Our research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. We have developed massively parallel, multi-scale patterning tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials with applications in imaging, sensing, wetting, and cancer therapeutics.
Quantum Dot-Plasmon Lasing with Controlled Polarization Patterns
The tailored spatial polarization of coherent light beams is important for applications ranging from microscopy to biophysics to quantum optics. Miniaturized light sources are needed for integrated, on-chip photonic devices with desired vector beams; however, this...
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- November 2020: Max (Jin Hui) Tan received the Hierarchical Materials Cluster Program (HMCP) Fellowship by The Graduate School at Northwestern University.
- November 2020: Jingtian’s article, “Single-Nanoparticle Orientation Sensing by Deep Learning,” has been published in ACS.
- November 2020: Jun Guan received the 2020 Outstanding Researcher Award sponsored by the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University.
- September 2020: Shikai’s article, “Ultranarrow plasmon resonances from annealed nanoparticle lattices,” has been published in PNAS.
- September 2020: Jun Guan has been awarded a Terminal Year Fellowship sponsored by the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
- August 2020: Shikai Deng has been awarded a Cottrell Fellowship sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
- June 2020: Teri shared her insights about the importance of teamwork in interdisciplinary research. The article is entitled, “Without team it’s just work.”