Dec 10, 2024: Our work on enhancing thermal imgaing through hot emissive windows was highlighted in Rice News! This news artricle was highlighted in many other popular science websites as well: phys.org, EurekAlert, AZoM, and others.
Nov 22, 2024: Rice news article highlighted our work on improved heat-to-electricity conversion technique. Thanks, Silvia Clark! Many other popular science sites picked our work for a highlight: phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, ScienceBlog.com, Quantum Zeitgeist, EENewsEurope.com, innovations-report.com, AZO Materials, and many others.
Nov 21, 2024: Congrats Dr. Prasad (a recent alumnus of NaMasTe lab) for leading our work on heat-to-electricity conversion via light, now published in npj Nanophotonics.
Nov 18, 2024: Congrats to Ding Zhang! Ding defended his PhD thesis successfully! We are proud of you.
Nov 16, 2024: Congrats Dr. Prasad (a recent alumnus of NaMasTe lab) on leading our work on thermal imaging through hot emissive windows, now published in Nature Communication Engineering! This work was in collaboration with Dr. Henry Everitt from ARL.
Nov 13, 2024: Congrats Xielin Wang! Our paper demonstrating MoS2 as a super-high-index material platform for meta-devices was published in Advanced Optical Materials!
Oct 12, 2024: Our paper on Non-local optical properties of quantum materials is published in the Journal of Applied Physics! Congrats Ding for leading this work!
Sep 9, 2024: Ciril graduated from the group to join Oak Ridge National Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Farewell Ciril! We miss you.
July 31, 2024: Congrats Ciril on a successful PhD defense! We are proud of our new doctor!
July 1, 2024: Guru is back at Rice after a short entrepreneurial stint.
May 1, 2024: Congrats Chacko for winning the NDSEG award!
April 26, 2024: Ciril gave an oral talk on ‘Thermal Imaging through Hot Emissive Windows’ at the MRS Spring Conference held in Seattle, WA.
April 17, 2024: Guru gave a seminar at IIT-Hyderabad’s SPIE student chapter. Thanks for the opportunity!
March 6, 2024: Ding presented a talk on Nonlinear optical response in quasi-2D Charge Density Waves at the APS March Meeting 2024.
Dec 5, 2023: Our paper on hyperbolic optical properties of aligned carbon nanotubes is published in ACS Photonics! Enjoyed the collaboration with the Alabastri, Della Valle, Gao, Kono, and Pasquali groups. Thanks, Ciril for leading the efforts of our group.
Oct 22, 2023: Congrats Chacko for receiving the Best Presentation award in Materials Science and Nanoengineering theme at the Gulf Coast Research Symposium (GCURS)!
Sep 7, 2023: Our paper on Balancing detectivity and sensitivity of plasmonic sensors with surface lattice resonance is published in the Nanophotonics journal! Congrats Zhichao for leading this work!
Sep 1, 2023: Guru will be on temporary leave from Rice. Guru is a co-founder, director, and CTO of a green hydrogen company.
Aug 20-25, 2023: Congrats Ciril and Chacko for delivering great talks at SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego! Ciril gave an invited talk on non-Hermitian nanophotonics and Chacko presented his work on the thermal stability of aligned carbon nanotubes.
Aug 22, 2023: Congrats Xielin on a successful master’s defence! Xielin will continue her PhD in Huang group. Farewell, and we miss you.
July 7, 2023: Guru gave an invited talk and participated in an industry panel at the Photonics 2023 conference at IISc, Bangalore.
May 22, 2023: A feature issue on Non-Hermitian Optics and Photonics was published in Optical Material Express. Thanks to Yidong Chong (NTU), Henry Everitt (ARL), Vincenzo Galdi (U. Sannio), and Mercedeh Khajavikhan (USC) for teaming up with Guru for the feature issue. Special thanks to Stavroula Foteinopoulou for keeping us on track. Thanks to Andrea Alu and all the OMEx staff who helped in this effort.
