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Henri Lezec, Project Leader

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Henri Lezec is a Project Leader in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following postdoctoral research at NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba, Japan, he worked as an applications specialist for Micrion and FEI Corprations in both Germany and in the USA, and subsequently as a Research Director at the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. Immediately prior to joining NIST in 2007, he was a Visiting Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology. Henri's research in the CNST focuses on nanoplasmonics, nanophotonics, and nanofabrication with focused ion beams; he is currently leading a project to develop and exploit negative-index metamaterials at visible frequencies. Henri holds 10 U.S. patents and has over 50 publications, including several in Science and Nature, and is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings.



Selected Publications:

  • Beaming Light from a Subwavelength Aperture, H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, E. Devaux, R. A. Linke, L. Martin-Moreno, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and T. W. Ebbesen, Science 297(5582), 820 (2002).
  • Diffracted Evanescent Wave Model for Enhanced and Supressed Optical Transmission through Subwavelength Hole Arrays, H. J. Lezec and T. Thio, Optics Express 12(16), 3629 (2004).
  • The Optical Response of Nanostructured Surfaces and the Composite Diffracted Evanescent Wave Model, G. Gay, O. Alloschery, B. Viaris de Lesegno, C. O’Dwyer, R. Mathevet, J. Weiner, and H. J. Lezec, Nature Physics 2(4), 262 (2006).
  • Negative Refraction at Visible Frequencies, H. J. Lezec, J. A. Dionne, and H. A. Atwater, Science 316(5823), 430 (2007).
  • All-optical mMdulation by Plasmonic Excitation of CdSe qUantum Dots, D. Pacifici, H. J. Lezec, and H. A. Atwater, Nature Photonics 1(7), 402 (2007).
  • Universal Optical Transmission Features in Periodic and Quasiperiodic Hole Arrays, D. Pacifici, H. J. Lezec, L. A. Sweatlock, R. J. Walters, and H. A. Atwater, Optics Express 16(12), 9222 (2008).

Projects:

  • Plasmon-interferometers for sensing and switching
  • Integrated plasmonic communications links on a silicon chip
  • Three-dimensional plasmonic metamaterial with a negative index of refraction
  • Focused-ion beam nanofabrication, construction analysis and metrology

Online: December 2007
Last Updated: May 2009

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