Dr. Uros Puc

Projects

• Plasma-tailored sustainable nanohybrids for ultra-broadband terahertz absorbers / Team member / ongoing
• THz photonics applications with 3D and 2D complex chalcogenides / Team member / ongoing
• Packaging technology, stability evaluation, and non-destructive testing for commercialization of perovskite solar modules / Team member / ongoing
• Development of a stable and triggerable ultrasound transducer for in-vitro hyperthermia application / Team member / completed
• Molecular Phonon-Mode Engineering for All-Organic Gap-Free THz Photonics / Team member / completed
• Ultrabroadband Terahertz Spectrometer and Terahertz Imaging System: TeraKit ULTRA / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Puc, U. et al. (2026) 'Ultra-broadband organic tandem terahertz generators', Optics & Laser Technology, 194(114410). doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.114410.
• Puc, U. et al. (2026) 'Development and field testing of a cavitation-based robotic platform for sustainable in-water hull cleaning', Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 14(2), p. 227. doi: 10.3390/jmse14020227.
• Park, Y.-J. et al. (2025) 'Tetrafluorinated ionic organic terahertz crystals', Applied Physics Reviews, 12(1), p. 011425. doi: 10.1063/5.0246850.
• Park, J.-W. et al. (2025) 'Isomorphic organic crystal families : analogous crystal structure with largely different physical and terahertz properties', Applied Physics Reviews, 12(3), p. 031422. doi: 10.1063/5.0280312.
• Lee, C.-W. et al. (2025) 'Anisotropic dynamic disorder of π‐stacking and static disorder in organic electron transporting materials with isomorphic crystal structures', Small Structures, 6(9), p. 2500047. doi: 10.1002/sstr.202500047.
• Santhosh, N. M. et al. (2025) 'Exploring effects of plasma surface engineering on cellulose nanofilms via broadband THz spectroscopy', Applied Surface Science, 682(161698). doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.161698.
• Lee, C.-W. et al. (2023) 'Ultra‐broadband organic THz generators : influence of substituents on THz phonon vibrations in phenolic parallel‐type cation–anion assembly', Advanced Optical Materials, 12(13), p. 2302689. doi: 10.1002/adom.202302689.
• Abina, A. et al. (2023) 'Urinary metabolic biomarker profiling for cancer ciagnosis by terahertz spectroscopy : review and perspective', Photonics, 10(9), p. 1051. doi: 10.3390/photonics10091051.
• Shin, B.-R. et al. (2023) 'Design of high-performance organic nonlinear optical and terahertz crystals by controlling the van der Waals volume', Advanced Science, 10(34), p. 2304767. doi: 10.1002/advs.202304767.
• Abina, A. et al. (2023) 'Analytical gas sensing in the terahertz spectral range', Micromachines, 14(11), p. 1987. doi: 10.3390/mi14111987.
• Abina, A. et al. (2023) 'Review of bioplastics characterisation by terahertz techniques in the view of ensuring a circular economy', Photonics, 10(8), p. 883. doi: 10.3390/photonics10080883.
• Shin, B.-R. et al. (2023) 'Design and validation of isomorphic crystal library for nonlinear optics and THz wave generation', Advanced Optical Materials, 11(13), p. 2201420. doi: 10.1002/adom.202201420.
• Puc, U. et al. (2022) 'Broadband THz wave generation in organic benzothiazolium crystals at MHz repetition rates [Invited]', Optical Materials Express, 13(1), pp. 53–66. doi: 10.1364/OME.475427.
• Yoon, G.-E. et al. (2022) 'Phonon-suppressing intermolecular adhesives : catechol-based broadband organic THz generators', Advanced Science, 9(24), p. 2201391. doi: 10.1002/advs.202201391.
• Seok, J.-H. et al. (2021) 'High‐density organic electro‐optic crystals for ultra‐broadband THz spectroscopy', Advanced Optical Materials, 9(17), p. 2100618. doi: 10.1002/adom.202100618.
• Kim, S.-J. et al. (2021) 'Highly nonlinear optical organic crystals for efficient terahertz wave generation, detection, and applications', Advanced Optical Materials, 9(23), p. 2101019. doi: 10.1002/adom.202101019.
• Puc, U. et al. (2021) 'Ultra‐broadband and high‐dynamic‐range THz time‐domain spectroscopy system based on organic crystal emitter and detector in transmission and reflection geometry', Advanced Photonics Research, 2(4), p. 2000098. doi: 10.1002/adpr.202000098.
• Giorgianni, F. et al. (2019) 'Supercontinuum generation in OHQ-N2S organic crystal driven by intense terahertz fields', Optics Letters, 44(19), pp. 4881–4884. doi: 10.1364/OL.44.004881.
• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2019) 'Organic crystals for THz photonics', Applied Sciences, 9(5/882). doi: 10.3390/app9050882.
• Puc, U. et al. (2018) 'Spectroscopic analysis of melatonin in the terahertz frequency range', Sensors, 18(12), p. 4098. doi: 10.3390/s18124098.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2025) 'Phonon modes across the ferrielectric-paraelectric phase transition of 2D CuInP₂S₆ studied by Raman and THz time-domain spectroscopy', in XIV International seminar "Properties of ferroelectric and superionic systems", Uzhhorod, Ukraine (online), 23 October 2025. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-35365.
• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2025) 'Ultra-broadband terahertz, Raman, and infrared spectroscopy of phonon modes in 2D CuInP₂S₆ ferroelectric chalcogenides', in 15th European Meeting on Ferroelectricity (EMF-15) and PLU7, Katowice, Poland, 31 August - 5 September 2025.
• Medrano, C. et al. (2024) 'Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging up to 20 THz based on organic crystals', in Sadwick, L. P. and Yang, T. (eds) Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XVII. SPIE, p. 1288509. doi: 10.1117/12.3000136.
• Bach, T. et al. (2019) 'Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy up to 20 THz based on organic electro-optic crystals', in 2019 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2019.8874172.
• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2019) 'High-bandwidth terahertz-wave generation and detection in various organic electro-optic crystals', in Photorefractive Photonics and Beyond, pp. 38–39.
• Puc, U. et al. (2019) 'DSTMS-based ultrabroadband terahertz time-domain spectroscopy', in 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8873218.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2025) 'Ultrabroadband THz time-domain spectroscopy : basics and applications to ferroelectric materials', in XIV International seminar "Properties of ferroelectric and superionic systems" Uzhhorod, Ukraine (online), 23 October 2025.
• Jazbinsek, M. et al. (2024) 'Ultra-broadband THz time-domain spectroscopy based on organic crystals for materials testing', in International Conference on Simulation of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 2024. ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, p. 47. Available at: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/engineering/institute-zentren/icp/veranstaltungen/simoep-2024/boa-simoep-24-v-august30.pdf.
• Puc, U. et al. (2019) 'Compact and ultra-broadband terahertz spectrometer based on organic DSTMS crystals', in SPIE Photonics West - Conference 10917 «Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XII», San Francisco, USA, 2-7 February 2019.
• Puc, U. et al. (2018) 'Ultrabroadband terahertz time domain spectroscopy based on organic crystals', in Book of Abstracts, 8th International Workshop on Terahertz Technology and Applications, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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