Molecular Plasmonics

Volodymyr I. Chegel is head of the Plasmonics Group at the V. E. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP), National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine, and a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), Ukraine. He completed an MSc in physical engineering at the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian University and also in integral and functional microelectronics at the KNU. He earned his PhD and DSc in physics and mathematics at the ISP. He has worked in the scientific laboratories of 17 countries and authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers. Prof. Chegel's research interests include plasmonics, nanotechnology, materials science, biological and chemical sensors, and design of optoelectronic devices.

Andrii M. Lopatynskyi is a senior researcher at the Department of Functional Transducers for Sensor Technology at the ISP. He earned his MSc in laser and optoelectronics technologies from the KNU and PhD in physics and mathematics from the ISP. He has worked as an intern researcher in the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, and has co-authored more than 100 scientific research papers. Dr. Lopatynskyi's research interests include development, experimental investigation, and computational modeling of the optical properties of disordered and ordered plasmonic nanosystems based on noble metal nanostructures, as well as development of sensors based on these nanosystems.