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Li Liu

Journal articles

Conference proceedings

L. Liu and V.E. Babicheva, “Quantum Emitter Purcell Enhancement with Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanoantennas,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, submitted, 2026

A. Atitsogbui, L. Liu, R. Landau, and V.E. Babicheva, “Purcell Enhancement in Lithium Niobate Metasurfaces with Bound States and Integrated Quantum Emitters,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, submitted, 2026

L. Liu, E.M. Arup, C.-C. Chang, and V.E. Babicheva, “Atomic Layer Deposition and Electron Beam Lithography for Nanostructured Films in Meta-Optics and Surface Engineering,” 2025 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference RAPID, doi: 10.1109/RAPID64712.2025.11151365, 2025

V. Karimi, L. Liu, D. Bosomtwi, and V.E. Babicheva, “Lattice-Induced Resonances and Design Control in Multipolar Metasurfaces,” 2025 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference RAPID, doi: 10.1109/RAPID64712.2025.11151510, 2025

Simulation tool (See page for more info)

Electron-Beam Lithography Exposure Effect on Nanoantennas and Metasurfaces
https://nanohub.org/tools/nanoant
Authors: Li Liu and V. Babicheva

Conference presentations

∇    Oral on-site, The 35th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM), Albuquerque, NM, 11/2025, “Multipolar Resonances in Nanoantenna Arrays and Metasurfaces”
∇    Poster on-site, 2025 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 09/2025, “Multipolar Resonances and Purcell-Enhanced Emission in Nanoantenna Arrays”
∇    Poster on-site, The 34th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM), Albuquerque, NM, 10/2024, “Enhanced Optical Resonances in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Metasurface”
∇    Poster on-site, 2024 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 09/2024, “Enhancing Light-Matter Interactions with Van der Waals Materials in Mie Resonant Metasurfaces”

Haben Mekonnen

E.M. Arup, L. Liu, H. Mekonnen, D. Bosomtwi, and V.E. Babicheva, “Metasurfaces with multipolar resonances and enhanced light-matter interaction,” Nanomaterials 15, 477, 2025 [IF: 4.4]

Atsu Atitsogbui

Journal articles

A. Atitsogbui and V.E. Babicheva, “Dual-Wavelength Enhancement and Quantum Emission Control via Bound States in Lithium Niobate Metasurfaces,” submitted, 2026

Conference proceedings

A. Atitsogbui, L. Liu, R. Landau, and V.E. Babicheva, “Purcell Enhancement in Lithium Niobate Metasurfaces with Bound States and Integrated Quantum Emitters,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, submitted, 2026

Conference presentations

∇   Oral on-site, The 35th Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM), Albuquerque, NM, 11/2025, “Nonlinear Metasurfaces with Lattice-Enhanced Fundamental and Second-Harmonic Resonances”

∇   Oral on-site, LoboBITES at UNM, Albuquerque, NM, 10/2025, “Lattice Second-Harmonic Resonances”

Evan Modak Arup

Journal article

E.M. Arup, L. Liu, H. Mekonnen, D. Bosomtwi, and V.E. Babicheva, “Metasurfaces with multipolar resonances and enhanced light-matter interaction,” Nanomaterials 15, 477, 2025 [IF: 4.4]

Conference proceedings

L. Liu, E.M. Arup, C.-C. Chang, and V.E. Babicheva, “Atomic Layer Deposition and Electron Beam Lithography for Nanostructured Films in Meta-Optics and Surface Engineering,” 2025 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference RAPID, doi: 10.1109/RAPID64712.2025.11151365, 2025

Md Sakibul Islam (former)

Journal articles

Conference presentations

∇    Oral online, 2023 MRS Fall Meeting, 12/2023, “Engineering Multipole Resonances in Metasurface of Lossy and Low-Loss Dielectric Materials”
∇    Poster on-site, 2023 UNM Shared Knowledge Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 11/2023, “Excitation of Lattice Resonances in Periodic Antenna Arrays”
∇    Poster online, 2023 Photonics Online Meetup, 11/2023, “Multipole Resonance Engineering in Periodic Antenna Arrays”
∇    Oral on-site, The 33rd Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM), Albuquerque, NM, 10/2023, “Multipole Resonance Control in High-Refractive-Index Antennas”
∇    Poster on-site, 2023 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 09/2023, “Resonating Light: Nanofabrication and Functionality of Optical Nanostructures”
∇    Oral online, 2023 MRS Spring Meeting, 04/2023, “Multipole Coupling in Nanoparticle Lattices with Quasi-Bound States”
∇    Oral online, 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, 12/2022, “Mie Metasurfaces with Multipole Resonances in the Lattice”
∇    Oral on-site, The 32rd Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM), Albuquerque, NM, 10/2022, “Lattice Multipole Resonances in Periodic Nanostructures and Metasurfaces”

