Kavli Nanoscience Institute

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2026

Baspinar, Ayse Bilgehan — Multilayer Meta-Optics for Next-Generation Multifunctional Photonics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Gao, Ramon — Nanophotonic Lightsail Optomechanics for Long-Range Optical Manipulation and Interstellar Exploration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Gu, Yiran — Emerging Directions in Active and Multi-Layer Meta-Optics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Habermehl, Scott Thomas Philpott — Towards Analog Computing: An Electronically Reconfigurable Nanoelectromechanical Oscillator Network (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Nakahara, Kevin Hiroshi Keesun — Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Nano-Architected Composites Across Scales and Strain Rates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

Hwang, Emily Yoonju — Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Circuits for Quantum Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

Lei, Mi — Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Ruskuc, Andrei — Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Zheng, Tianzhe — Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in Nanoelectromechanical and Silicon-Organic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

Biswas, Souvik — Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

Kim, Eun Jong — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kim, Yonghwi — Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi — Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2021

Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh — Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kwon, Hyounghan — Dielectric Metasurfaces for Integrated Imaging Devices and Active Optical Elements (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Narasimhan, Vinayak — Bioinspired Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Yu, Weilai — Stability of Photo-Electrochemical Interface for Solar Fuels (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Zhang, Zhewei — Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers for Next-generation Coherent Optical Communication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

Craiciu, Ioana — Quantum Storage of Light Using Nanophotonic Resonators Coupled to Erbium Ion Ensembles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Ng, Ryan Cecil — Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Ren, Hengjiang — Cavity Optomechanics for Hybrid Quantum Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

Arbabi, Ehsan — Metasurfaces: Beyond Diffractive and Refractive Optics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Brouillet, Jeremy Jean — Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Fleischman, Dagny — Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Giwa, Adenike Monsurat — Microstructure and Small-Scale Deformation of Al₀.₇CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa — Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kettenbeil, Christian — Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kim, Laura — Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kindem, Jonathan Miners — Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Korth, William Zachary — Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kou, Junlong — Tailoring Thermal Radiation from Near Field to Far Field (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
MacCabe, Gregory Scott — Phonon Dynamics and Damping in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Bandgap Cavity-Optomechanical Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley — Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Tertuliano, Ottman Aeman — Small-Scale Deformation and Fracture of Hard Biomaterials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Xia, Xiaoxing — Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architected Materials Driven by Electrochemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Yalamanchili, Sisir — Light Management in Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Cells using Tapered Micro and Nano Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

Bartels, Phillip Leon — Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Chernow, Victoria Fay — Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Dou, Nicholas Gang — Thermal Transport in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitected Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Harfouche, Mark — The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Horie, Yu — Controlling the Flow of Light Using High-Contrast Metastructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Jones, William Maxwell — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kim, Dongwan — Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Lloyd, John Vickery — Optoelectronic Design and Prototyping of Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Maggi, Alessandro — Three-Dimensional Nano-Architected Materials as Platforms for Designing Effective Bone Implants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Mateos Arrieta, Arturo José — Tensile Failure and Fracture of Three-Dimensional Brittle Nanolattices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
O'Brien, Elizabeth — Redox Signaling in Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Repair (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Sherrott, Michelle Caroline — Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Yang, Kiyoul — Integrated Ultra-High-Q Nonlinear Photonic Platform for On-Chip Optoelectronic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

Darbe, Sunita — Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Kim, Seyoon — Electronically Tunable Light Modulation with Graphene and Noble Metal Plasmonics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Lei, Chan U — Circuit Cavity Electromechanics in the Quantum Regime (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Liontas, Rachel — Controlling Deformability in Metallic Glass Nanopillars and Nanolattices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
McClung, Andrew Corby — Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Integration into an Atomic Physics Experiment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Miyazono, Evan Tsugio — Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Ravichandran, Navaneetha Krishnan — Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Sadek, Akram Sarwat — Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Yu, Su-Peng — Nano-Photonic Platform for Atom-Light Interaction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2016

Blasius, Timothy Dobson — Optomechanical Inertial Sensors and Feedback Cooling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Chen, Christopher Tien — Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Emmer, Hal S. — Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Hung, Peter Shek-Ho — Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Khabiboulline, Emil Timergalievich — Angle-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Gyroid Photonic Crystals (Senior thesis (Major))
Meza, Lucas Rosendo — Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Property Analysis of 3D Nanoarchitected Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Montemayor, Lauren Christine — Fabrication, Characterization, And Deformation of 3D Structural Meta-Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Rios, Gustavo — Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2015

Aitken, Zachary Howard — Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Cohen, Justin Daniel — Fiber-Optic Integration and Efficient Detection Schemes for Optomechanical Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Fakonas, James Spencer — Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Fountaine, Katherine Theresa — Mesoscale Optoelectronic Design of Wire-Based Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Goldberg, Mark David — Development of Microfluidic Devices with the Use of Nanotechnology to Aid in the Analysis of Biological Systems Including Membrane Protein Separation, Single Cell Analysis, and Genetic Markers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Gu, Xun Wendy — Strength, Deformation and Fracture in Metallic Nanostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Norte, Richard Alexander — Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Vilenchik, Yaakov — Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

Lee, Seung Ah — Bright-Field and Fluorescence Chip-Scale Microscopy for Biological Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Lyon, Bradley Joseph — A Multi-Scale Approach to Shaping Carbon Nanotube Structures for Hollow Microneedles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad — Integrated Microsystems for Wireless Sensing Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Su, Tsu-Te Judith — Label-Free Detection of Single Molecule Using Microtoroid Optical Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2013

Kelber, Scott Ian — Single Particle Mass Spectrometry and Inertial Imaging with Nanomechanical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Latawiec, Pawel Michal — Bandgap Engineering Silicon Nanopillars (Senior thesis (Major))

2012

Levine, Joseph H. — Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Moehle, Austin Michael — Effects of Ca-Doping on the Vortex Properties and Pairing Symmetry of (Y1-xCax)Ba2Cu3O7-δ (Senior thesis (Major))

2011

Briggs, Ryan Morrow — Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Cao, Peigen — Surface Chemistry at the Nanometer Scale (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Walavalkar, Sameer Sudhir — Optical, Mechanical, and Electronic Properties of Etched Silicon Nanopillars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

Axelrod, Blake Waters — Single Cell Pico Force Microscopy: A Novel Tool for High Resolution Measurement of Cell Forces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Beyer, Andrew David — Studies of the Low-Energy Quasiparticle Excitations in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates with Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Magnetization Measurements (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

Emery, Teresa Holly — Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))