Dr. Chizuko Matsubara Dutta

chizuko@rice.edu
(713) 348-2506
Office: Brockman Hall 312

Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) Theory, Plasmon Hybridization Theory.

Condensed Matter Physics: Theory. 

Burak Gerislioglu

bg29@rice.edu
(713) 348-2506
Office: Brockman Hall 312

Plasmonics, Phase Change Materials, Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, Reconfigurable Antennas.

Jian Yang

Nonlinear Generation, Optical Forces, Aluminum Plasmonics, Thermoplasmonics.

runmin.zhang@rice.edu
(713) 348-3541 
Office: Brockman Hall 321 

Former Members 

• Vikram Kulkarni -  now a research staff member in cyber security at Institute for Defense Analyses.
       - PhD thesis (2015) - A First Principles Approach to Describing Novel Plasmonic Phenomena.

• Yang Cao - now a geophysicist at CGG. 
       - PhD thesis (2015) - Optical properties of core-shell nanoparticles, Nanoring-based structures, and periodic nanostructures, EELS.

• Lifei Liu - now a geophysicist at Shell. 
       - PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmonic properties of Aluminium Nanostructures.

• Yumin Wang - now research scientist at Xtal Inc. 
       - PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures for Photodection and Signal Modulation.

• Dr. Montacer Dridi
       - Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014)

• Dr. Nicolas Large - now an assistant professor at UTSA.
       - Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2014)
       - website: http://physics.utsa.edu/nlarge

• Dr. Ke Zhao - now Processing Geophysicist at Schlumberger
       - Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2013)

• Yurong Zhen - now Seismic Imager at CGG Veritas
       - PhD thesis (2013) - Plasmonic properties and applications of metallic nanostructures.
       - MS thesis (2011) - Optical Properties of Pd Nano-particles with Monomer and Dimer Cavities.

• Heidar Sobhani Khakestar - now Trainer at CGG Veritas
       - PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmonics Manipulation of Light for Sensing and Photovoltaic Applications.
       - MS thesis (2009) - Subradiant, superradiant and Fano resonances in dimer and ring/disk nanocavities.

• Yang Li - now at CGG Veritas
       - PhD thesis (2012) - Manipulation of energy propagation, redirection, and dissipation by tunable plasmonic nanostructures.
       - MS thesis (2011) - Angle- and spectral-dependent light scattering from plasmonic nanocups.

• Kui Bao - now Processing Geophysicist at Shell
       - PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmon hybridization in real metals.
       - MS thesis (2009) - Fano resonances in plasmonic nanoparticle aggregates.

• Jorge Zuloaga - now Risk Manager for an insurance company, Mexico
       - PhD thesis (2011) - Quantum plasmonics: A first-principles investigation of metallic nanostructures and their optical properties.
       - MS thesis (2009) - Quantum description of the plasmon resonances of a nanoparticle dimer.
  

• Tamer A. Ali - now Assistant Professor at Cairo University, Egypt
       - PhD thesis (2010) - Optical and plasmonic properties of metallic tip/surface junctions.
  

• Tae-Ho Park - now Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
       - PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures.
       - MS thesis (2005) - Numerical renormalization group studies of the Anderson-Holstein model.

• Fei Le - now Scientist at Baker Hughes Inc.
       - PhD thesis (2008) - Plasmonic properties of nanoparticle-film systems and periodic nanoparticle arrays.
       - MS thesis (2005) - Plasmons in the metallic nanoparticle-film system as a tunable impurity problem.

• Chris Oubre - now at Exxon Mobil Corporation
       - PhD thesis (2005) - Finite-Difference Time-Domain studies of the optical properties of metallodielectric nanostructures.
       - MS thesis (2002) - Interaction of xenon Rydberg atoms with a metal surface in an electric field.

• Emil Prodan - now Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Yeshiva University
       - PhD thesis (2003) - Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and optical properties of metallic nanoshells.
  

• John A. Wolfgang - now Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
       - PhD thesis (2000) - Electron dynamics and impurity scattering on gold nanoshell surfaces.
       - MS thesis (2000) - Inelastic ion scattering from semiconductor surfaces. 

• Hilary C. Akpati - now Therapeutic Radiologic Physicist
       - PhD thesis (1997) - A theoretical study of the effects of an external electric field on adsorbate-surface systems.
       - MA thesis (1996) - A theoretical study of cluster reactivity and the effects of electric field on atom-surface interaction.
  

• Jason P. Modisette - now at Pipeline Simulation Interest Group, ATMOS International Ltd
       - PhD thesis (1997) - Wavelets in electronic structure calculations.
       - MA thesis (1995) - A theoretical study of CN on alkalihalide and alkali metal surfaces using density functional theory.