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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!
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!
Check out our work on thermal emission and strong coupling in silicon carbide
Mar. 2, 2020—Two of our recent papers have shown how silicon carbide nanostructures can be used to make efficient infrared emitters or ahcieve coherent energy transfer to a vibrational mode in a liquid
Check out our new paper using phonon interactions to investigate defects!
Jan. 20, 2020—Our work using phonon-resonant near-field interaction to investigate extended defects was just published in Advanced Functional Materials!
Congratulations to Sam White, winner of a ‘Best Poster’ at MRS Fall
Dec. 6, 2019—Tom, Ryan and Sam recently attended MRS fall to present some of our work on boron nitride, silicon carbide and cadmium oxide. Sam was awarded a best poster award for his work on VO2 as a high quality substrate for 2D materials!
Tom features in ‘postdoc spotlight’
Sep. 30, 2019—Tom has been highlighted by the Vanderbilt University graduate school for his work on polariton propagation in hBN. Check out his profile here
Summer students do top research
Aug. 12, 2019—Thanks to Autumn and Alyssa for all the hard work they put in this summer. Both had really productive summers, and managed to get a lot of great data studying the detection of gasses and liquids using infrared spectroscopy. In particular, congratulations to Alyssa – who won the NSF REU best poster award!
New work on crystalline hybrids published in ACS Nano
Aug. 2, 2019—Our work using atomic-scale superlattices to control the IR dielectric function was just published in ACS Nano!
Tutorial Published in the Journal of Applied Physics
May. 21, 2019—Check out our new tutorial, co-authored with Prof. Dan Wasserman at UT Austin. We discuss the physics and measurement of infrared polaritons, comprehensively reviewed for the first time!
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!