Student Spotlights
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Current Spotlight
PI: Thomas Epps, III & LaShanda Korley
Creating and designing large molecules (materials) from natural, plant-based sources while carefully controlling their structure and properties for specific uses.
PI: Chitraleema Chakraborty
My research focuses on utilizing defects in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides as optical transducers to characterize the magnetic states of 2D AFM materials by leveraging the magnetic proximity effect, with implications for ultrafast spintronics and memory devices.
Previous Spotlights
PI: Lars Gundlach & Benjamin Jungfleisch
I use ultrashort laser pulses to investigate various material systems for their use in terahertz appliances.
PI: Joseph Fox
I make new materials using nature-inspired components using ultrafast chemical reaction.
PI: Joshua Zide
Designing a semiconductor material to be fabricated into a photoconductive switch having ability to both emit and detect terahertz radiation.
PI: Joseph Fox
My research is in design and construction of molecules that can be used for light activated reactions to form responsive materials.
PI: Matt Doty & Joshua Zide
My research focus on searching for hybrid quantum material platforms with the ideal properties that can extensively support the application of THz devices.
PI: Benjamin Jungfleisch
Our goal is to make and investigate novel materials as good candidates for teraherhz sources in processing and transporting information.
PI: Eric Furst, Chistopher Kloxin, & Darrin Pochan
I use laser light to understand the behavior of proteins in solution.
PI: Benjamin Jungfleisch
I study the antiferromagnetic magnons using STFMR, BLS and TDTS techniques.
PI: Joshua Zide
My research is focused on the growth of novel materials to be implemented in terahertz (THz) technology which can apply to wireless communication or medical diagnosis.
PI: Kristi Kiick
Using bacteria to synthesize temperature-sensitive molecules.
PI: LaShanda Korley
Using concepts inspired by nature, such as peptide assembly, to make materials stronger and responsive.
PI: Stephanie Law
My research focuses on topological insulator-induced plasmon coupling with other quasi-particles.
PI: Anderson Janotti
My expertise is in density functional theory and tight-binding calculations for the properties of the heterovalent interfaces and nanoparticles.
PI: John Xiao
Fabricating various antiferromagnets (AFMs) such as MnPt or NiO and exploring their properties on Terahertz (THz) excitations.
PIs: April Kloxin, Wilfred Chen, & Christopher Kloxin
Focused on chemistry demonstrated in nature to design and apply proteins as building blocks for multifunctional materials.
Alumni Spotlights
PI: Christopher Kloxin
My work uses peptides as a particle that can be modified with different charge and chemical handles to be able to contribute new properties to materials.
PI: Branislav Nikolic
My research focuses on magnetization dynamics, associated current profiles, and Terahertz emission from magnetic materials.
PI: Jeffrey Saven
I use computers to predict amino acid sequences for a given protein structure and to run simulations of proteins in solution to evaluate their properties.
PI: Matt Doty
Investigating how waves produced from oscillating electrons interact and move on the surface of topological insulators.
PI: Kristi Kiick
Using bacteria to make extremely well-defined molecules. Their size can be controlled using temperature.
PI: Lars Gundlach
Built a Terahertz (THz) detector measuring how much a material generates/absorbs THz wavelengths.
PI: Christopher Kloxin
Enhancing biological materials by incorporating synthetic entities onto them, making new hybrid materials with specific functionalities.