PD Dr. Tobias Kipp
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Research associate
RG Mews
Address
University of Hamburg
Department of Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Research Group Mews
Grindelallee 117
20146 Hamburg
Office
Room: VGII 143
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-8277
Fax: +49 40 42838-7727
Key aspects of activity
- Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Structures
Academic Career
- Study of Physics in Cologne and Hamburg. PhD in Physics in 2004.
- Head of the subgroup "Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Structures" in the group of Prof. Dr. D. Heitmann at the Institute of Applied Physics in Hamburg from 2004 until 2010.
- Since 2009 senior researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Hamburg, member of the group of Prof. Dr. A. Mews.
- Habilitationsschrift "Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Structures Confining Electrons, Phonons, and Photons" submitted December 2010 (request an electronic copy).
- Habilitation in "Experimental Physics" in June 2011.
- Privatdozent in "Experimental Physics" since February 2012.
- Privatdozent in "Physical Chemistry" since June 2012.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2015-2017. Guest scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. P. Kambhampati at McGill University, Montréal, Canada in 2015/16.
- Part-time W3-deputy professorhip for Physical Chemistry at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) in 2022.
Research Topics and Selected Publications
A more complete publication list can be found here.
Microtubes, Microtube Resonators and Microdisks
- „Coupling of quantum-well emission to waveguide-plasmon polaritons in rolled-up microtubes”,
H. Vu, J. Siebels, D. Sonnenberg, S. Mendach, and T. Kipp
APL Photonics 5, 086102 (2020). - „Tunable Plasmonic Nanoantennas in Rolled-up Microtubes Coupled to Integrated Quantum Wells”,
H. Vu, J. Siebels, D. Sonnenberg, S. Mendach, and T. Kipp
ACS Photonics 4, 2659-2663 (2017). - „Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Quantum Wells in Rolled-Up Hyperbolic Metamaterials”,
K. M. Schulz, H. Vu, S. Schwaiger, A. Rottler, T. Korn, D. Sonnenberg, T. Kipp, S. Mendach
Physical Review Letters 117, 085503 (2016). - „Organic Molecular Films as Light-Emitting and Light-Confining Material in Rolled-Up AlInP Semiconductor Microtube Resonators”,
S. Kietzmann, Ch. Strelow, L. Tavares, J.-P. Penttinen, T. V. Hakkarainen, A. Schramm, A. Osadnik, A. Lützen, J. Kjelstrup-Hansen, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
ACS Photonics 2, 1532-1538 (2015). - „Hybrid systems of AlInP microdisks and colloidal CdSe nanocrystals showing whispering-gallery modes at room temperature”,
Ch. Strelow, S. Weising, D. Bonatz, J.-P. Penttinen, T.V. Hakkarainen, A. Schramm, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Applied Physics Letters 105, 091107 (2014). - „AlInP-based rolled-up microtube resonators with colloidal nanocrystals operating in the visible spectral range”,
Ch. Strelow, S. Kietzmann, A. Schramm, R. Seher, J.-P. Penttinen, T. V. Hakkarainen, A. Mews, and T. Kipp,
Applied Physics Letters 101, 113114 (2012). - „Light Confinement in Microtubes",
T. Kipp*, Ch. Strelow, and D. Heitmann,
Chapter 7 in Quantum Materials, D. Heitmann (Ed.), Springer (Berlin), 2010. - "Optical Modes Excited by Evanescent-Wave-Coupled PbS Nanocrystals in Semiconductor Microtube Bottle Resonators",
K. Dietrich, Ch. Strelow, C. Schliehe, Ch. Heyn, A. Stemmann, S. Schwaiger, S. Mendach, A. Mews, H. Weller, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp*,
Nano Letters 10, 627 (2010). - “Optical microcavities formed by semiconductor microtubes using a bottle-like geometry”,
Ch. Strelow, H. Rehberg, C. M. Schultz, H. Welsch, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp*,
Physical Review Letters 101, 127403 (2008). - “Optical Microtube Ring Cavities”,
T. Kipp (invited article),
Advances in Solid State Physics 47, 17 (2008). - "Optical modes in semiconductor microtube ring resonators",
T. Kipp*, H. Welsch, Ch. Strelow, Ch. Heyn, and D. Heitmann,
Physical Review Letters 96, 077403 (2006). - "Broadband emission and low absorption in microdisks with AlGaAs quantum wells",
T. Kipp, K. Petter, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, and C. Schüller,
Applied Physics Letters 84, 1477 (2004).
