Amazing. My students do extensive repeated cleans on samples b/c the building’s HVAC system spits black dust all over the labs. Experiments are done under a tarp b/c the roof leaks. But @utaustin.bsky.social will spend >300K on a speechwriter b/c we have a pres. who knows nothing about higher ed

Here are the figures from the original paper:

Here are figures from the 2023 paper:

UT Mid-IR & Seth Bank’s LASE group’s annual holiday dinner, with special guest appearances from Linran Fan and Lilly Chin and group members. Sonos 40lbs of turkey put away!

Recent work published in Nanophotonics and selected for the cover. Led by Prof. Viktor Podolskiy and graduate student Jacob LaMountain at UMass Lowell and @utmid-ir.bsky.social graduate student Amogh Raju, we investigate the source of efficient light concentration in metamaterial photonic funnels

Fall / Back surgery reading list:
James - Percival Everett: The story of Huckleberry Finn told through Jim’s eyes. Beautifully written, compelling, funny but also brutal. Devoured it in no time. Highly recommend.

1st paper of 2024, in Appl. Phys. Lett., led by Felix A. Estevez H., with RMD Inc. and AFRL, showing bulk passivation of InAsSbBi can result in a ~3x improvement in minority carrier lifetime, an important result for dilute-Bi IR detectors!
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