Laura Kim
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OFFICER
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Phone: (310) 825-9487
Fax: (310) 206-7353
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RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Dr. Kim’s research focuses on probing elusive light-driven phenomena in quantum-engineered materials and unlocking the next-generation photonic, polaritonic, optoelectronic, and quantum devices. Her research group is interested in enhancing and manipulating the interaction of light with matter down to the level of individual quanta by designing photonic quasiparticle states via atom-by-atom engineered materials and nanophotonic interfaces. Her research interests include 2D quantum materials, non-equilibrium carrier dynamics, photonic quasiparticle interactions, quantum sensing, diamond spin microscopy, defect centers in diamonds, metasurfaces, nanophotonics, and plasmonics.
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
- L. Kim, H. Choi, M. E. Trusheim, H. Wang, and D. R. Englund, “Nanophotonic Quantum Sensing with Engineered Spin-Optic Coupling,” Nanophotonics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0682.
- H. Wang, M. E. Trusheim, L. Kim, H. Raniwala, and D. R. Englund, “Field Programmable Spin Arrays for Scalable Quantum Repeaters,” Nature Communications 14, 704 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36098-8.
- L. Kim, H. Choi, M. E. Trusheim, and D. R. Englund, “Absorption-Based Diamond Spin Microscopy on a Plasmonic Quantum Metasurface,” ACS Photonics, 8(11), 3218-3225 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01005.
- L. Kim, S. Kim, P. K. Jha, V. W. Brar, and H. A. Atwater, “ Mid-Infrared Radiative Emission from Bright Hot Plasmons in Graphene,” Nature Materials 20(6), 805-811 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-00935-2.
- S. Kim, M. S. Jang, V. W. Brar, K. W. Mauser, L. Kim, and H. A. Atwater, “Electronically Tunable Perfect Absorption in Graphene,” Nano Letters 18(2), 971-979 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04393.
- V. W. Brar, M. C. Sherrott, M. S. Jang, S. Kim, L. Kim, M. Choi, L. A. Sweatlock, and H. A. Atwater, “Electronic Modulation of Infrared Radiation in Graphene Plasmonic Resonators,” Nature Communications 6, 7032 (2015).
- M. S. Jang, V. W. Brar, M. C. Sherrott, J. J. Lopez, L. Kim, S. Kim, M. Choi, and H. A. Atwater, “Tunable Large Resonant Absorption in a Mid-Infrared Graphene Salisbury Screen,” Physical Review B 90(16), 165409 (2014).
- V. W. Brar, M. S. Jang, M. C. Sherrott, S. Kim, J. J. Lopez, L. Kim, M. Choi, and H. Atwater, “Hybrid Surface-Phonon-Plasmon Polariton Modes in Graphene/Monolayer h-BN Heterostructures,” Nano Letters 14(7), 3876-3880 (2014).
EDUCATION
- B.S., Caltech
- Ph.D., Caltech
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, MIT, 2019-2022
- EECS Rising Stars 2020
- Gary Malouf Foundation Award, ARCS Foundation, 2016-2019
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2016
- Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of Applied Physics Letters, 2022-2024