2026
Congrats Dr. Zhang!
May. 27, 2026—Yanrong Zhang successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Dr. Zhang! “Multidimensional Control of Light in Subwavelength Photonic Crystal Structures”
Congrats Anurag, Chris and Ke-Sean! Vanderbilt Graduate School awarded Lacy-Fischer Interdisciplinary Grant
May. 25, 2026—Anurag, Chris and Ke-Sean were awarded Vanderbilt Graduate School Lacy-Fischer Interdisciplinary Grant for research proposal on “Radiation Effects on Room-Temperature Single-Photon Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for on-chip Quantum Photonics” Quantum technologies are rapidly transitioning from theoretical constructs to real-world systems, with quantum communication, cryptography, sensing and computing each seeing significant experimental progress over the...
Congrats Soren! Best Talk of the Day at Porus Semiconductor – Science and Technology Conference
May. 4, 2026—Biofunctionalized Zwitterionic Polymers for High Specificity Porous Silicon Biosensing Porous silicon (PSi)-based optical biosensors are a promising platform for rapid, quantitative diagnostics, offering label-free molecular detection with high intrinsic sensitivity and compatibility with paper-based lateral flow assays and smartphone readout. However, their operation in complex biological media remains limited due to biofouling and hydrolytic instability....
Congrats Ginny! Parkhutik Prize, Most Outstanding Poster at Porus Semiconductor – Science and Technology (PSST) conference
May. 4, 2026—Control of Fluid Flow in Paper-based Porous Silicon Biosensor for Enhanced Sensor Performance Porous silicon (PSi)-on-paper sensors are a promising platform for sensitive and quantitative rapid diagnostic tests. Here, we report a combined vertical and lateral flow geometry in which lateral-flow microchannels control the incubation time of target molecules in the PSi membrane active...