Graduate Students

Shamsul Abedin is a second year Chemical Engineering PhD student in Prof. Eric Potma’s research group at UC Irvine where he works on the development of surface plasmon enhanced optical sensors for label free detection of nanoscale particles facilitated by two-photon excited luminescence of gold films. He has received his B.S.

Andy Yang is currently a second year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D in Chemistry at UCI. He graduated University of California Davis with a BS in Physics and Chemistry. After leaving UC Davis and before joining UCI Irvine, he worked as a research associate conducting R&D for a biotech startup in the Bay Area. Because of his interest in energy research and science, he has decided to pursue a Ph.D under the mentorship of Prof. Matt Law. His research emphasis is on plasmonic catalysis towards solar fuel production.

My research involves investigating ultrafast plasmon driven reaction dynamics using surface-enhanced femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SE-FSRS) techniques.

My work focuses on exploring Tip Enhanced Raman Imaging using semi-empirical and density functional methods. TER Imaging allows for the simultaneous acquisition of chemical and structural information by collecting Raman data at many points while also performing STM analysis.

Research focuses on the study of coherent vibration and spin dynamics at single molecule level using laser coupled scanning tunneling microscope (STM).  Also involved in developing instrumentation in the lab, such as building helium recycling system, upgrading STM and optimizing our femto-second laser system.

My research focus on time and energy resolved laser STM studies on single molecules, including single molecule dynamics, imaging and spectroscopy.

My research is focussed on studying the fundamentals of plasmon driven chemistry. By using femtosecond and/or picosecond pulses we can drive non-equilibrium electron distributions at plasmonic nanoparticle junctions and observe the vibrational signature of molecules within this environment through time-resolved Raman spectroscopy techniques.

My research interest is to study plasmonic reaction dynamics using surface-enhanced ultrafast Raman spectroscopy.

Electron Microscopy(AC-LEEM/PEEM)

My research is focused on develping tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy under ultrahigh vacuum conditions.