Han Htoon

Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• University of Texas at Austin
• 2001

• M.S., Physics
• Western Illinois University
• 1996

• B.S., Physics (Honors)
• University of Yangon, Myanmar
• 1991

Positions

• 2016 - Present | Scientist 4, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
• 2009 - 2016 | Scientist 3, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
• 2005 - 2009 | Scientist 2, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
• 2005 - 2005 | Technical Staff Member, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology
• 2001 - 2005 | LANL Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Awards

• Fellow Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
• Fellow, American Physical Society, Division of Chemical Physics (2017)
• LANL Achievement Award (2015)
• LANL Associate Directorate for Chemistry, Life, and Earth Sciences Achievement Award for Program Development, 2009
• Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award, 2005
• LANL Achievement Award, 2003
• Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001
• Outstanding Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting (1999)
• Best Graduate Student Award, Dept. of Physics, Western Illinois University (1996)

Professional Societies

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Materials Research Society
• American Chemical Society
• Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
• The Optical Society

Publications

• Sampat, S.; Karan, N. S.; Guo, T.; Htoon, H.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Malko, A. V., ACS Photonics, 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00423
• Hollingsworth, J. A.; Htoon, H.; Piryatinski, A.; Götzinger, S.; Sandoghdar, V., MRS Bulletin 2015, 40, (09), 768-776
• Wang, F.; Karan, N. S.; Nguyen, H. M.; Ghosh, Y.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Htoon, H., Coupling Single Giant Nanocrystal Quantum Dots to Fundamental Modes of Patch Nanoantennas through Fringe Field. Sci. Report, 2015, 5, 14313.
• Ma, X.; Baldwin, J. K. S.; Hartmann, N. F.; Doorn, S. K.; Htoon, H., Solid-State Approach for Fabrication of Photostable, Oxygen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2015, 25 (39), 6157.
• Ma, X.; Hartmann, N. F.; Baldwin, J. K. S.; Doorn, S. K.; Htoon, H., Room Temperature Single-Photon Generation from Solitary Dopants of Carbon Nanotubes. Nature Nanotech. 2015, 10, 671.
• Ma, X.; Roslyak, O.; Duque, J. G.; Pang, X.; Doorn, S. K.; Piryatinski, A.; Dunlap, D. H.; Htoon, H., Influences of Exciton Diffusion and Exciton-Exciton Annihilation on Photon Emission Statistics of Carbon Nanotubes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015, 115, 017401.
• Wang, F.; Karan, N. S.; Nguyen, H. M.; Ghosh, Y.; Sheehan, C. J.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Htoon, H., Quantum Optical Signature of Plasmonically Coupled Nanocrystal Quantum Dots. Small 2015, 11, 5028-5034.
• Hanson, C. J.; Buck, M. R.; Acharya, K. P.; Torres, J. A.; Kundu, J.; Ma, X.; Bouquin, S.; Hamilton, C. E.; Htoon, H.; Hollingsworth, J. A., Matching Solid-State to Solution-Phase Photoluminescence for near-Unity Down-Conversion Efficiency Using Giant Quantum Dots. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7 (24), 13125-13130.
• Acharya, K. P.; Nguyen, H. M.; Paulite, M.; Piryatinski, A.; Zhang, J.; Casson, J. L.; Xu, H.; Htoon, H.; Hollingsworth, J. A., Elucidation of Two Giants: Challenges to Thick-Shell Synthesis in Cdse/Znse and Znse/Cds Core/Shell Quantum Dots. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (11), 3755-3758.
• Ma, X.; Htoon, H., Tailoring the Photophysical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes by Photonic Nanostructures. Mod. Phys. Lett. B 2015, 1530004.
• Wang, F.; Karan, N. S.; Nguyen, H. M.; Ghosh, Y.; Sheehan, C. J.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Htoon, H., Correlated Structural-Optical Study of Single Nanocrystals in a Gap-Bar Antenna: Effects of Plasmonics on Excitonic Recombination Pathways. Nanoscale 2015, 7 (21), 9387-9393.
• Karan, N. S.; Keller, A. M.; Sampat, S.; Roslyak, O.; Arefin, A.; Hanson, C. J.; Casson, J. L.; Desireddy, A.; Ghosh, Y.; Piryatinski, A.; Iyer, R.; Htoon, H.; Malko, A. V.; Hollingsworth, J. A., Plasmonic Giant Quantum Dots: Hybrid Nanostructures for Truly Simultaneous Optical Imaging, Photothermal Effect and Thermometry. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6 (4), 2224-2236.
• Wang, F.; Wei, Q.-H.; Htoon, H., Switchable and Non-Switchable Zero Backscattering of Dielectric Nano-Resonators. Optical Materials Express 2015, 5 (3), 668-675.
• Paulite, M.; Acharya, K. P.; Nguyen, H. M.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Htoon, H., Inverting Asymmetric Confinement Potentials in Core/Thick-Shell Nanocrystals. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6 (4), 706-711.
• Xu, E.; Li, Z.; Martinez, J.; Sinitsyn, N.; Htoon, H.; Li, N.; Swartzentruber, B. S.; Hollingsworth, J.; Wang, J.; Zhang, S., Diameter Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of Individual Snte Nanowires. Nanoscale 2015, 7, 2869-2876.

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