Kirsten Martens (B)

Marija Mu?ibabi? (B) Weichun Zhang (M)

1. Gabriele Panarelli “Multi-frequency EPR spectroscopy of Eu2+-activated persistent luminescent materials” 2. Thomas Brouwer “Small variations in DNA linker length induce large changes in chromatin fiber structure”

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Sanli Faez on the following paper: Probing Surface Charge Fluctuations with Solid-State Nanopores by David P. Hoogerheide, Slaven Garaj, and Jene A. Golovchenko Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 256804

Sara Carozza(B) Gabriele Panarelli (M)

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Michel Orrit on the following paper: Probing the Raman-active acoustic vibrations of nanoparticles with extraordinary spectral resolution by S. Wheaton, R. M. Gelfand, and R. Gordon Nature Photonics 9 (2014) 68-72 DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2014.283

Gary Steele Delft University of Technology (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience) “Cavity Optomechanics: Detecting and controlling motion with microwave light” Optomechanics is a field that uses light confined in a cavity to detect and control the motion of a mechanical resonator, potentially even at the quantum level. In this talk, I will discuss experiments we have been doing in Delft with microwave optomechanics, where the “light” in this case consists of photons at microwave frequencies that are confined in superconducting cavities.…