Alexandra Boltasseva named 2013 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for photonics
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ltasseva named 2013 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for photonics
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lexandra Boltasseva, assistant professor at Purdue University, has been named the 2013 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator. Boltasseva was cited for “pioneering research to develop novel materials for advanced plasmonic, metamaterial and transformation optics devices with potential applications in future nanoscale photonic technologies.” She will be presented with the award at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. A prolific researcher, Boltasseva has quickly made many contributions to the plasmonics and metamaterials field, including plasmon waveguides and circuits, and semiconductor metamaterials components. Her research includes transformative work on waveguides offering subwavelength-confinement and novel fabrication approaches for nanoplasmonic devices.
Most recently, she has tackled a key problem in plasmonics. The majority of work in this field utilizes noble metals, such as silver and gold, which exhibit absorption losses related in part to their relatively high electron densities. Boltasseva has now pointed the photonics and materials research community toward a counterintuitive direction, which is to explore plasmonic excitations in less metallic materials, which confers the opportunity to significantly reduce the absorption losses. Her work has demonstrated potential for reduced loss in novel plasmonic materials, including conducting oxide and nitride compounds, implying a bright future for plasmonic materials at near- and mid-infrared as well as visible wavelengths. In addition to her position in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue, Boltasseva is adjunct
55th Electronic Materials Conference
June 26-28, 2013 // University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
REGISTER BY JUNE 7, 2013 AND SAVE! The 55th Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) is the premier annual forum on the preparation and characterization of electronic materials. EMC, held June 26-28, 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, will feature a plenary session, parallel topical sessions, a poster session and an industrial exhibition, and immediately follows the Device Research Conference. Student participation in this Conference is partially supported by a grant from the TMS Foundation.
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Conference Organizer Christian Wetzel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Program Organizer Andrew Allerman Sandia National Laboratories
MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 38 • MARCH 2013
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www.mrs.org/bulletin
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