May 8, 2023: Ramezani and Naik groups published their collaborative work on Exceptional point based lattice gyroscopes as an invited article in a special issue on Non-Hermitian Optics and Photonics, Optical Material Express. Thanks to Dr. Everitt, our collaborator from the Army Research Lab.
May 7-12, 2023: Naik group made five presentations at CLEO 2023! Kudos!!
May 1,2023: Congrats for successfully defending his master’s thesis!
April 28, 2023: Chacko wins the Rice Engineering Alumni Research Excellence Award! Congrats!!
April 26, 2023: Guru and Ciril presented an invited talk at the MRS Spring Conference 2023.
April 14, 2023: Congrats Chacko for his selection to the Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program (RUSP)!
March 29, 2023: Ding presented a talk on non-local optical response in quantum materials at the ACES Conference, Monterey, CA.
March 9, 2023: Ding presented a poster on nonlocal optical response in quantum materials at the APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Dec 19, 2022: Congrats Ciril on winning the 2023 Spring-Summer APP travel grant!
Dec 6, 2022: The group’s holiday dinner at the Blue Nile restaurant
Nov 27-Dec 2, 2022: Guru gave an invited talk at the MRS Fall conference in Boston, MA. The talk was on unconventional materials for nanophotonics: super-Mossian and quantum materials.
Oct 6, 2022: The Quantum Photonics Club interviewed Guru in their fireside chat program on our work on super-Mossian dielectrics. Thanks Cecelia Tamura!
Sep 12-14, 2022: Guru presented an invited talk on Super-Mossian and Quantum materials for nanophotonics at IEEE RAPID!
Sep 12, 2022: A news article highlights our recent work on iron pyrite metasurface!
Sep 7, 2022: Our paper on Super-Mossian dielectrics and iron pyrite nanophotonics is published in Advanced Optical materials!
Aug 22-25, 2022: Guru presented two invited talks at SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego! Thanks to the session organizers.
Aug 22, 2022: Welcome back Johaun and Chacko! Johaun spent the summer at MIT Lincoln Labs and Chacko spent it in the Menon group at CUNY.
Aug 3, 2022: Naik’s group research was highlighted in Rice ECE Research Session.
July 16, 2022: Our paper on an algorithm to scale the properties of a percolation network is published in Applied Physics A!
May 17, 2022: Guru is promoted to Associate Professor rank with tenure! Read the announcement here.
May 15-20, 2022: Five talks from the Naik group at CLEO conference 2022!
May 11, 2022: Naik group’s dinner at Maharaja Bhog!
April 20, 2022: Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (HMNTL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign had Guru as their seminar speaker. Thanks Prof. Zhao for hosting!
April 15, 2022: Rosemary presented a poster at Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) 2022 on our work on topological non-Hermitian metasurface. Congrats Rosemary!
March 24, 2022: Guru gave a departmental seminar at the University of Houston’s Mechanical Engineering department. Thanks, Dr. Zhao for the invitation!
March 15, 2022: Guru presented a talk on the optical tunability of 1T-TaS2 in an invited focus session of APS March Meeting 2022.
Feb 25, 2022: Johaun is selected as the GEM Employer fellow. Congrats Johaun! As a part of the fellowship, Johaun will spend this summer with the Energy Systems Group at the MIT Lincoln Lab.
Feb 23, 2022: Our paper demonstrating non-trivial topology in the bulk states of a non-Hermitian metasurface is published in the journal Nanophotonics! This work is a collaboration with Dr. Everitt from Army Research Laboratory and the Naik group. Congrats Frank Yang et al.!
Jan 11, 2022: One of our recent papers in Optical Material Express is a top downloaded article on metamaterials in JOSA B and Optical Material Express!
Dec 14, 2021: Congrats, Weijian, for an excellent Ph.D. defense presentation! Weijian will be the second student from the group to graduate with a PhD.
Nov 18, 2021: Thanks Prof. Kono for inviting Guru to present a seminar for the ELEC 660 course.
Nov 9, 2021: Congrats Weijian! Our work on the electrical tuning of optical constants of 1T-TaS2 is now published in the special issue of APLMaterials.
