People
Currently the Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics group consists of
Pieter Kik,
Seyfollah Toroghi, and
Chatdanai 'Tua' Lumdee.
Contact info can be found below or by clicking the links above.
Prof. Pieter G. Kik
Phone 407-8234622 / Fax 407-8236875 /
Email: kik creol.ucf.edu
Pieter obtained his Ph.D. at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam
(AMOLF) in the group of Prof. A. Polman.
He subsequently joined the group of Prof. H. A. Atwater at Caltech
as a postdoctoral scholar working on surface plasmon nanophotonics. Current research interests are near-field optical interactions, plasmon optical devices, and
nanoscale energy transfer processes.
Seyfollah Toroghi
Lab 407-8236979 / Office 407-8236899 /
Email: storoghiknights.ucf.edu
Seyfollah joined the group in the Fall of 2009. He received his B.S. in Applied Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics
from Tabriz University, in Tabriz, Iran, and his
M.S. in Photonics at Shahid Beheshti University.
His work will involve simulations and experiments on plasmon resonant nanostructured composites.
Chatdanai 'Tua' Lumdee
Lab 407-8236979 / Office 407-8236950 /
Email: chatdanai.Lknights.ucf.edu
Tua joined the group in the Fall of 2010. He received his B.S. in
Engineering with a major in Nano Engineering at
Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand.
His work focuses on field enhancement in nanostructured surfaces for biosensing applications.
Yu-Wei Lin
Lab 407-8236979 / Office 407-8236899 /
Email: yu-weiknights.ucf.edu
Yu-Wei joined the group in the Spring of 2012 to pursue a Masters Degree in Optics. His work will focuses on the large-scale
fabrication of nanophotonic elements using nano-imprint lithpgraphy (NIL).
Binfeng 'Bin' Yun
Lab 407-8236979 / Office 407-8236899 /
Email: ybfcreol.ucf.edu
Bin joined the group in the Fall of 2011 as a Visiting Research Scientist, working on the use of
electron-beam-lithography fabricated coupled plasmon resonant structures for use as surface enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates.
Alumni
Oleksandr (Alex) Savchyn
Desk 407-8236950 / Lab 407-8236979 /
Email: osavchynmail.ucf.edu
Alex joined the group in Fall 2004. After earning his PhD in Optics in 2010, Alex Savchyn joined Micron Technology
where he worked on enhancing the resolution of UV lithography. Currently, he works at Oclaro in the greater
Boston, MA area where he is involved in the development of the new generation of transponders for fiber optics networks.
For more up-to-date information, please see Dr.
Alex Savchyn on LinkedIn.
Amitabh Ghoshal
Desk 407-8236899 / Lab 407-8236979 /
Email: aghoshalcreol.ucf.edu
Amitabh is originally from Calcutta, India. He earned his BA in 2001 from Hanover
College in the short span of 3½ years with majors in Physics and Computer
Science and a minor in Mathematics. His work as a Graduate student involved designing structures for
efficient excitation of surface plasmons on metal films. After obtaining his PhD
in Optics in 2010, Dr. Ghoshal
joined the group of
Prof. Daniel E Morse at the
University of California at Santa Barbara, in the
Institute for Collabrative Biotechnolgies.
For more up-to-date information, see Dr.
Amitabh Ghoshal on LinkedIn.
Monas Shahzad
Lab 407-8236979 / Office 407-8236860 /
Email: mshahzadphysics.ucf.edu
Monas joined the group in the Fall of 2009. He received is M.S. in Physics with a specialization in electronics
in 2001 at the Govt. College Lahore, Pakistan. In 2007 he moved to the United States on a Fullbright Scholarship.
His work focused on the use of sub-stochiometric oxides for applications in photonics.
Damien Denis
Damien visited the group in the Summer of 2009 as part of an
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program funded
by the National Science Foundation.
During his visit he developed an automated experimental setup
to perform angle-controlled reflectivity measurements in-situ
in an inverted optical microscope. This setup can ultimately
be used to excited surface plasmons on a wide variety of samples.
Grady Webb-Wood
Grady obtained his BS in physics from Duke
University working in the group of Henry Everitt, where he
did simulations of 2D photonic crystals and performed
refractive index measurements on Al(x)Ga(1-x)N films. As a
Graduate student of Optics he studied near-field focusing
using surface plasmons on thin metal films.
Forrest Ruhge
After completing his B.S. in Physics at UCF, Forrest joined the Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics Group
in Fall 2004. His work as a Masters student in the group focused on semiconductor nanoparticle synthesis and characterization
for applications in microlasers.
Dana Kohlgraf-Owens
Dana obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at
Ohio State. She joined CREOL in Fall 2005. Her research focused on plasmon enhanced nonlinear effects in metallodielectric structures.
Horacio Carias
Horacio joined the group in Fall 2005 to work on surface plasmon dispersion engineering while he
was an undergraduate student in the
Department of Physics at UCF.
Britt Torrance
Britt joined the group during the Spring of 2006 to work on surface plasmon technologies and nanoscale optics,
with a particular interest in plasmonic waveguides for data transfer/processing and the materials these systems
will require. Britt has done prior research with Dr.
Stephen M. Kuebler, of the UCF
Department of Chemistry and
CREOL,
before changing his major to Physics. He currently works
as a PhD student at GeorgiaTech.
Clarisse Mazuir
Desk 407-8231671 / Lab 407-8236979 /
Email: cmazuircreol.ucf.edu
Clarisse joined the group for a Master's project in 2005. Before coming to CREOL she studied
undergraduate Optics at the Ecole Superieure d’Optique.
Her research project will focus on surface plasmon dispersion control.
Elodie Largenton
Desk 407-8231671 / Lab 407-8236979 /
Email: elodiecreol.ucf.edu
Elodie is a student at the
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique in Marseille,
France. As part of her undergraduate studies she will do a short project in the group involving
plasmon resonance tuning.
Karthik Narayanan
Desk 407-8231671 / Lab 407-8236979 /
Email: knarayanmail.ucf.edu
Karthik Narayanan worked in the Kik group for one year starting in
2003. As part of his Directed Research he studied surface plasmon
refraction. In 2004 he joined the Microsystems Engineering program at the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
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