Dr. Cao received Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). Congratulations!
Recent News
Thomas and Chun join this group. Thomas is a freshman from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State University. Chun is our new post-doc and he did his post-doc in UC San Diego before joining NCSU. Welcome! Liang joins this group. Liang is a visiting PhD student from the Chemistry Department at Lanzhou University (China). Welcome! Lin finished his five-week-long summer program in this group! All the best wishes for his trip in the USA and for his upcoming applications to graduate programs. Welcome Yifei, Xiang and Gayatri join this group. Yifei did his undergraduate study in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology, China. Xiang got his B.S. from the Physics Department at Peking University. They are both first-year PhD students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Gayatri is a senior undergraduate student from the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
Research Summary
The Cao group works on the forefront of nanoscale photophysics and photochemistry, seeking better understanding of the fundamental properties of photons and charge carriers in nanostructured materials. Central to the vision underlying this work is that a better understanding of those fundamental properties will serve as a powerful guidance for rational design of novel devices or functional structures with applications in a wide variety of fields, ranging from energy utilization, environment remediation, information technology, to biotechnology. We are committed to realizing this intellectual vision through studies currently focused on three major areas: (1) plasmonics & semiconductor nanophotonics, (2) exciton dynamics in nanostructures, and (3) nanoscale photocatalysis. This research by definition is at the crossroad of materials science, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. Group members synergistically utilize and develop techniques of optical and electronic characterizations, time-resolved spectroscopies, device fabrications and nanomaterials synthesis to achieve our research goals. We are particularly interested in elucidating fundamental principles by exploring theoretical modelings/simulations for experiments and observations. As a result, group members may expect to receive multidisciplinary research training in both theory and experiment.
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