Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

Ultrathin metasurface and 2D material devices with engineered subwavelength nanostructures offer a new paradigm for manipulating the interaction between light and materials. In this talk, I will present my work on ultrathin metasurface and 2D material devices for imaging, sensing, and light emission, including the demonstrations of chiral holographic imaging, polarization-encrypted data storage, molecule vibrational sensing, enhanced photoluminescence emission, and anisotropic nonlinear emission. These results present new opportunities in tailoring light-matter interaction in functional photonic device and system platforms based on metasurfaces and 2D materials, as well as realizing many unprecedented applications by integrating nanophotonics into key areas of healthcare, materials, energy, and security.

Biography:
Dr. Jie Gao is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2012. Her research interest focuses on tailoring light-matter interaction with advanced photonic nanomaterials and nanostructures for light absorption and emission, optical sensing and imaging, nonlinear conversion, and energy harvesting. Dr. Gao serves as topical editor of Optics Letters. She has received Ralph E. Powe Faculty Enhancement Award (2014), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2017), and DARPA Young Faculty Award (2021).