Awards & Honors
- 2014 Excellence in Graduate Teaching (College Award)
- 2013 Excellence in Graduate Teaching award
- 2009 Promotion and Tenure Approved
- 2009 2008/2009 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 2007 Office of Research & Commercialization Millionaire’s Club
- 2006 Presidential Major Research Equipment Award
Research Group
Optical analysis tools for investigation of nanostructured devices including Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope, fiber-coupled microscope for single particle spectroscopy, leakage radiation setup for surface plasmon imaging, near-infrared waveguide analysis setup, and variable temperature photoluminescence setup. Projects include manipulation of surface plasmon dispersion in nanoscale thin films, enhancement of erbium excitation in semiconductor nanocrystal doped oxides, and enhancement of optical nonlinearities using plasmon resonances.Students
Publications
M.J. Hossain, M.D. Sun, G. Doerk, P.G. Kik and K.O. Davis "Self-assembled multifunctional nanostructures for surface passivation and photon management in silicon photovoltaics" Nanophotonics, 10(18), pp. 4611-4621 (2021)
J.H. Song, S. Raza, J. van de Groep, J.H. Kang, Q. Li, P.G. Kik and M.L. Brongersma "Nanoelectromechanical modulation of a strongly-coupled plasmonic dimer" Nature Communcations, 12(1), A. 48 (2021)
J. van de Groep, J.H. Song, U. Celano, Q.T. Li, P.G. Kik and M.L. Brongersma "Exciton resonance tuning of an atomically thin lens" Nature Photonics (2020)
Q.T. Li, J. Van de Groep, Y.F. Wang, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Transparent multispectral photodetectors mimicking the human visual system " Nature Communications, 10, 4982 (2019)
V. Thareja, M. Esfandyarpour P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Anisotropic metasurfaces as tunable SERS substrates for 2D materials" ACS Photonics, 6(8), pp. 1996-2004 (2019)
E.F. Pecora, A. Cordaro, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Broadband antireflection coatings employing multiresonant dielectric metasurfaces" ACS Photonics, 5(11), pp. 4456-4462 (2018)
X. Liu, K. Zang, J.H. Kang, J. Park, J.S. Harris, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Epsilon-near-zero Si slot-waveguide modulator" ACS Photonics, 5(11), pp. 4484-4490 (2018)
D.M. Lin, A.L. Holsteen, E. Maguid, P.Y. Fan, P.G. Kik, E. Hasman, and M.L. Brongersma "Polarization-independent metasurface lens employing the Pancharatnam-Berry phase" Optics Express, 26(19), pp. 24835-24842 (2018)
M. Esfandyarpour, A.G. Curto, P.G. Kik, N. Engheta, and M.L. Brongersma "Optical emission near a high-impedance mirror" Nature Communications, 9, 3224 (2018)
A.F. Cihan, A.G. Curto, S. Raza, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Silicon Mie resonators for highly directional light emission from monolayer MoS2" Nature Photonics, 12(5), pp. 284-290 (2018)
M. Mutlu, J.H. Kang, S. Raza, D. Schoen, X. Zheng, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Thermoplasmonic ignition of metal nanoparticles" Nano Letters, 18(3), pp. 1699-1706 (2018)
S.J. Kim, J.H. Kang, M. Mutlu, J. Park, W. Park, K.E. Goodson, R. Sinclair, S. Fan, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Anti-Hermitian photodetector facilitating efficient subwavelength photon sorting" Nature Communications 9, 316 (2018)
A.L. Holsteen, S. Raza, P.Y. Fan, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Purcell effect for active tuning of light scattering from semiconductor optical antennas" Science, 358(6369), pp. 1407-1410 (2017)
S. Novak, P. T. Lin, C. Li, C. Lumdee, J. Hu, A. Agarwal, P.G. Kik, W. Deng, and K.A. Richardson "Direct electrospray printing of gradient refractive index chalcogenide glass films" ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(32), pp. 26990-26995 (2017)
D.M. Lin, A.L. Holsteen, E. Maguid, G. Wetzstein, P.G. Kik, E. Hasman, M.L. Brongersma "Photonic Multitasking Interleaved Si Nanoantenna Phased Array" Nano Letters, 16(12), pp. 7671-7676 (2016)
S. Novak, P. T. Lin, C. Li, N. Borodinov, Z.H. Han, C. Monmeyran, N. Patel, Q. Y. Du, M. Malinowski, S. Fathpour, C. Lumdee, C. Xu, P.G. Kik, W. W. Deng, J. J. Hu, A. Agarwal, I. Luzinov, and K. A. Richardson "Electrospray Deposition of Uniform Thickness Ge23Sb7S70 and As40S60 Chalcogenide Glass Films" Journal of Virtual Experiments, vol. 114, p. e54379, August 2016. (2016)
C. Lumdee and P.G. Kik "Omnidirectional excitation of sidewall gap-plasmons in a hybrid gold-nanoparticle/aluminum-nanopore structure" APL Photonics 1, 031301 (2016)
S.J. Kim, J. Park, M. Esfandyarpour, E.F. Pecora, P.G. Kik, and M.L. Brongersma "Superabsorbing, artificial metal films constructed from semiconductor nanoantennas" Nano Letters 16(6), pp.3801-3808 (2016)
S. Toroghi, C. Lumdee, P.G. Kik "Heterogeneous plasmonic trimers for enhanced nonlinear optical absorption" Applied Physics Letters 106(10), pp. 103102 (2015)
C. Lumdee, B.F. Yun, P.G. Kik "Effect of surface roughness on substrate-tuned gold nanoparticle gap plasmon resonances" Nanoscale 7(9), pp.4250-4255 (2015)
Alumni
PhD
Mengdi Sun, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022Chatdanai Lumdee, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2015
Seyfollah Toroghi, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2014
Oleksandr Savchyn, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2010
Amitabh Ghoshal, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2010
MS
Yu-Wei Lin, Optics M.S., Fall 2013Grady Webb-Wood, Optics M.S., Summer 2008
Forrest Ruhge, Optics M.S., Fall 2006
Karthik Narayanan, Optics M.S., Spring 2004