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Goodbye to Prof. Thomas Folland!
Aug. 20, 2020—It is a bittersweet day for the lab, but we have now officially said goodbye to our postdoc extraordinaire Tom Folland. Tom started at Vanderbilt a month before me, working to setup the lab and get things in order. This is what he arrived to see on his first day! During his time the group...
Guanyu’s work on Waste Heat Driven IR Emitters Highlighted in VINSE Podcast!
Aug. 20, 2020—Give a listen to the Alice Leach of VINSE interview of Guanyu Lu discussing his recent paper on driving infrared thermal emitters as narrowband optical sources using waste-heat from CPUs and other sources. Congrats Guanyu!
Check our new work with Sang-Hyun Oh’s Group on Image Polaritons!
Jul. 21, 2020—With our team led by graduate student Mingze He, our collaborative work with Sang-Hyun Oh’s group and Tony Low’s group at the University of Minnesota was just published in Nature Communications!
Check out Tom’s VINSE Podcasts
Jun. 22, 2020—Check out Tom talking about our work published in ACS photonics with Alice Leach of VINSE here
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!
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!