Radosław Kołkowski

Radosław Kołkowski Student until 2011 Contact: 888448577 radoslav.kolkowski@gmail.com  radoslaw.kolkowski@organometallics.samoc.net

Education:

Oct 2006 - Jul 2011 - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials Science
Sep 2009 - Jul 2011 - École Normale Supérieure de Cachan / Wroclaw University of Technology / University of Wroclaw, Erasmus Mundus Monabiphot (Molecular Nano and Biophotonics for Telecommunications and Biotechnology)

Research:

Oct 2008 - Jul 2009 - Determination of the crystal structure of derivatives of 2,2-dicyanovinylbenzene using x-ray diffraction. Supervisor: Dr. Ilona Turowska-Tyrk, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Feb - Jun 2010 - Studies of nonlinear optical properties of CdTe quantum dots and CdTe/CdS nanosized heterostructures using two-photon microscopy. Supervisor: Dr. Dominique Chauvat, Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France
Jul - Sep 2010 - Simulations of plasmonic properties of cross-shaped core-shell nanostructures. Supervisor: Prof. Peter Nordlander, Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Oct 2010 - present - Studies of nonlinear optical properties using z-scan technique: development of computational methods for experimental data analysis. Supervisor: Prof. Marek Samoć, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

Publications and talks:

1. M. Zielinski, S. Winter, R. Kolkowski, C. Nogues, D. Oron, J. Zyss, D. Chauvat, Nanoengineering the Second Order Susceptibility in Semiconductor Quantum Dot Heterostructures, Optics Express, 19: 6657-6670 (2011)
2. M. Zielinski, S. Winter, R. Kolkowski, D. Oron, D. Chauvat, J. Zyss, „Nanoengineering of Single Quantum Dot Second-Order Nonlinearity via Control of Size, Shape and Material Features”, poster, AMARIS’10 - International conference, May 24-28, 2010, LPQM, Institut d’Alembert, ENS de Cachan, France
3. „Determination of the orientation of single quantum dot crystalline lattice by polarization analysis of its second-harmonic emission”, oral presentation, PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference “PANIC” 28-30 April 2010, Wroclaw, Poland
4. R. Kolkowski, P. Milart „Synthesis and structure of 2-(4-metoxyphenyl)-1,1-dicyanpropene and 2-(4-aminphenyl)-1,1-dicyanpropene”, poster, 51 Polish Crystallographic Meeting, June 25-26, 2009, Wroclaw, Poland

Areas of interest:

nonlinear optics, plasmonics, nanophotonics, computational methods for experimental data analysis and simulations