A-Lab@Rice

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

 

 

See our latest work published on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on the use of metallic porous materials to optical detect DNA molecules. In collaboration with the Italian Institute Technology.

λ-DNA through Porous Materials—Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in a Simple Plasmonic Nanopore

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06165

 

Did you know heat could oscillate?

In this recently published article in Physical Review Applied, I show how heat sources and fluids can be combined in a flow-driven resonant thermal system.

Such systems behave as oscillators and can be used to store thermal energy, control temperature patterns in microfluidic devices and even enhance water desalination!

LINK: Flow-Driven Energy Resonant Systems, Physical Review Applied, 14, 034045, 2020

Join us for the Optics & Photonics FREE WEBINAR offered by Rice University ECE Department.

Our next ECE Distinguished Speaker will be Prof. Renkun Chen from UCSD.

TITLE: Thermal Transport and Calorimetry at Micro- and Nano- scale: from Nanowires to Single Cells
WHEN: July 2nd, 3PM CDT.

LINK: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94398349592

Our work in collaboration with Proietti Zaccaria group on inducing thermal gradients in metallic nanocones has been published in Advanced Optical Materials. Congrats Joao Cunha!

 

LINK: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202000568

This last work in collaboration with Link and Nordlander group has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats to Lauren McCarthy for the great work!

LINK: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004169117

 

When: Friday June 12th, 11AM CDT

More info at:

https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20200612/event_id/95174