Labs & Research :

• Basov Lab - [link] ;  Richard Averitt Lab - [link];

• NSLS-II Infrared programs -  [link]; 

• Mengkun's Google Scholar Citation - [link]

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Music list (for late-night lab work or proposal/paper writings):

A fresh start at 9 pm:

Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears) Link

Last Christmas (Wham!) Link

House of the Rising Sun (The Animals) Link   Link

Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye / Tammi Terrell)  Link

A Smile from the Sea (Zhan Huang, Piano by Muxin) Link

River Flows in You (Yiruma) Link

When something goes wrong at midnight:   

Another one bites the dust (Queen)  Link

Lonely (NANA) Link

Trouble is a friend (Lenka)  Link

I'm not in love (10cc)  Link

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone)  Link

Mama Do You Remember ? (Joe Yamanaka) Link

Let me be  (The Beatles)  Link

赤い疑惑 (山口百恵) Link

Live a More Than Desultory Life (许巍) Link

When you see hope in your data at 1 am:

You're Beautiful (James Blunt)  Link

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (Aerosmith) Link

Right Here Waiting (Richard Marx) Link

Like a Prayer (Madonna)  Link

Stronger  (Kelly Clarkson)   Link

The Ordinary Road(朴树) Link

Now I wanna dance, I wanna win, I want that trophy Link

Don't stop me now (Queen)  Link

When you are having fun in the lab at 2 am

Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)  Link

Merry-Go-Round of Life (Quartet Joe Hisaishi / Yuto Yamada)  Link

Unstoppable (Sia)  Link

Lemon Tree (Fools Garden)  Link

Call me (Blondie)  Link

Every Breath You Take (The Police)  Link

I feel good (James Brown)    Link

Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars)   Link

Interstellar (Performed by Eric Zhang)  Link

Why not Tango (Al Pacino)  Link

When you leave the lab at 4 am:

Last of the Mohicans (Alexandro Querevalú / HuaXiang Hsiao Ying / Nobushi Kawahara ) Link

Seasons In The Sun (Westlife)  Link

You Are Not Alone (Michael Jackson) Link

​The sound of silence (Simon & Garfunkel)  Link

Imagine, You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)  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].