PHO Researchers Collaborate on Paper in Nature
“Terahertz-field-induced Insulator-to-metal Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Metamaterial”, published in Nature this month, includes Photonics Center faculty and students Xin Zhang, Rick Averitt, Mengkun Liu, Harold Hwang, Hu Tao, Andrew Strickwerda, and Kebin Fan among the co-authors. The paper was covered in ars technica this week as well.
PHO Faculty Member Ajay Joshi Wins NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Joshi received the NSF CAREER Award for his proposal titled “CAREER: System-level Run-time Management Techniques for Energy-efficient Silicon-Photonic Manycore Systems.”
Paper by Photonics Center Members on Microwave and Terahertz Wave Sensing with Metamaterials Highlighted in Science Magazine
A recent journal paper by H. Tao, E.A. Kadlec, A.C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W.J. Padilla, R.D. Averitt, E.A. Shaner, and X. Zhang, entitled “Microwave and Terahertz Wave Sensing with Metamaterials” and published in Optics Express, has been highlighted by the editors of Science magazine.
Jason Ritt selected as Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow at BU
Photonics Center member Jason Ritt has been selected as one of the inaugural group of Junior Faculty Fellows at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University. Read the full announcement on the Hariri Institute’s website.