Research interests

• Nano-optics and nanophotonics
• Metasurfaces and metamaterials, including hyperbolic metamaterials
• Localized and delocalized nanoparticle resonances, directional scattering, Kerker effect
• Near-field microscopy, 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

Projects at user facilities

• “Fano resonances and Rabi splitting in layered nanostructure”
• Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories, 07/2020 to 06/2022
• “Multipole Mie resonances in nanoparticle arrays and metasurfaces”
• Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories, 01/2020 to 12/2021
• “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

College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona

• Prof. Jerome V. Moloney

Center for Nano-Optics, Georgia State University

• Prof. Mark Stockman
• Prof. Yohannes Abate

Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

• Prof. Vladimir Shalaev
• Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva (Ph.D. thesis co-advisor)
• Prof. Alexander Kildishev

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Dr. Ivan Kravchenko
• Dr. Nick Lavrik

ITMO University, Russia

• Prof. Pavel Belov (short-term visits)

DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark

• Prof. Andrei Lavrinenko (Ph.D. thesis advisor)
• Ph.D. thesis “Ultra-compact plasmonic waveguide modulators”