Zigmantas Group
About
The Zigmantas group is mainly concerned with exploring functions and underlying ultrafast processes in natural and artificial light-harvesting and energy conversion systems using multidimensional spectroscopies.
Research Activities
- Energy and electron transfer in photosynthetic complexes
- Coherent dynamics in multichromophore systems
- Energy dissipation in metal nanoclusters and hybrid molecular-metallic systems
- Charge carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures
Techniques
- Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (2DES)
- Time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy (Tr-PEEM)
- Femtosecond pulse shaping
- Ultrashort-pulse characterization
- Transient grating spectroscopy
- Scatter-resistant pump-probe spectroscopy
Projects
- Imaging hot electron dynamics in semiconductor nanowires
- Mapping energy flow and charge separation within photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers
- Exploring vibronic mixing in chlorophylls by polarization-controlled 2DES
- Tracking energy transfer and charge separation within photosynthetic unit of green non-sulfur bacteria
- Studies of electronic structure and coherence dynamics in supermolecular nanorings
- Excitonic structure, energy transfer and coherence dynamics in the FMO complex
- Investigating the energy-level structure and the early-time relaxation cascade of DNA-templated silver nanoclusters
Resources
Former Members
- Eglė Bukartė
- Marzo López Cerón
- Lukas Wittenbecher
- Pavel Kolesnichenko
- Lukas Bruder
- Alexa Carollo
- Marco Schröter
- Marcelo Alcocer
- 김길석 (Kil Suk Kim)
- Erling Thyrhaug
- David Palec̆ek
- Karel Žídek
- Jakub Dostál
- Jan Alster
- Sunny Yoo
- Ramunas Augulis
- Justas Bujokas
- Rokas Drevinskas