MANNA LAB

Welcome to the Home of Nanophotonics Research at ISU!

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Our research is at the nexus of nanotechnology and optics! We use light to excite materials with different dimensions (nanometer scale to bulk films) and probe their interactions with light using optical spectroscopy. Currently, we are looking into the possibility of enhancement and control of "magnetic" light-matter interactions in high-index dielectric nanoparticles (silicon), metamaterials, rare earth ions, etc. For more details, see RESEARCH.

Another area we recently started exploring is Biophotonics! We have developed a superresolution Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence  (TIRF) microscope for imaging apical cell surfaces to understand intraflagellar (IFT) transport in cilia, in collaboration with Engelke Lab and Kim Lab at ISU.


RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

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We acknowledge supports from the Division of Material Research (DMR), National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding our research (Award # 2208240 and Award # 2116612)