25: Vivian Ferry - What constraints are really constraints?

On this quadranscentennial episode of Nanovation, Vivian Ferry from the University of Minnesota joins the podcast to talk about nanophotonics -- the ability to squeeze light into and manipulate it with nanoscale objects. We talk about the use of nanophotonics in applications ranging from solar energy harvesting to catalysis and cover the litany of materials and manufacturing challenges. (Recorded on November 17, 2016)

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Show Notes:

• Vivian Ferry

• Materials Research Society - 2016 Fall Meeting

• Harry Atwater

• MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35

• Nano Letters - Early Career Advisory Board

• National Academy of Engineering - Frontiers of Engineering

• Alphabet Energy

• Nano Letters - November 2016 Issue

• Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

• Dmitri Basov - "Polaritons in Van der Waals Materials"

• Nanoimprint lithography

• Top-down vs. bottom-up processes

• Metamaterials

• Soukoulis and Wegener - "Past Achievements and Future Challenges in the Development of 3-D Photonic Metamaterials"

• David Flannigan

• Protochips - Liquid microscopy cell

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 - optical fibers

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 - graphene

• Wayne Jones, Michael Hopkins, Albert Polman, Paul Alivisatos