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VOGLER-NEULING Viola

Soft Matter Physics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Phone:	+41 26 300 9425
Email:	viola.vogler-neuling@unifr.ch
	0000-0003-4531-5762

Projects lead

3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating

Investigating the interplay between a 3D linear photonic crystal and a nonlinear optical material

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Self-assembly of Biomimetic Photonic Crystals

Reveal the self-assembly process of photonic crystals in nature and their bio-inspired fabrication

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Bright white scatterers beyond titania

With growing restrictions on titanium dioxide, this project develops sustainable, non-toxic white pigments…

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Molecular Building Blocks of Structural Color

To recreate nature’s vibrant structural colors, we investigate the lipids and proteins responsible for…

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Amyloid-based structural color for circular dairy economy

We’re developing tamper-proof, brightly colored labels from dairy by-products to combat counterfeiting…

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Projects team

Collective emission in metamaterials

Polarisation and angle resolved thermal emission and fluorescence in network-like metamaterials

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Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Discovering hidden correlations in disordered photonic materials

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Block copolymer self-assembly

Block copolymer self-assembly unlocks large, ordered 3D nanostructures for advanced material applications

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Publications

Macroscopic order in block copolymer gyroid films by solvent evaporation annealing
René Iseli, Doha Abdelrahman, Cédric Kilchoer, S. Narjes Abdollahi, Thomas A. Kainz, Rushna Quddus, Yibei Gu, Ulrich Wiesner, Bodo D. Wilts, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Ullrich Steiner, Ilja Gunkel
Polymer , 128676 (2025)

Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces
Sebastian A. Schulz, Rupert. F. Oulton, Mitchell Kenney, Andrea Alù, Isabelle Staude, Ayesheh Bashiri, Zlata Fedorova, Radoslaw Kolkowski, A. Femius Koenderink, Xiaofei Xiao, John Yang, William J. Peveler, Alasdair W. Clark, George Perrakis, Anna C. Tasolamprou, Maria Kafesaki, Anastasiia Zaleska, Wayne Dickson, David Richards, Anatoly Zayats, Haoran Ren, Yuri Kivshar, Stefan Maier, Xianzhong Chen, Muhammad Afnan Ansari, Yuhui Gan, Arseny Alexeev, Thomas F. Krauss, Andrea Di Falco, Sylvain D. Gennaro, Tomás Santiago-Cruz, Igal Brener, Maria V. Chekhova, Ren-Min Ma, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Helena C. Weigand, Ülle-Linda Talts, Irene Occhiodori, Rachel Grange, Mohsen Rahmani, Lei Xu, S. M. Kamali, E. Arababi, Andrei Faraon, Anthony C. Harwood, Stefano Vezzoli, Riccardo Sapienza, Philippe Lalanne, Alexandre Dmitriev, Carsten Rockstuhl, Alexander Sprafke, Kevin Vynck, Jeremy Upham, M. Zahirul Alam, Israel De Leon, Robert W. Boyd, Willie J. Padilla, Jordan M. Malof, Aloke Jana, Zijin Yang, Rémi Colom, Qinghua Song, Patrice Genevet, Karim Achouri, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Ulrich Lemmer, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
Applied Physics Letters 124 (2024)

Large‐Scale Bottom‐Up Fabricated 3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Viola Valentina Vogler‐Neuling, Ülle‐Linda Talts, Rebecca Ferraro, Helena Weigand, Giovanni Finco, Joel Winiger, Peter Benedek, Justine Kusch, Artemios Karvounis, Vanessa Wood, Jürg Leuthold, Rachel Grange
Advanced Photonics Research (2024)

Nanoimprinting Solution-Derived Barium Titanate for Electro-Optic Metasurfaces
Helena C. Weigand, Ülle-Linda Talts, Anna-Lydia Vieli, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Alfonso Nardi, Rachel Grange
Nano Letters 24 , 5536-5542 (2024)

Biopolymer Photonics: From Nature to Nanotechnology
Viola V. Vogler‐Neuling, Matthias Saba, Ilja Gunkel, Justin O. Zoppe, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Andrea Dodero
Advanced Functional Materials (2023)

Sol–Gel Barium Titanate Nanohole Array as a Nonlinear Metasurface and a Photonic Crystal
Ülle‐Linda Talts, Helena C. Weigand, Grégoire Saerens, Peter Benedek, Joel Winiger, Vanessa Wood, Jürg Leuthold, Viola Vogler‐Neuling, Rachel Grange
Small (2023)

