AYDIN RESEARCH GROUP
Metamaterials & Nanophotonic
Devices Laboratory
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Prof. Aydin will present two invited talks at the SPIE Photonics West 2013 meeting in San Francisco. He is also invited to the Nanotech 2013 conference.
Prof. Aydin presented an invited talk in the special session “Security Applications of Photonic Metamaterials” at the NANOMETA 2013 meeting in Seefeld, Austria.
Prof. Aydin presented an invited talk on nanophotonics in the GE Global Research Photonics Symposium which took place at the GE Global Research Center in Niskuyana, NY.
Welcome Shiyi Chen and Fei Jia!
Shiyi is a Murphy Felliow and a first year EECS PhD Student and Fei is a MS student.
Prof. Aydin served as an organizing committee member in MIOMD-XI conference who is chaired by Prof. Manijeh Razeghi.
Koray presented an invited talk at UNAM Workshop and invited seminars at Bilkent University EE and Koc University Science Seminars in Turkey.
Our group has received funding from AFOSR to study combinatorial three-dimensional metamaterials in collaboration with Chad Mirkin and Vinayak Dravid groups at Northwestern.
Welcome Zhongyang Li!
Zhongyang is the first graduate student in the MNDL. He is a Murphy Fellow and a first year PhD student in EECS.
Our research on plasmonic absorbers has been covered in the Photonics Spectra, both in their printed magazine and website.
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Specifically, we are investigating optical metamaterials, plasmonics, and solid-state nanophotonics to understand the interaction between light and nanoscale photonic materials and to control and manipulate these interactions at will. Our ultimate aim is to design, fabricate and characterize metamaterials and nanophotonic devices with novel optical and photonic functionalities.
We are strongly motivated towards addressing the challenges in energy, health and defense applications. To this end, we are developing novel nanophotonic materials and devices including highly efficient low-cost solar cells, extremely sensitive nanooptical biosensors, active metamaterial-based filters and modulators, and flexible nanophotonic device platforms.
The research program in the Metamaterials and Nanophotonic Devices Lab is mainly focused on the broad area of nanophotonics, an emerging field strategically positioned at the intersection of electrical engineering, applied physics, materials science and nanoscience.
To learn more about the type of the research that we plan to pursue in the Metamaterials and Nanophotonic Devices Lab, you can watch Prof. Koray Aydin’s Meet the EECS Faculty Lecture at Northwestern, where he presented research results on active optical metamaterials, stretchable nanophotonics, and broadband light-trapping.
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