News

September 20, 2023
Delighted to see the final version of the book Advances in Near-Field Optics, edited by Reuven Gordon and published by Springer: Owen wrote Chapter 2, “Fundamental limits to...
March 20, 2023
Zeyu successfully defended his dissertation today, entitled “Fundamental limits of nanophotonic design.” His committee comprised Owen Miller, Douglas Stone, and Peter Rakich...
September 8, 2022
At today’s ESI retreat, Lang won second place in the poster competition. Congrats Lang! An image of her poster is below.
September 1, 2022
Haejun Chung (former Miller group post-doc) officially joins the faculty at Hanyang University in South Korea. Kudos Haejun! Group website here: https://sites.google.com/view...
June 1, 2022
After a very successful one-year post-doc (leading to this paper, among other projects), Shai is heading off to Vitrealab in Vienna, Austria. Enjoy the new role!
July 19, 2019
Thanks to the TPC for the invitation!
July 16, 2019
Thanks to Min Hyung Cho and Carlos Borges for the invitation!
June 20, 2019
Thanks to Tiago Morgado and Mario Silveirinha for the invitation!
June 17, 2019
Thanks to Javier Garcia de Abajo for the invitation!
May 30, 2019
Thanks to Daniel Sjoberg and Ben Steinberg for the invitation!
May 8, 2019
Thanks to Andrew Michaels for the invitation!
May 6, 2019
Congrats on your first conference talk, Hanwen!
May 6, 2019
Jiawei (Malcolm) Tang joins the group, funded for the summer as a Rosenfeld Science Scholar. Welcome!
April 16, 2019
Thanks Pai-Yen Chen and Junsuk Rho for the invitation!
April 3, 2019
Our group is part of a team that wins a 2019 MURI award, on the topic of near-field radiative heat transfer.
March 11, 2019
Andrew’s PRX paper is highlighted in Yale News and on the Yale AP website.
March 3, 2019
Collaborative paper with M. Benzaouia, S. G. Johnson, et al. is selected as an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review Applied.
January 11, 2019
Zeyu Kuang, Wenjin Xue, and Qingqing Zhao join the group. Welcome!
October 26, 2018
Thanks for Francesco Monticone for the invitation!
September 1, 2018
Lang Zhang and Ruoping Li join the group. Welcome!
August 29, 2018
Our collaborative paper with Yi Yang, the Soljacic group, and Ido Kaminer is published in Nature Physics and highlighted in Nature Photonics.
August 29, 2018
Thanks to Vincenzo Galdi and the TPC for the invitation!
July 20, 2018
Thanks to Elena Cherkaev, Ornella Mattei, and Aaron Welters for the invitation!
July 12, 2018
Thanks to Richard James for the invitation!
July 9, 2018
Owen presents invited talk at SIAM annual meeting. Thanks Boaz Blankrot and Clemens Heitzinger for the kind invitation!
July 3, 2018
Owen presents invited talk at ETH Zurich. Thanks to Habib Ammari for the invitation!
June 4, 2018
Kazemi Adachi joins the research group, funded for the summer as a Rosenfeld Science Scholar. Welcome Kazemi!
September 6, 2017
Owen presents invited seminar talk at Penn St. Thanks to Mikael Rechtsman for the invitation!
August 25, 2017
Welcome, Hanwen!
July 27, 2017
Thanks to Pramod, Juan Carlos, and Edgar for the invitation and the excellent workshop!
July 17, 2017
Lucy joins from Nanjing University. Welcome, Lucy!
June 30, 2017
Our collaborative Science Advances paper with Ognjen Ilic and the Soljacic group is highlighted in MIT News (http://news.mit.edu/2017/tiny-motors-driven-by-light-0630).
June 5, 2017
Welcome, Andrew!
April 14, 2017
Thanks to Mike and Miranda for the invitation and hospitality!
February 1, 2017
Haejun joins from Purdue, where he completed his PhD with Peter Bermel. Welcome, Haejun!
January 26, 2017
The arxiv link is here. A copy of the .pdf is on our Publications page.
December 29, 2016
The arxiv link is here. A copy of the .pdf is on our Publications page.
December 12, 2016
Thanks to Braxton, Steven, and Anne-Sophie for the invitation!
November 1, 2016
Larry arrives from Dartmouth, where he completed his PhD advised by Alex Barnett. Welcome, Larry!
November 1, 2016
Our work developing new, general bounds to near-field radiative heat transfer has been highlighted in our SPIE Newsroom article. 
October 25, 2016
Thanks to Bo Zhen and Kevin Kubarych for the FiO/LS invite. Thanks to Prineha Narang and Luke Sweatlock for the Northrop Grumman invite and for the great workshop.
October 11, 2016
About the award: “The YIP is open to scientists and engineers at research institutions across the United States who received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five...
August 1, 2016
I look forward to working with the world-leading groups in the Department of Applied Physics, the Energy Sciences Institute, and across the campus, towards new science and...