Research interests
- Nano-optics and nanophotonics
- Metasurfaces and metamaterials, including hyperbolic metamaterials
- Localized and delocalized nanoparticle resonances, directional scattering, Kerker effect
- Near-field microscopy with s-SNOM
- Photoemission of hot electrons from plasmonic nanoantennas
- Passive and active components for photonic integrated circuits; plasmonic waveguides and modulators
- Extraordinary transmission, plasmonic-induced transparency
Recent projects at user facilities
- 9. Directional Light Scattering of Moderate-Refractive-Index Nanoantennas Enabled by Additive Manufacturing, 2025
8. Thin-Film Conformal Coatings for Controlled Secondary Electron Emission and Ferroelectric Capacitors, 2024
7. Subwavelength Light Manipulation Using Metasurfaces and Hybrid Nanostructures, 2024
6. Multipole Resonances in Van der Waals Nanoparticles, 2023
5. Multipole Mie and Fano Resonances in Nanostructures with Complex Unit Cells, 2022
4. Multipole Mie Resonances in Nanoparticle Arrays and Metasurfaces, 2022
3. Optical Resonances in Nanostructures with Periodicity and Multipole Excitations, 2022
2. Fano Resonances and Rabi Splitting in Layered Nanostructure, 2020
1. Multipole Mie Resonances in Nanoparticle Arrays and Metasurfaces, 2020 -
- “Room temperature infrared spaser (nanolaser)”
- Oak Ridge National Lab, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, 08/2016 to 07/2017
- “Low-threshold plasmonic nanolaser”
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, 08/2016 to 07/2017
- “Huygens’ metasurfaces with directional scattering and lattice resonances”
- Oak Ridge National Lab, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, 09/2016 to 01/2017
Collaboration
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Center for Nano-Optics, Georgia State University
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
- Prof. Vladimir Shalaev
- Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva (Ph.D. thesis co-advisor)
- Prof. Alexander Kildishev
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark
- Prof. Andrei Lavrinenko (Ph.D. thesis advisor)
- Ph.D. thesis “Ultra-compact plasmonic waveguide modulators”