Photonics · Materials Science · Cross-disciplinary research
Light, matter & the ideas between.
I am Fernando Ramiro-Manzano, a CSIC tenure scientist working across photonics, nanomaterials and optoelectronics—connecting fundamental physics with the structures and tools that make it visible.
Role
Tenure Scientist · CSIC
Institute
ITQ · CSIC–UPV
Based in
Valencia · Spain
Research atlas
Six connected areas of inquiry.
The site is organised around research areas rather than a chronology alone. Each area brings together publications, experiments and notes, while tags allow one piece of work to live naturally across several disciplines.
AREA 01
Colloids
Self-assembly, confinement and microspherical resonators: colloidal systems as model matter and as photonic structures in their own right.
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AREA 02
Integrated Photonics
Chip-scale resonators, mode coupling and non-Hermitian behaviour—precision platforms for fundamental optics and compact devices.
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AREA 03
Hybrid Materials
Organic–inorganic perovskites and related compounds, engineered for light harvesting, emission, guiding and microcavity physics.
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AREA 04
2D Materials
Optical and magneto-optical properties from the mesoscale to a single layer, resolved through hyperspectral microscopy.
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AREA 05 · EMERGING
Artificial Intelligence
AI as a research instrument: exploring analysis, scientific communication and new ways to organise complex experimental knowledge.
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AREA 06 · CROSSOVER
Art & Science
The visual culture of experiments—where optical phenomena, scientific images and creative practice share the same field of view.
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Selected work
Research, made legible.
A curated entry point into the archive. Every publication keeps its scientific context—authors, journal, abstract and source—while remaining connected to the wider research map.
Super-Planckian light from silicon microspheres
Micrometric Mie resonators turn thermal emission into a selective, compact source for the mid infrared.
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Optical properties of CrI3 across length scales
Hyperspectral microscopy maps a non-monotonic dielectric response from the mesoscale to a single layer.
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A Taiji resonator for directional reflection
Non-Hermitian dynamics enable high-contrast, direction-dependent reflection on a reciprocal photonic chip.
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Notes from the lab.
All news →19 JUN 2023 · LAB
Inside the Optics & Photonics laboratory
A visual tour of equipment, devices and experimental set-ups used across photonics and material science.
11 APR 2023 · PAPER
Advanced Optical Materials article accepted
Silicon microspheres as resonant, compact sources of mid-infrared thermal light.
14 MAR 2023 · PAPER
New work accepted in Physical Review Letters
Optical properties of magnetic 2D CrI3 mapped from the mesoscale down to a monolayer.
About
Science is a way of looking closely.
I am a Tenure Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), working with the Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics, Photonics and Energy group at ITQ in Valencia. My research moves between optical experiments, material platforms and the visual language needed to understand them.
This website is both a professional archive and an open notebook: a place for publications, research lines, images, tools and the ideas that emerge between established fields.
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