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March 6, 2023. Paper in Nature Nanotechnology!

“Anomalous thickness dependence of photoluminescence quantum yield in black phosphorous,” Naoki Higashitarumizu, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Daniel Weinberg, Nima Sefidmooye Azar, IKM Reaz Rahman, Vivian Wang, Kenneth B Crozier, Eran Rabani, and Ali Javey, Nature Nanotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01335-0

January 16, 2023. Saleh’s paper hits the pages of Optics Express!

“Multicolor detour phase holograms based on an Al plasmonic color filter,” Seyed Saleh Mousavi Khaleghi, Dandan Wen, Jasper Cadusch, and Kenneth B Crozier, Optics Express 31, 2061-2071 (2023)

January 12, 2023. Dandan’s paper is published in Nanophotonics!

“Semiconductor lasers with integrated metasurfaces for direct output beam modulation, enabled by innovative fabrication methods,” Dandan Wen and Kenneth B Crozier, Nanophotonics (2023), https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0585

October 2022. Henry and Jiajun present at Frontiers in Optics!

July 3, 2022. Dandan’s paper is published by Laser & Photonics Reviews!

“Broadband Multichannel Cylindrical Vector Beam Generation by a Single Metasurface,” Dandan Wen, Kai Pan, Jiajun Meng, Xuanguang Wu, Xuyue Guo, Peng Li, Sheng Liu, Dong Li, Bingyan Wei, Xin Xie, Dexing Yang, Jianlin Zhao, and Kenneth B Crozier, Laser & Photonics Reviews 16, 2200206 (2022)

May 15, 2022. Ben’s paper is in Optics Letters!

“Mid-infrared spectral reconstruction with dielectric metasurfaces and dictionary learning,” Benjamin J Russell, Jasper J Cadusch, Jiajun Meng, Dandan Wen, and Kenneth B Crozier, Optics Letters 47, 2490-2493 (2022)

January 24, 2022. Jiajun’s paper is in Laser & Photonics Reviews!

“Compact Chemical Identifier Based on Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated with Microbolometer Array,” Jiajun Meng, Luke Weston, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Dandan Wen, Jasper J Cadusch, Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan, and Kenneth B Crozier, Laser and Photonics Reviews 2100436 (2022)

January 24, 2022. Paper with Niharika Gupta and collaborators hits the pages of Nano Letters!

“Bright Mid-Wave Infrared Resonant-Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Black Phosphorus,” Niharika Gupta, Hyungjin Kim, Nima Sefidmooye Azar, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Der-Hsien Lien, Kenneth B Crozier, and Ali Javey, Nano Letters 22, 1294-1301 (2022)

January 6, 2022. Jasper’s paper is published in ACS Photonics!

“Compact, Lightweight, and Filter-Free: An All-Si Microspectrometer Chip for Visible Light Spectroscopy,” ACS Photonics 9, 474-481 (2022)

December 29, 2021. Paper with Jiajia Zha and collaborators in Advanced Functional Materials!

“Infrared photodetectors based on 2D materials and nanophotonics,” Jiajia Zha, Mingcheng Luo, Ming Ye, Tanveer Ahmed, Xuechao Yu, Der‐Hsien Lien, Qiyuan He, Dangyuan Lei, Johnny C Ho, James Bullock, Kenneth B Crozier, and Chaoliang Tan, Advanced Functional Materials 32, 2111970 (2021)

September 19, 2021. Ming’s paper is published in Applied Physics Reviews!

“Graphene-based mid-infrared photodetectors using metamaterials and related concepts,” Ming Ye, Jiajia Zha, Chaoliang Tan, and Kenneth B Crozier, Applied Physics Reviews 8, 031303 (2021)

September 15, 2021. Our paper with Wei Yan and collaborators is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!

“Visible to Short-Wave Infrared Photodetectors Based on ZrGeTe4 van der Waals Materials,” Wei Yan, Brett C Johnson, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Jasper Cadusch, Di Yan, Jesús Ibarra Michel, Shifan Wang, Tian Zheng, Kenneth Crozier, and James Bullock, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13, 45881-45889 (2021)

August 12, 2021. Paper in Nature!

“Actively variable-spectrum optoelectronics with black phosphorus,” Hyungjin Kim, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Der-Hsien Lien, Matthew Yeh, Nima Sefidmooye Azar, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Taehun Kim, Niharika Gupta, Yoonsoo Rho, Costas P Grigoropoulos, Kenneth B Crozier, and Ali Javey, Nature 596 (7871), 232-237 (2021)

August 9, 2021. Shiva’s work appears in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!

