Nanomaterials for Next-generation Technologies

04-08-2026. Congratulations to Kien Mac for successfully defending his Master's thesis in Physics. Kien will continue to do PhD research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at USU.

03-16 to 03-21-2026. The whole group was attending the APS Global Summit in Denver. All students gave talks at the conference.

03-2026. Congratulations to Kay and Hydyr (Highschool students) for winning 2nd place in the Science Fair in Utah State, and being selected to participate in the competition for the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Their project is "Supervised Machine Learning for Post-aquisition Background Suppression in Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

01-14-2026. Dr. Trinh hosts Prof. Steve Cundiff from the University of Michigan for the departmental seminar: Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

'07-01-2025: Dr. Trinh received funding from Space Dynamics Laboratory to develop quantum dot-based room temperature IR photodetectors

4-16-2025: Dr. Trinh hosts Dr. Luisa Whittaker-Brooks from the University of Utah. Dr. Whittaker-Brooks delivers her talk "Defect chemistry as a design parameter to enable functional electronics" to the department.

3-28-2025. Congratulations to Chase, a former undergrad student! He get offers from Vanderbilt University for his RUE research fellowship in summer 2025.

3-5-2025: Dr. Trinh hosts Dr. Thang Hoang from the University of Memphis. Dr. Hoang delivers his talk "Tailoring light-matter interactions at the nanoscale for new generation of high efficiency optoelectronics" to the department.

12-24-2024. Congratulations to Tyler Barry! He got offers from several dental schools for further study. He decided to attend UT Health San Antonio in Texas. Best of luck with your future study. Again, congratulations! 

10-30-2024. Dr. Trinh hosts Dr. Matt Beard from National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Dr. Beard delivers his talk "Chiral Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors" to the department.

10-16-2024. Dr. Trinh hosts Prof. Tho Nguyen from the University of Georgia, Dr. Nguyen delivers his talk of "Rapid Optical and Electrical Sensing of Hydrogen Using Templated Control of Nano-hydride Geometry and Magnetic Composition" to the department. 

10/9/2024. Dr. Trinh hosts Prof. Hartland from the University of Notre Dame as an Olsen Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Shining Light on Nanotech: Single Particle Studies Topic for USU's Olsen Lecture Oct. 9 

6/6/2024 Group research is on the USU news 

4/20-2024 Welcome Baahozhonni Little and Khiara Kinsel, "Native American Summer Mentorship Program", joins us this summer as undergrad research experience

3/2024 Welcome Liam Luvai, undergraduate student, joins the team 

8/2023: Welcome Kieu Nguyen, Kien Mac, and Caleb joining the group

5//22/2023: Welcome Antonio Richards, a "Native American Summer Mentorship Program", joins us this summer as undergrad research experience

4/3/2023: after 4 months of delay, eventually the NTEGRA II-AFM optical near-field system is being installed.

2/10/2023: Welcome Chase Pyrah, an undergraduate student, to join the team.

1/1/2023: Welcome Thu Trinh Phan, a Ph.D. student, to join the team.

Magneto-optics, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, and single-photon detection are up and running

Dr. Trinh starts a new research group at Utah State University, July 2022