Structural light absorption in elytral micropillars of Euprotaetia inexpectata beetles
Alessandro Parisotto, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Ullrich Steiner, Matthias Saba, Bodo D. Wilts
Materials Today Advances 19 , 100399 (2023)

Bottom-up Fabricated Barium Titanate Nonlinear Photonic Crystal
Ülle-Linda Talts, Helena Weigand, Viola Vogler-Neuling, Grégoire Saerens, Peter Benedek, Joel Winiger, Vanessa Wood, Jürg Leuthold, Rachel Grange
CLEO 2023 8 , STu4N.4 (2023)

Photonic Assemblies of Randomly Oriented Nanocrystals for Engineered Nonlinear and Electro-Optic Effects
Viola Valentina Vogler-Neuling, Artemios Karvounis, Andrea Morandi, Helena Weigand, Eric Dénervaud, Rachel Grange
ACS Photonics 9 , 2193-2203 (2022)

Improving the learning environment in the Department of Physics: a peer mentoring program for first-year female physicists alongside changes in the lecture programme

ETH Learning and Teaching Journal (2022)

Second-harmonic generation tuning by stretching arrays of GaAs nanowires
Grégoire Saerens, Esther Bloch, Kristina Frizyuk, Olga Sergaeva, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Elizaveta Semenova, Elizaveta Lebedkina, Mihail Petrov, Rachel Grange, Maria Timofeeva
Nanoscale (2022)

Enhanced Electro-Optic Modulation in Resonant Metasurfaces of Lithium Niobate
Helena Weigand, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Marc Reig Escalé, David Pohl, Felix U. Richter, Artemios Karvounis, Flavia Timpu, Rachel Grange
ACS Photonics 8 , 3004-3009 (2021)

95 MHz Bandwidth Electro-Optic Metasurfaces based on Barium Titanate Nanocrystals
Artemios Karvounis, Viola V. Vogler-Neuling, Rachel Grange
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 0 , FTh4K.5 (2021)

Barium Titanate Nanostructures and Thin Films for Photonics
Artemios Karvounis, Flavia Timpu, Viola V. Vogler‐Neuling, Romolo Savo, Rachel Grange
Advanced Optical Materials 8 , 2001249 (2020)

Electro‐Optic Metasurfaces Based on Barium Titanate Nanoparticle Films
Artemios Karvounis, Viola V. Vogler‐Neuling, Felix U. Richter, Eric Dénervaud, Maria Timofeeva, Rachel Grange
Advanced Optical Materials 8 , 2000623 (2020)

Solution‐Processed Barium Titanate Nonlinear Woodpile Photonic Structures with Large Surface Areas
Viola Valentina Vogler-Neuling, Romolo Savo, David Pohl, Nicholas R. Hendricks, Lukas Lang, Maria Timofeeva, Barbara Schneider, Felix Ulrich Richter, Flavia Timpu, Serge Monneret, Fabian Starsich, Rachel Grange
physica status solidi (b) 257 , 1900755 (2020)

Solution‐Processed Barium Titanate Nonlinear Woodpile Photonic Structures with Large Surface Areas
Viola Valentina Vogler-Neuling, Romolo Savo, David Pohl, Nicholas R. Hendricks, Lukas Lang, Maria Timofeeva, Barbara Schneider, Felix Ulrich Richter, Flavia Timpu, Serge Monneret, Fabian Starsich, Rachel Grange
physica status solidi (b) 257 , 2070024 (2020)

Image-based autofocusing system for nonlinear optical microscopy with broad spectral tuning
Grégoire Saerens, Lukas Lang, Claude Renaut, Flavia Timpu, Viola Vogler-Neuling, Christophe Durand, Maria Tchernycheva, Igor Shtrom, Alexey Bouravleuv, Rachel Grange, Maria Timofeeva
Optics Express 27 , 19915 (2019)

Strain enhancement of the electro-optical response in BaTiO3 films integrated on Si(001)
Kurt D. Fredrickson, Viola Valentina Vogler-Neuling, Kristy J. Kormondy, Daniele Caimi, Felix Eltes, Marilyne Sousa, Jean Fompeyrine, Stefan Abel, Alexander A. Demkov
Physical Review B 98 (2018)

VOGLER-NEULING Viola

3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating

Self-assembly of Biomimetic Photonic Crystals

Bright white scatterers beyond titania

Molecular Building Blocks of Structural Color

Amyloid-based structural color for circular dairy economy

Collective emission in metamaterials

Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Block copolymer self-assembly