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Our first speaker was a pioneer in the field of theoretical quantum optics - Prof. John Sipe from the University of Toronto. He talked about the response of solids to incident electromagnetic fields which is often heuristically described in terms of macroscopic polarization and magnetization fields...

Published in PR Applied, our recent work develops the theoretical and computational framework to analyze the spin angular momentum of thermal radiation from bodies with nonuniform temperature profiles. By considering a sample problem of a long silica wire held under a temperature gradient within its...

Light-matter interaction in materials is central to several photonic devices from lasers to detectors. Over the past decade, nanophotonics, the study of how light flows on the nanometer scale in engineered structures such as photonic crystals and metamaterials has led to important advances. This...

Check out our recent News & View article ‘Symmetry breaking in thermal photonics.’ in Light: Science and Applications. Thermal radiation is omnipresent and is engineered for various applications in modern photonics, such as cooling, imaging, and energy harvesting. Symmetries and symmetry breaking...

Our most recent work on "picophotonics" has been featured in Purdue News which says "Light-matter interaction in materials is central to several photonic devices from lasers to detectors. Over the past decade, nanophotonics, the study of how light flows on the nanometer scale in engineered...

Our work on “picophotonics” has been featured in several leading scientific news outlets including optics.org and phys.org . Researchers at Purdue University have discovered new waves with picometer-scale spatial variations of electromagnetic fields that can propagate in semiconductors like silicon...

Our work on probing germanium plasmons through momentum-resolved EELS experiments got published in Optics Express. We reveal the metallic nature of Ge in the DUV regime. This new frontier of DUV plasmonics enables the development of DUV devices based on Ge. Read more about the paper here .

Our latest paper on topological optical N-insulators was chosen as Editor’s suggestion in Physical Review Research. We introduce a new family of topological materials with exotic electromagnetic features with obstructions to molecular polarizabilities. Know about the paper here .

Check out our group's contributions at the APS March meeting. We had a series of interesting seminars covering DCMP, DMP, DQI, and DAMO.

Exciting news as Xueji Wang, Ph.D. student in our group, has been selected as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Riser for 2022. Mr. Wang will participate in the DARPA’s Forward conference series that provides networking opportunities to discover and engage new talents.