Research
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| Nitride
devices & bio-inspired photonics • Growth, patterning & physics of III-nitrides materials • IQE/EQE/spectroscopy of micro & nano LEDs • Sub-wavelength structures & metasurfaces • Bio-inspired & bio-enabled photonic structures & devices • FEM / FDTD optical simulations of metasurfaces and plasmonics |
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| Photocatalysis
& in situ spectroscopy • Developing ultra-fast DRIFTS and IR absorption spectroscopy to measure surface adsorbates @ • Measure how frequency, duty cycle, and energy of light affect turnover fro photocatalytic • Measure quantum yields for photocatalytic reactions |
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| Spectroelectrochemistry
of biomolecules • Probe fundamental mechanisms of protein assembly • Drive protein assembly using electrochemistry • Spectroelectrochemistry of reflectin, K18, tau • Incorporate bio-inspired structures into devices |
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| Plasma-based
material synthesis & modification • Material synthesis and modification with microplasmas and DBD plasmas • Plasma spectroscopy (OES, Raman, IR) • Materials for energy applications in solar, catalysis, energy storage |
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| Hydrocarbon
conversion in melt phases and with plasmas • Material screening & kinetics measurements • Gas, melt, carbon product spectroscopy & visualization • Arc plasmas at high pressure and plasmas directly excited in liquids • Plasma spectroscopy |
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| Photophysical
studies and applications of novel chromophores • Probe photocycle kinetics of photochromes under different stimuli • In-situ pump-probe, absorbance & CD spectroscopy • Incorporate photochromes into polymers & liquid crystal elastomers • Prototype photo-active devices |
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