* as corresponding author
Spectroscopy of Chemically Synthesized Nanowires
- „Reversible and Irreversible Effects of Oxygen on the Optical Properties of CdSe Quantum Wires“,
R. Kusterer, C. Ruhmlieb, C. Strelow, T. Kipp, and A. Mews
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126, 19240-19249 (2022). - „Determination of the Wurtzite and Zincblende Fractions in II-VI Semiconductor Nanowires“,
P. Harder, A. Nielsen, A.-K. Sassnau, D. Bonatz, M. Perbandt, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews
Chemistry of Materials 33, 1061-1069 (2021). - „Quantum-confined emission and fluorescence blinking of individual exciton complexes in CdSe nanowires“,
D. Franz, A.Reich, Ch. Strelow, Z. Wang, A. Kornowski, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
Nano Letters 14, 6655 (2014). - „Charge separation in CdSe/CdTe hetero-nanowires measured by electrostatic force microscopy”,
S. Schäfer. A. Reich Z. Wang, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
Applied Physics Letters 100, 022110 (2012). - „Fluorescence modulation of single CdSe nanowires by charge injection through the tip of an atomic-force microscope”,
S. Schäfer, Z. Wang, T. Kipp, and A. Mews,
Physical Review Letters 107, 137403 (2011). - „Diameter Scaling of the Optical Band Gap in Individual CdSe Nanowires”,
A. Myalitsin, Ch. Strelow, Z. Wang, Z. Li, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
ACS Nano 5, 7920 (2011). - „Laser-Induced Charge Separation in CdSe Nanowires”,
S. Schäfer, Z. Wang, R. Zierold, T. Kipp, and A. Mews
Nano Letters 11, 2672 (2011)
* as corresponding author
Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures
- „Controlled growth of gold nanoparticles on covellite copper sulfide nanoplatelets for formation of plate-satellite hybrid structures”,
T. Tsangas, C. Ruhmlieb, S. Hentschel, H. Noei, A. Stierle, T. Kipp, and A. Mews,
Chemistry of Materials 34, 1157-1166 (2022). - „Fluorescent Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Structures by Ultrasound-Assisted in Situ Growth of Gold Nanoparticles on Silica-Coated CdSe-Dot/CdS-Rod Nanocrystals”,
X. Tang, E. Kröger, A. Nielsen, S. Schneider, C. Strelow, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Chemistry of Materials 31, 224-232 (2019). - „Site-controlled InAs quantum dot chains coupled to surface plasmons”,
T. Hakkarainen, J. Tommila, A. Schramm, J. Simonen, T. Niemi, C. Strelow, T. Kipp, J. Kontio, and M. Guina,
Optica 3, 139-142 (2016). - „Photoluminescence of Individual Au/CdSe Nanocrystal Complexes with Variable Interparticle Distances”,
X. Ma, K. Fletcher, T. Kipp, M. P. Grzelczak, Z. Wang, A. Guerrero-Martínez, I. Pastoriza-Santos, A. Kornowski, L. M. Liz-Marzán, and A. Mews,
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 2466 (2011). - „Fluorescence Enhancement, Blinking Supression, and Gray States of Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals Close to Gold Nanoparticles”,
X. Ma, H. Tan, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
Nano Letters 10, 4166 (2010).
