Brian Kiraly
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Graduate Student
Biofunctionalized Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (BioNEMS) Laboratory
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802-6812
Tel: (574)850-6407
Email: btk5051@psu.edu
Research Interests
- Plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles and thin films
- Coupled plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles clusters
- Localized surface plasmon resonance based biosensing systems
- Plasmonics for energy harvesting applications
- Plasmonically enhanced optoelectronic devices
Education
August 2010 - Present
Graduate Student
Penn State University - Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Advisor - Tony Jun Huang
Aug. 2006 - June 2010
B.S. Engineering Physics
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - Department of Physics and Optical Engineering
Research Experience
Research Assistant - Pennsylvania State University BioNEMS Lab
- Coupled resonances in asymmetric nanoparticle aggregates
- Colliodal fabrication methods for inexpensive nanoparticle aggregate arrays
Summer Research Assistant - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Spectroscopic techniques for semiconductor nanowire characterization
- Cathodoluminescence characterization of single-crystalline GaN nanowires
Awards and Honors
- 2011 NSF Graduate Fellow
- Rose-Hulman Class of 2010 - Magna Cum Laude
- 2010 Engineering Physics Outstanding Student Award
- Rose-Hulman Paul N. Bogart Scholar
- Rose-Hulman Hemingway Scholar
Publications
- Yanhui Zhao, Steven Sz-Chin Lin, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Brian Kiraly, Qingzhen Hao, Yanjun Liu and Tony Jun Huang, Beam bending via plasmonic lenses, Optics Express, Vol. 18, 23458-23465, 2010.
- Hua Huang, Xiaole Mao, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Brian Kiraly, Yiping Huang, and Tony Jun Huang, Tunable Two-Dimensional Liquid Gradient Refractive Index (L-GRIN) Lens for Variable Light Focusing, Lab on a Chip, Vol. 10, 2387-2393, 2010. (featured as back cover image)
- Yue Bing Zheng, Qingzhen Hao, Ying-Wei Yang, Brian Kiraly, I-Kao Chiang, and Tony Jun Huang, Light-driven Artificial Molecular Machines, Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 4, 042501, 2010.
- Yue Bing Zheng, Bala Krishna Juluri, Brian Kiraly, and Tony Jun Huang, Ordered Au Nanodisk and Nanohole Arrays: Fabrication and Applications, ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, Vol. 1, 031011, 2010.
- Vincent K.S. Hsiao, Yue Bing Zheng, Heike Betz, Brian Kiraly, Wei Yan, Pamela F. Lloyd, Timothy J. Bunning, Alexander N. Cartwright, and Tony Jun Huang, Holographically Fabricated Dye-Doped Nanoporous Polymers as Matrix for Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry, J. Nanotechnol. Eng. Med. 1, 041011 (2010).
- Yue Bing Zheng, Brian Kiraly, and Tony Jun Huang, Molecular Machines Drive Smart Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Vol. 5, No. 9, 1309-1312, (2010).
- Beam aperture modifier and beam deflector using gradient-index photonic crystals. Mengqian Lu, Bala Krishna Juluri, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Brian Kiraly, Tieyu Gao, and Tony Jun Huang, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 103505 (2010), DOI:10.1063/1.3499630.
- Frequency-addressed tunable transmission in optically thin metallic nanohole arrays with dual-frequency liquid crystals. Qingzhen Hao, Yanhui Zhao, Bala Krishna Juluri, Brian Kiraly, Justin Liou, Iam Choon Khoo, and Tony Jun Huang, J. Appl. Phys. 109, 084340 (2011), DOI:10.1063/1.3581037
- Incident-Angle-Modulated Molecular Plasmonic Switches: A Case of Weak Exciton–Plasmon Coupling. Yue Bing Zheng, Brian Kiraly, Sarawut Cheunkar, Tony Jun Huang, Paul S. Weiss. Nano Letters. In Press, 2011.
- Bala Krishna Juluri, Brian Kiraly, Bingxin Zheng, Tony Jun Huang, Surface Plasmon Polariton based Nanoparticle Fabrication, Nano Research, to be submitted, 2010.


