Cover photo: Diversity of hybrid organic/inorganic crystalline microstructures, grown from solution on a substrate. The brilliant red color arises from quantum-confinement effects acting on charges in the inorganic layers.
About Us
Our research concerns novel physical phenomena, both quantum-mechanical and classical in nature, that occur when light interacts with objects of subwavelength dimensions. These objects may be self-assembling molecular crystals, or strategically engineered semiconductor metasurfaces. As engineers, we design and fabricate nanostructured metasurfaces to steer and emit light with tailored waveforms. As scientists, we explore these principles in reverse: we study naturally occurring emission and absorption properties to understand the structure and quantum-mechanical properties of various materials.
