Department of Physics Faculty
Michael J. Naughton
Evelyn J. and Robert A. Ferris Professor of Physics
Michael J. Naughton
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 230A
Telephone: 617-552-0635
Email: naughton@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., St. John Fisher College
- Ph.D., Boston University
Research Interests
Experimental condensed matter and materials physics and nanoscale integrated science; nanoscale manipulation of light, for high efficiency photovoltaics, subwavelength waveguides, optical metamedia, and nanoscale coaxial optical microscopy; nanoscale devices for biochemical sensing and neural optrode interfaces; molecular organic superconductivity; magnetometry in large magnetic fields. Support provided by NSF, NIH, and the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Selected Publications
"Towards spectrally selective catastrophic response", V.R. Gabriele, A. Shvonski, C.S. Hoffman, M. Giersig, A. Herczynski, M.J. Naughton and K. Kempa, Physical Review E 062415听
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"Plasmonic multiple exciton generation", Jiantao Kong, Xueyuan Wu, Michael J. Naughton and Krzysztof Kempa, Physical Review Materials 3, 065201 (2019).
"Facile fabrication and formation mechanism of aluminum aluminum nanowire arrays", Nathan T. Nesbitt, Michael J. Burns and Michael J. Naughton, Nanotechnology 31, 095301 (2020).
鈥淎n Extended Core Nanocoax Pillar Architecture for Enhanced Molecular Detection Sensitivity,鈥� L.A. D鈥橧mperio, A.E. Valera, J.R. Naughton, M.M. Archibald, J.M. Merlo, T.C. Connolly, M.J. Burns, T.C. Chiles and M.J. Naughton, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 134, 83 (2019).
鈥淎ll-Solution-Processed Micro/Nanowires with Electroplate Welding as Transparent Conducting Electrodes,鈥� C. Yang, J.M. Merlo, L.A. D鈥橧mperio, A.H. Rose, Y.M. Calm, B. Han, G. Zhou, J. Gao, M.J. Burns, K. Kempa and M.J. Naughton, Physica Status Solidi (RRL)鈥擱apid Research Letters (2019).
鈥淥n-chip Electrochemical Detection of Cholera Using a Polypyrrole-Functionalized Dendritic Gold Sensor,鈥� A.E. Valera, N.T. Nesbitt, M.M. Archibald, M.J. Naughton and T.C. Chiles, ACS Sensors 4, 644 (2019).
鈥淎rrays of Electrically-Addressable, Optically-Transmitting 3D Nanostructures on Free-Standing, Flexible Polymer Films,鈥� L. D鈥橧mperio, A.F. McCrossan, J.R. Naughton, J.M. Merlo, Y.M. Calm, M.J. Burn and M.J. Naughton, Flexible and Printed Electronics 3(2) (2018).
鈥淎u Dendrite Electrocatalysts for CO2 Electrolysis,鈥� N.T. Nesbitt, M. Ma, B. J. Trzesniewski, S. Jaszewski, F.F. Tafti, M.J. Burns, W.A. Smith and M.J. Naughton, Journal of Physical Chemistry C听 122, 10006 (2018).
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