* as corresponding author
Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
- „Fluorescence Quantum Yield and Single-Particle Emission of CdSe-Dot/CdS-Rod Nanocrystals",
A. Hinsch, S.-H. Lohmann, C. Strelow, T. Kipp*, C. Würth, D. Geißler, A. Kornowski, C. Wolter, H. Weller, U. Resch-Genger, A. Mews,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 24338-24346 (2019). - „Influence of Interface-Driven Strain on the Spectral Diffusion Properties of Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Dot/Rod Nanoparticles”,
S.-H. Lohmann, P. Harder, F. Bourier, C. Strelow, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 5099-5109 (2019). - „Efficient optical gain in CdSe/CdS Dot-in-Rod nanocrystals”,
C. Sonnichsen, T. Kipp, X. Tang, P. Kambhampati
ACS Photonics 6, 382-388 (2019). - „Surface Charges on CdSe-Dot/CdS-Rod Nanocrystals: Measuring and Modeling the Diffusion of Exciton-Fluorescence Rates and Energies”,
S.-H. Lohmann, C. Strelow, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
ACS Nano 11, 12185-12192 (2017). - „Ultrathin and Highly Passivating Silica Shells for Luminescent and Water-Soluble CdSe/CdS Nanorods”,
X. Tang, E. Kröger, A. J. Nielsen, C. Strelow, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Langmuir 33, 5253-5260 (2017). - „Insight into Strain Effects on Band Alignment Shifts, Carrier Localization and Recombination Kinetics in CdTe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots”,
L. Jing‡, S. V. Kershaw‡, T. Kipp‡, S. Kalytchuk, K. Ding, J. Zeng, M. Jiao, X. Sun, A. Mews, A. L. Rogach, and M. Gao,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 2073-2084 (2015). - „Fluorescence spectroscopy of individual semiconductor nanoparticles in different ethylene glycols”,
S. Flessau, C. Wolter, E. Pöselt, E. Kröger, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16, 10444 (2014). - „Determination of electronic energy levels in type-II CdTe-core/CdSe-shell and CdSe core/CdTe-shell nanocrystals by cyclic voltammetry and optical spectroscopy”,
X. Ma, A. Mews, and T. Kipp*,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 16698 (2013). - „Direct observation of confined acoustic phonons in the photoluminescence spectra of a single CdSe-CdS-ZnS core-shell-shell nanocrystal”,
G. Chilla, T. Kipp*, T. Menke, D. Heitmann, M. Nikolic, A. Frömsdorf, A. Kornowski, S. Förster, and H. Weller,
Physical Review Letters 100, 057403 (2008).
* as corresponding author
X-Ray Excited Optical Luminescence
- „X-ray vision of Cu(In,Ga)Se2: from the Ga/In ratio to solar-cell performance”,
Christina Ossig, Niklas Pyrlik, Romain Carron, Giovanni Fevola, Svenja Patjens, Christian Strelow, Jan Flügge, Andreas Kolditz, Jan Siebels, Jan Garrevoet, Andreas Spiers, Martin Seyrich, Dennis Brückner, Johannes Hagemann, Frank Seiboth, Andreas Schropp, Gerald Falkenberg, Alf Mews, Christian G. Schroer, Tobias Kipp, Michael E. Stuckelberger
Journal of Physics: Energy 4, 045007 (2022). - „Four-Fold Multi-Modal X-ray Microscopy Measurements of a Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cell”,
C. Ossig, C. Strelow, J. Flügge, A. Kolditz, J. Siebels, J. Garrevoet, K. Spiers, M. Seyrich, D. Brückner, N. Pyrlik, J. Hagemann, F. Seiboth, A. Schropp, R. Carron, G. Falkenberg, A. Mews, C. G. Schroer, T. Kipp, and M. E. Stuckelberger,
Materials 14, 228 (12 pp) (2021).
Gold Nanostructures for Biological Applications
- „Monitoring the death of single BaF3 cells under plasmonic photothermal heating induced by ultrasmall gold nanorod",
L. Prisner, P. Witthöft, L. V. N. Nguyen, T. Tsangas T. Gefken, F. Klaus, C. Strelow, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
J. Mater. Chem. B 7, 3582-3589 (2019). - „Specific Binding and Internalization: An Investigation of Fluorescent Aptamer-Gold Nanoclusters and Cells with Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy”,
M. Mutas, C. Strelow, T. Kipp*, and A. Mews,
Nanoscale 10, 20453-20461 (2018).
