Hatice Altug

Professor Hatice Altug

Associate Professor
PhD, Stanford University, 2006

Electro-Physics
Laboratory of Integrated Nanophotonics & Biosensing Systems


(617) 358-4769
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office: PHO 828
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Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • 2012 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America
  • 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  • 2011 Photonics Society Young Investigator Award
  • 2010 Boston University Early Career Research Excellence Award
  • 2010 ONR Young Investigator Award
  • 2010 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2008 Massachusetts Life Sciences Center New Investigator Award
  • 2008 Boston University Peter Paul Career Development Professorship
  • 2008 Boston University College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
  • 2006 Best Research Paper, IEEE LEOS Conference

Classes Taught

  • EC 560 Introduction to Photonics
  • EC 481 Fundamentals of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials
  • EK131 Photonics: Engineering the Light

Research Interests

  • Nanoscale photonic materials and devices
  • Nano-Plasmonics: Optics of Metallic Nanostructures
  • Nano-Photonics: Photonic Crystals
  • Bio-Photonics: Optical Biosensors and Spectroscopy
  • Opto-Fluidics and Lab-on-a-chip Integration

Additional Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • A. A. Yanik, M. Huang, O. Kamohara, A. Artar, T. W. Geisbert, J. H. Connor and H. Altug, “An Optofluidic Nanoplasmonic Biosensor for Direct Detection of Live Viruses from Biological Media,” Nano Letters, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nl103025u, 2010.
  • S. Aksu, A. A. Yanik, R. Adato, A. Artar, M. Huang, and H. Altug, “High-throughput Nanofabrication of Plasmonic Infrared NanoAntenna Arrays for Vibrational Nanospectroscopy,” Nano Letters, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 2511-2518, 2010.
  • A. A. Yanik, M. Huang, A. Artar, T. Chang, and H. Altug, “Integrated Nanoplasmonics-Nanofluidics Biosensor with Targeted Delivery of Analyte,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 96, no. 021101, 2010.
  • R. Adato, A. A. Yanik, J. J. Amsden, D. L. Kaplan, F. G. Omenetto, M. K. Hong, S. Erramilli, and H. Altug, “Ultra-sensitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Protein Monolayers with Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A., vol. 106, no. 19227, 2009.
  • A. Artar, A. Ali Yanik, and H. Altug, “Fabry-Perot Nanocavities in 3D Plasmonic Crystals for Enhanced Biosensing,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 95, no. 051105, 2009.
  • A. Ali Yanik, R. Adato, S. Erramilli, and H. Altug, “Hybridized Nanocavities as Single-Polarized Plasmonic Antenna,” Optics Express, vol. 17, pp. 20900-20910, 2009.
  • H. Altug, D. Englund, and J. Vuckovic, “Ultrafast Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers,” Nature Physics, vol. 2, pp. 484–488, 2006.