Theoretical and Computational Nanophotonics for Light Harvesting and Energy Applications
Great job, Giuseppe, for starting this collaboration with Prof. Angelo Sampaolo and the University of Bari.
Looking forward to continuing to work on this!
Thesis title: Multiphysics modeling of ultrafast optical processes for manipulating photoelectronic and photothermal mechanisms in plasmonic systems
Congratulations to Andrea and Keith! A great work on modeling how energy is transferred from the electromagnetic field to molecules. Published on ACS Nano:
Congratulations to Dr. Narmada Naidu (now at EPFL) for the excellent work!
Light can be absorbed in nanoparticles to locally generate heat and thermally ablate tumors. We have developed a comprehensive modeling approach for optimizing this Nanoparticle Assisted PhotoThermal Therapy to maximize damage to the tumoral regions while minimizing treatment time and preserving healthy tissues.
Optimization strategies include choosing precise nanoparticle concentrations and adopting specific spatiotemporal modulation of the input illumination.
You can find more information and details in our paper published in ACS Photonics:
Routes to Optimizing Photothermal Cancer Therapy through a Comprehensive Theoretical Model
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00491
It was great to teach with colleagues Prof. Raudel Avila (MECH), Prof. Eleonora Bartoli (Baylor College of Medicine and adj. Rice ECE) and my student Will Schmid the Summer School:
hosted by the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia!
We have simulated electrical conductivity maps to reproduce intracranial electrophysiology data to investigate neural pathways in the human brain.
The research has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
A biophysically constrained brain connectivity model based on stimulation-evoked potentials.
See the full article here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01251
The work in collaboration with Paris Saclay University and La Sapienza in Rome, has been published in ACS Nano.
We have demonstrated a thermal transducer capable to detect strong light-matter interaction by monitoring heat dissipation in a quantum well sandwiched between an antenna and a thermally expanding material.
The result is interesting because the technique does not rely on far-field analysis (often difficult to achieve) and also opens the way to exploit dissipative dynamics in cavity-embedded quantum systems.
See more: https://pubs.acs.org/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1021/acsnano.2c04452&ref=pdf
