DR. PAVLOS SAVVIDIS
"Westlake University located in the romantic and picturesque West Lake area, is a thriving new research and education centre. It has attracted highly skilled, enthusiastic and energetic staff, creating a truly inspirational environment where novel ideas can blossom. My best wishes for a successful and enticing journey for this young University."
Biography
Pavlos Savvidis has received the B.Sc. in Physics of the University of Athens. He obtained his doctoral degree in Experimental Condensed Matter and Laser Physics from the University of Southampton in 2001 creating the first polariton amplifier. From 2002 to 2004 he was a DARPA funded post-doctoral associate at the Department of Physics of University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, working on the terahertz dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures and Bloch Oscillators. In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology of the University of Crete. Since 2004, he is affiliated researcher of the Microelectronics Research Group of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (I.E.S.L.) of FORTH and is receiver of FORTH 2017 researcher award. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious 1 year Leverhulme Fellowship to work as visiting Professor at Cavendish Labs, University of Cambridge and in 2017 received a 2-year visiting Professor Fellowship at ITMO University. Since 2019 he has been appointed at Associate Professor position at Westlake University and his research is focused on experimental polaritonics.
He published over 100 research papers which appeared in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, 2 Nature Mat., 1 Nature Physics, 1, Nature Phot., 1 Nature Comm, PNAS, 8 PRL which have been cited over 4800 times. h-index of 33 (Google Science).He is iInventor of polariton amplifier and demonstrated the concept of polariton LED at room temperature. Referee for leading physical journals Nature, Nature Mat, Phys, Comm, Phys. Rev. Lett. Coordinated numerous national and European research projects as well as ERC starting grant.
Research
Pavlos Savvidis’s research activities are mainly focused on light mater interactions with special emphasis on low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures including the design and realization of optoelectronic devices based on fundamentally novel principles. The current research activities include: Novel polariton based optoelectronic devices: laser diodes, transistors, THz bolometers. Polariton quantum fluids and circuits, polariton condensate lattices for quantum simulation. Hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor microcavities.
Representative Publications
1. Electrical tuning of nonlinearities in exciton-polariton condensates, S.I. Tsintzos, A. Tzimis, G. Stavrinidis, A. Trifonov, Z. Hatzopoulos, J.J. Baumberg, H. Ohadi, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037401 (2018)
2. An attojoule electrical spin-switch based on optically trapped polariton condensates, A Dreismann, H Ohadi, Y.V.I. Redondo, R. Balili, Y Rubo, S.I. Tsintzos, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Materials (2016)
3. Optically-induced vortex lattices in a semiconductor quantum fluid, G. Tosi, G. Christmann, N.G. Berloff, P. Tsotsis, T. Gao, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Comm. 3,1243 (2012)
4. Polariton mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strong-coupled optical microcavity, D. Coles , N. Somaschi, P. Michetti , C. Clark, P. Lagoudakis, P. Savvidis, D. Lidzey, Nature Materials 13, 712 (2014)
5. Polariton condensate transistor switch, T. Gao, P.S. Eldridge, T.C.H Liew, S.I. Tsintzos, G. Stavrinidis, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. B 85, 235102 (2012)
6. Controlling quantum tunnelling with light, P. Cristofolini, G. Christmann, S. I. Tsintzos, G. Deligeorgis, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis and J. J. Baumberg, Science 336, 704 (2012)
7. Sculpting oscillators with light within a nonlinear quantum fluid”, G. Tosi, G. Christmann, N.G. Berloff, P. Tsotsis, T. Gao, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Physics 8, 183 (2012)
8. Bragg polaritons: Strong coupling and amplificationin an unfolded microcavity, A. Askitopoulos, L. Mouchliadis, I. Iorsh, G. Christmann, J.J. Baumberg, M.A. Kaliteevski, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 076401 (2011
9. S.I. Tsintzos, N.T. Pelekanos, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, “A GaAs polariton light-emitting diode operating near room temperature”, Nature 453, 372 (2008)
Contact Information
Email：p.savvidis@westlake.edu.cn
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一、个人简介
Pavlos Savvidis，雅典大学物理学理学学士，于2001年获得英国南安普顿大学实验凝聚态物理及激光物理博士学位，并制作了第一台极化激元放大器。2002年至2004年期间，Savvidis博士在美国加州大学圣芭芭拉分校物理系担任博士后研究员并获得DARPA资助，主要研究半导体纳米结构中的太赫兹（Terahertz）动力学和布洛赫（Bloch）振荡器。自2004年开始在克里特大学（University of Crete）材料科学与技术系担任助理教授。
从2004年至今，Savvidis博士担任ORTH电子结构与激光研究所(I.E.S.L.)微电子研究组的附属研究员（Affiliated Researcher），并获得FORTH2017年研究员奖。2014年，Savvids博士获得了著名的莱佛休姆奖金（Leverhulme Fellowship）的一年期资助，在剑桥大学卡文迪什（Cavendish）实验室担任客座教授；之后又于2018年在圣彼得堡国立信息技术机械与光学大学获得了为期两年的客座教授资助。自2019年10月起，Savvids博士将加入西湖大学担任副教授，他的研究重点是极化激元实验。
二、学术成果
Pavlos Savvidis主要研究光与物质的互相作用，尤其关注低维半导体纳米结构中基于基本原理而设计实现的光电器件。目前的研究方向包括：基于光电器件（激光二极管、晶体管、太赫兹测辐射热仪）的新型极化激元研究，极化激元量子流体和电路，用于量子模拟的极化激元凝聚晶格，有机-无机混合半导体微腔。
三、代表论文
1. Electrical tuning of nonlinearities in exciton-polariton condensates, S.I. Tsintzos, A. Tzimis, G. Stavrinidis, A. Trifonov, Z. Hatzopoulos, J.J. Baumberg, H. Ohadi, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037401 (2018)
2. An attojoule electrical spin-switch based on optically trapped polariton condensates, A Dreismann, H Ohadi, Y.V.I. Redondo, R. Balili, Y Rubo, S.I. Tsintzos, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Materials (2016)
3. Optically-induced vortex lattices in a semiconductor quantum fluid, G. Tosi, G. Christmann, N.G. Berloff, P. Tsotsis, T. Gao, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Comm. 3,1243 (2012)
4. Polariton mediated energy transfer between organic dyes in a strong-coupled optical microcavity, D. Coles , N. Somaschi, P. Michetti , C. Clark, P. Lagoudakis, P. Savvidis, D. Lidzey, Nature Materials 13, 712 (2014)
5. Polariton condensate transistor switch, T. Gao, P.S. Eldridge, T.C.H Liew, S.I. Tsintzos, G. Stavrinidis, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. B 85, 235102 (2012)
6. Controlling quantum tunnelling with light, P. Cristofolini, G. Christmann, S. I. Tsintzos, G. Deligeorgis, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis and J. J. Baumberg, Science 336, 704 (2012)
7. Sculpting oscillators with light within a nonlinear quantum fluid”, G. Tosi, G. Christmann, N.G. Berloff, P. Tsotsis, T. Gao, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, Nature Physics 8, 183 (2012)
8. Bragg polaritons: Strong coupling and amplificationin an unfolded microcavity, A. Askitopoulos, L. Mouchliadis, I. Iorsh, G. Christmann, J.J. Baumberg, M.A. Kaliteevski, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 076401 (2011
9. S.I. Tsintzos, N.T. Pelekanos, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, “A GaAs polariton light-emitting diode operating near room temperature”, Nature 453, 372 (2008)
四、联系方式
电子邮件：p.savvidis@westlake.edu.cn
