Brian Kiraly

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. Yue Bing Zheng, Brian Kiraly, and Tony Jun Huang, Molecular Machines Drive Smart Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Vol. 5, No. 9, 1309-1312, (2010).
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. Bala Krishna Juluri, Brian Kiraly, Bingxin Zheng, Tony Jun Huang, Surface Plasmon Polariton based Nanoparticle Fabrication, Nano Research, to be submitted, 2010.
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