari, Hamed; Gallo, Pascal; Quack, Niels (18 June 2018). "Precision micro-mechanical components in single crystal diamond by deep reactive ion etching". Microsystems & Nanoengineering. 4 (1): 12. Bibcode:2018MicNa...4...12T. doi:10.1038/s41378-018-0014-5. ISSN 2055-7434. PMC 6161503. PMID 31057900.
External links
[edit]- Niels Quack publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Website of the Laboratory of Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems