Kavli Nanoscience Institute
Graduate Alumni — PhD
Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Circuits for Quantum Spectroscopy
Hwang, Emily Yoonju ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Cushing, Scott K.
Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions
Lei, Mi ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks
Ruskuc, Andrei ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in Nanoelectromechanical and Silicon-Organic Systems
Zheng, Tianzhe ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics
Biswas, Souvik ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits
Kim, Eun Jong ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices
Kim, Yonghwi ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions
Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light
Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Dielectric Metasurfaces for Integrated Imaging Devices and Active Optical Elements
Kwon, Hyounghan ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Bioinspired Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications
Narasimhan, Vinayak ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Choo, Hyuck; Gharib, Morteza
Stability of Photo-Electrochemical Interface for Solar Fuels
Yu, Weilai ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul
Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers for Next-generation Coherent Optical Communication
Zhang, Zhewei ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Yariv, Amnon
Quantum Storage of Light Using Nanophotonic Resonators Coupled to Erbium Ion Ensembles
Craiciu, Ioana ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Ng, Ryan Cecil ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Cavity Optomechanics for Hybrid Quantum Systems
Ren, Hengjiang ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Metasurfaces: Beyond Diffractive and Refractive Optics
Arbabi, Ehsan ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction
Brouillet, Jeremy Jean ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering
Fleischman, Dagny ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Microstructure and Small-Scale Deformation of Al₀.₇CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy
Giwa, Adenike Monsurat ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates
Kettenbeil, Christian ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami
Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium
Kim, Laura ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate
Kindem, Jonathan Miners ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Korth, William Zachary ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Adhikari, Rana
Tailoring Thermal Radiation from Near Field to Far Field
Kou, Junlong ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.
Phonon Dynamics and Damping in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Bandgap Cavity-Optomechanical Resonators
MacCabe, Gregory Scott ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing
Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Small-Scale Deformation and Fracture of Hard Biomaterials
Tertuliano, Ottman Aeman ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architected Materials Driven by Electrochemistry
Xia, Xiaoxing ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Light Management in Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Cells using Tapered Micro and Nano Structures
Yalamanchili, Sisir ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Lewis, Nathan Saul
Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair Proteins
Bartels, Phillip Leon ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Barton, Jacqueline K.
Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering
Chernow, Victoria Fay ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Thermal Transport in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitected Materials
Dou, Nicholas Gang ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.
The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging
Harfouche, Mark ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Yariv, Amnon
Controlling the Flow of Light Using High-Contrast Metastructures
Horie, Yu ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Nanoscale Field Emission Devices
Jones, William Maxwell ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Scherer, Axel
Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers
Kim, Dongwan ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Yariv, Amnon
Optoelectronic Design and Prototyping of Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics
Lloyd, John Vickery ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Three-Dimensional Nano-Architected Materials as Platforms for Designing Effective Bone Implants
Maggi, Alessandro ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Tensile Failure and Fracture of Three-Dimensional Brittle Nanolattices
Mateos Arrieta, Arturo José ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Redox Signaling in Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Repair
O’Brien, Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Barton, Jacqueline K.
Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials
Sherrott, Michelle Caroline ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Integrated Ultra-High-Q Nonlinear Photonic Platform for On-Chip Optoelectronic Systems
Yang, Kiyoul ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.
Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics
Darbe, Sunita ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Electronically Tunable Light Modulation with Graphene and Noble Metal Plasmonics
Kim, Seyoon ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Circuit Cavity Electromechanics in the Quantum Regime
Lei, Chan U ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Schwab, Keith C.
Controlling Deformability in Metallic Glass Nanopillars and Nanolattices
Liontas, Rachel ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Integration into an Atomic Physics Experiment
McClung, Andrew Corby ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Kimble, H. Jeff
Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials
Miyazono, Evan Tsugio ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Faraon, Andrei
Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes
Ravichandran, Navaneetha Krishnan ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.
Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing
Sadek, Akram Sarwat ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Scherer, Axel
Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications
Suh, Myoung-Gyun ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.
Nano-Photonic Platform for Atom-Light Interaction
Yu, Su-Peng ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Kimble, H. Jeff
Optomechanical Inertial Sensors and Feedback Cooling
Blasius, Timothy Dobson ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications
Chen, Christopher Tien ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics
Emmer, Hal S. ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Hung, Peter Shek-Ho ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee
Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Property Analysis of 3D Nanoarchitected Materials
Meza, Lucas Rosendo ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Fabrication, Characterization, And Deformation of 3D Structural Meta-Materials
Montemayor, Lauren Christine ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity
Rios, Gustavo ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.
Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials
Aitken, Zachary Howard ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Fiber-Optic Integration and Efficient Detection Schemes for Optomechanical Resonators
Cohen, Justin Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons
Fakonas, James Spencer ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Mesoscale Optoelectronic Design of Wire-Based Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices
Fountaine, Katherine Theresa ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Development of Microfluidic Devices with the Use of Nanotechnology to Aid in the Analysis of Biological Systems Including Membrane Protein Separation, Single Cell Analysis, and Genetic Markers
Goldberg, Mark David ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Scherer, Axel
Strength, Deformation and Fracture in Metallic Nanostructures
Gu, Xun Wendy ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Norte, Richard Alexander ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.
Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects
Vilenchik, Yaakov ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Yariv, Amnon
Bright-Field and Fluorescence Chip-Scale Microscopy for Biological Imaging
Lee, Seung Ah ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Yang, Changhuei
A Multi-Scale Approach to Shaping Carbon Nanotube Structures for Hollow Microneedles
Lyon, Bradley Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Gharib, Morteza
Integrated Microsystems for Wireless Sensing Applications
Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Scherer, Axel
Label-Free Detection of Single Molecule Using Microtoroid Optical Resonators
Su, Tsu-Te Judith ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Rees, Douglas C.
Single Particle Mass Spectrometry and Inertial Imaging with Nanomechanical Systems
Kelber, Scott Ian ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee
Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis
Levine, Joseph H. ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Elowitz, Michael B.
Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement
Briggs, Ryan Morrow ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert
Surface Chemistry at the Nanometer Scale
Cao, Peigen ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Heath, James R.
Optical, Mechanical, and Electronic Properties of Etched Silicon Nanopillars
Walavalkar, Sameer Sudhir ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Scherer, Axel
Single Cell Pico Force Microscopy: A Novel Tool for High Resolution Measurement of Cell Forces
Axelrod, Blake Waters ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee
Studies of the Low-Energy Quasiparticle Excitations in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates with Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Magnetization Measurements
Beyer, Andrew David ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Yeh, Nai-Chang
Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications
Emery, Teresa Holly ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Scherer, Axel