{"id":971,"date":"2024-04-29T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/caldwellgroup\/?p=971"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:03:53","slug":"congrats-to-youngji-and-ethan-mrs-spring-meeting-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/caldwellgroup\/2024\/04\/congrats-to-youngji-and-ethan-mrs-spring-meeting-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Youngji and Ethan! MRS Spring Meeting Award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Postdoc Youngji Kim and former VINSE REU Ethan Ray. They\u00a0 received poster awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Youngji won the &#8216;Best Poster Award for Symposium EL08 in 2024 MRS Spring Meeting&#8217; for the poster titled &#8220;Configurationally Tunable Mie, Plasmonic and Diffractive Structural Colors in a Single Design&#8221;. This poster summarized the study of strategy to configurationally tune structural colors using different optical mechanisms during her PhD in Prof. Jerome K. Hyun&#8217;s group (Ewha Womans University, South Korea). Read more in the published papers if you are interested. <a id=\"OWA8afc4a4f-9f35-5ab5-bbfd-507fe97c9835\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/nanoph-2023-0254\/html Click to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.degruyter.com%2Fdocument%2Fdoi%2F10.1515%2Fnanoph-2023-0254%2Fhtml&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cnatalie.r.baggett%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7C71042fcb907643d33b1008dc693a4dd2%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638500946352706157%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=KDLgJ0Qec9SB2KZIvWjTnw%2ByRC34Q%2FORjVMVv68vVjk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/nanoph-2023-0254\/html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethan&#8217;s presentation was &#8220;Manipulating Confined Infrared Light via Polaritonic Design of Sub-Diffractional alpha-MoO3 Wedges&#8221; at the 2024 Spring Materials Research Society Meeting. He won a Best Poster Award for the &#8220;Plasmonics and Metasurfaces: Design, Materials, and Applications&#8221; Symposium and was nominated for a Best Poster Award for the Thursday Poster Session.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-972\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6442-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Youngji with session chairs - 2024 MRS Spring Meeting.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6442-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6442-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6442-650x488.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youngji with session chairs &#8211; 2024 MRS Spring Meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-973\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-973\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6443-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Ray - 2024 MRS Spring Meeting\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6443-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6443-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2532\/2024\/04\/IMG_6443-650x488.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Ray &#8211; 2024 MRS Spring Meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Postdoc Youngji Kim and former VINSE REU Ethan Ray. They\u00a0 received poster awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Youngji won the &#8216;Best Poster Award for Symposium EL08 in 2024 MRS Spring Meeting&#8217; for the poster titled &#8220;Configurationally Tunable Mie, Plasmonic and Diffractive Structural Colors in a Single Design&#8221;. 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