Dr. Uros Puc

Projects

• Plasma-tailored sustainable nanohybrids for ultra-broadband terahertz absorbers / Team member / Start imminent
• 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., Seok, J.-H., Kwon, O.-P., & Jazbinsek, M. (2026). Ultra-broadband organic tandem terahertz generators. Optics & Laser Technology, 194(114410). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.114410
• Puc, U., Abina, A., Salvi, E., Malačič, V., Francé, J., Zanelli, R., & Zidanšek, A. (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), 227. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse14020227
• Park, Y.-J., Kim, C., Auer, M. A., Shin, J. W., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Yu, I. C., Puc, U., Kim, D., Jazbinsek, M., Rotermund, F., & Kwon, O.-P. (2025). Tetrafluorinated ionic organic terahertz crystals. Applied Physics Reviews, 12(1), 11425. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0246850
• Park, J.-W., Auer, M., Lee, C.-W., Yoon, G.-E., Lee, Y.-S., Yang, J.-A., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Puc, U., Kim, C., Rotermund, F., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (2025). Isomorphic organic crystal families : analogous crystal structure with largely different physical and terahertz properties. Applied Physics Reviews, 12(3), 31422. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0280312
• Lee, C.-W., Puc, U., Lee, J. H., Cho, N. Y., Lee, J. B., Lee, Y.-S., Kim, J. C., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Jang, S., Lee, Y., Kim, J. H., Kwak, S. K., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (2025). Anisotropic dynamic disorder of π‐stacking and static disorder in organic electron transporting materials with isomorphic crystal structures. Small Structures, 6(9), 2500047. https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202500047
• Santhosh, N. M., Puc, U., Jazbinsek, M., Oberlintner, A., Shvalya, V., Zavašnik, J., & Cvelbar, U. (2025). Exploring effects of plasma surface engineering on cellulose nanofilms via broadband THz spectroscopy. Applied Surface Science, 682(161698). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.161698
• Abina, A., Korošec, T., Puc, U., Jazbinsek, M., & Zidanšek, A. (2023). Urinary metabolic biomarker profiling for cancer ciagnosis by terahertz spectroscopy : review and perspective. Photonics, 10(9), 1051. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10091051
• Lee, C.-W., Puc, U., Kim, J., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (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), 2302689. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202302689
• Shin, B.-R., Puc, U., Park, Y.-J., Kim, D.-J., Lee, C.-W., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Kim, C., Rotermund, F., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (2023). Design of high-performance organic nonlinear optical and terahertz crystals by controlling the van der Waals volume. Advanced Science, 10(34), 2304767. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202304767
• Abina, A., Puc, U., Jazbinsek, M., & Zidanšek, A. (2023). Analytical gas sensing in the terahertz spectral range. Micromachines, 14(11), 1987. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14111987
• Abina, A., Korošec, T., Puc, U., & Zidanšek, A. (2023). Review of bioplastics characterisation by terahertz techniques in the view of ensuring a circular economy. Photonics, 10(8), 883. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10080883
• Shin, B.-R., Yu, I. C., Puc, U., Kim, W. T., Yoon, W., Kim, C., Yun, H., Kim, D., Jazbinsek, M., Rotermund, F., & Kwon, O.-P. (2023). Design and validation of isomorphic crystal library for nonlinear optics and THz wave generation. Advanced Optical Materials, 11(13), 2201420. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201420
• Puc, U., Yang, J.-A., Kim, D., Kwon, O.-P., & Jazbinsek, M. (2022). Broadband THz wave generation in organic benzothiazolium crystals at MHz repetition rates [Invited]. Optical Materials Express, 13(1), 53–66. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.475427
• Yoon, G.-E., Seok, J.-H., Puc, U., Shin, B.-R., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Kim, D., Yu, I. C., Rotermund, F., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (2022). Phonon-suppressing intermolecular adhesives : catechol-based broadband organic THz generators. Advanced Science, 9(24), 2201391. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201391
• Seok, J.-H., Puc, U., Kim, S.-J., Yoon, W., Yun, H., Yu, I. C., Rotermund, F., Kim, D., Jazbinsek, M., & Kwon, O.-P. (2021). High‐density organic electro‐optic crystals for ultra‐broadband THz spectroscopy. Advanced Optical Materials, 9(17), 2100618. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202100618
• Kim, S.-J., Kang, B. J., Puc, U., Kim, W. T., Jazbinsek, M., Rotermund, F., & Kwon, O.-P. (2021). Highly nonlinear optical organic crystals for efficient terahertz wave generation, detection, and applications. Advanced Optical Materials, 9(23), 2101019. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202101019
• Puc, U., Bach, T., Günter, P., Zgonik, M., & Jazbinsek, M. (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), 2000098. https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202000098
• Giorgianni, F., Puc, U., Jazbinsek, M., Cea, T., Koo, M.-J., Han, J.-H., Kwon, O.-P., & Vicario, C. (2019). Supercontinuum generation in OHQ-N2S organic crystal driven by intense terahertz fields. Optics Letters, 44(19), 4881–4884. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.004881
• Jazbinsek, M., Puc, U., Abina, A., & Zidansek, A. (2019). Organic crystals for THz photonics. Applied Sciences, 9(5/882). https://doi.org/10.3390/app9050882
• Puc, U., Abina, A., Jeglič, A., Zidanšek, A., Kašalynas, I., Venckevičius, R., & Valušis, G. (2018). Spectroscopic analysis of melatonin in the terahertz frequency range. Sensors, 18(12), 4098. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124098

