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.
David is elected Vice-Chair / Chair (2024 / 2026) of the Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference.
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.
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.
First year Chemistry graduate student, Betty Guo, joins the group and our DMREF team. Welcome Betty!
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!
Their work, published in JPCC, demonstrates a new route to beaming electromagnetic radiation via the lattice Kerker effect.
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.
Warm welcome to new graduate students Matthieu Chalifour, Austin Nixon, Nicole Panek, and Andrew Rossi!
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.
See https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.044041
See https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/17/1916433117
See https://pubs.acs.org/toc/nalefd/20/1
See https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409
See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00830
We are thankful to the NSF Quantum Leap QII-TAQS program for continued support of our research.
See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02270
See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02796
See http://news.rice.edu/2019/08/09/one-linked-particles-hot-the-other-keeps-its-cool-2/
See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04968