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