Our group will present the following talks at the Photonics West digital Forum: On-demand starting 6 March, 2021.
1. Jeffrey E. Melzer and Euan McLeod, “Multicomponent structure assembly with optical tweezers,” Photonics West, SPIE, March 2021.
2. Weilin Liu and Euan McLeod, “Accounting for substrate-particle interactions in metasurfaces using fast discrete dipole approximation simulations,” Photonics West, SPIE, March 2021.
3. Zhen Xiong and Euan McLeod, “Protein sensing in solution using a high-speed lens-free holographic microscope,” Photonics West, SPIE, March 2021.
4. Maryam Baker, Weilin Liu, and Euan McLeod, “Accurate and fast modeling of scattering from random arrays of nanoparticles using the discrete dipole approximation and angular spectrum method,” Photonics West, SPIE, March 2021.

Congratulations to Andy Xiong and Jeffrey Melzer, who both defended their PhDs in August 2020, as well as Florian Gollier who defended his Master’s!

Our lab has several presentations at the upcoming OSA Frontiers in Optics conference in September 2020:

Jeffrey Melzer: “Assembly of Nanophotonic Structures Using Optical Tweezers (FTu6B.5)”

Maryam Baker: “Accurate and fast modeling of scattering from random arrays of nanoparticles using the discrete dipole approximation and angular spectrum method (FW7A.7)”

Euan McLeod: “Quantitative Large Area Binding Sensor Using A High-speed Lens-free Holographic Microscope (FTh1A.4)”

Congratulations also to Jeffrey Melzer for winning a “Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant” for this conference!

Our lab was recently awarded some Building a Changing World seed grant funding for “Sensing of Household Ultrafine Particulate Matter Pollutants” from the University of Arizona.

Our lab has several presentations at the upcoming SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in late August 2020:

Andy Xiong: “High-speed lens-free holographic microscope for biomolecular sensing”

Weilin Liu: “Rigorous and fast computation of plasmonic particle-substrate interactions”

Jeffrey Melzer: “Automated 3D assembly of hundreds of building blocks using optical tweezers”

Euan McLeod: “Assembling nanoscale building blocks in 3D using optical tweezers”

Congratulations to Hui on her paper on THz metamaterials and to Jeffrey on his paper on 3D Nanophotonic device fabrication using discrete components.

Our lab’s sensing work was recently featured in the University of Arizona Alumni Association Magazine: Optics Solutions for High-Tech Healthcare  and the magazine NanoScientific: How Covid-19 Diagnostic Tests Work.

The lab has several upcoming conference presentations:

OSA Biophotonics Congress (Tucson, AZ, April 2019):

Jeffrey Melzer: “Theoretical Limits of Nanoparticle Optical Manipulation”

Weilin Liu: “Accurate Dipole Modeling of Forces on a Metallic Nanoparticle With a Larger Radius Than Skin Depth”

Zhen Xiong: “Optimized Reconstruction for Sparse and Small Targets in Lens-free Holographic Microscopy”

Cheng Li: “Plasmonic Dark Modes for Enhanced Microcavity Biosensing”

 

SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (Baltimore, MD, April 2019):

Euan McLeod: “Optimization of small target sensing in lensfree microscopes”

Our work on manipulating nanoparticles at high speed using optical tweezers was recently featured in Advances in Engineering.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Melzer, who is one of 20 regional finalists for the 2018 Educational Award sponsored by Edmund Optics.