“Copper Tetracyanoquinodimethane (CuTCNQ): A Metal–Organic Semiconductor for Room-Temperature Visible to Long-Wave Infrared Photodetection,” Sivacarendran Balendhran, Zakir Hussain, Vivek R Shrestha, Jasper Cadusch, Ming Ye, Nima Sefidmooye Azar, Hyungjin Kim, Rajesh Ramanathan, James Bullock, Ali Javey, Vipul Bansal, and Kenneth B Crozier, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 38544–38552 (2021)

August 1, 2021. Dandan’s work appears in APL Photonics as an Editor’s Choice paper!

“Metasurfaces 2.0: Laser-integrated and with vector field control,” D. Wen, and K.B. Crozier, APL Photonics 6 (8), 080902 (2021)

July 19, 2021. Ming’s paper appears in Applied Physics Reviews!

“Graphene-based mid-infrared photodetectors using metamaterials and related concepts,” M. Ye, J. Zha, C. Tan, and K.B. Crozier, Applied Physics Reviews 8 (3), 031303 (2021)

July 9, 2021. Neuton’s paper hits the pages of Advanced Optical Materials!

“Algorithm‐Designed Plasmonic Nanotweezers: Quantitative Comparison by Theory, Cathodoluminescence, and Nanoparticle Trapping,” N. Li, J. Cadusch, A. Liu, A.J. Barlow, A. Roberts, and K.B. Crozier, Advanced Optical Materials, 2100758 (2021)

April 30, 2021. Dandan’s paper is published in Nature Photonics!

“Reconsidering metasurface lasers,” D. Wen, J.J. Cadusch, Z. Fang, and K.B. Crozier, Nature Photonics 15 (5), 337-338 (2021)

March 25, 2021. Nima’s work appears in ACS Photonics!

“Light–Matter Interaction Enhancement in Anisotropic 2D Black Phosphorus via Polarization-Tailoring Nano-Optics,” N.S. Azar, J. Bullock, S. Balendhran, H. Kim, A. Javey, and K.B. Crozier, ACS Photonics 8 (4), 1120-1128 (2021)

March 22, 2021. Nima’s paper is in ACS Nano!

“Long-Wave Infrared Photodetectors Based on 2D Platinum Diselenide atop Optical Cavity Substrates,” Nima Sefidmooye Azar, James Bullock, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Wei Yan, Hyungjin Kim, Ali Javey, and Kenneth B Crozier, ACS Nano 15 (4), 6573-6581 (2021)

February 26, 2021. Dandan’s paper is published in Advanced Photonics!

“Light field on a chip: metasurface-based multicolor holograms,” D. Wen, J.J. Cadusch, J. Meng, and K.B. Crozier, Advanced Photonics 3 (2), 024001 (2021)

February 22, 2021. Dandan’s work appears in the pages of Advanced Optical Materials!

“VCSELs with On‐Facet Metasurfaces for Polarization State Generation and Detection,” D. Wen, J. Meng, J.J. Cadusch, and K.B. Crozier, Advanced Optical Materials 9 (9), 2001780 (2021)

February 5, 2021. Dandan’s paper hits the pages of Nano Letters!

“Vectorial Holograms with Spatially Continuous Polarization Distributions,” D. Wen, J.J. Cadusch, J. Meng, and K.B. Crozier, Nano Letters 21 (4), 1735-1741 (2021)

February 2, 2021.  Jiajun’s paper is published in ACS Photonics!

“Plasmonic Mid-Infrared Filter Array-Detector Array Chemical Classifier Based on Machine Learning”, J. Meng, J.J. Cadusch, and K.B. Crozier, ACS Photonics 8 (2), 648-657 (2021)

January 20, 2021. Ming’s paper is published in Advanced Optical Materials!

“Mid‐Wave Infrared Polarization‐Independent Graphene Photoconductor with Integrated Plasmonic Nanoantennas Operating at Room Temperature,” M Ye, Y Gao, JJ Cadusch, S Balendhran, KB Crozier, Advanced Optical Materials 9 (6), 2001854 (2021)

August 9, 2020  Our paper with A/Prof Chaoliang Tan and co-workers on infrared photodetectors based on evaporated SeTe films is published in Advanced Materials!

