Andreas Hugi

Co-founder, Chairman of the board at IRsweep AG (Zurich, Switzerland)

info(at)irsweep(dot)com

Areas of expertise / interest:

  • Quantum cascade lasers

  • External cavity

  • Frequency comb

  • Mid-IR spectroscopy

  • Data processing


Short bio:
Prior to co-founding IRsweep, Andreas received his PhD on single-mode and comb operation of broadband QCLs in 2013 under the supervision of Jérôme Faist at ETH Zurich. He received his Master of Science in Micro- and Nanotechnology in 2007 from the University of Neuchâtel. Among others, Andreas was awarded the ETH Medal for an outstanding doctoral thesis and the Omega student award for his master thesis.

More information here. Follow on Twitter: @IRsweep

Selected project-relevant publications:

Single-Shot Sub-microsecond Mid-infrared Spectroscopy on Protein Reactions with Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs, Anal. Chem. 90, 10494 (2018)

Mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser, Nature 492, 229–233 (2012)

Publications as part of MIRAQLS: