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April, 2025

Congrats to Ryan Kowalski!

Apr. 25, 2025—Congratulations to Ryan Kowalski for successfully defending his dissertation! “Infrared Light at the Nanoscale: Confinement and Spectroscopy” Conventional optical microscopy and spectroscopy are limited by the diffraction limit, which restricts spatial resolution to approximately half the free-space wavelength of light. This constraint poses a significant barrier for the nanoscale characterization of materials and quantum systems....

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Caldwell Lab group – MRS 2025 Spring meeting highlights

Apr. 17, 2025—Members of the Caldwell lab attended the 2025 MRS Spring meeting.  Emma Bartelsen was the recipient of the Best Poster Award for the “Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces” symposium. Emma Bartelsen was a recipient of the Best Poster Award for the symposium “Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for...

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