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Lukas
Novotny - novotny@optics.rochester.edu
Professor
Lukas' general research interest is focused on optical
phenomena associated with nanoscale materials. He is
interested in near-field light-matter interactions and
its applications. (CV+Publications)
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Barbara Schirmer - schirmer@optics.rochester.edu
Administrator
Barbara coordinates our multiple research projects and keeps our efforts
organized. She is in charge of budgets, accounting and purchasing, organizes workshops and collaborative meetings, and
maintains our web pages.
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Hayk Harutyunyan - hayk@optics.rochester.edu
Post Doc
Hayk received his PhD from the University of Pisa, Italy, on excited state dynmics of SWNTs. He will study nonlinear interactions in the optical near-field with special focus on surface plasmon polaritons associated with metal nanostructures.
Hayk is
a native of Armenia and will challenge Lukas in the number of foreign languages they are both fluent in!
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Sergio Gutierrez Rodrigo - sergut@optics.rochester.edu
Post Doc
Sergio received his PhD degree from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, on the optical properties of metallic nano-structures studied with the FDTD method. His current major research interest is in plasmonics and nonlinear optics at the nano-scale. He enjoys running, even though the conditions in Rochester are challenging him (snow, clear off!).
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Palash Bharadwaj - palash@pas.rochester.edu
Post Doc
Palash just received his doctorate from the University of Rochester and continues his work on photon emission in nanosscale environments.
He developed an experiment for monitoring the photon
emission rate and the excited-state lifetime of a single
molecule placed near a sharp metal needle. He obtained
his Bachelors and Masters Degree from the EE
Department at the Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay where he worked
on Field Effects in Organic Semiconductors.
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Brad Deutsch - bdeutsch@optics.rochester.edu
Post Doc
Brad did his graduate research under the supervision of Lukas working on near-field microscopy using silicon tips
as well as direct measurement of the electromagnetic
forces associated with near-field enhancement. He received his PhD degree in the Fall of 2011 and is currently working on particle trapping in vacuum. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from
Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
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Ryan
Beams - rbeams@optics.rochester.edu
Graduate Student
Ryan received a B.S. in Physics from Wheaton College near
Chicago, IL in 2005. Currently, he is working on exploring
the near-field properties of semiconductor quantum structures
at low temperatures, around 1.2 K, through near-field
microscopy.
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Steve Person - person@optics.rochester.edu
Graduate Student
Steve received his B.S. in Physics from the University of
Rochester and found his way back to the college to pursue
his PhD after several years of being a vagabond, traveling
the world and working at Lincoln Labs and ITT. Steve will
focus on two-color nanoparticle detection.
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Zack Lapin - lapin@optics.rochester.edu
Graduate Student
Zack received his B.S. from the Bates College and is working
on optical imaging of membrane proteins.
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Shawn Divitt - divitt@optics.rochester.edu
Graduate Student
Shawn received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. His work focuses on optical rectification using nano-antennas.
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Gul Seda Unal - unal.gseda@gmail.com
Visiting Fulbright Student
Seda is a visiting graduate student from Koc University in Turkey. She received a Fulbright Scholarship for a year-long research stay in our group and is studying patch antennas for the visible spectrum while her.
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Dorilian Lopez Mago - dlopezma@optics.rochester.edu
Visiting Graduate Student
Dorilian is a graduate student from Tecnologico de Monterrey, in Mexico, where he works in the Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group. Currently, he is doing his research stay with our group. He is studying the generation and characterization of entangled photon pairs from parametric down-conversion in metal nanostructures.
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Anirban
Mitra - anirban@pas.rochester.edu
Graduate Student
Anirban received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, working on real-time and background-free
detection of nanoparticles incorporating the heterodyne
detection technique. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the
Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur (India) in 2005.
After completion of his doctorate he took a road trip with his wife across the country and started a new job at Intel in Portland, Oregon.
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John F. Lesoine
Graduate Student
John was a graduate student with the Nanooptics grouop and received his doctorate in June 2010, after having received a B.S. in Physics from Moravian College
in May 2003. He was applying fluorescence resonance energy
transfer (FRET) to study protein dynamics with the main interest
is in optical methods applied to biophysics and biochemistry. He accepted a fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in Gaithersburg, MD.
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Christiane
Hoeppener
Post-Doc
Christiane obtained her Ph.D. degree from University
of Muenster, Germany in 2004, where she focused on the
application of near-field optical microscopy in the
field of biology under physiological conditions. She
was continuing this work by investigations of transmembrane
proteins in their natural environment. Since January 2010, Christiane is heading the NanoBiophotonik group at the University of Muenster, Germany.
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Stefano Palomba
Post-Doc
Stefano received his PhD from the University of Birmingham,
UK, on nano-photonics and biophysics with size-selected
clusters. He did focus his research on non-linear
plasmonics and will continue to do so during his fellowship at UC Berkeley.
