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News

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2024

  • Our s-SNOM reaches 5K and 7T.​

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2023

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  • Our work on Magneto-Dirac Excitons is published in Nature Nano Link

  • 2023 Experimental Physics Investigators announced!  Link

  • Liu has been awarded 2023 Moore Experimental Investigator Link

  • Liu is among the three finalists for the 2023 Discovery Prize Link

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2021

Our work is featured in ALS Science Brief

  • A Powerful Infrared Technique Broadens Its Horizons  Link

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2020

Our work is featured in Research Update in Physics World

  • Silk hard drive stores optical data  Link​​

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2020

Richard Ren (intern from high school) received awards:

Novel S-polarized Probe Design Awards - Used computational electrodynamics simulations to design an s-polarized scattering-type near-field optical microscopy probe design for medical and extraterrestrial sample analysis applications:

  • Junior Science & Humanities Symposium Regional – 1st Place in Physics

  • New York State Science and Engineering Fair ISEF Division – High Honors Finalist

  • Long Island Science and Engineering Fair – 2nd Place in Physics

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2020

Our paper on electronic moire pattern in manganite film is published in Nature Physics

  • Moiré Engineering of Electronic Phenomena in Correlated Oxides
    Xinzhong Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Lin Li*, Nan Zhang, Zhijing Niu, Tengfei Guo, Suheng Xu, Han Xu, Dongli Wang, Huayang Zhang, A. S. McLeod, Zhenlin Luo, Qingyou Lu, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov*, Mengkun Liu*, Changgan Zeng*    arXiv:1907.11566, Nature Physics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0865-1. Link 

  • Inside Science (Link)

  • ScienceNet (Link)

  • Stony Brook University News (Link) new!

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2020

Xinzhong Chen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in May.

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Xinzhong Chen received the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students from Stony Brook University.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy has selected Xinzhong Chen to receive the Brown Prize in recognition of his outstanding academic achievements​.

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2020

Our work is featured in the inside front cover of Advanced Optical Materials

  • Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy of Polaritons with Time Resolved s-SNOM  Ziheng Yao, Suheng Xu, Debo Hu, Xinzhong Chen, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Advanced Optical Materials 1901042 (2019). Link  [pdf]

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2019 BNL appointment

  • Since Oct.1 2019, Mengkun Liu has a joint appointment at NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

 

 

2019 Advanced Light source highlight

  • Our work on Ca2RuO4 is highlighted by Advanced Light Source in Berkeley Link

  • Ziheng Yao's introduction of ALS s-SNOM beamline (SINS) on international day of light:  https://youtu.be/_o4nL7tm7O8

  • Ziheng Yao got the Doctoral Fellowship from ALS at Berkeley! (2nd in a row!)

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2018 Regeneron Science Talent 

  • On Jan. 23, 2018, in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo are among 40 students named nationwide with the chance to compete in Washington, D.C.   See news following the (link) 

  • Video interview from Hello New Yorker (link)

 

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2018 Advanced Light source highlight

  • Our work on SmS (Near-Field Spectroscopic Investigation of Dual-Band Heavy Fermion Metamaterials, Nature Communications 8, 2262 (2017). Link [pdf] is highlighted by Advanced Light Source in Berkeley (link)

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2014 Time resolved surface plasmons in InAs

  • "How to control superfast surface plasmons" by nanotechweb (link)

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2014 Phonon Polaritons Near-field Imaging in hBN

  • "Far Out! Making Crystals Ripple with Light" by LiveScience (link).

  • "Crystals ripple in response to light" by Phys.org (link).

  • "Light on Boron Nitride Creates Tunable Ripples" by spectrum.ieee.org (link).

  • "Phonon polaritons propagate in 2D" by Nanotechweb.org (link).

  • "Phonon Polaritons" by nanotechetc.com (link).

  • "Vibrating Atoms with Light" by overclockersclub.com (link).

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2013 Grain Boundaries Near-field Mapping in graphene

  • "Surface plasmons: a probe for graphene electronics" by Remi Carminati in Nature Nanotech. (Link).

  •  "Surface plasmons reveal grain boundaries in graphene" by nanotechweb.org (Link),

  • Physics World (Link), 

  • Physics News (Link), 

  • esciencenew.com (Link).

  • "Researchers use surface plasmons to see and study graphene grain boundaries" by graphene-info.com (Link).

  • "Atomic ruptures in a conductive carbon net" by CeNS news, Germany (Link). 

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2012 THz induced insulator to metal phase transition in VO2

 
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