Dominic Bosomtwi (former)

Topics: Nanophotonics, optical nanoantennas, plasmonics, photonic materials, semiconductors, full-wave numerical modeling

CINT User Project “Fano resonances and Rabi splitting in layered nanostructure”

Journal Article

∇    D. Bosomtwi and V. E. Babicheva, “Beyond conventional sensing: Hybrid plasmonic metasurfaces and bound states in the continuum,” Nanomaterials 13, 1261, 2023 [IF: 5.719]

∇    V. Karimi, D. Bosomtwi, L. Liu, and V. E. Babicheva, “Enhancing MXene multipolar resonances through metasurface lattice engineering,” Nano Select e70002, 2025 [IF: 3.5]

∇    D. Bosomtwi, M. Osiński, and V. E. Babicheva, “Lattice effect for enhanced hot-electron generation in nanoelectrodes,” Optical Materials Express 11, 3232, 2021 [IF: 3.44]

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

∇    D. Bosomtwi, M. Osiński, and V. E. Babicheva, “Hybrid photonic lattice with mode coupling and Rabi splitting,” 2021 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics In Defense Conference RAPID (2021), doi: 10.1109/RAPID51799.2021.9521388

∇    D. Bosomtwi, M. Osiński, and V. E. Babicheva, “Towards CMOS-compatible negative-index metastructures,” 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Nanotechnology 425-428 (2021), doi: 10.1109/NANO51122.2021.9514282

∇    “Mode Coupling and Rabi Splitting in Transdimensional Photonic Lattices”
accepted as a Late Breaking News paper on the 2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 07/2020
+ 4-page conference proceedings
D. Bosomtwi, M. Osiński, and V. E. Babicheva, 2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), Online, 2020, pp. 107-110, doi: 10.1109/NANO47656.2020.9183643

∇    “Fano Resonances and Rabi Splitting in Plasmonic-Dielectric Metasurfaces”
Oral online presentation at the 2020 ASEE GSW Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 04/2020
+ 2-page conference proceedings
D. Bosomtwi, M. Osiński, and V. Babicheva, 2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference, Online, 2020, ASEE Conferences, https://peer.asee.org/35959

Conference Participation

∇    “Coupling and Rabi splitting of plasmonic modes in nanopillar array”
Oral online presentation at 2021 MRS Spring Meeting, 04/2021

∇    “Mode coupling, Fano resonances, and Rabi splitting in hybrid nanostructure”
Oral online presentation at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the APS Four Corners Section (Virtual), 10/2020
Abstract

∇    “Fano Resonances in Plasmonic-Dielectric Metasurfaces”
Oral onsite presentation at 2020 STEM Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, 02/2020

Vahid Karimi (former)

Topics: Nanophotonics, optical nanoantennas, light-emitting devices, photonic materials, full-wave numerical modeling

Journal Articles

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “MXene-antenna electrode with collective multipole resonances, Nanoscale 16, 4656–4667, 2024 [IF: 6.7]

∇    V. Karimi, D. Bosomtwi, L. Liu, and V. E. Babicheva, “Enhancing MXene multipolar resonances through metasurface lattice engineering,” Nano Select e70002, 2025 [IF: 3.5]

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Optical chirality in MXene nanoantenna arrays,” MRS Advances 9, 557–564, 2024 [IF: 0.8]

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Multipole Mie resonances in MXene-antenna arrays,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, 17791–17801, 2023 [IF: 4.177]

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Dipole-lattice nanoparticle resonances in finite arrays,” Optics Express 31, 16857–16871, 2023 [IF: 3.833]

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Semiconductor nanopillars for programmable directional lasing emissions, MRS Advances 6, 234-240, 2021 [IF:0.8]


