Title:    How materials and methods evolve hand in hand: Electronic spectroscopy for molecular mesoscopics

Lecturer:  Prof. John Lupton

Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany

Venue:    Room 5, Building 3, Energy and Materials Building, Xiang 'an Campus

Abstract：

1. Introduction to subensemble spectroscopy-----------------10 am. 2025.11.19

Define “molecular mesoscopics”

Increase resolution by selecting subensemble

Homogeneous vs. inhomogeneous spectral broadening

Time vs. frequency domain

Energy vs. space

Two types of spectroscopy: relating to electric and magnetic dipole

2. Principles of electron spin resonance --------------------10 am. 2025.11.21

From ESR to EDMR, ODMR

Light-matter interactions revisited

Natural frequency vs. Rabi frequency

Exploring unusual realms of light-matter interaction

Floquet physics

3. Principles of Fluorescence microscopy -----------------10 am. 2025.11.24

Single molecule / Nobel 2014

Elements of photochemistry

Elements of optics, diffraction

STED vs STORM

Making stable fluorophores

FRET imaging for nanometer resolution

DNA origami for templating.

Bio of the Lecturer：

Professor John Lupton holds a chair in experimental physics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is also Research Professor of Physics at the University of Utah, US, where he maintains a small research activity. John studied physics at the University of Durham, UK, and held postdoctoral appointments at the University of St Andrews, at the MPI in Mainz and at LMU Munich. Distinctions include a Packard Fellowship, a Research Corporation Scialog award, and an ERC Starting Grant. His research interests span single-molecule spectroscopy of pi-conjugated macromolecules, spin physics of molecular materials, and the optics of semiconductor and metallic nanostructures.