Dr. Briggs is currently working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a microdevices engineer and holds a Visitor appointment at Caltech with the Atwater Group. He received his PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech in the spring of 2011 where he worked on photonic semiconductor device design, fabrication, and testing with the Atwater Group
Available Publications
Synthesis and Characterization of Plasmonic Resonant Guided Wave Networks
Stanley P. Burgos, Ho W. Lee, Eyal Feigenbaum, Ryan M. Briggs, and Harry A. Atwater
Nano Letters (2014)
- Plasmonics
Efficient Coupler Between Silicon Photonic and Metal-Insulator-Silicon-Metal Plasmonic Waveguides
Alexandros Emboras, RM Briggs, A Najar, S Nambiar, Cécile Delacour, Ph Grosse, E Augendre, JM Fedeli, B De Salvo, HA Atwater, R Espiau de Lamaestre
Applied Physics Letters (2012)
- Metamaterials Plasmonics
Characterization of the Tunable Response of Highly Strained Compliant Optical Metamaterials
Imogen M Pryce, Koray Aydin, Yousif A Kelaita, Ryan M Briggs, Harry A Atwater
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2011)
- Metamaterials
Broadband Polarization-Independent Resonant Light Absorption Using Ultrathin Plasmonic Super Absorbers
Koray Aydin, Vivian E Ferry, Ryan M Briggs, Harry A Atwater
Nature Communications (2011)
- Plasmonics
High-Performance Si Microwire Photovoltaics
Michael D Kelzenberg, Daniel B Turner-Evans, Morgan C Putnam, Shannon W Boettcher, Ryan M Briggs, Jae Yeon Baek, Nathan S Lewis, Harry A Atwater
Energy & Environmental Science (2011)
- Photovoltaics