Nov 2, 2021: The Los Angeles Alumni Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu chose Frank Yang, a former member of the group, as the recipient of the 2021 Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical or Computer Engineering Student Award. Congrats Frank!!
Oct 13, 2021: Guru visited Vanderbilt University and shared the group’s research at VINSE seminar. Thanks, Dr. Ndukaife for the invitation and superb hospitality!
Sep 21, 2021: Guru gave a physics colloquium talk at the University of North Texas. Thanks, Prof. Drachev for the invitation and fine hospitality!
Sep 17, 2021: Guru presented a departmental webinar at ECE, University of Utah. Thanks, Dr. Gao for hosting!
Sep 16, 2021: Guru presented an invited talk at the European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2021 in the session – Thermal Radiation and Energy Management.
Sep 14, 2021: Guru’s paper is one of the top-cited papers in the past 10 years at Optical Materials Express!
Sep 1, 2021: Guru presented a webinar at IITH. Thanks Dr. Emani for the invitation!
Aug 10-11, 2021: The Naik group hosts the ARO summer workshop on non-Hermitian optics.
Aug 9, 2021: Our recent paper published in OMEx on non-Hermitian metasurfaces is one of the top downloaded!
Aug 7, 2021: Guru presented a webinar at OSA Nanophotonics Technical Group! Thanks, Dr. Cheng Zhang for hosting.
June 30, 2021: Our paper on non-Hermitian metasurfaces is Editors’pick at OMEx!
June 24, 2021: Two of our papers published recently! Congrats to Weijian for leading efforts on illuminated CDWs in 1T-TaS2 studies published now in Applied Physics Letters’ special issue on charge density waves!
Congrats to Frank for leading efforts on non-Hermitian metasurfaces published now in Optical Material Express.
June 17, 2021: Frank’s last day in our lab. Farewell Frank! We miss you.
Frank Yang joined the Naik group in his first semester and won many research awards: Best Poster Award and Best Presentation Award for his poster and talk at the 2020 MRS Spring/Fall Symposium, NSF Graduate Research Research Fellowship, James S. Waters Creativity Award from the School of Engineering at Rice University, Rice Engineering Senior Merit Award, Rice Engineering Distinguished Research Excellence Award, and Distinction in Research & Creative Work from Rice University.
June 15, 2021: Guru gave an invited talk at ACS Colloids 2021 conference. Thanks Prof. Matt Sheldon and Prof. Stephan Link for the invitation!
June 7, 2021: Guru gave an NTU Physics seminar. Thanks, Ranjan for hosting!
May 16, 2021: The OSA and IEEE chapters of Bangladesh celebrated the international day of light with Guru’s talk! Thanks Sajid for the invite!
May 15, 2021: Congrats Frank on your graduation with distinction in research and creative work! Nice to have our alumus, Alex Hwang at the celebration.
May 13, 2021: Weijain presented our research on 1T-TaS2 at CLEO 2021! His talk was titled “Low Light Quantum Phase Transition in 1T-TaS2 at Room Temperature”
Apr 28, 2021: Guru presented a webinar at Materials Science and Engineering department, Qiling University. Thanks, Prof. Xiangeng Meng for the invitation!
Apr 27, 2021: Congrats Frank on two more awards! Rice Engineering Alumi Senior Merit Award and Research Excellence Award!
Apr 13, 2021: Two papers from Guru’s PhD are recognized by Optical Materials Express as the most cited papers of the decade!
April 9, 2021: Coffee hour with Dr. Naik: NSAC at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University interviews Guru Naik. Thank you for the opportunity!
April 6, 2021: Congrats Frank for winning the prestigious James S. Waters Creativity Award! The award is presented to an undergraduate student from George R. Brown School of Engineering who has demonstrated creativity not associated with a specific course. Frank was nominated for his research work on PT-symmetric plasmonics.
April 2, 2021: Thanks Profs. Noginova and Noginov for inviting Guru to give a webinar at Norfolk State University’s Center for Materials Research!
March 8,2021: Congrats Frank for winning the Best Presentation Award in the Advanced Linear/Nonlinear, Tunable and Quantum Materials for Metasurfaces, Metamaterials and Plasmonics” (NM02) session of 2020 MRS Fall Meeting! Frank’s presentation was titled “All Plasmonic Nanophotonic Device Displaying Passive PT-Symmetry”!
Dec 3, 2020: Congrats Frank for winning the MRS Fall 2020 Best Poster Award! Frank’s poster titled, ‘Unity order index tunability at room temperature in 1T-TaS2 – a strongly correlated material.’ The research work was led by Weijian Li.
Nov 11, 2020: Congrats Weijian! Our work on the light-tunable refractive index of 1T-TaS2 is on the supplementary cover of Nano Letters!
Nov 11, 2020: Chloe’s last day in Naik lab. Chloe is joining Sandia National Laboratory as a postdoctoral Fellow. Farewell Chloe! We will miss you…
Nov 3, 2020: Congrats Chloe on your successful Ph.D. defense! Your work has opened many new directions of research for our group and beyond.
Sep 2, 2020: Our discovery of a large change in the refractive index of 1T-TaS2 under ambient light is highlighted by Rice News and many others including Phys.org, scienmag.org, sciencedaily.com, and photonics.com.
Aug 20, 2020: Our paper on the discovery of tunable optical properties of 1T-TaS2 is published in Nano Letters! Congrats Weijian!
May 26, 2020: Phase-1 of reopening of Naik lab: For more details refer to the group’s COVID-19 safety plan.
May 15, 2020: Congrats Chloe and Weijian for presenting your research as oral talks at CLEO 2020!
March 23, 2020: Naik lab went completely online due to the global pandemic.
Feb 1-7, 2020: Guru presented an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA.
Jan 14, 2020: Our paper framing design rules for high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy converter is published in Applied Physics Letters!
Jan 3, 2020: Guru presented a physics seminar at SRM University, Chennai! Thanks Prof. Venkat Prasad Bhat for hosting.
Dec 18, 2019: Congrats Frank on winning ECE’s Chevron scholarship!
Nov 1, 2019: Guru presented an ECE seminar at Texas Tech University! Thanks Prof. Sangsik Kim for the kind invitation.
Oct 29, 2019: Guru presented a talk on efficient thermophotovoltaics using nanophotonics at Toshiba Technical Society. Thanks Dr. Hismar Batres for the invitation and hospitality!
Sep 19, 2019: Our paper on non-Hermitian thermal light sources is highlighted by Rice News, and many others including phys.org, nanowerk, Azooptics, and ScienceDaily.
Sep 18, 2019: Our paper on non-Hermitian quantum physics for novel thermal light sources is published in Advanced Materials! Congrats Chloe!
Sep 17-18: Guru presents at FiOLS 2019! It was great meeting friends from Purdue!
Sep 16, 2019: Our recent work on aligned carbon nanotubes for selective thermal emission has made it to a popular science channel on youtube!
Aug 22, 2019: Applied Physics Letters highlights Guru’s paper as one of the top articles in advanced materials category!
Aug 21, 2019: Guru gives an invited talk on tunable nanophotonics with 1T-TaS2 at IEEE-RAPID conference!
Aug 9, 2019: Congrats Weijian for presenting your research work on 1T-TaS2 based tunable nanophotonics at SCI summer research colloquium 2019!
July 31, 2019: BNN Bloomberg interviews Guru about aligned CNTs for thermophotovoltaics! The interview was aired on Bloomberg Canada.
July 29, 2019: Farewell Alex! We wish you all the best! You will surely be missed…
July 19, 2019: DOE’s Office of Science highlights our work on aligned CNT thermal emitters!
July 17, 2019: NSF’s Science360.gov highlights our work on CNT thermal emitters!
July 15, 2019: Congrats Sakib on defending your master’s thesis! We will miss you in the group.
July 15, 2019: Science news and blog sites also highlight our work on aligned CNT thermal emitters! phys.org, pv-magazine, revolution-green.com, futurity, Popular Mechanics, Eurekalert, nanowerk, Naked Science, the Engineer, Mirage News, and many others highlight our work!
July 12, 2019: Rice News highlights our recently published paper!
July 1, 2019: Congrats Chloe and Weilu on the publication of our paper on thermal emitters using aligned carbon nanotubes in ACS Photonics!
May 11, 2019: Congrats Cam and Alex on graduation!!
May 7-12, 2019: Congrats Weijian and Chloe on presenting our research work at CLEO 2019 held in San Jose, CA! Here are the links to the abstracts: Non-Hermitian selective thermal emitters using hybrid plasmonic-photonic resonators and A strongly correlated material for tunable metasurfaces.
April 30, 2019: Farewell Cam and Alex! Cam is going to the University of Maryland for higher studies and Alex will join Cambridge University after a short stay in our group in the summer.
April 10, 2019: Congrats Frank on presenting his research at Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS)!
Mar 29, 2019: Naik group members present posters at ECE’s Corporate Affiliates’ day.
March 22, 2019: Congrats Alex for winning the Churchill Scholarship! Here is a video clip highlighting this rare achievement!
Feb 7-9, 2019: Our first bootcamp! Three proposals were brought to action for two long days! Congrats!
Feb 8, 2019: Congrats Weijian and Sakib for presenting at SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium 2019!
Jan 14, 2019: Congrats Alex for winning the prestigious Churchill scholarship! Alex is one of the 15 Americans to win this honor and is the only one to win in the past 25 years from Rice University! More information on Rice News and Rice Thresher.
Jan 11, 2019: Congrats Weijian on the publication of his work in as an invited article in Optical Material Express!
The paper titled, In-plane electrical bias tunable optical properties of 1T-TaS₂, reports our discovery of electrical tunability of optical properties or photo-refractive properties of a strongly correlated material, 1T-TaS₂, exhibiting charge density waves. Large refractive index change of about 0.1 is observed with an in-plane AC or DC bias!
Dec 24, 2018: Guru gave an invited talk on selective thermal emitters at Facets of Photonics 2018 held at IISER Pune, India. Thanks Prof. Pavan Kumar for the invitation!
Dec 9, 2018: Guru gave an invited talk on selective thermal emitters at Global Nanophotonics 2018 Conference held at TIFR, Mumbai, India. Thanks Prof. Gopal for the invitation!
Oct 30, 2018: Alex and Frank representing Naik Lab at HallowECEn!
Oct 6, 2018: Congrats Frank for a great presentation in the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS)!
July 18, 2018: Guru gave a tutorial talk in the Nanophotonics session of IISc IEEE Nanotech Summer School, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thanks Dr. Supradeepa for the invitation and Dr. Navakanta Bhat for the kind gesture.
July 10, 2018: Congrats Chloe! Our first paper is published in a special issue on materials for nanophotonics in the Journal of Optics! We present a semi-empirical approach towards predicting the temperature dependent optical properties of semiconductors in a wide range of doping and temperature.
June 7, 2018: Frank Yang, a rising sophomore is pursing research in the summer. Here is an article from Rice News about Frank’s summer research.
April 28: Chloe served as a graduate mentor for an outreach event – Girls’ day at Rice
April 13, 2018: Congrats Chloe for winning the best speaker award at UTRGV College of Science Symposium! Chloe talked about high temperature selective thermal emitters.
Weijian, Chloe and Guru had a good time at UTRGV discussing science with Ramezani group and enjoying the South Padre island!
April 2-6, 2018: Alex and Guru gave talks at MRS Spring 2018. While Alex talked on ‘Passive PT-symmetry in Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Nanophotonic Devices’, Guru shared Chloe’s work on ‘What makes a good material for high temperature selective thermal emitters?’.
March 30, 2018: Congrats Alex for winning the prestigious Barry Goldwater Fellowship! Alex competed with aspirants from California and is one of 19 to be selected for this year! Rice News highlights this achievement.
March 24, 2018: Naik lab was at BeerBike 2018! Chloe chugged for GSA and Frank was a part of the Brown’s pit team.
March 23, 2018: Alex and Chloe presented posters at ECE Corporate Affiliates’ day. Congrats Alex and Chloe!
