May
Sam Totorica, James Dennis Gallagher, and Daniel McInally graduated. Congratulations!

Xiaodong is awarded the Department of Energy early career award.

Grant won The Hans G. Dehmelt Prize. The purpose of this award is to recognize students in the Department of Physics for outstanding achievements in the area of “table-top” experimental physics. Congratulations!

March
Sanfeng’s paper, Quantum-Enhanced Tunable Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity in Bilayer Graphene, is published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!

January
Jason is awarded the prestigious Ford Fellowship. Congratulations!

Sam won “Mary Gates Research Scholarship”. Congratulations!

Xiaodong is awarded NSF Career Award.

Dong and Grant’s paper, Ultrafast Hot-Carrier-Dominated Photocurrent in Graphene is accepted for publication in Nature Nanotechnology. Congratulations!

2011

August
Jason Ross joined the lab. Welcome!

July
Xiaodong won DARPA Young Faculty Award!

June
Congratulations to David Feldman, Nate Gillgren, and Brian O’Callahan for gradulating!

May
Ricky Roy and Sanfeng Wu join the lab.

Sam Totorica awarded the physics department’s Anderson Scholarship.

March
New paper “Plasmon Resonance in Individual Nanogap Electrodes Studied Using Graphene Nanoconstrictions as Photodetectors” is published in Nano Letters

2010

December
Two ultrafast high power lasers installed.

November
Graphene CVD growth system up and running.