“Evaporated SexTe1‐x Thin Films with Tunable Bandgaps for Short‐Wave Infrared Photodetectors,” Chaoliang Tan, Matin Amani, Chunsong Zhao, Mark Hettick, Xiaohui Song, Der‐Hsien Lien, Hao Li, Matthew Yeh, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Kenneth B Crozier, Mary C Scott, and Ali Javey, Advanced Materials 2001329 (2020)

June 22, 2020  Jasper’s paper is published in Nanophotonics!

“Visible to long-wave infrared chip-scale spectrometers based on photodetectors with tailored responsivities and multispectral filters,” Jasper J. Cadusch, Jiajun Meng, Benjamin J. Craig, Vivek Raj Shrestha, and Kenneth B. Crozier,  Nanophotonics (in press)

June 8, 2020  Ming’s paper is published in Optics Express!

“Metasurface with metallic nanoantennas and graphene nanoslits for sensing of protein monolayers and sub-monolayers,” Ming Ye and Kenneth B. Crozier, Optics Express 28, 18479-18492 (2020)

March 25, 2020  Vivek’s paper is published in Scientific Reports!

“Mid- to long-wave infrared computational spectroscopy with a graphene metasurface modulator,” Vivek R. Shrestha, Benjamin Craig, Jiajun Meng, James Bullock, Ali Javey, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Scientific Reports 10, 5377 (2020)

January 20, 2020  Ming’s paper is published in Optics Express!

“Long-wave infrared magnetic mirror based on Mie resonators on conductive substrate,” by Ming Ye, Shi-Qiang Li, Yang Gao, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Optics Express 28, 1472 (2020)

January, 2020  Advanced Functional Materials publishes Dandan’s paper!

“Multifunctional dielectric metasurfaces consisting of color holograms encoded in color printed images,” by Dandan Wen, Jasper J. Cadusch, Jiajun Meng, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Advanced Functional Materials 30, 1906415 (2020)

December 12, 2019  Jiajun’s paper appears in Nano Letters!

“Detector-only spectrometer based on structurally colored nanowires and a reconstruction algorithm,” by Jiajun Meng, Jasper J. Cadusch, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Nano Letters 20, 320 (2020)

November 1, 2019  Neuton’s paper hits the pages of Optics Letters!

“Algorithmic approach for designing plasmonic nanotweezers,” by Neuton Li, Jasper J. Cadusch, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Optics Letters 44, 5250 (2019)

September 10, 2019  Jasper’s paper hits the pages of Optica!

“Silicon microspectrometer chip based on nanostructured fishnet photodetectors with tailored responsivities and machine learning,” by Jasper J. Cadusch, Jiajun Meng, Benjamin Craig, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Optica 6, 1171 (2019)

August 23, 2019 Some recent photographs of group members working in the laboratory:

Dr. Jasper Cadusch aligning beams from red and green laser diodes.
Multiple holograms generated from a single dielectric metasurface.
Dr. Vivek Shrestha filling the cryostat with liquid nitrogen to cool his sample to -196°C before using the FTIR to measure the reflectance spectra of tunable plasmonic graphene filters.
2D material based long-wave infrared photodetector samples ready for characterization.
Nima using the probe station to test his latest sample.
A silicon nanowire microspectrometer chip ready for probing.

 

July 5, 2019  Ken gives an invited presentation at the International Conference on Nanomaterials and Atomaterials Science and Applications (ICNASA). This is held at Swinburne University in the Melbourne region.

June 24, 2019  Nima presents a poster at CLEO/Europe-EQEC in Munich, Germany.

June 19, 2019. Zhe (Kelvin) Xu’s Ph.D thesis is now available from the University library here.

Well done Kelvin!

May 5-10, 2019  Vivek, Jiajun, and Dandan deliver oral presentations at CLEO:2019 in San Jose, CA.  Vivek and Jiajun also present a poster on behalf of Benjamin Craig (and their other co-authors). Vivek presides over a session.

April 3, 2019. Ken’s paper is published in Light: Science and Applications!

“Quo vadis, plasmonic optical tweezers,” by Kenneth B Crozier, Light: Science and Applications 8, 35 (2019)

March 4, 2019. Nima’s paper is published in Applied Physics Letters!

“Bull’s eye grating integrated with optical nanoantennas for plasmonic enhancement of graphene long-wave infrared photodetectors,” by Nima Sefidmooye Azar, Vivek Raj Shrestha, and Kenneth B Crozier, Applied Physics Letters 114, 091108 (2019)

March 1 2019. Zhe (Kelvin) Xu submits his finished Ph.D. thesis for review.

