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Prospective Graduate Students
We are actively looking for motivated graduate students who are interested in tackling challenging problems at the frontier of science and engineering. Those interested should check out our About Us page and contact Prof. Valentine.
Our Mission
We are a team of researchers interested in understanding how nanoscale structuring can be used to engineer a material's optical properties. We are focused on using this understanding to develop novel materials for applications such as communications, imaging, optoelectronic devices, information processing, and energy conversion. The lab is under the direction of Prof. Jason Valentine in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University.
Highlights
Professor Valentine Appointed as Vanderbilt's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Liaison
- Read more about the appointment here
Report on the Future of Electronic and Photonic Materials
- Check out the NSF report on the current and future opportunities in the field.
Professor Valentine Selected as a Chancellor's Faculty Fellow
- Read more about the program here
Professor Valentine Wins Chancellor's Award for Research
- The award reflects the lab's role in the development of dielectric metamaterials. The award was given at the Fall Faculty Assembly
Congrats to Zhihua on Receiving the Best Poster Award for Nanoday 2016!
- Zhihua's poster on reconfigurable metamaterials was selected as the best poster during Nanoday 2016!
Nonlinear Enhancement in Si-based Metasurfaces
- Published in Nano Letters
Silicon-Based Circularly Polarized Light Detector
- Published in Nature Communications
- Check out the story at Phys.org
Yuanmu Receives the Best Graduate Student Paper Award!
- Yuanmu's paper in Nano Letters was selected as the best over the past year within the School of Engineering
- Read more here
Large-scale Perfect Reflectors
- Published in ACS Photonics
- Featured in Chemical and Engineering News
- Highlighted in Nature Materials
Near-unity Optical Absorption in 2D Materials
- Published in Applied Physics Letters
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Dielectric Metamaterials
- Published in Nature Communications
Hot Electron Photodetectors
- Published in Nano Letters
All-Dielectric Perfect Reflectors
- Published in Applied Physics Letters
- Highlighted in Nature Photonics
All-Dielectric Metasurfaces
- Published in Nano Letters
All-Dielectric Zero-index Metamaterials
- Published in Nature Photonics
Thermoplasmonic Antenna Design and Probing
- Published in Nano Letters
