Labs & Research :

• Near-field signal calculator! (Working progress, please contact Dr. Liu for more detail or need help with the modeling & calculation) 

• Basov Lab - [link] ;  

• Richard Averitt Lab - [link];  

• NSLS-II Infrared programs -  [link];

• Advanced Light Source - [link];

• Los Alamos CINT - [link]

• Mengkun's Google Scholar Citation - [link]

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Useful links:

• How to prepare a PowerPoint  -[link]

• THz database - [link];  THz TDS setups - [link];  Refractive Index Database -[link] [link]; IR materials -[link]; 

• RefFit -  [link];

• ISI web of knowledge - [link];

• Light frequency unit converter - [link] [link]; 

• Field strength calculator - [link] [link]

• TeX equation editor - [link]; 

• The Scale of the Universe 2 - [link]

• Nanohub courses - [link]

• AFM knowledge - [link] [link]

• Sound velocity calculator - [link]

• Handy online calculators - [link]

• Online applets [link]

• Draw crystal lattices  [link]

• Neural Network  [link]   [link]

• Dongfang's painting - [link]

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For our new group members (or beginners):

Training:

1. Laser safety training: https://ehs.stonybrook.edu//services/training/training-course-list-and-descriptions#RadiationSafety

2. Laser Teaching Center at SBU: https://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/

3. Practical Guide to Optical Alignment: [pdf]

Techniques:

1. ​THz spectroscopy (antenna based):  2nd and 3rd chapters in Tae-In Jeon's thesis [pdf];  1st and 2nd chapter in Verner Kristian Thorsmolle's thesis [pdf];

2. THz spectroscopy (nonlinear crystal based):  Ingrid Wike and Suranjana Sengupta [pdf]; 

3. IR Near-field spectroscopy: 2nd chapter in Nenad Ocelic's theis [pdf]; Our own review paper: [pdf]

4. THz near-field spectroscopy: Two papers from our group 1 [pdf]  2 [pdf]; and one paper from Fritz Keilmann et al. [pdf];

5. Alignment of parabolic mirrors: Yeon H. Lee's paper [pdf].

Materials:

1. ​Electrodynamics of correlated electron materials [pdf];

2. Nanoscale electrodynamics of strongly correlated quantum materials [pdf];

3. Quantum materials [pdf];

4. Polaritons in van der Waals materials [pdf].