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REFERRED JOURNALS:

"Ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy of protein monolayers with plasmonic nanoantenna arrays", Ronen Adato, Ahmet A. Yanik, Jason J. Amsden, David L. Kaplan, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Mi K. Hong, Shyamsunder Erramilli and Hatice Altug Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS) doi.10.1073.pnas.0907459106 (2009). "Featured by NSF"

"Fabry-Perot Nanocavities in 3D Plasmonic Crystals for Enhanced Biosensing", Alp Artar, Ahmet Ali Yanik and Hatice Altug Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 051105, (2009). Top 10 most downloaded research article from Applied Physics Letters in August 2009.

"Hybridized Nanocavities as Single-Polarized Plasmonic Antenna", Ahmet Ali Yanik, Ronen Adato, Shyamsunder Erramilli and Hatice Altug Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20900-20910 (2009).

"Design Principles For Optoelectronic Applications of Extraordinary Light Transmission Effect in Plasmonic Nanoapertures", Ahmet Ali Yanik, Ronen Adato and Hatice Altug (Accepted to Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) (2010)

"Time-resolved lasing action from single and coupled photonic crystal nanocavity array lasers emitting in the telecom-band", Dirk Englund, Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 105, 093110 (2009)

“Extraordinary MidInfrared Transmission of Rectangular Coaxial Nanoaperture Arrays ”, Ahmet Ali Yanik, Xihua Wang, Shyamsunder Erramilli, Mi K. Hong, and Hatice Altug Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 081104 (2008). "Featured in NanoTechWeb.org"

“Ultrafast Photonic Crystal Lasers”, Dirk Englund, Hatice Altug, Bryan Ellis, and J. Vuckovic, , Lasers and Photonics Review, 1-11, 2008 (Invited paper).

"Low Threshold Surface-Passivated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser", Dirk Englund*, Hatice Altug*, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, 91 071124 (2007). * authors contributed equally.

"Efficient Terahertz Room-temperature Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser", Dirk Englund*, Hatice Altug*, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters 91 071126 (2007). * authors contributed equally.

"Ultra-fast Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser", Hatice Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, Nature Physics, 2, 484-488, (2006). This article is also selected as cover image and highlighted article of July 2006 issue of Nature Physics. News Stories appeared in Nature Photonics (September 2006), Nature Physics (July 2006), and Laser Focus World (December 2006, August 2007).

"Photonic crystal nanocavity array laser", Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, 13, 8819 (2005) News Story appeared in Photonics Spectra Magazine (January 2006), Laser Focus World (January 2006), Stanford Report (9 November 2005) and IEEE LEOS Newsletters (April 2006).

"Polarization control and sensing with two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays", Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Letters, 30, 982 (2005) Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (9 May 2005).

"Experimental demonstration of small group velocity of light in two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays" Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, 86, 111102 (2005) News Story appeared in Physics World Magazine, (15 March 2005).

"Two-Dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays", Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, 84 161 (2004) This paper is selected as cover image and highlighted article of 12 January 2004 issue of Applied Physics Letters.

"Misalignment-Tolerant Surface-Normal Low-Voltage Modulator for Optical Interconnects", N. C. Helman, J. E. Roth, D. P. Bour, H. Altug, D. Miller, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 11, 338 (2005) Featured as "hot topics" in IEEE/LEOS Newsletters Magazine, June (2005).

"Sub-micron all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, 2316 (2004).

"Experimental investigation of layer-by-layer metallic photonic crystals", B. Temelkuran, Hatice Altug, E. Ozbay, IEE Proceedings on Optoelectronics, 145, 409 (1998).

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REFEERED CONFERENCES (selected):

"Creation of Hybridized Plasmonic Excitations in Nanocavities through Surface Propagating Plasmons", A. A. Yanik, R. Adato, S. Erramilli and H. Altug, Frontiers In Optics OSA, Oct 2009.

"Fabry-Perot Nanocavities in 3-D Plasmonic Crystals", A. Artar, A. A. Yanik and H. Altug, Frontiers In Optics OSA, Oct 2009.

"Surface Excitation of Hybridized Plasmons In Metallic Nanocavities", A. A. Yanik, R. Adato and H. Altug, IEEE/LEOS Conference, October 2009.

"Sharp Plasmon Resonances in Periodic Arrays of Embedded Nanorods", R. Adato, A. A. Yanik and H. Altug, IEEE/LEOS Conference, October 2009.

"Plasmon Hybridization In Nanoapertures For Development of an Efficient NanoAntenna Array", A. A. Yanik, R. Adato, S. Erramilli and H. Altug, SPIE Nanoscience & Engineering, August 2009.

"Observation of Plasmon Resonance Linewidth Narrowing in Embedded Gold Nanoparticle Arrays", R. Adato, A. A. Yanik and H. Altug, SPIE Nanoscience & Engineering, August 2009.

“Localized Plasmonic Control of Extraordinary Light Tranmission in Rectangular Coaxial Aperture Arrays at Mid-IR”, A. A. Yanik, X. Wang, S. Erramilli and H. Altug, SPIE Photonics West Conference, January 2009.