Congratulations Kelvin!

Kelvin with his celebratory balloon after submitting his Ph.D. thesis.

February 18, 2019. Kelvin’s paper is published in Optics Express!

“All-dielectric nanotweezers for trapping and observation of a single quantum dot,” by Zhe Xu and Kenneth B Crozier, Optics Express 27, 4034 (2019)

February 5, 2019. Shi Qiang’s paper is published in ACS Photonics!

“Vertical Ge-Si Nanowires with Suspended Graphene Top Contacts as Dynamically-tunable Multispectral Photodetectors,” by Shi Qiang Li, Amit Solanki, Jacopo Frigerio, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, Changxi Zheng, Arman Ahnood, Kumaravelu Ganesan, and Kenneth B Crozier, ACS Photonics

December 9-13 2018.  Group makes a number of presentations at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Perth:

a). Ken gives an invited presentation on “Engineering light-matter interactions at the nanoscale”

b). Jasper gives a contributed presentation on “All-Si vertical slab waveguide arrays as wavelength selective photodetectors”

c). Jiajun gives a contributed presentation on “Vertically stacked silicon nanowire photodetectors for spectral reconstruction”

For this work, Jiajun wins “AOS-OSA Best Student Paper Prize” of the AOS/ACOFT Conference that was part of the AIP Congress.  Jiajun receives the award, comprising a certificate and a USD $1250 travel grant, from the OSA President (Prof Ian Walmsley) at the Congress on December 12.  CONGRATULATIONS JIAJUN!

Jiajun with his award from OSA and AOS at the 2018 AIP Congress in Perth, Australia.

 

December 6-7 2018. Ken gives an invited presentation at the Optics & Photonics Taiwan International Conference (OPTIC) in Tainan.  He also gives an invited lecture to the Photonics Department at National Cheng Kung University.

November 6 2018. Kelvin’s paper is published in ACS Photonics!

“Optical Trapping of Nanoparticles Using All-Silicon Nanoantennas,” Zhe Xu, Wuzhou Song, and Kenneth B. Crozier, ACS Photonics (2018)

September 13, 2018. Ben’s paper is published in Optics Letters!

“Experimental demonstration of infrared spectral reconstruction using plasmonic metasurfaces,” by Benjamin Craig, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Jiajun Meng, Jasper J. Cadusch and Kenneth B. Crozier

August 28, 2018. Ken delivers a keynote presentation at the 26th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) in Jeju, South Korea

August 27, 2018. Paper with the group of Prof Ali Javey is published in Nature Photonics!

“Polarization-resolved black phosphorus/molybdenum disulfide mid-wave infrared photodiodes with high detectivity at room temperature,” by James Bullock, Matin Amani, Joy Cho, Yu-Ze Chen, Geun Ho Ahn, Valerio Adinolfi, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Yang Gao, Kenneth B Crozier, Yu-Lun Chueh, Ali Javey

August 14, 2018. Postdoctoral research fellow in nano-optics position now open (applications close October 14, 2018). See  Opportunities page for details.

July 5, 2018.  Vivek makes an oral presentation at the OSA Advanced Photonics Conference in Zurich on “Electrical tuning of reflectance of graphene metasurface for unpolarized long wavelength infrared light”

June 25, 2018  Mike’s paper is published in Physical Review B!

“Origin of the anapole condition as revealed by a simple expansion beyond the toroidal multipole,” by Shi-Qiang Li and Kenneth B. Crozier

June 18, 2018  Paper with the group of Prof Ali Javey is published in ACS Nano!

Solution-Synthesized High-Mobility Tellurium Nanoflakes for Short-Wave Infrared Photodetectors,” by Matin Amani, Chaoliang Tan, George Zhang, Chunsong Zhao, James Bullock, Xiaohui Song, Hyungjin Kim, Vivek Raj Shrestha, Yang Gao, Kenneth B Crozier, Mary Scott, and Ali Javey

30 May 2018  Kelvin’s paper on optical nanotweezers is published in ACS Photonics!

“Direct particle tracking observation and Brownian dynamics simulations of a single nanoparticle optically trapped by a plasmonic nanoaperture,” Zhe Xu, Wuzhou Song, and Kenneth B. Crozier

24 May 2018 Our paper is published in IEEE JSTQE!

“Controlling the Light Absorption in a Photodetector Via Nanowire Waveguide Resonances for Multispectral and Color Imaging,” Kenneth Crozier, Kwanyong Seo, Hyusung Park, Amit Solanki, and Shi-Qiang Li

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(left to right): Dr Evgeniy Panchenko and Crozier group members Jasper, Ben, Ken, Ming and Kelvin.

