Dr. Carrie Hofmann

Alumni - Research and National Labs

Micro- and Nanowires, Plasmonics

626-395-1945



Dr. Hofmann is the Assistant Director of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA). She is the former Assistant Director of the LMI-EFRC at Caltech. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Caltech with a thesis entitled “Optics at the Nanoscale: Light Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities” in 2010. She also received her M.S. in Materials Science at Caltech in 2006 and her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in 2003. Dr. Hofmann is responsible for coordinating team communications, cross-institutional collaborations, and center activities and events.

Available Publications


Size Tunable Visible and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence from Vertically Etched silicon Quantum Dots

Sameer S Walavalkar, Andrew P Homyk, Carrie E Hofmann, M David Henry, Claudia Shin, Harry A Atwater, Axel Scherer
Applied Physics Letters (2011) - Photovoltaics

Enhancing the Radiative Rate in III− V Semiconductor Plasmonic Core− Shell Nanowire Resonators

Carrie E Hofmann, F Javier García de Abajo, Harry A Atwater
Nano Letters (2011) - Micro- and Nanowires Plasmonics

Tunable visible and near-IR emission from sub-10 nm etched single-crystal Si nanopillars

Sameer S Walavalkar, Carrie E Hofmann, Andrew P Homyk, M David Henry, Harry A Atwater, Axel Scherer
Nano Letters (2010) - Photovoltaics

Conjugated polymer/metal nanowire heterostructure plasmonic antennas

Deirdre M O'Carroll, Carrie E Hofmann, Harry A Atwater
Advanced Materials (2010) - Micro- and Nanowires Plasmonics