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Our STREED team made it to the 3rd round of the DOE-sponsored Solar Desalination Prize. Moving forward!

See Rice press release:

Rice team vying for $1 million Solar Desalination Prize

I am very happy to be one of the lecturers at the PEP21 Summer School! The event will be confirmed at a later date due to the pandemic. But you can already apply! (no pre-payment required)

I am enthusiastic to be part of the EOSAM 2021 Program Committee for the Thermal radiation and energy management Topical Meeting which (hopefully!) will be held in Rome 13-17 September 2021.

In collaboration with the experimental group at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials in Czech Republic, we demonstrate the use of scalable, thermal resistant and highly absorptive TiN nanocavities for quasi-2D heat confinement induced steam generation:

Solar steam generation on scalable ultrathin thermoplasmonic TiN nanocavity arrays

In collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Milan, we exploit hot carrier thermalization to generate an ~ps control of diffraction modes:

All-Optically Reconfigurable Plasmonic Metagrating for Ultrafast Diffraction Management

In this extensive review article we layout potential future directions across plasmonic and phononics:

Controlling Light, Heat, and Vibrations in Plasmonics and Phononics

Tegether with an excellent team of collaborators we put together a perspective on Plasmonic Catalysis, highlighting challenges and promises:

Challenges in Plasmonic Catalysis

In collaboration with ETH in Zurich, we recently published an overview of the future of opto-electronic memristors for Neuromorphic Computing:

Opto-electronic memristors: Prospects and challenges in neuromorphic computing

Our last work on exploiting non-thermalized ‘hot’ electrons for fast polarization switching has been published in Nature Photonics.

Congratulations to Andrea Schirato and all the collaborators across Rice, Politecnico di Milano and Italian Institute of Technology!

Free access to the text is available here: https://rdcu.be/b8IWD

Following up on our previous work on the thermoplasmonics of nanocones, we now show how it is possible to control temperature gradients by tuning light incident angle.

See our latest work published in Optics Letters in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology.

Tuning temperature gradients in subwavelength plasmonic nanocones with tilted illumination

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.404950