Department of Physics and Astronomy
Email: joy2@rice.edu
Office: Brockman Hall, Rm 327
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2555-2608
Research Interests: Low energy plasmonics enabled by novel materials, by high aspect ratio hybridization, and by strong retardation of large nanoparticles.
Education:
MS, 2024, Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
BS, 2021, Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
BA, 2021, Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Forthcoming Publications:
Adebola Ogundare, Luke Kay, Abraham Ome, et al. "Control of Structural Heterogeneity and Plasmonic Properties in Titanium Oxynitride Nanostructures for Rational Design of Nanophotonic Devices and Plasmonic Metasurfaces," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (Under Review).
Publications:
Aliyu A. Ahmad, Alexander Ahrens, Catherine J. Fabiano, et al. "Tuning the Reactivity of Al@TiO2 Antenna-Reactor Plasmonic Photocatalysts by Controlling Oxygen Vacancies." Nano Lett. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03450
Yongyi Zhao, Sean M. Farrell, Christian R. Jacobson, et al. "SCREEN: SCatteREr ENabled optical asymmetry." Optica (2025). https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.549587
David Solti, Christian R. Jacobson, J. Alexander Orion Yates, et al. "Reduced-Dimensionality Al Nanocrystals: Nanowires, Nanobars, and Nanomoustaches." Nano Lett. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00895
Mustafa Gharib, A.J. Yates., Stephen Sanders, et al. "Golden Plasmophores with Tunable Photoluminescence and Outstanding Thermal and Photothermal Stability," Adv. Optical Mater 2302833 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202302833
A.J. Yates and D. Blume. "Structural properties of 4HeN (N=2–10) clusters for different potential models at the physical point and at unitarity," Phys. Rev. A 105, 022824 (2022). https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.022824
Workshops and Presentations:
Yates, A.J. (2024). Using Storytelling for Effective Pedagogy. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25611/VTKV-GJ92