Antoinette Jane (Toni) Taylor is an American physicist known for her research on metamaterials and nanophotonics including terahertz metamaterials for controlling and generating submillimeter radiation. She is Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. [1]
Taylor was a student at Stanford University, earning bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in physics there in 1977, 1979, and 1982 respectively. [2] Her dissertation, Two-Step Polarization Labeling Spectroscopy of Excited States of Diatomic Sodium, was supervised by Arthur Leonard Schawlow. [3]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and a researcher at Bell Laboratories before joining the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1986. At Los Alamos, projects and teams that she has participated in include the Los Alamos Bright Source, Pulsed Power Hydrodynamics Program, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, and Division of Materials Physics and Applications. [1]
Taylor has served as chair of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society. [1] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, after a nomination from the Division of Laser Science, "for pioneering developments of ultrafast optoelectric techniques and their use in understanding dynamical processes in electronic materials and devices". [4] In 2009, she was named a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow. [5] She is also a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [1] [2]
Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel (born 2 July 1938) is an electrical engineer. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and engraving a wide range of materials like plastic and wood. Because the atmosphere is quite transparent to infrared light, CO2 lasers are also used for military rangefinding using LIDAR techniques.
Nader Engheta is an Iranian-American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nano-antennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves.
Gregory Scott Boebinger is the director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida, and a professor of physics at Florida State University.
Richard W. Ziolkowski is an American electrical engineer and academician, who was the president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2005), and a former vice president of this same society (2004). In 2006, he became an OSA Fellow. He is also an IEEE Fellow. He was born on November 22, 1952, in Warsaw, New York.
Andrea Alù is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, plasmonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces. He has co-authored over 650 journal papers and 35 book chapters, and he holds 11 U.S. patents.
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Alexandra Boltasseva is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
Vivien Zapf is a research scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory pulsed field facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her bachelor's degree in physics with computer science from Harvey Mudd College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. Zapf studies Multiferrics and Quantum Magnetism. She served as a Millikan post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 2004-2005 and as a Director's fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2006. She received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award and a Lee-Osheroff-Richardson prize. In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "seminal contributions to the understanding of quantum mechanical properties of superconductors, quantum magnets, and multiferroic systems at low temperatures and in extreme magnetic fields to 100T." and an outstanding referee award from the American Physical Society in 2019. She serves as the deputy director of the Quantum Science Center, a United States Department of Energy-funded research effort encompassing approx. 17 institutions solving problems in the field of Quantum Information Science. She also serves as a thrust leader and on the management committee at the Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials, a United States Department of Energy-funded Energy Frontier Research Center lead out of the University of Florida. She serves in the chair line of the executive committee of the American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics.
Laura Beth Smilowitz is an American physicist known for her development of technology that can record x-ray movies of explosions at high frame rates, and for shooting high explosives with lasers in order to synchronize their explosions with their recordings. She is a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she heads the Weapons Chemistry team in the Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy group.
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