Nanomaterials and Nanostructure Optics (NaNO)

Welcome to Dr. Luca Dal Negro's research group

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Our NaNO Group, as Physics is being discussed...

 

Group Leader

Prof. Luca Dal Negro

Luca Dal Negro received both the Laurea in physics, summa cum laude, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in semiconductor physics from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2003. After his Ph.D., in 2003 he joined MIT as a post doctoral associate. Since January 2006 he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University and a Faculty member of the Photonics Center.  He manages and conducts research projects on silicon-based photonic materials and devices, semiconductor laser spectroscopy, optical biosensing, nonlinear and ultrafast optical phenomena, light localization in complex media. His main focus is currently on light emitting nanostructures and the optics of complex photonic and plasmonic nanostructures. He has authored and coauthored 83 technical articles and received several Awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award.

Curriculum Vitae (most likely not up to date!)

 

Post-Docs

Dr. Svetlana Boriskina

I joined the group as a Research Associate in January 2008. Previously I worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK) and a Senior Research Scientists at V. Karazin Kharkov National University (Kharkov, Ukraine).

I received my MSc and PhD degrees from the School of Radiophysics of V. Karazin Kharkov National University with a PhD thesis entitled “Scattering of surface waves and beams by open waveguide discontinuities & reflectors”. My main research interests include: boundary integral equations methods in computational electromagnetics, nanophotonics and plasmonics; theory and design of dielectric and semiconductor microcavities; whispering gallery modes coupling in photonic molecules and coupled-resonator optical waveguides; optical fiber mode solvers; and most recently, light scattering and localization in periodic and aperiodic photonic crystals.

 

Grad-Students

Mr.Rui Li, PhD student

Optical spectroscopy of silicon nanocrystals, ultrafast emission spectroscopy, optical gain measurements, energy transfer studies in nanocrystals-based systems. Fabrication of Si-based nanomaterials.

 

Mr. Nate Lawrence, PhD student

Electron-beam nanofabrication of plasmonics devices and photonic crystals structures, Femtosecond optical spectroscopy, electromagnetic scattering simulations

 

Mr. Ashwin Gopinath, PhD student

Electron-beam nanoabrication of plasmonics structures, photonic structures, Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), optical characterization of plasmonic structures, electromagnetic simulations.

 

Mr. Selcuk Yerci, PhD student

BS: Middle East Technical University, 2004, Ankara, Turkey
MS: Middle East Technical University, 2007, Ankara, Turkey
Fabrication and optical characterization of Si and Ge nanocrystals formed into different matrices using FTIR, Raman, XPS, XRD and PL.

 

Mr. Gary Walsh, PhD student

Electromagntic simulation, fabrication and optical characterization of two-dimensional periodic and aperiodic diffraction gratings and plasmonic devices for sensing and Surface Enhaced Raman scattering.

 

Miss. Alyssa Pasquale, PhD student

Fabrication and optical characterization of two-dimensional periodic and aperiodic diffraction gratings and plasmonic devices for optical sensing.

 

Mr. Sylvanus Lee, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering

Microfluidic channels, microfabrication and nanofabrication of opto-fluidic devices, sensor characterization

 

Mr. Jacob Trevino, PhD student

B.S. Physics/B.A. Mathematics (Susquehanna University), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Case Western Reserve University)

Materials Science, Deposition techniques, nanofabrication and elctron beam lithography of plasmonic-photonic structures, optical characterization of plasmonic structures, Finite Element simulations.

 

Miss. Dianmin Lin (while waiting for a picture), PhD student

M.S. and B.S. Optoelectronics, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)

Testing and optical characterization of novel solar cell materials and photonic structures, optical spectroscopy of nanostructures.

 

Mr. Carlo Forestiere, visiting PhD student

University Federico II of Naples, Department of Electrical Engineering

Electromagnetic simulations of micromagnetic systems and plasmonic structures, optical characterization.

 

 

Former students & Group Affiliates

 

Dr. Ning-Ning Feng, Post Doctoral Associate

Computational electromagnetics and design of plasmonic and photonic structures.

 

Mr. Joseph Patrick Warga, MS student

Fabrication and characterization of Silicon Rich Nitride and Erbium Doped Silicon Rich Nitride.  Experiments include magnetron sputtering, ebeam evaporation, rapid thermal annealing, photolithography, electrical characterization (I-V, C-V, conductivity), photoluminescence spectroscopy, transmission spectroscopy, ellipsometry, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, transverse electron microscopy, and cathode luminescence.

Mr. Roman Shugayev, MS student

Optics of fractals, computational modeling of aperiodic nanoparticle arrays.

Mr. Stefano Prezioso

Electrical characterization of Si-based nanostructures