Dr. Sweatlock received his PhD in Applied Physics in 2005. He is a Senior Scientist at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) where he leads an interdisciplinary research effort in engineered optical materials, with particular emphasis on functional metamaterials for active and nonlinear devices. Dr. Sweatlock is the founding principal investigator of NGAS’ Nanophotonics and Plasmonics […]

Dr. Burgos received his PhD in Applied Physics in 2013. He is currently a Principal Engineer at WD, a Western Digital company.

Sisir is a graduate student in Materials Science. He joined Atwater Group in 2014 researching and is researching Si microwire growth and new photoanodes for solar fuels in JCAP (Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis). Sisir received (Dual Degree) Bachelors of Technology in Energy Engineering and Masters of Technology in Energy Systems Engineering, with Minor in […]

Yury became a graduate student in the Applied Physics department at Caltech in 2013. In the Atwater Group he is doing research on quantum entanglement in plasmonic structures. He graduated with his PhD in June 2020. Before joining Caltech Yury was a guest scientist at Fermilab, working on optical stochastic cooling, and did research as […]

Dr. Emmer received his PhD in Materials Science in 2015. He is currently Senior Process Engineer at Maxim Integrated in Beaverton, OR.

Dr. Jeremy Brouillet received his B.E. in Engineering Sciences and his B.A. in Engineering Physics with high honors from Dartmouth College in June 2013. He joined the Atwater Group in fall of 2013. His research interests are in integrated photonics for communications applications. Dr. Brouillet graduated with his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in June 2019.

Dr. Fakonas received his PhD in Applied Physics in 2015. He is currently working as a Software Developer for OSIsoft, LLC.

Dr. Thyagarajan obtained his PhD in Photonics from EPFL, Switzerland for research work conducted in the area of nonlinear plasmonics. As a postdoctoral scholar in the Atwater group (2014-2016), he worked on studying loss mechanisms in nanophotonic systems as well as exploring the use of functional materials for active and tunable plasmonics. Outside academics he is […]

Dagny received her PhD in Materials Science in 2018. Her research focused on the interactions of light and matter to produce color. She is currently worked with plasmonic metamaterials to develop narrow bandwidth high transmission color filters that can be integrated into state-of-the-art CMOS image sensors. Before joining the Atwater group, she completed her Master’s […]