Research Team Members

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ALIAKSEI CHARNUKHA

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Investigation of the itinerant-carrier dynamics of unconventional superconductors and strongly correlated electron systems in the THz and far-infrared spectral range by means of far- and near-field optical spectroscopy/microscopy at cryogenic temperatures.

Email : acharnukha@ucsd.edu

ALEX FRENZEL

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ultrafast near-field microscopy.

Email : afrenzel@physics.ucsd.edu

GUANGXIN NI

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Graphene.

Email : gni@ucsd.edu

KIRK POST

Graduate Student

Email : kwpost@physics.ucsd.edu

ALEX SWINTON MCLEOD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests: Low temperature plasmonics in ultra-high mobility graphene; tunable insulator-metal transitions in strained correlated oxides and charge density wave systems; scanning near-field optical microscopy at low temperatures; theory and interpretation of near-field optical microscopy.

Projects: Guiding & controlling ballistic plasmons in high mobility graphene devices; nano-optics of graphene modulated by a tunable Moiré potential; infrared nano-imaging and spectroscopy of insulator-metal transitions in strained vanadates, nickelates, & ruthenates.

Email : am4734@columbia.edu