Niels Quack Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Niels Quack
Nationality:Switzerland
Germany
Known For:Photonic MEMS
Diamond photonics
Parents:Martin Quack
Website:https://q-lab.epfl.ch
Education:Engineering
Alma Mater:EPFL
ETH Zurich
Thesis Title:Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters
Thesis Url:http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:801
Thesis Year:2010
Doctoral Advisor:Jürg Dual
Academic Advisors:Ming C. Wu
Discipline:Engineering
Sub Discipline:Microengineering
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Photonic Micro- & Nanosystems
Micro- and Nanofabrication
Photonic MEMS
Diamond Photonics

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]

Career

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."[4] [5] 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.

Research

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.

Distinctions

Quack has been an associate editor Journal of Optical Microsystems,[19] Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3),[20] and Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.[21] He has been a steering committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN),[22] and served as general chair of the IEEE OMN 2018[23] and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics.[24]

He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of The Optical Society, and a life member of SPIE.[25]

He is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award by Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2020.[26] [27]

Most cited papers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Q-LAB. 11 December 2020. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  2. Web site: Diamond watch components – SNF. 14 December 2020. www.snf.ch.
  3. Web site: Faculty Members, STI, School of Engineering. 14 December 2020. sti.epfl.ch.
  4. Quack. Niels. Blunier. Stefan. Dual. Jurg. Felder. Ferdinand. Arnold. Martin. Zogg. Hans. September 2008. Mid-Infrared Tunable Resonant Cavity Enhanced Detectors. Sensors. en. 8. 9. 5466–5478. 10.3390/s8095466. 3705514. 27873824. 2008Senso...8.5466Q. free.
  5. Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters. ETH Zurich. 2009. Doctoral Thesis. 10.3929/ethz-a-005994709. en. Niels. Quack. 20.500.11850/22148 .
  6. Web site: Alumni – Integrated Photonics Laboratory. 16 December 2020. www.mingwulab.berkeley.edu.
  7. Web site: Research Projects. 14 December 2020. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  8. 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. 10.1088/2515-7647/aba171. 2020JPhP....2d2001M. 225374811 . 2515-7647. free.
  9. 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. EN. 3. 1. 64–70. 10.1364/OPTICA.3.000064. 2016Optic...3...64S. 2334-2536. free.
  10. 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. 10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2939503. 2020IJSTQ..2639503R. 203041885. 1077-260X.
  11. Kiss. Marcell. Mi. Sichen. Huszka. Gergely. Quack. Niels. 3 December 2020. Diamond diffractive optics—recent progress and perspectives. Advanced Optical Technologies. en. -1. ahead-of-print. 19–30. 10.1515/aot-2020-0052. 230621637. 2192-8576. free.
  12. Web site: 26 November 2018. Small Diamonds May Soon Be Used to Recharge Civilian Drones in Flight. 15 April 2021. Inside Unmanned Systems. en-US.
  13. Web site: EPFL: vers des mécanismes horlogers en diamant. 15 April 2021. SWI swissinfo.ch. 18 June 2018 . fr.
  14. Web site: Carving diamonds for optical components. 15 April 2021. phys.org. en.
  15. Web site: Le diamant de labo, plus vrai que nature?. 15 April 2021. Bilan. 6 July 2018 . fr.
  16. Web site: StackPath. 15 April 2021. www.laserfocusworld.com. 6 September 2017 .
  17. Web site: Un diamant pour recharger les drones civils en vol – Enerzine. 10 December 2018 . 15 April 2021. fr-FR.
  18. Web site: 3 June 2019. Niels Quack shares what excites him most about his work. 20 April 2021. OSA Stories.
  19. Web site: Journal of Optical Microsystems. 14 December 2020. www.spiedigitallibrary.org.
  20. Web site: Editorial Board. 14 December 2020. www.spiedigitallibrary.org.
  21. Web site: Editor-in-Chief and Editors – IEEE Electron Devices Society. 14 December 2020. IEEE. en-gb.
  22. Web site: IEEE Xplore – Niels Quack. 14 December 2020. IEEE.
  23. Web site: OMN2018 – Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics 2018. 21 December 2020. en-GB.
  24. Web site: LATSIS2019 – Symposium Latsis 2019 on Diamond Photonics. 21 December 2020. en-GB.
  25. Web site: Niels Quack. 14 December 2020. spie.org.
  26. Web site: Microsystems & Nanoengineering Summit 2020(MINE 2020）: PAPER AWARD. 21 December 2020. mine2020.csp.escience.cn.
  27. 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. en. 4. 1. 12. 10.1038/s41378-018-0014-5. 31057900. 6161503. 2018MicNa...4...12T. 2055-7434.

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