Niels Quack

Professor
Niels Quack
Niels Quack in 2020
Born1980 (age 44–45)
NationalitySwitzerland
Germany
Known forPhotonic MEMS
Diamond photonics
ParentMartin Quack
Academic background
EducationEngineering
Alma materEPFL
ETH Zurich
ThesisMicromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters (2010)
Doctoral advisorJürg Dual
Other advisorsMing C. Wu
Academic work
DisciplineEngineering
Sub-disciplineMicroengineering
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsPhotonic Micro- & Nanosystems
Micro- and Nanofabrication
Photonic MEMS
Diamond Photonics
Websitehttps://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

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

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

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

References

  1. ^ a b "Q-LAB". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Diamond watch components – SNF". www.snf.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Faculty Members, STI, School of Engineering". sti.epfl.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Alumni – Integrated Photonics Laboratory". www.mingwulab.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Research Projects". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  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. Bibcode:2020JPhP....2d2001M. doi:10.1088/2515-7647/aba171. ISSN 2515-7647. S2CID 225374811.
  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. 3 (1): 64–70. Bibcode:2016Optic...3...64S. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.3.000064. ISSN 2334-2536.
  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. Bibcode:2020IJSTQ..2639503R. doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2939503. ISSN 1077-260X. S2CID 203041885.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Small Diamonds May Soon Be Used to Recharge Civilian Drones in Flight". Inside Unmanned Systems. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  13. ^ "EPFL: vers des mécanismes horlogers en diamant". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Carving diamonds for optical components". phys.org. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  15. ^ "Le diamant de labo, plus vrai que nature?". Bilan (in French). 6 July 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  16. ^ "StackPath". www.laserfocusworld.com. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Un diamant pour recharger les drones civils en vol – Enerzine" (in French). 10 December 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Niels Quack shares what excites him most about his work". OSA Stories. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  19. ^ The H2020 Morphic Project, retrieved 20 April 2021
  20. ^ "Journal of Optical Microsystems". www.spiedigitallibrary.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Editorial Board". www.spiedigitallibrary.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  22. ^ "Editor-in-Chief and Editors – IEEE Electron Devices Society". IEEE. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  23. ^ a b "IEEE Xplore – Niels Quack". IEEE. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  24. ^ "OMN2018 – Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics 2018". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  25. ^ "LATSIS2019 – Symposium Latsis 2019 on Diamond Photonics". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  26. ^ "Niels Quack". spie.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  27. ^ "Microsystems & Nanoengineering Summit 2020(MINE 2020）: PAPER AWARD". mine2020.csp.escience.cn. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  28. ^ 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.