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5/31/2024 Mellissa passed her B exam! Congratulations Dr. Bosch, and best wishes!

11/14/2023 Kudos to Jihoon and Yandong for passing their B-exam. Congratulations! Wishing them success as they embark on their next chapter!

4/19/2023 Josh won the Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (LRGF) from the National Nuclear Security Administration! The LRGF will support Josh over four years and will include residencies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Great job Josh!

11/11/2022 Congratulations to Jihoon for winning a best poster award at the 20th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop!

10/27/2022 Yandong was featured on Spotlights: AEP for his research on topological photonics! You can read more about his research at: https://www.aep.cornell.edu/spotlights/yandong-li

10/18/2022 Melissa received a best poster award at the Annual CNF meeting. Way to go Melissa!

8/19/2022 Ran passed his B-exam and is now Dr. Gladstone! Congratulations and best wishes!

5/28/2022 Ran's paper received the William Nichols Findley award for outstanding graduate research from the Cornell AEP! Kudos to Ran!

5/15/2022 Seojoo received an award from Program for Global Academic Activities by the Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology organization in South Korea. Great Job Seojoo!

5/12/2022 Po ting passed his Candidacy exam! Congratulations!

5/10/2022 Po Ting and Steven's paper, "Chemotherapeutics Using Metasurface-Enhanced Infrared Reflection Spectroscopy of Live Cells" was published on a special issue of Cells! Great work guys!

4/26/22 Tianhong passed his B-exam defense! Congratulations to Dr Wang!

3/24/22 Congratulations to Min Woo for passing his B exam! Wish you all the best!

12/15/21 Ran and Min Woo's paper "Spin-polarized fractional corner charges and their photonic realization" has been accepted to Physical Review Letters! Congratulations to both!!

11/30/21 Min Woo and Yang published a paper in Phys.Rev.B titled "Exact higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence of corner-localized states". Congratulations!

11/23/21 Yang Yu passed his B exam! Congratulations Dr. Yu, and best wishes!

11/19/21- Roopendra Singh Rajawat published a paper in Physics of Plasmas describing the anisotropic energy gain via Fermi acceleration in relativistic collisionless plasma shocks. Congratulations!

4/26/19 - Congratulations to Minwoo for winning the Dr. V. Ramachandra Rao Summer Fellowship Award!

4/9/19 - Congratulations to Melissa and Junlan for winning the NSF!

4/8/19 - A paper on photon acceleration and tunable broadband harmonics generation in nonlinear time-dependent metasurfaces authored by Maxim and Fan just came out in Nature Communications, and was featured in the Cornell Chronicle.

11/13/18 - Joy Li and Junlan Lu take home best poster design award. Congratulations to both!

8/25/18 - Tianhong Wang and Vladimir Khudik published a paper in Physics of Plasmas describing direct laser acceleration of electrons in the presence of decelerating plasma wakes. Congratulations to both!

8/25/18 - Congratulations to Minwoo and Fan! Their paper on creating topological polaritonic states in gated graphene has been just published in Physical Review Letters.

4/30/18 - Congratulations to Robert Delgado whose research proposal in response to the Engineering Learning Initiatives' solicitation was selected for funding! During the summer, Rob will be working on the spectroscopy of diffrentiated and non-differentiated ("stem") breast cancer cells. He will be collaborating closely with Dr. Joe Drusso from Prof. Fischbach's group at BME. Good luck with your summer research, Rob!

3/16/18 - Congratulations to the whole group for hosting a successful open house for prospective graduate students! We showed two posters.

2/25/18 - We wish to welcome a new post-doc to our group, Steven He Huang!

11/22/17 - A paper on topologically protected refraction co-authored by Kueifu Lai and Yang Yu just came out in Nature Physics.

8/1/17 - Congratulations to Shourya for starting as an assistant professor in the materials science department at IIT Hyderabad!

7/27/17 - Congratulations to Dr. Zhang for passing his thesis exam!

7/23/17 - Congratulations to Simeon, who starts a job at the Eglin Air Force Base!

Research

Plasmonics, Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials

Metamaterials for biosensing
Topological Photonics
Active and Reconfigurable Metasurfaces
Non-metallic metasurfaces
Plasmonic absorber/emitter for solar thermo-photovoltaic systems

Accelerator and Plasma Physics

Laser-Plasma Accelerators
Laser Interactions with Nanoscale Solid Targets at Ultra-High Intensities: Ion Accelerator on a Desktop
Structure-based accelerators

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