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March 2021: Jiyang Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Chen.

January 2021: Ms. Jolaikha Sultana joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome Jolaikha!

November 2020: Our collaborative work with Dr. Xiao Shen group on the "Anisotropic Optical Properties of Single Si2Te3 Nanoplates" is published in Nature Scientific Reports (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76265-1)

August 2020: Mr. Bryson Krause joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome Bryson!

June 2020: Graduate students Dipendra Khatri and Negar Charchi successfully defended their theses. Congratulations to both.

June 2020: Dr. Thang Hoang (in collaboration with Dr. Xiaohua Huang, Chemistry) received an NIH grant to support a project titled "Single exosome protein profiling with surface enhanced Raman scattering imaging". This project aims at developing a technique to detect cancer from single exosomes by using plasmonic nanoparticles. The main mechanism relies on the enhanced Raman scattering by the presence of metal nanoparticles such as gold nanostars and nanorods. Because of its very high sensitivity, this technique allows for the detection of breast cancer at early stages.

May 2020: Our manuscript "Plasmon-assisted random lasing from a single-mode fiber tip" is published in Optics Express (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.391650).

May 2020: Our manuscript on the extreme sub-wavelength light confinement is published in Nanoscale Advances (DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00262C). This work has been selected to be included in the 2020 Nanoscale Advances HOT Article Collection. Hot Article collections are selected by the editors and reviewers and receive a high level of interest from the research community.

April 2020: Our collaborative work with Dr. Xiao Shen group on the "Anisotropic Optical Properties of 2D Silicon Telluride" is published in MRS Advances (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.186)

March 2020: graduate students Jiyang Chen and Dipendra Khatri to present their works at the APS March Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

October 2019: graduate students Jiyang Chen, Dipendra Khatri, Negar Charchi presented their works at the Materials Day INDIUM 2019. The event gathered scientists, graduate, undergraduate and high school students in the MidSouth region.

August 2019: Thang Hoang presented an invited talk at the XXVIII International Materials Research Congress (IMRC 2019), Cancun, Mexico.

March 2019: The group presented two contributed talks (Structural and optical properties of Si₂Te₃nanowires and Control of radiative processes using periodic arrays of plasmonic nanostructures, at the American Physical Society Meeting in Boston, MA.

January 2019: Our manuscript "Probing the dynamics of photoexcited carriers in Si2Te3 nanowires", a work of collaboration with Dr. Cui and Dr. Shen, is now accepted for publication (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5053932).

Welcome graduate student Dipendra Singh Khatri to join our Lab.

November 2018: Dr. Thang Hoang presented a seminar at the University of Cincinnati, OH.

September 2018: Our manuscript on the competition between the plasmon-assisted spontaneous emission and Förster resonance energy transfer in hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials is accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

September 2018: Welcome graduate students Yuwaraj Adhikari and Negar Charchi to join our Lab this Fall.

August 2018: Thang Hoang presented an invited talk at the 21th Southeast Ultrafast Conference at Georgia Tech, GA.

August 2018: Dr. Xiaohua Huang (Chemistry) and Dr. Thang Hoang won a Development Grant from the Office of Technology Transfer.

July 2018: Article “Probing the origin of highly-efficient third-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanogaps” is now published in Optics Express.

July 2018: Dr. Mishra and Dr. Hoang won a grant from the FedEx Institute of Technology to develop next-generation energy storage devices for biologistic applications. Interested students are encouraged to contact Drs. Mishra and Hoang to participate.

July 2018: Dr. Laradji and Dr. Hoang won a grant from the FedEx Institute of Technology to develop plasmon-enhanced temperature and humidity sensors for biologistic applications. Interested students are encouraged to contact Drs. Laradji and Hoang to participate.

May 2018: Thang Hoang won the 2018 Ralph E. Powe Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). The project aims to investigate dual-band plasmon resonances for efficient nanophotonics. Motivated students are encouraged to contact Dr. Hoang to participate.

March 2018: The group presented a talk at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA

October 2017: Paper on coherent properties of plasmon nanolasers published in Nano Letters

August 2017: Thang Hoang presented an invited talk at the XXVI International Materials Research Congress (IMRC 2017)

Welcome White Station High and Pleasant View School students, Shridhar Athinarayanan and Alhasan Hadidi, who will be working in our lab during the summer of 2017.

May 2017: Thang Hoang won an NSF Award.

April 2017: The lab was equipped with a closed-cycle cryostat for low-temperature measurements. Thanks to College of Arts Sciences, the University of Memphis for its support!

March 2017: Thang Hoang won the University of Memphis Faculty Research Grant!

March 2017: Thang Hoang presented a seminar at Oak Ridge National Lab.

Feb 2017: Paper on temporal and spatial valley dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors published in Physical Review B

Feb 2017: The lab was equipped with a Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting system, including 2 PMD APDs, a TDA200 sync detector and a PicoHarp 300 module from Picoquant. Thanks to College of Arts Sciences, the University of Memphis for its support!

Dec. 2016: Our lab was equipped with a Coherent Ultrafast (fs) tunable Chameleon laser system.

Oct. 2016: Our first equipment arrived - a high spectral resolution iHR550 Horiba spectrograph and Synapse CCD camera (2048 x 512 pixels, QE ~ 95% at ~600 nm).

Sept. 2016: Thang Hoang presented a seminar "Control of radiative processes in nanomaterials using tunable plasmonic nanopatch antennas" at the University of Memphis.

Sept. 2016: Thang Hoang started working full time at the University of Memphis.