Professor
Srinivasa Ramanujan Distinguished Scholar
Materials Science and Engineering
3231 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272
Office: LRSM 324
Phone: (215) 573-3037
Email: riteshag[at]seas.upenn.edu
Ritesh Agarwal
Visiting Researchers
Do Hyun Kim
Phase change, strain engineering
Ph.D. Students
Yuhui Wang
Semiconductor Plasmonics
Harshvardhan Jog
Topological Materials
Yicong Chen
Topological Materials
Jia-Chen Shi
Topological Photonics
Utkarsh Khandelwal
Topological Materials
Shupeng Xu
Topological Photonics
People
(No title)
Mariam Georges (joint with Dan Gianola, MSE), expected May 2011.
Christopher Rodd
Nanowire-Conducting Polymer Hybrid Systems
May 2011
Brian Piccione
Light-Matter Coupling in Nanowire Optical Cavities
Carlos Aspetti
Nanowire plasmonics
May 2014
Pavan Nukala
Phase Change Nanowires: insitu microscopy analysis
May 2014
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pnukala/
Rahul Agarwal
Chalcogenide nanowires, Phase change and thermoelectrics
May 2015
Joohee Park
Nanowire Optics
May 2015
Siddharth Ghosh
(Jointly with G. Piazza, ESE, Penn)
Nanowire Optomechanics
May 2014
Postdocs
Dr. Youngchul Leem
Dr. Minsoo Hwang
Dr. Wenjing Liu
Semiconductor Plasmonics
Undergraduates
Sonya Kripke
Synthesis and Characterization of Te based nanostructures for thermoelectric applications
Karthik Kumar
Ultra-small phase change nanowires
Aaron Wirshba
Nanowire waveguides
Past Postdocs
- Dr. Chang-Hee Cho (Semiconductor Nanophotonics and Plasmonics); Currently Assistant Professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Department of Emerging Materials Science, Korea.
- Dr. Hee-Suk Chung (Phase Change Materials, in-situ TEM); Currently senior engineer at Samsung Inc. electro-mechanics, Korea
- Dr. Sung Wook Nam (Phase Change Materials, in-situ TEM); Currently Research Scientist at IBM.
- Dr. Lambert van Vugt (Semiconductor Nanophotoincs)
- Dr. Se-Ho Lee (Phase Change Nanowires); Currently Senior MTS, Hynix Semiconductor Inc, Korea
- Dr. Bin Zhang (Cation Exchange Phenomena in II-VI Nanowires); Currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Tianjin University.
- Dr. Huacheng Zhang (Nanowire Surface Engineering for Organic/Inorganic Devices)
- Dr. Mukut Mitra (Drift in nanowire phase change memory) Currently at Applied Materials
- Dr. Sajal Dhara (Investigating orbital interaction induced chirality in semiconducting nanostructures by optoelectronic probe); Currently Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur
- Dr. Moon Hyung Jang (Phase Change Nanowire growth and Characterization); Currently Phil Parrish Fellow, University of Virginia
- Dr. Ming-Liang Ren (Nonlinear optics in photonic and plasmonic systems); Currently at Mellon Bank
- Dr. Liaoxin Sun (Strong light-matter coupling and strain effects in nanostructures); Currently Sr. Scientist, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics
Past Ph.D. Students
- Carlos O. Aspetti (Surface plasmon-based engineering of semiconductor nanowire optics): PhD Awarded Dec 2014. Management Consultant in Greater New York Metropolitan Area.
- Chris Rodd (Light-Matter Coupling in Nanowire Optical Cavities): PhD Awarded May 2013. Patent Examiner at U.S. Patent Office.
- Brian Piccione (Light-Matter Coupling in Nanowire Optical Cavities): PhD Awarded May 2013. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Recipient of “Early Career Recognition Award” from Pennsylvania State University.
- Yeonwoong Jung (Nanowire Phase Change Memory): PhD Awarded May 2009. Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. Recipient of MRS-silver medal award, NBIC-Penn Student Research award, Stein Prize for best PhD Thesis.
- Pavan Nukala (Currently Marie Curie Fellow, University of Groningen)
- Joohee Park (Currently at Intel)
- Rahul Agarwal (Currently at Intel-Micron)
- Jacob Berger (Currently at Lam Research)
- Daksh Agarwal (Currently at Applied Materials)
- Wenjing Liu (Currently Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania)
- Gerui Liu (Currently at ASML)
- Zhurun Ji (Currently at Stanford University)
Past Masters Students
- Haofeng Li (Polymer/Semiconductor hybrid solar cells): May 2011. Currently Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering.
- Dong-Kyon Ko (Growth of Phase Change Nanowires): Dec 2006. Currently Ph.D. student at Penn Chemistry.
- Yu-Han Cheng (Controlled Growth of High-Density Nanowires): May 2007. Currently Ph.D. student at UCSD.
- Tyler Zimmerman (Nanowire Solar Cells): May 2008. Currently at Boeing Corporation.
- Chung-Ying Yang (Recrystallization Mechanism in Phase Change Nanowires): May 2009. Currently at Taiwan Semiconductors.
- Chien-An Chen (Growth Dominant Recrystallization in Phase Change Nanowires): May 2009
Past Undergraduates
- Karthik Kumar (Ultra-small phase change nanowire, characterization and growth)
- Aaron Wishba (Nanowire waveguides)
- Rahil Mehrotra (Radiation effects on phase change nanowire devices)
- Thomas Walsh (Radiation effects on phase change nanowire devices)
- Shoham Bhadra (Nanowire spectrometer)
- Eric Mills (Nanowire spectrometer)
- Arthur Spector (Nanowire waveguide dispersion)
- Mariam Georges (Bio inspired photovltaics)
- Justin Chung (Coupled nanowire LED-detector systems)
- Andrew Jennings (Size-Controlled growth of Phase Change Nanowires with Novel Catalysts)
- Alex Sztein (Waveguiding in Nanowires with Controlled Defects)
- Johanna Engel (Diameter Control of Phase Change Nanowires)
- Jennifer Ehrich (Memory Switching in Nanowires)