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Overview

Ernst-Bernhard Kley is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of engineering with specialization in electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

The main topics of their work include photonic and optical devices, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, optical network technologies, optical coatings and gratings, as well as nanofabrication and lithography techniques.

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings
  • Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques

Kley has published papers in notable venues, such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Photonics Research

Recent papers include:

  • Modular nonlinear hybrid plasmonic circuit, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Photonic Nanomaterials: Merging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Fabricate Artificial Photonic Nanomaterials with a Deterministic Electric and Magnetic Response (Adv. Funct. Mater. 3/2020), 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Sub-nanometer address grid in variable shaped e-beam lithography for efficient inscription of high-precision large-area optical gratings, 2025, Photonics Research

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • Thomas Siefke
  • Andreas Tünnermann
  • Alessandro Tuniz
  • Oliver Bickerton
  • Fernando Díaz

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials.

    C. Menzel;C. Helgert;C. Rockstuhl;E.-B. Kley

  • Materials Pushing the Application Limits of Wire Grid Polarizers further into the Deep Ultraviolet Spectral Range

    Thomas Siefke;Stefanie Kroker;Stefanie Kroker;Kristin Pfeiffer;Oliver Puffky

  • High-power femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifier.

    Jens Limpert;T. Schreiber;T. Clausnitzer;K. Zöllner

  • Sparsity-based single-shot subwavelength coherent diffractive imaging

    A. Szameit;Y. Shechtman;E. Osherovich;E. Bullkich

  • An intelligible explanation of highly-efficient diffraction in deep dielectric rectangular transmission gratings.

    Tina Clausnitzer;Thomas Kampfe;Ernst-Bernhard Kley;Andreas Tunnermann

  • Efficient Coupling into Polymer Waveguides by Gratings

    Ralf Waldhäusl;Bernd Schnabel;Peter Dannberg;Ernst-Bernhard Kley

  • Highly efficient transmission gratings in fused silica for chirped-pulse amplification systems

    Tina Clausnitzer;Jens Limpert;Karsten Zöllner;Holger Zellmer

  • Spatial and spectral light shaping with metamaterials.

    Benny Walther;Christian Helgert;Carsten Rockstuhl;Frank Setzpfandt

  • High-average-power femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system

    Limpert J;Clausnitzer T;Liem A;Schreiber T

  • Chiral metamaterial composed of three-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures.

    Christian Helgert;Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin;Matthias Falkner;Christoph Menzel

  • Continuous profile writing by electron and optical lithography

    Ernst-Bernhard Kley

  • Terahertz emission from black silicon

    P. Hoyer;M. Theuer;R. Beigang;E.-B. Kley

  • The structural and optical properties of black silicon by inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching

    Martin Steglich;Thomas Käsebier;Matthias Zilk;Thomas Pertsch

  • Fabrication of nanoscale lithium niobate waveguides for second-harmonic generation.

    Reinhard Geiss;Sina Saravi;Anton Sergeyev;Séverine Diziain

  • Realization of a Monolithic High-Reflectivity Cavity Mirror from a Single Silicon Crystal

    Frank Brückner;Daniel Friedrich;Tina Clausnitzer;Michael Britzger

  • STUDY ON POLARIZING VISIBLE LIGHT BY SUBWAVELENGTH-PERIOD METAL-STRIPE GRATINGS

    Bernd Schnabel;Ernst-Bernhard Kley;Frank Wyrowski

  • Development of a novel, low-viscosity UV-curable polymer system for UV-nanoimprint lithography

    Marko Vogler;Sabine Wiedenberg;Michael Mühlberger;Iris Bergmair

  • Enhancing second harmonic generation in gold nanoring resonators filled with lithium niobate.

    Dennis Lehr;Jörg Reinhold;Illia Thiele;Holger Hartung

  • Effective properties of amorphous metamaterials

    C. Helgert;C. Rockstuhl;C. Etrich;C. Menzel

  • Highly-dispersive dielectric transmission gratings with 100% diffraction efficiency

    T. Clausnitzer;T. Kämpfe;E.-B. Kley;A. Tünnermann

  • A Surface‐Emitting Circular Grating Polymer Laser

    C. Bauer;H. Giessen;H. Giessen;B. Schnabel;B. Schnabel;E. B. Kley

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Tünnermann
Andreas Tünnermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thomas Pertsch
Thomas Pertsch Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Falk Lederer
Falk Lederer Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Carsten Rockstuhl
Carsten Rockstuhl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stefan Nolte
Stefan Nolte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ulf Peschel
Ulf Peschel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ralf B. Wehrspohn
Ralf B. Wehrspohn Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Harald Giessen
Harald Giessen University of Stuttgart

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