I am working on developing plasmon based sensors and devices.  I am also applying interferometric optical tweezers to liquid interfaces.

Our newest member has just come from the Institut Non Lineaire de Nice as of February 2011.

An exciton is the bound state of an electron and a hole in a semiconductor.  I am examining exciton creation/annihilation processes and exciton collective states to determine how quantum information propagates through an exciton gas.  Since excitons have an energy structure similar to hydrogen but have a lower mass, I can use excitons to perform atomic physics in a solid state system without the usual extremely low temperatures.

I am working on broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements of patterned nano-magnet structures.  One specific measurement I am interested in is measuring the more elusive vortex core resonance that occurs in patterned dots or antidot structures.  These materials have potential as high density memory storage in computing.