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