Amazing. My students do extensive repeated cleans on samples b/c the building’s HVAC system spits black dust all over the labs. Experiments are done under a tarp b/c the roof leaks. But @utaustin.bsky.social will spend >300K on a speechwriter b/c we have a pres. who knows nothing about higher ed

Just checked and the paper with the clear duplications is still up. @springernature.com has done nothing despite this being a clear, open and shut, case of copying. @retractionwatch.com

The latest from our group published in Laser and Photonics Reviews: doi.org/10.1002/lpor.... UT Mid-IR Photonics grad student Amogh Raju demonstrates record low loss in barium titanate (BTO) waveguides and resonators. BTO is an intriguing material for integrated photonic applications...

#OPG_OMEx welcomes submissions to a Feature Issue on Epitaxial Materials for Photonics. Excited to be part of the guest editor team for this special issue!! Submissions close 1 June:

The latest from our group in ACS Photonics: doi.org/10.1021/acsp... Led by Research Associate Zarko Sakotic, we show that we can fabricate metal films that mimic the behavior of atomically thin metals, but with a fraction of the loss! This enables plasmonic response out to the mid-IR,

Not a great sign when a basketball coach can offer a more spirited defense of academic freedom than @utaustin.bsky.social which has gone radio silent …and yes I know Steve Kerr is not just any bball coach…he’s actually, on paper, more qualified to be President of UT than Jim Davis, current pres.

It’s great to see a school actually do the right thing, but there is a part of me that is so ashamed of the response of my institution @utaustin.bsky.social in comparison. Our administration can’t even muster an anodyne statement of support for the mission of higher ed.

Photonic integration of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystal assemblies for ultrastrong coupling and infrared spectral tuning. Collaboration with @utmid-ir.bsky.social and @tmtruskett.bsky.social now out in @pubs.acs.org ACS Nano. @texasche.bsky.social #ChemSky 🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

So they have revoked the visas now of multiple students in our dept and across the engineering school. No one knows why, it is speculated that in some cases, because of past moving violations!! Where is @utaustin.bsky.social as students plucked from labs and classrooms? Dead silence. Crickets.

My student was doing a literature search and found a 2023 paper in the Nature/Springer Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials with figures just screen shot from a 2015 paper in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. JUST SCREENSHOT AND PASTED!! @retractionwatch.com

Apparently I am now an enemy of the state! My home state podcaster/senator put together a list of "woke" NSF awards which I am proud to say I made three times!! This notoriety is for an award that helps to cover registration for students attending an electronic materials conference.

When Roger freaking Goodell has more guts than any university administrator in the country…

My university’s president, who instantly caved and subsequently over complied with the state’s ban on diversity, wishing me a contemplative MLK day before bolting to the rich white private university for bags of 💰 💰… Hook ‘em!!!

< 2 weeks to submit to the 2025 Electronic Materials Conference, 6/25-27, at Duke University. Abstract submission deadline is 1/27: 2025.emc-conference.org **Our Broadening Participation program will waive registration fees for all attendees from non-R1 Minority Serving Institutions.**

Two things can be true: this guy was the epitome of everything wrong with higher ed administration AND his replacement is likely to be far far worse. Three things really, if the third is: University administrators are loyal only to that 💰💰💰

UT Mid-IR & Seth Bank’s LASE group’s annual holiday dinner, with special guest appearances from Linran Fan and Lilly Chin and group members. Sonos 40lbs of turkey put away!

New perspective article from my group and collaborators @tmtruskett.bsky.social @utmid-ir.bsky.social on the intriguing and surprisingly defect-tolerant collective infrared plasmonic properties of doped metal oxide (ITO) nanocrystals in monolayer superlattices #ChemSky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Recent work published in Nanophotonics and selected for the cover. Led by Prof. Viktor Podolskiy and graduate student Jacob LaMountain at UMass Lowell and @utmid-ir.bsky.social graduate student Amogh Raju, we investigate the source of efficient light concentration in metamaterial photonic funnels

Fall / Back surgery reading list: James - Percival Everett: The story of Huckleberry Finn told through Jim’s eyes. Beautifully written, compelling, funny but also brutal. Devoured it in no time. Highly recommend.

In the past couple of months @utaustin.bsky.social had its Provost step down, forcibly resigned the dean of the college of liberal arts, and today we learned that the dean of the school of geology is stepping down. Probably not coincidence. Whatever they are brewing must be so incredibly toxic…

We got our first entirely AI-generated reviews for a manuscript. Including this gem: "You might need to include relevant keywords related to your manuscript. Keywords are terms or phrases that highlight the main subjects and help improve the manuscript's ranking in search engines."

Man everyone in this story comes off looking either utterly craven or just dumb… Also, what was sort of glossed over was UF’s original top 5 public U ranking which was probably juiced by gaming the numbers. There are at least 5 public U’s in Ca higher regarded than UF www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

UT Austin ECE is hiring faculty in electromagnetics this year (both core and applied)! If you are interested in applying or know someone who might be interested, please refer to our ad: www.ece.utexas.edu/people/facul...

It is not often that I have cause to compliment the administration of @utaustin.bsky.social but credit where it’s due… They have switched seamlessly from pointless and time-wasting (though arguably well-intentioned) diversity modules to pointless and time-wasting anti-diversity training modules!

1st paper of 2024, in Appl. Phys. Lett., led by Felix A. Estevez H., with RMD Inc. and AFRL, showing bulk passivation of InAsSbBi can result in a ~3x improvement in minority carrier lifetime, an important result for dilute-Bi IR detectors! doi.org/10.1063/5.01...

The 2024 Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) is the premier premier annual forum on the preparation, characterization and use of electronic materials. EMC 2024 will be June 26-28th, at UMd College Park!! Abstract submission deadline is 1/19. Submit here: 2024.emc-conference.org

Exciting new work from amazing post-doc Zarko Sakotic, published in ACS Photonics today, in collaboration with Prof. Michelle Povinelli. Zarko explores the theoretical limits of perfect absorption in ultra-thin films in work supported by the DARPA OpTIm program. doi.org/10.1021/acsp...

New preprint on ChemRxiv on perfect absorption by monolayers of ITO nanocrystals coupled to an optical cavity. Results from a wonderful collaboration with @utmid-ir.bsky.social and @tmtruskett.bsky.social at UT Austin. Led by Woo Je Chang and Zarko Sakotic. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Chemsky