“Mid-Infrared Subwavelength Polarization Optics with Plasmonic Nanostructures”, A. A. Yanik, X. Wang, S. Erramilli and H. Altug, IEEE/LEOS Conference, November 2008.

“Super-resolution Imaging And Lithography By Interfering Surface Plasmon Waves”, Y.H. Kim, E. Chung, X. Wang, H. Altug, P. T. C. So, and S. Erramilli, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, February 2008.

"Low-Threshold Ultrafast Surface-Passivated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers", H. Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, IEEE/LEOS, Florida, October 2007.

"Surface State Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers", H. Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, CLEO/IQEC, Baltimore, MD, May 2007.

"High Speed Dynamics of Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers", H. Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, IEEE/LEOS, Montreal, Canada, November 2006. Chosen as IEEE LEOS Best Research Paper.

"High Modulation Speed Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Array Laser", H. Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, CLEO/IQEC, Longbeach, CA, June 2006.

"Coupled photonic crystal nanocavity array laser", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, IEEE/LEOS, Sydney, Australia, October 2005. Winner of IEEE LEOS/Newport Research Excellence Award.

"Two dimensional coupled photonic crystal nanocavity arrays and its applications", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 2006.

"Polarization properties of two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, CLEO/IQEC, Baltimore, MD, May 2005.

"Nano-scale high-speed all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", M.F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, Invited Talk, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 2005.

"Two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2004.

"Two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, CLEO/IQEC, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.

"Low-voltage surface-normal InGaAs/InP modulator for optical interconnects", N. C. Helman, J. E. Roth, H. Altug, D. P. Bour, D. A. B. Miller, IEEE/LEOS, Puerto Rico, November 2004.

"Observation of flat bands by using two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays", H. Altug, Jelena Vuckovic, PECS-V, Kyoto, Japan, 7-11 March 2004.

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SEMINARS and OTHER TALKS:

Short course on "Advances on Nanophotonics and Nanoplasmonics", Hatice Altug, Future of Light Symposium, Boston, MA, December 4 2008.

“Plasmonic and Photonic Crystal based sensors for bio-detection”, Hatice Altug, Boston University, Future of Light Symposium, Boston, MA, June 16, 2008.

"Nanophotonic Devices for Communications and Sensing", Hatice Altug, OSA New England Chapter, Waltham, MA, February 21, 2008.

"Nanophotonic Devices for Communications and Sensing", Hatice Altug, IEEE LEOS New England Chapter, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, June 14, 2007.

"Nanophotonic Devices for Communications and Sensing", Hatice Altug, Invited Talk, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, July 2007.

"Nanophotonic Devices for Communications and Sensing", Hatice Altug, Invited Talk, LEOS New England Chapter Spring Sympossium, Boston, MA, June 2007.

"Nanophotonic Devices for Communications and Sensing", Hatice Altug, Invited Talk, BU Nanophotonics Symposium, Boston, MA, May 2007 (also symposium organizer).

Faculty Candidate Talks at Boston University, Harvard University, Purdue University, Rice University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of California at Los Angeles.

"Nanophotonic devices and their on-chip integration with Silicon, Indium Phosphide and Gallium Arsenide" Hatice Altug Invited Talk, Northern California Advance Science and Technology (NCCAVS), PEUG Meeting, Sunnyvale, CA, 12 October 2006.

"Fabrication of nanophotonic devices and their integration in silicon, Indium Phosphide and Gallium Arsenide material systems" Hatice Altug, Dirk Englund, Jelena Vuckovic, Invited Talk, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), University of Texas at Austin, 27 February 2006.

"Low threshold and high modulation rate photonic crystal laser and its on-chip integration for optical interconnect", Hatice Altug, MARCO Interconnect Focus Center Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-4 October 2004.

"Polarization control of light and miniaturized polarizing optics by using photonic crystals", Hatice Altug, SPRC Nano-Photonics Seminars, Jan 24th, 2004.

"Two dimensional coupled photonic crystals microcavity arrays", Hatice Altug, SPRC Annual Meeting, 16 September, 2003.

"Observations of extremely small group velocities for construction of delay lines in quantum computing", Hatice Altug, MURI Center for Quantum Information Systems Meeting, Stanford University, CA, 15-16 October 2003.

"Optical Modulators for 100Tbps Router Design", Noah Helman, Hatice Altug, David A. B. Miller, Optical Routing Seminar Series, Stanford University, CA, USA, February 2003.

"Quasiwaveguide Multiple Quantum Well Modulators", Noah Helman, Hatice Altug, David A. B. Miller, Seminar Series of Stanford Networking Research Center, Stanford University, CA, USA, December 2002.

"Physics and Applications of Metallic Photonic Crystals", Hatice Altug, XIII International Conference for Physics Students (ICPS'98), Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 9-16 August 1998.

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PATENT:

US patent No. 7,206,488: "Coupled photonic crystal resonator array arrangements and applications", Hatice Altug and J. Vuckovic, issued on April 17, 2007.

“Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser” Hatice Altug, D. Englund, I. Fushman and J. Vuckovic, patent disclosure, March 2008.

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Contact information: Prof. Hatice Altug
ECE Department & Photonics Center, Boston University
8 St. Mary’s Street, room 825, Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (617) 358-4769, Email: altug@bu.edu