Yi-Siou’s and Chih-Yu’s review in Annual Reviews in Materials Research
Our group has been honored with an invitation to contribute to the 2025 edition of the Annual Reviews in Materials…
Niloy becomes PM&D’s first PhD!!
Congratulations on his graduation!
Hongyi’s paper is published in Nature Comms
Engineering a microheater hotspot allows for spatially resolved and repeatable multi-level switching of phase change materials in foundry-processed silicon photonics…
Sheron is recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
Congratulations! See the list of awardees here
Visualizing Plasmonic Deposition and Nanoparticle Reshaping is published in Matter
The work led by UMD Prof. Taylor Woehl’s group is published in Matter. Our contributioin consisted of performing the theoretical/modelling…
Our research is highlighted by UMD!
Our research on phase change materials for photonic and electronics has been highlighted by our School of Engineering on the…
Carlos selected to attend NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Carlos was selected to participate in the prestigious 2024 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium along with other 75 distinguished early…
Sheron’s internship at Apple
We congratulate Sheron for having interned at Apple over the summer of 2024, being selected after a very competitive selection…
Chih-Yu attends Optica’s Siegman school
Chih-Yu is selected from a competitive pool of students to participate in the 2024 Siegman International School on Lasers organized…
First Electrically Reconfigurable Phase-Change nIR-Transmissive Metasurface published in Advanced Materials
This study, led by our collaborators Prof. JJ Hu (MIT) and Dr. Hyun-Jung Kim (NASA), demonstrated a non-mechanical, non-volatile transmissive…
Rewritable photonic integrated circuits published in Science Advances
Prof. Mo Li’s group at the University of Washington led this work, the first demosntration of direct-write and rewritable photonic…
Chris Vagionas visited us in Fall 2023 as Fullbright Scholar
We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Chris Vagionas! Lots of interesting new ideas and results… stay tuned!
Carlos was awarded the 2023 ICO-IUPAP Award!
The ICO newsletter with further information can be found here
Carlos to lead a $2m NSF FuSe project
on high-throughput discovery of Phase Change Materials for Co-designed Electronic and Optical Computational Devices. FuSe: Future of Semiconductors
Internships and scholarships: Summer 2023
Congrats to Yi-Siou for his internship at TSMC and to Chih-Yu for her scholarship to participate in the Integrated Quantum…
Our review paper is published Nature Photonics!
See what the news outlets have written about out paper: Phys.org, Optics.org, NanoWerk, and more…
The youngest member of the PM&D Lab was born in Dec 2022!
We welcome Orho Acharjee and congratulate his parents, Niloy and Trisha!
Carlos is selected as an APL Photonic’s Early Career Advisory Board members
5 Early Career Editorial Advisory Board appointees are selected yearly to assist the journal with early career researcher initiatives.
Yi-Siou’s paper is published in Materials Today Advances
Embedding phase-change materials with novel Fano-resonant optical coatings lead to unprecedented tunable transmissive structural color.
Niloy wins the George Corcoran Memorial award. Congratulations!
Awarded to a Graduate Student in recognition of excellence in teaching. Very well deserved! See the full note here
OMEX Feature Issue on Phase Change Materials is out!
Carlos was the Lead Guest Editor on Optical Materials Express’s new feature issue on Phase Change Materials for Optics and…
PCMs+Graphene+Silicon Photonics published in Nature Nano!
A joint effort to develop close to the theoretical limit ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials…
Sheron’s Review on Photonic memories is out in Nanophotonics
We have published an extensive (invited) review on tunable nanophotonics for photonic computational memories.
New paper in Nanoscale Horizons
Our collaborators at Sandia Labs led the demonstration of strong Purcell enhancement at telecom wavelengths afforded by spinel Fe3O4 nanocrystals…
New paper in Nature Communications
Our collaborators at the University of Virginia have demonstrated suppressed electronic contribution in thermal conductivity of Ge2Sb2Se4Te
Rising Stars of Light
Carlos has been awarded Third Prize by Rising Stars of Light
Hello world!
The Photonic Materials & Devices Group @UMD has opened its doors in August 2021! See: IREAP News post