Computational Tools (See page for more info)

∇    Mie Calculations of Single Nanosphere Cross-Sections
https://nanohub.org/tools/extcs/
Authors: V. Karimi and V. Babicheva

∇    Multipolar Lattice Resonances in Nanoantenna Arrays
https://nanohub.org/tools/infarray
Authors: V. Karimi and V. Babicheva

∇    Dipolar Collective Resonances in Finite-Size Nanoantenna Arrays
https://nanohub.org/tools/finitarray
Authors: V. Karimi and V. Babicheva


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Nanopillar resonant properties and coupling to thin high-index layer for control of coherent light states,” Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2020, 114601F (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2569086

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Multipole Resonances for Directional Lasing and Wavefront Shaping,” CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science FW3O.5 (2021)

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Programmable Metastructures for Directional Light Emission,” 2021 IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics In Defense Conference RAPID (2021)

∇    V. Karimi and V. E. Babicheva, “Collective Resonances of Lossy Material Nanoantennas,” 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Nanotechnology 429-432 (2021)

Conference Participation

∇    “Rapid Phase Changes in Resonant Response of High Refractive Index Nanopillars”
Poster online presentation at 2021 Photonics Online Meetup, 01/2021

∇    “Late News: Mie Resonances in High-Index Nanoparticle Arrays for Control of Coherent Light States”
accepted as Late Breaking News
Oral online presentation at 2020 MRS Spring/Fall Meeting, 11/2020

∇    “High refractive index metasurfaces for programmable laser emission”
Oral online presentation at 2020 Annual Meeting of the APS Four Corners Section (Virtual), 10/2020
Abstract

Kazi Arafat Ahmed (former)

Topics: Nanophotonics, optical nanoantennas, photonic materials, full-wave numerical modeling

∇    User on CINT User Project “Multipole Mie resonances in nanoparticle arrays and metasurfaces”

Hasan Ahmed (former)

Topics: Optoelectronics, semiconductors, nanophotonics, optical nanoantennas, photonic materials, 2D and layered materials, full-wave numerical modeling

∇    “Nanostructured Tungsten Disulfide WS2 as Mie Scatterers and Nanoantennas”
journal article in MRS Advances 5, 1819-1826 (2020), H. Ahmed and V. E. Babicheva
https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.173

∇    “Resonant and scattering properties of tungsten disulfide WS2 nanoantennas”
Proc. SPIE 11289, H. Ahmed and V. E. Babicheva
Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures X, 112891R (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544788

∇    “Subwavelength Scatterers and Nanoantennas Made of Layered High-Index Materials” oral talk at the 2020 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2020
Symposium: EL03: Novel Approaches and Material Platforms for Enhanced Light–Matter Interaction, Plasmonics and Metasurfaces

∇    “Metasurfaces based on periodically arranged MXene nanoantennas” poster presentation at 2020 ASEE GSW Conference, Albuquerque NM, 2020
2-page conference proceedings were accepted

∇    User on CINT User Project “Multipole Mie resonances in nanoparticle arrays and metasurfaces”

∇    “Transparent Conduction Oxide-Based Electro-Optic Modulator: Accumulation Layer Surface Plasmons” oral talk at 2020 STEM Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, 2020

Fatih F. Ince (former)

Topics: van der Waals materials, hyperbolic metamaterials, phonon-polariton resonances, III-V compounds, full-wave numerical modeling, near-field characterization (s-SNOM)

∇    “van der Waals metasurfaces based on hyperbolic-medium antennas”
Proc. SPIE 11081, V. E. Babicheva and F. F. Ince
Active Photonic Platforms XI, 1108113 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529700

∇    “Highly-doped semiconductors and layered materials for light scattering control”
poster presentation at ECE Department Heads Association Southwest Regional Meeting, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 11/2019

∇    “Strong light confinement in hyperbolic metamaterial nanoantennas with III-V compound semiconductors” presentation at 2020 ASEE GSW Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 04/2020

∇    User on CINT User Project “Multipole Mie resonances in nanoparticle arrays and metasurfaces”

∇    “High refractive index nanostructures for light scattering control” poster presentation at the 2019 Annual JTO MRI Review, Albuquerque, NM, 10/2029