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Congrats to Rodrigo and Chris on an excellent publication

May. 16, 2018—Our paper on the sensitivity of surface phonon polaritons to chemical changes to the surface was recently published in ACS Photonics!  This included atomically thin oxide layers using atomic-layer deposition on SiC nanopillars and demonstrated anomalous spectral shifts occurring with ultra-thin oxide deposition! Give it a read here.

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Talks at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting!

Apr. 16, 2018—The group all attended the Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Phoenix, AZ.  Ryan discussed his work in epsilon-near-zero – surface plasmon polariton hybridization using cadmium oxide bilayers, Joseph discussed his efforts in photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) measurements of hexagonal boron nitride nanostructures (recently published in Nano Letters).  Tom had a super busy...

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Our work on PTIR spectra from hexagonal boron nitride was just published in Nano Letters!

Feb. 21, 2018—https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04476

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Our collaborative work with Univ. Minnesota and EPFL was just published!

Feb. 13, 2018—Our work demonstrating Surface-enhanced infrared absorption of Silk using coaxial zero-mode resonators was just published in Nano Letters! This is Joseph’s first publication within our group! Check it out: D. Yoo, D.A. Mohr, F. Vidal-Codina, A. John-Herpin, M. Jo, S. Kim, J.R. Matson, J.D. Caldwell, H. Jeon, N.C. Nguyen, L. Martin-Moreno, J. Peraire, H. Altug,...

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See our work highlighted on the cover of the January 2018 edition of Nature Photonics!

Jan. 5, 2018—So excited to see our work highlighted on the cover of the January 2018 edition of Nature Photonics!

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Congrats to Adam Dunkelberger and Chase Ellis on getting our paper accepted in Nature Photonics!

Dec. 18, 2017—Check out our paper demonstrating ultrafast tuning of phonon polariton resonances within silicon carbide and indium phosphide nanostructures using carrier injection. Active tuning of surface phonon polariton resonances via carrier photoinjection

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December, 2018 – Congrats to Tom Folland, who officially received his Ph.D.

Dec. 15, 2017—Congrats TOM, it is an honor to have you onboard!

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Our work on isotopically enriched hBN was highlighted in the press!

Dec. 12, 2017—Here is a link to the press release.

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Congrats to Alex Giles on his Nature Materials paper!

Dec. 11, 2017—Our work on the use of isotopic enrichment to enhance phonon polariton propagation was published in Nature Materials and will appear in print in the February Edition! Ultralow-loss polaritons in isotopically pure boron nitride

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Joseph Matson wins Best Poster from a 1st Year Grad Student at VINSE NanoDay!

Oct. 25, 2017—Joseph earned top honors for a 1st year student with his poster on photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) studies of hyperbolic phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride! He won best presentation by a first year student at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) NanoDay presentation!

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