Student Projects

You are a young student in master, and you are looking for a master project to be done at TUDelft? You may think about a Master Project in our Optics Group!

We are currently looking for motivated students for theoretical and/or experimental work. Our projects are among the most challenging and interesting you will have to encounter.

You are efficient at coding? Come to us! We are always looking for competent coder for our simulations tools

You like physics equations? Join us! Our core knowledge is dealing with equations!

You are not from the Applied Physics faculty? We are looking for students with broad knowledge: labview, programming, electronics, mechanics! Do not think we only take students with Optics background! We may have a project for you even you graduate from 3ME, Aerospace Engineering, EEMCS, etc...

You like to play lego? Join us, our optical tables and their components are exactly what you are looking for!

So think Optica, when looking for a master project. Our doors are always open to students!

List of different projects

Here are listed our current projects offered to Bachelor and Master Students. Contact us for more informations or for others projects.  

Optical isolator

• Would like to create the perfect optical isolator. Check this project.
  
  contact: Aurèle Adam

Adaptative Optics

• Adaptive optics for Extreme UltraViolet Lithography system for the fabrication of tomorrow’s computers
  

Contact person: Alessandro 

Thin films

• NEW: Design thin films, with or without structure for harvesting light (link)
  contact: Aurèle Adam 
• NEW: Metrology of thin films, in collaboration with VSL, the Dutch Metrology Institute (link)
  

Contact person: Dr. Omar El Gawhary at VSL

Optics, lens, aberrations

• Lithography and Optics System at ASML
  
  We are looking for a motivated master students to work in the domain of lithography and optics system for the ASML. The master project will start as soon as possible. The student will be located in Veldhoven, and receive a remuneration for his work. Due to confidently reason, the project can only be discussed directly with the supervisor, Silvania Pereira. Please contact her by email or by visit her in her office (E018 - 015 27 82474)
  
  ASML is the leader of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or microchips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML designs, develops, integrates, markets and services these advanced systems, which continue to help our customers - the major chipmakers - reduce the size and increase the functionality of microchips, and consumer electronic equipment.
  
  Contact person: Silvania 

•  Measurement of the field intensity in the focal region to retrieve aberrations of high quality lenses
  
  Contact person: Silvania

Holography

• Build a new Holography Set-up in the Optics group and get your own hologram
  
  
  contact: Aurèle Adam

TeraHertz

• Applied Terahertz to concrete industry issues
  • We have project for a master students in collaboration with a multinational company to use THz for a concrete problem in an industrial environment. The project is based on a direct application of Terahertz Time Domain Spectrosocopy to be implemented in a factory line. The work consist on an experimental part and on a theoretical part.
    Implementations of the findings will lead to a future prototype by the company.
    Due to confidentiality reasons, more informations about the poject can be requested directly to Aurèle , Room E006.

• TeraHertz Surfaces Waves Modeling
  
  
• Inspection of Detects in Aeronautical Composites
  
  
• Mapping Hidden Layers of Paint on Genuine Paintings
  

Contact person: Aurèle

Ultra Short Pulses, Interferometry, Subwavelength

Projects 

• Nulling Interferometry (link)
• Focussed spot characterisation (link)
• Retrieval of subwavelength grating parameters by far field detection (link)
• Project on multipole field waves expansion in Fourier domain (link)
• Single Photon Interference Experiments with the Frequency Comb Laser Source

Contact person: Silvania

Femtolasers, Health

• NEW: How to measure the Radius of a Proton (link)
  

• Automation and Control of an FTIR spectrometer with nanometer precision (link)
  
• Detection of volatile compounds in human breath using a femtosecond frequency comb laser (link)
  

Contact person: Nandini

Optimization of Optical Systems

• Optimization of the Image Quality of Security Cameras (link)

Contact person: Florian

 Integrated Sensors (TU Delft - TNO) 

• Resonator Characterization for Integrated Optical Sensors
  
• Integrated Optical Strain Sensors