Vanderbilt Applied Optical Physics Group
AOP Group Current Research

We are currently working in several projects. This is a short list of them with a brief explanation of each. Follow the links to access more information.

 

ANOMALOUS TRANSMISSION THROUGH METAL-VO2 HOLE ARRAYS

Sponsor: U. S. Department of Energy (Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology
program, DE-FG02-01ER45916) and the National Science Foundation Nanoscale
Integrated Research Team (NIRT) program (DMR-0210785).


Collaborators: J. Y. Suh, Eugene Donev, Rene Lopez, Leonard C. Feldman, Richard F.
Haglund Jr.

hole arrays VO2.pdf

 

 

NANO VANADIUM DIOXIDE

 

Sponsors: 

Research at Vanderbilt University was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-01-ER45916), and by the National Science Foundation (DMR0210785). Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, llc, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.

 

Collaborators: 
René López, Eugene Donev, Jae Suh, John Rozen, Leonard C. Feldman, and Richard F. Haglund, Jr.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, 6301 Stevenson, Nashville, Tennessee 37235


Lynn A. Boatner and Tony E. Haynes
Condensed-Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

 

Matteo Rini, Andrea Cavalleri, and Robert W. Schoenlein
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720
 

 
RESONANT INFRARED PULSED LASER DEPOSITION OF POLYSTYRENE

Sponsors: 

Naval Research Laboratory (Vanderbilt); National Science Foundation (Seton Hall)

Collaborators: 

Stephen Johnson, Ron Belmont, Ken Schriver, Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt), Daniel Bubb, Cosimo Antonacci and L.-S. Yeung (Seton Hall University)

 

IRPLD of Polystyrene 080905.pdf

 

PULSE LASER ABLATION AND DEPOSITION OF POLYIMIDE USING FREE ELECTRON LASER

Sponsors: 

 Naval Research Laboratory (N00173-05-P-0059), Department of Defense Medical Free Electron Laser Program (F49620-01-1-0429), National Science Foundation IGERT

Program (DGE-0333392)

 

Collaborators: 

Nicole Dygert, Ron Belmont, Ken Schriver, Richard Haglund

 

polyimide_page2.pdf

 

 

NONLINEAR AND ULTRAFAST INTERACTIONS OF LIGHT WITH METAL NANOPARTICLES

Sponsors: 

The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Grant no. DE-FG02-01ER45916

Collaborators: 

Matthew McMahon, Rene Lopez

 

 

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