Hey everyone,
Prof. Peter Nordlander (
http://nordlander.rice.edu/members/nordlander) of
Rice University will be giving the theochem talk at MIT on Wednesday,
December 2.
He's quite an accomplished researcher, working on materials, plasmonics,
and quantum dots, among other topics. *Members of the group studying
excitonics, electronic structure, or energy materials screening might be
interested.* Here's a selection of some of his work from online:
* His theory of plasmon hybridization has laid the foundation for a
rigorous yet intuitive understanding of how plasmons on adjacent
nanostructures interact and hybridize to form collective modes.
* His development of the plasmon hybridization (PH) picture is the
fundamental theoretical breakthrough that underlies the current conceptual
view of plasmonic nanostructures as artificial molecules. In the PH method,
originally published in *Science 302(2003)419*
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/302/5644/419> and detailed
in *JCP 120(2004)5444* <http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.1647518>, he
shows that the plasmons of complex metallic nanostructures can be expressed
as linear combinations of plasmons associated with their elementary parts,
analogous to how atomic orbitals interact and hybridize in molecular
orbital theory.
* In *ACS Nano 2(2008)707* <http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn800047e>, he
predicts Fano resonances in plasmonic nanoparticle clusters and shows that
such radiative coherence and interference phenomena result from the
coupling of subradiant and superradiant collective plasmon modes of a
common symmetry.
* Nordlander has also pioneered the field of Quantum Plasmonics, studying
plasmonic systems using fully quantum mechanical approaches.
*Unfortunately he doesn't have time in his schedule to visit Harvard, so
we've been given a spot to meet with him at 10am on Wednesday morning (Dec
2), at MIT.* It would be very nice to have a solid Harvard showing, so
please let me know if you'd like to head down to MIT with me next Wednesday
morning.
Cheers!
Nicolas