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Jazbinsek, M., Auer, M. A., Puc, U., Grabar, A., Vysochanskii, Y., Kohutych, A., & Pogodin, A. (2025, October 23). Phonon modes across the ferrielectric-paraelectric phase transition of 2D CuInP₂S₆ studied by Raman and THz time-domain spectroscopy. XIV International Seminar “Properties of Ferroelectric and Superionic Systems”, Uzhhorod, Ukraine (Online), 23 October 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35365
• Jazbinsek, M., Auer, M., Puc, U., Grabar, A., Vysochanskii, Y., Kohutych, A., & Pogodin, A. (2025, September). Ultra-broadband terahertz, Raman, and infrared spectroscopy of phonon modes in 2D CuInP₂S₆ ferroelectric chalcogenides. 15th European Meeting on Ferroelectricity (EMF-15) and PLU7, Katowice, Poland, 31 August - 5 September 2025.
• Medrano, C., Bach, T., Günter, P., Puc, U., Auer, M. A., & Jazbinsek, M. (2024). Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging up to 20 THz based on organic crystals [Conference paper]. In L. P. Sadwick & T. Yang (Eds.), Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XVII (p. 1288509). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3000136
• Bach, T., Puc, U., Michel, V., Medrano, C., Gunter, P., & Jazbinsek, M. (2019). Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy up to 20 THz based on organic electro-optic crystals. 2019 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). https://doi.org/10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2019.8874172
• Jazbinsek, M., Puc, U., Zgonik, M., Bach, T., Medrano, C., & Kwon, O.-P. (2019). High-bandwidth terahertz-wave generation and detection in various organic electro-optic crystals [Conference paper]. Photorefractive Photonics and Beyond, 38–39.
• Puc, U., Bach, T., Michel, V., Zgonik, M., Medrano, C., & Jazbinsek, M. (2019). DSTMS-based ultrabroadband terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8873218

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Jazbinsek, M., Auer, M. A., Puc, U., Grabar, A., Vysochanskii, Y., Kohutych, A., & Pogodin, A. (2025, October 23). Ultrabroadband THz time-domain spectroscopy : basics and applications to ferroelectric materials. XIV International Seminar “Properties of Ferroelectric and Superionic Systems” Uzhhorod, Ukraine (Online), 23 October 2025.
• Jazbinsek, M., Puc, U., Auer, M. A., & Kwon, O.-P. (2024). Ultra-broadband THz time-domain spectroscopy based on organic crystals for materials testing [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Simulation of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 2024, 47. https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/engineering/institute-zentren/icp/veranstaltungen/simoep-2024/boa-simoep-24-v-august30.pdf
• Puc, U., Bach, T., Medrano, C., Zgonik, M., & Jazbinsek, M. (2019). Compact and ultra-broadband terahertz spectrometer based on organic DSTMS crystals. SPIE Photonics West - Conference 10917 «Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XII», San Francisco, USA, 2-7 February 2019.
• Puc, U., Bach, T., Krajewski, M., Medrano, C., & Jazbinsek, M. (2018). Ultrabroadband terahertz time domain spectroscopy based on organic crystals. Book of Abstracts, 8th International Workshop on Terahertz Technology and Applications, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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