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Gustavo Cancado
Post-Doc
Gustavo received his PhD from the Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Raman spectroscopy
of nanographites. His main focus during his work with the
nano-optics group was on near-field optical spectroscopy
of nano-graphitic systems such as graphene flakes and carbon
nanotubes. He is now an assistant professor at his alma
mater in Brazil.
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Matthias Danckwerts
Post-Doc
After receiving his PhD from the
Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
in Berlin, Germany, Matthias spend two years with the
nano-optics group to extend his work to near-field optical
spectroscopy and imaging of semiconductor quantum dots.
Recently, he accepted a position with Carl
Zeiss Micro Imaging in Germany.
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Pascal
Anger
Post-Doc
Pascal was building a low-temperature near-field instrument
for the study of quantum effects in semiconductor nano-structures.
The instrument works in liquid helium at temperatures
down to 1.2K. Pascal was also interested in new approaches
to nanoscale fabrication and lithography. He obtained
his PhD degree from the University of Siegen, Germany
and worked for the Omicron company developing STM working
in UHV and low temperatures. He left the group in February
2006 to pursue a career at SMT
Zeiss in Germany.
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Alexandre Bouhelier
Post-Doc
Alex worked on near-field nonlinear effects. He investigated
second-harmonic generation and continuum generation
in metal nanostructures. He joined the Argonne
National Laboratory where he was working on nanoplasmonic
structures. In the fall of 2005, he accepted a position
at the "Laboratoire de Physique de l'Université
de Bourgogne" in France, but keeps close ties to
the nano-group by attending yearly workshops and collaborating
in the labs.
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Achim Hartschuh
Post-Doc
Achim worked on near-field Raman studies of carbon nanotubes
while here at Rochester. He has returned to Germany
to begin his academic appointment at the University
of Siegen. In the meantime, Achim has moved on to the
University
of Tuebingen, where he continued to work with Prof.
Meixner. In the spring of 2006, he was appointed Professor
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany.
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Andreas Lieb
Post-Doc
Andreas worked on conformational dynamics of single
AE1 transmembrane proteins using single-pair fluoresecence
resonance energy transfer (sp FRET) measurements. He
moved back to Switzerland in 2004 where he joined the
Nano-Optics group at the
University of Basel.
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Guillaume Lessard
Post-Doc
Guillaume received his Ph.D. from Caltech's
Electrical
Engineering department (May 2003). His thesis
involved the development of an apertureless near-field
microscope for the observation of fluorescence. By correlating
detected photons with the vertical position of an oscillating
AFM probe, the instrument achieved lateral resolutions
of approximately 10nm when using CdSe quantum dots as
a target. Guillaume moved on to work for the Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
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Neil Anderson
Neil is the fourth student who received his PhD under the
guidance of Prof. Novotny. Neil accepted a position with
Bausch&Lomb, where he started to work as staff research
scientist in September 2007.
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Filipp Ignatovich
Filipp received his doctorate from the Institute
of Optics with his PhD thesis titled "Optical detection
methods for nanoparticles and viruses" . He started
to work for the local company Lumetrics in October 2006,
but is still keeping close ties to the nano-optics group.
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Michael Beversluis
Mike worked on nonlinear near-field optical spectroscopy
and the completion of his thesis. He started to work
for NIST in January 2005.
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Jorge Zurita-Sanchez
Jorge was the first to receive his doctorate under the
guidance of Prof. Novotny.
He studied dissipative forces arising from thermal fields,
and quantum dot interaction with nearfields and inhomegeneous
beams. Currently, he is in Germany for a postdoctoral
adventure at the University of Potsdam, Berlin.
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Jean-Philippe Mulet
Jean-Philippe did his doctoral research at Laboratoire EM2C, École
Centrale Paris and then joined us as a postdoc to
work on near-field coherence properties of thermal radiation.
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Al Heaney
Al did his PhD at the Institute of Optics and then came
back to work as a postdoc on semiconductor materials
using near-field optics. He joined the 3M company in
2004.
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Qing Zhou
Qing was a visiting Professor from Yunnan University.
She worked on rotational dynamics of single-molecules.
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Jean-Jacques Greffet
Professor Greffet spent his sabbatical here while on
leave from Ecole Centrale Paris. He is interested in
coherence and spectral properties of optical near-fields.
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Peter Gaertner
During his visit to the Intitute of Optics, Peter worked
on an experiment to image the three dimensional orientation
of molecular dipole moments. He is with the University
of Stuttgart.
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Jan Renger
During his visit to the Institute of Optics, Jan calculated
field distributions on near-field tips using MMP (Multiple
Multipole Program). Now he is working on his PhD on
nanostructures at Technical University of Dresden at
the Institute of Applied
Photo Physics.
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Nicole Putnam
Nicole built an autocorrelator that employs a LED working
as a two-photon detector. She is now working on her
PhD at the University of Arizona.
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Mi-Young (Molly) Park
Molly worked on solid-state electrolysis for the formation
of nano-apertures. She embarked on a Euro-Tour in 2004.
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