News

Our paper on Polarization-Resolved Electron Energy Gain Nanospectroscopy With Vortex Beams is accepted in Nano Letters

Congratulations to Marc, Austin, Matthieu, and Elliot for their theoretical development and interpretation of a new class of transverse phase structured inelastic electron scattering signals capable of retrieving the full 3D electromagnetic local density of states and local chirality of nanoscale material specimens in a scanning transmission electron microscope.

GRC Vice-Chair / Chair Elect

David is elected Vice-Chair / Chair (2024 / 2026) of the Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference.

New DOE BES Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy (ESPM) Award

DOE BES ESPM will fund the next generation of our work in the theoretical development of vortex-polarized free electron beam probes of polaritonic quantum materials.

New PRL on mapping exciton polaritons in structured optical cavities using focused electron beams

Congratulations to Marc, Elliot, Siamak, and Nicole for their development of a new STEM electron beam probe capable of spectrally and spatially mapping a new class of quantum materials at their native energy, length, and momentum scales.

Welcome Betty!

First year Chemistry graduate student, Betty Guo, joins the group and our DMREF team. Welcome Betty!

Alumni News

Congratulations to Dr. Claire West for receiving the Isaac Newton International Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Royal Society to fund her postdoctoral research at the…

NSF DMREF renewed!

Our NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer the Future (DMREF) grant was just renewed to fund another 4 years of thermal metamaterials research between the groups of David Masiello (UW), Stephan Link (Rice University), and Kallie Willets (Temple University). Congratulations to our entire team!

Congratulations to Marc, Andrew, and Matthieu for their first paper published in the group!

Their work, published in JPCC, demonstrates a new route to beaming electromagnetic radiation via the lattice Kerker effect.

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to Harrison, Kevin, and Jake for successfully defending their PhDs! Harrison is moving on to a data science position at the Institute for Disease Modeling; Kevin is beginning a post-doc with Steven Girvin at Yale / BNL; and Jake is beginning a post-doc with Johannes Feist the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Welcome New Students!

Warm welcome to new graduate students Matthieu Chalifour, Austin Nixon, Nicole Panek, and Andrew Rossi!

Nano Letters Cover (Again!)

Lightning has struck again. For the second time this year, we’ve made the cover of Nano Letters! This time Jake’s work on EELS-based nano-ellipsometry of individual ITO nanocrystals was selected. This work was collaborative with the Camden group at Notre Dame and Gamelin group at UW.

Claire West receives funding from LBNL and Sustainable Research Pathways to collaborate with LBNL staff in the Computational Research Division on our NSF DMREF funded thermal metamaterials. Congratulations Claire!!

Collaborative work with the Majumdar group on actively controlling mode mixing in a photonic molecule is published in Physical Review Applied

See https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.044041

Collaborative work with the Kuno and Hartland groups at Notre Dame on the mid-IR super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of individual gold nanowires is published in PNAS

See https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/17/1916433117

Austin’s paper on IR Fabry-Perot resonance damping in gold nanowires is published in Physical Review B!!

See https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409

Kevin Smith’s work on elucidating energy pathways in coupled plasmonic–photonic cavities makes the cover of Nano Letters!

See https://pubs.acs.org/toc/nalefd/20/1

Collaborative work with the University of Tennessee on continuous-wave stimulated electron energy-loss and -gain spectroscopy of individual plasmonic nanoparticles was accepted for publication at ACS Photonics

See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00830

Collaborative work with Notre Dame, University of Tennessee, and ORNL on the first observation of Fano antiresonances in a plasmonic system using electron energy-loss spectroscopy is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters!

Seee https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.177401

Harrison’s collaborative paper with the Biteen group at the University of Michigan on the plasmon-induced rotation of single molecule fluorescence polarization is accepted for publication in JPC Letters!

See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02270

Jake Busche receives an award from the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program to fund his research at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Congratulations Jake!!

Kevin’s paper on elucidating energy pathways in coupled plasmonic-photonic cavities in collaboration with the Goldsmith group at the University of Wisconsin is accepted for publication in Nano Letters

See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02796

Our NSF DMREF funded research on nanoscale thermometry is covered by Rice University News

See http://news.rice.edu/2019/08/09/one-linked-particles-hot-the-other-keeps-its-cool-2/

The Masiello group in collaboration with the Cossairt and Majumdar groups at UW and the Yau group at UC Berkeley has been awarded $2M to study quantum many-body simulation in coupled cavity arrays.

We are thankful to the NSF Quantum Leap QII-TAQS program for continued support of our research.

Collaborative NSF DMREF funded research with Stephan Link (Rice) and Kallie Willets (Temple) on active far-field control of the thermal near-field is accepted for publication in ACS Nano

See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04968

Nick Montoni receives a 2019 AIP Congressional Fellowship. Congratulations Nick!

David is promoted to full professor effective Fall 2019!

Collaborative work on ligand reorganization via plasmon heating with the Willets group at Temple University is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!

David’s paper on symmetry-broken many-body excited states of the double-well Bose-Einstein condensate was accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemstry A as part of the William P. Reinhardt Festschrift

David was invited to talk at the 2020 Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference

Steve’s paper in collaboration with the Crozier group at ASU on the fast electron spectroscopy of photonic cavity resonances in individual dielectric oxide nanoparticles is accepted for publication in Physical Review B and was selected as an Editors’ Suggestion article!

Archive - pre-2019 news

May 2018: Nick, Steve, and Charles’ paper on tunable spectral ordering of magnetic plasmon resonances in noble metal nanoclusters was accepted in ACS Photonics !…