09/02/2011 Dr. Aydin has became a faculty member in the Graduate Program of Applied Physics at Northwestern.
09/01/2011 Dr. Aydin has joined the Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) at Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor on September 1st, 2011.
08/03/2011 Our paper on compliant metamaterials has been published in Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A.
09/21/2010 Our paper on compliant optical metamaterials with large frequency tunability has been published in Nano Letters.
08/01/2010 Dr. Aydin gave an invited talk on stretchable metamaterials at SPIE Optics and Photonics 2010 Conference at San Diego, CA.
07/22/2010 Dr. Aydin’s invited talk in SPIE Optics and Photonics 2010 Conference has been highlighted as a notable paper by SPIE.
04/07/2010 Dr. Aydin gave an invited talk on frequency-tunable near-infrared metamaterials at SPIE Photonics Europe 2010 Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
10/05/2009 Dr. Aydin gave an invited talk on frequency tunable near-IR metamaterials at IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting 2009 Conference at Antalya, Turkey.
02/01/2009 Our paper on resonant-enhanced transmission from a single subwavelength aperture has been highlighted by Nature Physics. [PDF]
01/07/2009 My paper on split-ring resonator coupled enhanced transmission is published in Physical Review Letters.
10/08/2010 Our paper on tunable, stretchable optical metamaterials has been featured in MIT Technology Review, and highlighted in MRS Materials 360 Plus, Nanotechnology Now, and Photonics Online.
News
05/25/2011 Dennis Callahan, Raymond Weitekamp, Emily Kosten, and Koray Aydin, early career scientists in the Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion EFRC led by the California Institute of Technology, were honored for striking photography and visual impact in their entry, “Light Matters” in Life at the Frontiers of Energy Research Video Contest. Click here to watch the video.
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11/01/2011 Our paper on broadband plasmonic super absorbers is published in Nature Communications.
10/29/2011 Dr. Aydin will present in the “Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar” at Northwestern on Nov. 16th.
10/05/2011 Dr. Aydin’s paper on metamaterial based surface-enhanced biosensors has been published in ACS Nano.
11/03/2011 Our recent Nature Comm. paper is highlighted in several internet media: Eurekalert, Physorg.com, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Materials Today, Azonano, UPI, and Chemistry Views.
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Dr. Aydin will give invited talks in the SPIE Photonics West 2012, PECS-X and SPIE Optics and Photonics 2012 conferences.
Koray presented an invited talk in SPIE Optics and Photonics 2012 and also served as the program committee member.
Koray presented an invited talk at UNAM Workshop and invited seminars at Bilkent University EE and Koc University Science Seminars in Turkey.
Koray Aydin is selected to the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
Our group has received funding from AFOSR to study combinatorial three-dimensional metamaterials in collaboraton with Chad Mirkin and Vinayak Dravid groups at Northwestern.
Koray presented an invited talk at PECS-X conference in Santa Fe, NM.
Welcome Zhongyang Li!
Zhongyang is the first graduate student at MNDL. He is a Murphy Fellow and a first year PhD student in EECS.
MNDL received the ISEN Equipment Award from the Institute of Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern. Thanks Serkan for the great effort!
Broadband plasmonic absorber research continues to receive media attention. Technology Review highlights our work in their March/April 2012 issue.
Our research on plasmonic absorbers has been covered in the Photonics Spectra, both in their printed magazine and website.
Dr. Aydin presented an invited seminar at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Lab.
Dr. Aydin presented an invited talk at the SPIE Photonics West 2012 conference.
We welcome our first group member. Dr. Serkan Butun joins MNDL as a postdoctoral researcher from Bilkent University, Turkey.
Our work on broadband absorbers was selected as one of the most important materials research in 2011 by the Technology Review and appeared in their highly selective list, “The Year in Materials”.
Koray 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. Koray met with the lab directors and GE researchers and discussed about possible collaboration opportunities.
Welcome Shiyi Chen and Fei Jia!
Shiyi is a Murphy Felliow and a first year EECS PhD Student and Fei is an MS student.
Koray served as the organizing committee member in MIOMD-XI conference chaired by Prof. Manijeh Razeghi. The conference took place at Northwestern University and hosted more than 150 attendees from 23 different countries. Honorary chairs of the conference were Prof. Klaus von Klitzing and Prof. Leo Esaki.
Some of the recent highlights from Technology Review, Physicsworld.com and Science Daily reporting on our broadband absorber research.
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