Title: Light-matter interactions in 2D materials nanophotonics and their applications
Abstract: Due to strong quantum confinement and reduced screening, 2D materials enable exciting new opportunities for optoelectronic and biosensing applications. In this talk, I will first briefly discuss large-scale fabrication strategies for 2D material-based devices and their integration with nanophotonic components. I will then present how coupling of 2D materials with plasmonic nanostructures can tune their optical properties and enable novel regimes of operations, including hot-carrier-dominated photocurrent generation in graphene and tunable light emission in van der Waals light-emitting devices. Finally, I will discuss our recent research directions that leverage high sensitivity of excitonic states in 2D semiconductors for sensing of neural activity and for engineering spatially localized states.
About the Speaker: Viktoryia Shautsova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida. Her research group studies the fundamental physics and functional applications of emerging nanomaterials, such as 2D materials, and nanophotonic systems to tackle critical challenges in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and bioelectronics. By integrating theory, nanophotonics, material science and device engineering, innovative design architectures are created to harness and control light and electronic behavior at the nanoscale. Before joining UCF, Viktoryia was a Stanford Science Fellow and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oxford University and received her PhD in physics from Imperial College London.
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