March, 2019: Teddy's paper on Electronic Coupling in Metallophthalocyanine-Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Mixed-Dimensional Heterojunctions has been published!
January, 2019: Lei's paper on the Electrical Control of Circular Photogalvanic Spin-Valley Photocurrent in a Monolayer Semiconductor has been published!
August, 2018: Congratulations to Yen-Jung Chen on defending his Ph.D. dissertation. Good luck in the real world!
August, 2018: Best wishes to the summer Stern Group research participants Ross, Peter, Maddie, Joe, and Chris. It was fun working with you all this summer!
June, 2018: Our review paper for Frontiers of Physics on environmental engineering of transition metal dichalcogenide optoelectronics has been published!
April, 2018: Teddy's work with Akshay Murthy from the Dravid Group on transport across in-plane heterojunctions has been published in Nano Letters!
January, 2018: Trevor's paper on the optical Stark effect probed by Kerr rotation has been published in Physical Review B!
December, 2017: Our collaborative effort with Purdue University and the Hersam and Lauhon Groups at Northwestern on the control and understanding of interlayer physics in transition metal dichalcogenides has been published in the Journal of Applied Physics!
October, 2017: We've moved into our new lab in the new Mudd facility at Northwestern!
October, 2017: Trevor's paper on the optical Stark effect probed by Kerr rotation has been added to the arXiv!
September, 2017: Guohua's paper on width dependent photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy has been added to the arXiv! Good luck to him in his bright future!
August, 2017: Nature Photonics has published a News and Views describing our recent work on valley-polarized exciton-polaritons! You can read it here.
June, 2017: Professor Stern has joined the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) as an Institute Fellow.
June, 2017: Guohua Wei has graduated with his Ph.D. Congratulations!
June, 2017: The Stern group is now part of the new Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies (CAPST). Check out the press release to learn about this new research center.
May, 2017: Jeff's paper on Valley-Polarized Exciton-Polaritons has been published in Nature Photonics! You can view a public full-text here!
May, 2017: Guohua's paper on Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors has been published in Scientific Reports! You can view a public full-text here!
May, 2017: Congratulations to Guohua Wei on successfully defending his dissertation!
May, 2017: Read our contributions to the 2017 Dimensions — the Physics & Astronomy Newsletter from Northwestern University!
February, 2017: Check out our AAO Observer piece article outlining our collaboration in astrophotonics.
February, 2017: Ying's paper on increased conductivity along the interface of a 2D lateral homojunction has been published in 2D Materials!
January, 2017: Jeff's paper on valley-polarized exciton-polaritons has been added to arXiv!
December, 2016: Ying's paper on increased conductivity along the interface of a 2D lateral homojunction has been added to the archive!
October, 2016: Congratulations to Chris Koch for being chosen as a semi-finalist in the 2016 Siemens Competition!
July, 2016: Ryan Bailey-Crandell and Thomas Adams will be joining us this summer for REU and RET through the MRSEC program at Northwestern!
May, 2016: Congratulations to Nathaniel Speiser for receiving the Outstanding Sophomore award!
May, 2016: Guohua is being sponsored by Montana Instruments at CLEO 2016!
March, 2016: Prof. Stern has been selected for the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program! Read about it here and see full list of recipients here.
March, 2016: Prof. Stern helps explain the rise ball pitch in Northwestern Magazine.
February, 2016: Dr. Stern was featured in Northwestern Research Annual Report for his work on the quantum properties of 2D materials.
November, 2015: Guohua’s pictures of the recent lunar eclipse are featured in the Northwestern Research newsletter!
September, 2015: Guohua's paper on interfacing TMDCs with silicon-nitride photonic circuits has been published in APL!
June, 2015: Dr. Lei Liu joins the group!
May, 2015: Guohua Wei won the CNM Best Student Poster Prize at the 2015 APS/CNM Users Meeting.