March 17, 2018: Farewell Greshma! The Naik lab members bid adieu to Greshma on a fine Friday evening at Valhalla.
Weijian taking the chugging test!
Feb 14, 2018: Guru gave a Physics colloquium talk at Baylor University. Thanks Prof. Howard Lee for your invitation!
Feb 13, 2018: Congrats Dr. Thejaswi Tumkur on the paper, Wavelength-Dependent Optical Force Imaging of Bimetallic Al–Au Heterodimers published in Nano Letters!
Jan 8, 2018: Guru gave an invited talk at Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) conference at Snowbird, Utah! Thanks Profs. Naomi Halas and Perter Nordlander for the invitation!
Dec 14, 2017: Two papers from Guru’s PhD are the top two most cited papers in Optical Material Express in the past 5 years!
Nov 17, 2017: Guru gave a physics colloquium at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Thanks Dr. Hamidreza Ramezani for the invitation and arranging the visit!
Oct 27, 2017: Guru gave a departmental seminar organized by Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston. Thanks a lot Dr. Jiming Bao for the invitation and arranging the visit!
Aug 11, 2017: Chloe presents a poster after getting accepted to Smalley-Curl Institute’s Summer Research Symposium
July 26, 2017: OSA’s Optics & Photonics News and Photonics Media’s Photonics.com highlight Guru’s work on Plasmon-powered Photon Upconversion!
July 17, 2017: Guru’s work on plasmonic hot carrier mediated upconversion was highlighted by Phys.Org, EurekAlert (AAAS), ScienceNewsLine.com, HealthMedicineNet.com, CGTN news, NewsRoomAmerica.com, XinhuaNet.com and others.
July 17, 2017: Rice News features Guru’s recently published work – ‘Upconverted’ light has a bright future
May 15, 2017: Now it’s official: Naik lab welcomes its fifth member – Weijian Li!
April 28, 2017: Sayonara Alex! Alex is one of the few, all over the US, to be selected for Nakatani-RIES IREU program. He will be spending this summer in Matsuda lab, Kyoto University. We wish you all the best!
April 20, 2017: Congrats Alex and team for winning the gold in MOScars science video contest! Click here for the video explaining thermoelectrics.
March 31, 2017: Guru delivers a talk on clean energy technologies at Rice ECE’s Corporate Affiliates’ Day.
March 20, 2017: Welcome Greshma, the fourth member of the Naik lab!
March 14, 2017: Chloe gives a fantastic talk in the session on ‘Thermal Transport – Photonic and Nano Effects,’ APS March Meeting!
Feb 9, 2017: Guru delivers the keynote talk at SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium! And, Chloe gave an oral presentation on Semiconductor Selective Thermal Emitters for the Thermophotovoltaic Applications!
Jan 7, 2017: Chloe’s research work on selective thermal emitters has been accepted for an oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2017! The abstract is here.
Dec 02, 2016: Chloe and other graduate students of Rice demonstrating the Electric Pickle experiment to the students of Madison High School as a part of science outreach
Nov 11, 2016: Guru gave an invited talk on “Photon upconversion mediated by plasmonic hot carriers in metal/semiconductor heterostructures” at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting in Galveston, TX.
Nov 4, 2016: Guru spoke at Physics Colloquium at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM on “Hot Plasmonics: From hot carriers to hot thermal emitters.” Thanks to Alejandro Manjavacas for the invitation!
Oct 31, 2016: HallowECEen! Naik lab represented the Rice ECE Photonics-Electronics-Nanodevices (PEN) division by demonstrating the science of light and nanomaterials.
Oct 22, 2016: Alex presented his research work on “Computational Analysis of Wrist Actigraphy to Track Long-Term Patient Surgical Recovery” at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Seminar 2016.
Oct 5, 2016: Kudos to Chloe for presenting the first research poster from Naik lab at the Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) poster session!
Aug 22, 2016: The Naik lab has its third member! Welcome Alex Hwang!
Aug 10, 2016: Naik lab has its first two members! Welcome Chloe Doiron!
Click here for news arXiv.