* as corresponding author
Raman Spectroscopy of Electronic Excitations in Semiconductor Quantum Structure
- „Elementary excitations in charge-tunable InGaAs quantum dots studied by resonant Raman and resonant photoluminescence spectroscopy”,
T. Köppen, D. Franz, A. Schramm, Ch. Heyn, J. Gutjahr, D. Pfannkuche, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp*,
Physical Review B 83, 165307 (2011). - „Electronic Raman Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots",
T. Kipp, C. Schüller, and D. Heitmann,
Chapter 6 in Quantum Materials, D. Heitmann (Ed.), Springer (Berlin), 2010. - „Resonant Raman transitions into singlet and triplet states in quantum dots containing two electrons”,
T. Köppen, D. Franz, A. Schramm, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp*,
Physical Review Letters 103, 037402 (2009).
* as corresponding author
Photoluminecsence Spectroscopy of MBE-Grown Quantum Dots
- „Large array of single, site-controlled InAs quantum dots fabricated by UV-nanoimprint lithography and molecular beam epitaxy”,
A. Schramm, J. Tommila, Ch. Strelow, T. V. Hakkarainen, A. Tukiainen, M. Dumitrescu, A. Mews, T. Kipp, and M. Guina,
Nanotechnology 23, 175701 (2012). - „Highly uniform and strain-free GaAs quantum dots fabricated by filling of self-assembled nanoholes”,
Ch. Heyn, A. Stemmann, T. Köppen, Ch. Strelow, T. Kipp, M. Grave, S. Mendach, and W. Hansen,
Applied Physics Letter 94, 183113 (2009). - „Local droplet etching of nanoholes and rings on GaAs and AlGaAs surfaces”,
A. Stemmann, Ch. Heyn, T. Köppen, T. Kipp, and W. Hansen,
Applied Physics Letters 93, 123108 (2008)
Raman Spectroscopy of Chemically Synthesized Nanocrystals
- „Nonhydrolytic Synthesis of High-Quality Anisotropically Shaped Brookite TiO2 Nanocrystals”,
R. Buonsanti, V. Grillo, E. Carlino, C. Giannini, T. Kipp, R. Cingolani, and P. D. Cozzoli,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, 11223 (2008). - "Confined Optical Phonon Modes in Aligned Nanorod Arrays Detected by Resonant Inelastic Light Scattering",
C. Nobile, V. A. Fonoberov, S. Kudera, A. Della Torre, A. Ruffino, G. Chilla, T. Kipp, D. Heitmann, L. Manna, R. Cingolani, A. A. Balandin, and R. Krahne,
Nano Letters 7, 476 (2007).
Teaching
Chemistry Department, Kiel University (summer term 2022):
Lecture "Physikalische Chemie 1: Chemisches Gleichgewicht"
Chemistry Department, University of Hamburg (since summer term 2009):
Lecture "Physik I" (part of Modul "Physikalische Chemie und Mathematik I")
Lecture "Physik II für Chemiker*innen"
Lecture "Physikalische Chemie II: Einführung in die Quantenmechanik"
Lecture "Physikalische Chemie III"
Lecture "Physikalische Chemie IV: Atom- und Molekülspektroskopie"
Lecture "Physikalische Chemie und Mathematik"
Exercises in "Physikalische Chemie I", "Physikalische Chemie II", "Physikalische Chemie III" , "Physikalische Chemie und Mathematik" und "Physik II"
Seminar zum Vertiefungspraktikum in Physikalischer Chemie
( see also: Modulhandbuch (PDF))
Physics Department, University of Hamburg:
Lectures and Exercises in "Nanostrukturphysik I" and "Nanostrukturierte Festkörper",
Exercises in "Physik IV (Festkörperphysik)".