Awards & Honors
2009
Promotion and Tenure Approved
2009
2008/2009 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
2007
Office of Research & Commercialization Millionaire's Club
2006
Presidential Major Research Equipment Award
Recent Publications
2012
S. Toroghi and P. G. Kik
"Cascaded field enhancement in plasmon resonant dimer nanoantennas compatible with two-dimensional nanofabrication methods"
Applied Physics Letters 101(1)
2012
S. Toroghi and P. G. Kik
"Cascaded plasmon resonant field enhancement in nanoparticle dimers in the point dipole limit"
Applied Physics Letters 100, pp. 183105
2012
S. Toroghi and P. G. Kik
"Cascaded plasmonic metamaterials for phase-controlled enhancement of nonlinear absorption and refraction"
Phys. Rev. B 85, 045432
2012
C. Lumdee, S. Toroghi, and P. G. Kik
"Post-Fabrication Voltage Controlled Resonance Tuning of Nanoscale Plasmonic Antennas"
ACS Nano 6(7), pp.6301-6307
2011
L. Borowska, S. Fritzsche, P. G. Kik, A. E. Masunov
"Near-field enhancement of infrared intensities for f-f transitions in Er(3+) ions close to the surface of silicon nanoparticles"
Journal of Molecular Modeling 17(3), pp. 423-428
2010
O. Savchyn, K.R. Coffey, and P.G. Kik
"Determination of Optimum Si Excess Concentration in Er-Doped Si-rich SiO2 for Optical Amplification at 1.54 um"
Applied Physics Letters 97, 201107
2010
A. Ghoshal and P.G. Kik
"Frequency dependent power efficiency of a nanostructured surface plasmon coupler"
Phys. Stat. Sol. Rapid Research Letters 4, 280
2010
Oleksandr Savchyn, Ravi M. Todi, Kevin R. Coffey, Pieter G. Kik
"High-Temperature Optical Properties of Sensitized Er3+ in Si-rich SiO2 - Implications for Gain Performance"
Optical Materials 32(9), pp. 1274-1278
2010
M. Hu, A. Ghoshal, M. Marquez, P.G. Kik
"Single Particle Spectroscopy Study of Metal-Film-Induced Tuning of Silver Nanoparticle Plasmon Resonances"
Journal of Physical Chemistry 114(16), pp. 7509-7514
2009
Amitabh Ghoshal and Pieter G. Kik
"Excitation of propagating surface plasmons by a periodic nanoparticle array: trade-off between particle-induced near-field excitation and damping"
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 251102
