Keilmann, Fritz, Dr.

Research Focus

Infrared near-field nanoscopy, mid-infrared frequency combs.

Honours

Kenneth J Button prize 2009 

Scientific curriculum

1961-1967    Study of meteorology and physics, München, Diplom thesis on microwave spectroscopy of hemoglobin
1970            Dr. rer. nat. Technische Hochschule München, Thesis on plasma diagnostics with infrared lasers
1970-1971    Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Infrared ion temperature measurement in Tokamak
1972-1973    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (A. Javan) Precision frequency measurement, optically pumped lasers, saturation spectroscopy of gases
1973-1995    Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Nonlinear far-infrared spectroscopy, phonon spectroscopy, biological microwave effects, semiconductor physics, optics
1987            Visiting Scientist University of California in Santa Barbara, USA, Free electron laser, nonlinear spectroscopy
1995-2007    Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Scanning near-field microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, biophysics
2008-2011 Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Broadband-infrared near-field microscopy
2011-present Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Garching, Spectroscopic nanoscopy of composite materials

Recent publications

Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, A. S.McLeod, M.Wagner, L.M. Zhang, Z. Zhao, M. Thiemens, G. Dominguez, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov, Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging, Nature, 2012

S. Amarie, P. Zaslansky, Y. Kajihara, E. Griesshaber, W. W. Schmahl and F. Keilmann, Nano-FTIR chemical mapping of minerals in biological materials, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 3, 312–323 (2012)

Z. Fei, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, L. M. Zhang, A. S. McLeod, C. Wang, M. K. Stewart, Z. S. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, M. J. Tauber, A. H. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, , and D. N. Basov, Infrared nanoscopy of dirac plasmons at the graphene/SiO2 interface, Nano Letters 11, 4701 (2011)

S. Amarie and F. Keilmann, Broadband-infrared assessment of phonon resonance in scattering-type near-field microscopy, Physical Review B 83, 045404 (2011)

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