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See Guanyu’s paper highlighted on the cover of ACS Omega!

May. 26, 2020—The conceptual view illustrates the potential of driving one of the NIREM devices (nanophotonic infrared emitting metamaterial) via scavenging waste heat from a CPU heat sink. Within the work, we demonstrated that one could emit >10 mW of power at the narrow-band emission of a SiC nanostructure simply using the waste heat at 85C!

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Congrats to Ryan Nolen on passing his Qualifying Exam!

May. 10, 2020—Congrats to Ryan who presented an successfully defended his qualifying exam. Looks like he is on track for graduating next Spring! Great work Ryan!

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Check out our latest work demonstrating waste-heat driving IR emitters!

May. 10, 2020—Congrats to Guanyu for getting his first first author publication! Excellent work!

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Nanovation with Prof. Michael Filler

Apr. 15, 2019—Had the opportunity to be interviewed by Prof. Mike Filler from Georgia Tech for his podcast Nanovation. He has interviewed some awesome folks. Honored he included me! Thanks Mike! Really enjoyed the opportunity!

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Tom Folland receives Honorable Mention for Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year!

Apr. 15, 2019—Dr. Tom Folland was awarded an Honorable Mention in this year’s Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year Award.  Given annually to one winner, Tom was one of only three postdocs recognized University wide, with his exceptional abilities as a researcher, mentor, instructor and grant writer being honored.  A big congrats to Tom for this outstanding achievement!

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Check out our most recent publication!

Apr. 15, 2019—In this work, we demonstrated the potential for overcoming the polarization selection rules that limit direct electrical excitation of phonon polaritons by using hybridized, zone-folded longitudinal optic phonons with transverse polarized localized surface phonon polaritons.  

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Congrats on Publication of Tunable Strong Polariton Coupling in Nano Letters

Jan. 1, 2019—Our work on polaritonic strong coupling within cadmium oxide bilayers was just published in Nano Letters!  Congrats to Evan, Kyle, Tom, Ryan, Nader and Jon-Paul!  

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SiC Workshop Attended by Josh and Ryan

Dec. 29, 2018—Both Josh and Ryan attended and presented at the recent Silicon Carbide Materials & Devices Workshop at the Air Force Research Lab.  Josh presented an invited talk on implications for SiC for advanced infrared optics and nanophotonics, while Ryan presented a poster highlighting recent results from a collaboration with Greg Walker’s group (Vanderbilt) on harnessing waste...

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Our work chosen as an one of the Top Advances in Engineering!

Aug. 29, 2018—Poking at phonon-polaritons at the nanoscale  

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Congrats to Jack on an Excellent Summer SSMV research term!

Jul. 11, 2018—Jack Allen, a rising senior at MLK High School in Nashville, has been working with our group as part of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV).  His work focused on measuring angle dependent, infrared reflection spectra from bulk crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides and extracting the corresponding IR dielectric functions.  It has...

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