NEWS:

"Ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy of protein monolayers with plasmonic nanoantenna arrays" work is featured in NSF (Oct 2009).

"Fabry-Perot Nanocavities in 3D Plasmonic Crystals for Enhanced Biosensing" is top 10 most downloaded research article from Applied Physics Letters in August 2009.

"Extraordinary Midinfrared Light Transmission in Nanoholes" work is featured in NanoTechWeb.org (November 2008).

Massachusetts Life Science Center New Investigator Award (2008-2011)

National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) on “Smart Lighting” (2008-2013)

National Science Foundation, SGER Award (2008-2009)

Boston University, Photonics Center’s Faculty Technology Development Award (2008-2009)

Boston University, Collage of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award (2008-2009)

Peter Paul Career Development Professorship Award (2007-2011).

Demonstrated the world's fastest on-chip semiconductor laser. The work is appeared as cover image on Nature Physics (July 2006) and highlighted in Nature Photonics (September 2006) and Laser Focus World Magazines (December 2006).

Best research paper presented in IEEE LEOS Conference, Montreal, Canada (November 2006).

First Place Winner of IEEE LEOS Research Excellence Award, LEOS Conference, Sydney, (October 2005).

"Coupled array nanocavity laser" work is featured in Photonics Spectra, Laser Focus World Magazines (January 2006) and to be featured in IEEE LEOS Newsletter (March 2006).

"Experimental demonstration of slow light" work featured in Physics World Magazine (March 2005)

"Two-dimensional coupled nanocavity array" work is highlighted and selected as cover image in Applied Physics Letters (January 2004).