Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 1981

• B.Sc., Physics
• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• 1975

Positions

• 1998 - Present | Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Awards

• Fellow of Optical Society of America, 1993.

Professional Societies

• Optical Society of America

Publications

• D. N. Woolf, E. A. Kadlec, D. Bethke, A. D. Grine, J. J. Nogan, J. G. Cederberg, D. Bruce Burckel, T. S. Luk, E. A. Shaner, and J. M. Hensley, "High-efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy conversion enabled by a metamaterial selective emitter," Optica 5, 213-218 (2018).
• M. G. Wood, S. Campione, S. Parameswaran, T. S. Luk, J. R. Wendt, D. K. Serkland, and G. A. Keeler, "Gigahertz speed operation of epsilon-near-zero silicon photonic modulators," Optica 5, 233-236 (2018).
• D. F. Sava Gallis, K. S. Butler, L. E. S. Rohwer, A. A. McBride, G. Vincent, C. V. Chong, C. J. Pearce, and T. S. Luk, "Biocompatible MOFs with high absolute quantum yield for bioimaging in the second near infrared window," CrystEngComm (2018).
• I. C. Reines, M. G. Wood, T. S. Luk, D. K. Serkland, and S. Campione, "Compact epsilon-near-zero silicon photonic phase modulators," Optics Express 26, 21594-21605 (2018).
• I. Montaño, S. Campione, J. F. Klem, T. E. Beechem, O. Wolf, M. B. Sinclair, and T. S. Luk, "Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials at the Quantum Limit," Scientific Reports 8, 16694 (2018).
• O. Mitrofanov, T. Siday, R. J. Thompson, T. S. Luk, I. Brener, and J. L. Reno, "Efficient photoconductive terahertz detector with all-dielectric optical metasurface," APL Photonics 3, 051703 (2018).
• S. Mishkat-Ul-Masabih, T. S. Luk, A. Rishinaramangalam, M. Monavarian, M. Nami, and D. Feezell, "Nanoporous distributed Bragg reflectors on free-standing nonpolar m-plane GaN," Applied Physics Letters 112, 041109 (2018).
• D. de Ceglia, M. Scalora, M. A. Vincenti, S. Campione, K. Kelley, E. L. Runnerstrom, J.-P. Maria, G. A. Keeler, and T. S. Luk, "Viscoelastic optical nonlocality of low-loss epsilon-near-zero nanofilms," Scientific Reports 8, 9335 (2018).
• C.-C. Chang, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, J. Nogan, T. S. Luk, A. K. Azad, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, M. Sykora, and H.-T. Chen, "High-Temperature Refractory Metasurfaces for Solar Thermophotovoltaic Energy Harvesting," Nano Letters (2018).
• K. Bian, H. Schunk, D. Ye, A. Hwang, T. S. Luk, R. Li, Z. Wang, and H. Fan, "Formation of self-assembled gold nanoparticle supercrystals with facet-dependent surface plasmonic coupling," Nature Communications 9, 2365 (2018).
• J. Zeng, T. S. Luk, J. Gao, and X. Yang, "Spiraling Light with Magnetic Metamaterial Quarter-Wave Turbines," Scientific Reports 7, 11824 (2017).
• Y. Yang, K. Kelley, E. Sachet, S. Campione, T. S. Luk, J.-P. Maria, M. B. Sinclair, and I. Brener, "Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber," Nature Photonics 11, 390 (2017).
• R. J. Thompson, T. Siday, S. Glass, T. S. Luk, J. L. Reno, I. Brener, and O. Mitrofanov, "Optically thin hybrid cavity for terahertz photo-conductive detectors," Applied Physics Letters 110, 041105 (2017).
• D. F. Sava Gallis, L. E. S. Rohwer, M. A. Rodriguez, M. C. Barnhart-Dailey, K. S. Butler, T. S. Luk, J. A. Timlin, and K. W. Chapman, "Multifunctional, Tunable Metal–Organic Framework Materials Platform for Bioimaging Applications," ACS applied materials & interfaces 9, 22268-22277 (2017).
• X. Ma, A. R. James, N. F. Hartmann, J. K. Baldwin, J. Dominguez, M. B. Sinclair, T. S. Luk, O. Wolf, S. Liu, S. K. Doorn, H. Htoon, and I. Brener, "Solitary Oxygen Dopant Emission from Carbon Nanotubes Modified by Dielectric Metasurfaces," ACS Nano 11, 6431-6439 (2017).

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