Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Role
Director of Education Program MIRTHE+
Office Phone
609-258-8962
Email
arod@princeton.edu
Assistant
Katie Gallagher
Office
B318 Engineering Quadrangle
Website
http://faculty.ee.princeton.edu/arodriguez/
Degrees
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
Advisee(s):
Pengning Chao
Tianyang Chen
Andres Correa Hernandez
Theodoros Koutserimpas
Rodrick Kuate Defo
Thomas Maldonado
Jewel Mohajan
Benjamin Strekha
Bio/Description
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associated Faculty in the Princeton Institute of Materials (PRISM)
Advances in nano-fabrication over the past few decades have enabled the study of material structures with features at the scale or smaller than the electromagnetic wavelength. These engineered materials (photonic crystals, plasmonic nanoresonators, and metamaterials) can lead to a wide range of unusual optical behaviors (photonic bandgaps, ballistic transport, ultra-slow propagation, and negative refraction) which allow unprecedented control and tunability over the properties of light.
Our group's focus is on applying and developing theoretical and computational techniques to explore the ways in which complex nanostructures can lead to new optical phenomena and devices. Current and past research interests include:
Fluctuation phenomena (Casimir and van der Waals forces, thermal radiation, spontaneous emission)
Nonlinear optics
Fundamental limits on optical phenomena
Large-scale photonic optimization (inverse design)
Topological photonics
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Selected Publications
Prashanth Venkataram, Jan Hermann, Alexander Tkatchenko, and Alejandro W. Rodriguez.?Unifying microscopic and continuum treatments of van der Waals and Casimir interactions.?Physical Review Letters, 118:266802, 2017
L. Tang, M. Wang, C. Y. Ng, M. Nikolic, C. T. Chan, A. W. Rodriguez, and H. B. Chan.?Measurement of non-monotonic Casimir forces between silicon nanostructures.?Nature Photonics (Advanced Online Publication), 11:97-101, 2017.
Zin Lin, Marco Loncar, and Alejandro W. Rodriguez.?Topology optimization of multitrack ring resonators and 2d microcavities for nonlinear frequency conversion.?Optics Letters, 42(14):2818-2822, 2017.
Chinmay Khandekar and Alejandro W. Rodriguez.?Near-field thermal upconversion through a Kerr medium. Optics Express, 25(19):23164-23180, 2017.
Konstantin Klopstech, Nils Konne, Svend-Age Biehs, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Ludwig Worbes, David Hellmann, and Achim Kittel.?Giant heat transfer in the crossover regime between conduction and radiation.?Nature Communications, 8(14475), 2017.
Google Scholar Profile
Honors and Awards:
Presidential Early Career Award, 2019
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigator Award, 2016
Princeton SEAS E. Lawrence Keys, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Award, 2016
National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, 2015
National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, 2014
MIT Infinite Kilometer Award, 2012
World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shaper, 2011
Fredrick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science, 2011
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Research Areas
Applied Physics
Materials & Devices
Photonics