 

May 13-18, 2018.  Crozier group members present at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Jose, CA, USA.  Ben, Kelvin, Ming, and Jasper make the following oral presentations (and Ken presides over a session):

i). B.J. Craig, V.R. Shrestha, J. Meng, and K.B. Crozier,  “Experimental Demonstration of Mid-Infrared Computational Spectroscopy with a Plasmonic Filter Array”
ii). Z. Xu and K.B. Crozier, “Controlled optical trapping and  transport of a single 100 nm particle across an array of silicon  nanoantennas”
iii). M. Ye, S. Li, Y. Gao, V.R. Shrestha, and K.B. Crozier,  “Mid-infrared Magnetic Mirror Based on a Hybrid Metal/Dielectric  Metasurface”
iv). J. Cadusch, J. Meng, and K.B. Crozier, “Nanostructured Fishnet  Silicon Photodetector Pixels as a Fully- Contained Microspectrometer Chip”

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April 30, 2018 Mike’s paper is published in ACS Photonics!

“Generalized Method of Images and Reflective Color Generation from Ultrathin Multipole Resonators,” Shi-Qiang Li, Wuzhou Song, Ming Ye, and Kenneth B Crozier

March/April 2018.  According to Web of Science (with data from Essential Science Indicators), the following nine papers are “Highly Cited in the Field”.

The definition from Web of Science is as follows:

“Highly Cited Papers received enough citations as of March/April 2018 to place them in the top 1% of their academic fields based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.”

a). “Quantum mechanical effects in plasmonic structures with subnanometre gaps”, Wenqi Zhu, Ruben Esteban, Andrei Borisov, Jeremy Baumberg, Peter Nordlander, Henri Lezec, Javier Aizpurua, and Kenneth Crozier, Nature Communications, vol. 7, 11495 (2016)

b). “Quantum mechanical limit to plasmonic enhancement as observed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering”, Wenqi Zhu and Kenneth B. Crozier, Nature Communications, vol 5, 5228 (2014);

c). “Digital Cameras With Designs Inspired By the Arthropod Eye,” Young Min Song, Yizhu Xie, Viktor Malyarchuk, Jianliang Xiao, Inhwa Jung, Ki-joong Choi, Zhuangjian Liu, Hyunsung Park, Rak-Hwan Kim, Kenneth B. Crozier, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers, Nature vol 497, pp. 95-99 (2013)

d). “Chromatic Plasmonic Polarizers for Active Visible Color Filtering and Polarimetry,” Tal Ellenbogen, Kwanyong Seo, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Nano Letters vol. 12, pp. 1026-1031 (2012);

e). “Trapping and rotating nanoparticles using a plasmonic nano-tweezer with an integrated heat sink,” Kai Wang, Ethan Schonbrun, Paul Steinvurzel & Kenneth B. Crozier, Nature Communications vol. 2, 469 (2011)

f). “Dramatic Reduction of Surface Recombination by in Situ Surface Passivation of Silicon Nanowires ,” Yaping Dan, Kwanyong Seo, Kuniharu Takei, Jhim H. Meza, Ali Javey, and Kenneth B. Crozier,” Nano Letters vol. 11, 2527 (2011);

g). “Multicolored Vertical Silicon Nanowires,” Kwanyong Seo, Munib Wober, Paul Steinvurzel, Ethan Schonbrun, Yaping Dan, Tal Ellenbogen, and Kenneth B. Crozier, Nano Letters vol. 11, pp. 1851–1856 (2011)

h). ” Controlling the near-field oscillations of loaded plasmonic nanoantennas,” M. Schnell, A. Garcıa-Etxarri, A. J. Huber, K. Crozier, J. Aizpurua and R. Hillenbrand, Nature Photonics vol. 3, 287 (2009)

i). ” Experimental observation of narrow surface plasmon resonances in gold nanoparticle arrays,” Yizhuo Chu, Ethan Schonbrun, Tian Yang and Kenneth B. Crozier, Applied Physics Letters vol. 93, 181108 (2008)