Mircea Cotlet
Materials Scientist, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials & Advanced Optical Facility, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7778
cotlet@bnl.gov
Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Highlights | Awards | Certifications
Expertise
- Ultrafast optical methods, pump probe methods, single molecule/nanostructure spectroscopy,
- low dimensional semiconductors including 2D materials, nanocrystals, nanowires, synthesis and assembly methods
- interfacila change transfer and energy transfer in low dimensional nanostructures.
Research Activities
-interfacial charge carrier and energy transfer in low dimensional semiconductors and related hetero-nanostructures.
-physics of devices based on low dimensional semiconductors including 2D Van Der Waals materials
-ultrafast pump-probe methods development.
Education
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Physical Chemistry (Ph.D 2002)
Professional Appointments
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, Center for Functional Nanomaterials (2007-on, since 2014 Scientist S4 with indefinite appointment)
- Stony Brook University, MSCE Department NY, Adjunct Professor and Lecturer (2010-on)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, Chemistry Division, Technical Staff Member (2006-2007)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, Chemistry Division, Director's Postdoc (2004-2006)
- Harvard University, MA, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, HFSP postdoc (2003)
Research Highlights
- Meet the 2020 Science & Technology Award Recipients
- 519th Brookhaven Lecture on "Low Dimensional Nanomaterials"
- Nanohybrid Structure Improves Efficiency of Light-Harvesting
- Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”
- Detecting light in a different dimension (2018)
- Understanding light-induced generation of currents in atomically thin semiconductors (2018)
Awards & Recognition
Brookhaven Science and Technology Award 2020
Battelle Inventor for 2019
Director's Postdoctoral Fellow Los Alamos National Laboratory 2004
Human Frontier for Science Promotion visiting fellowship (ESF) 2003
Certifications
ultrafast lasers
cryogenic optical measurements
time resolved spectroscopy and microscopy
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7778
cotlet@bnl.gov
