VINSE is excited to announce that Yueming Yan is the recipient of the 2024 VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Yueming鈥檚 paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments 鈥� the Haglund group in Physics and the Macdonald group in Chemistry. 聽Yueming designed a multi-layer nano composite film containing aluminum, gold, and copper sulfide nanoparticles that was fabricated in the Macdonald laboratory. 聽Using the femtosecond laser facilities in the Haglund labs, Yueming then demonstrated that femtosecond laser excitation in the near infrared (1.05 碌m wavelength) efficiently generated ultrashort-pulse light beams in the visible (525 nm), ultraviolet (350 nm) and vacuum ultraviolet (262.5 and 210 nm) spectral regions. The scalable nature of the materials properties in the nanoparticle composite reported in this work opens the way to many possible applications, including improved performance in solar energy conversion, and photodynamic cancer therapy. The VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award comes with a cash prize and a celebratory dinner for all contributing authors.
鈥淗armonic Generation up to Fifth Order from Al/Au/CuS Nanoparticle Films,鈥� Yueming Yan, Nathan J. Spear, Qingzhou Meng, Mahi R. Singh, Janet E. Macdonald, and Richard F. Haglund; Nano Letters 24, 5085-5092 (2024).