Welcome to my research group's website!
Remembering Professor Mark Stockman - a colleague and a friend (photo credit: N. Zheludev): here is one of the cherished moments with Mark. You can learn more about Mark Stockman here, and still more here:
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Our projects
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One day's moments caught on film (click on a button below to see the corresponding image; click on an image to see its larger version):
News
April 2026: Our paper All-optical polarization control in time-varying low-index films via plasma symmetry breaking came out in Nature Photonics.
March 2026: Our paper Crystallization of the Transdimensional Electron Liquid came out in Nano Letters journal.
February 2026: Our paper PearSAN: A Machine Learning Method for Inverse Design Using Pearson Correlated Surrogate Annealing came out in Adv. Opt. Materials journal.
February 2026: Our paper Many-body entanglement in solid-state emitters came out in Nature Reviews - Materials.
January 2026: Our paper Deep learning in photonic device development: nuances and opportunities came out in npj Nanophotonics.
January 2026: In-space manufactur-ing, quantum projects part of all-Boilermaker suborbital spaceflight, Purdue University News, 28.01.2026
January 2026: Our paper Quantum dot emission enhancement via coupling with an epsilon-near-zero sublayer to appear in APL Quantum.
December 2025: All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process, Phys.org, December 11, 2025 - a media article based on our paper All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche
November 2025: Our paper All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche came out in Nature Nanotechnology journal.
Vladimir M. Shalaev - The Robert and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
V. Shalaev is ranked #28 by Research.com among "Best Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists in United States".
For some detail on Prof. Shalaev's career path see his bio at OPTICA site.
Whether you are a Student, a Researcher, or the CEO
of a dynamic company active in the field of photonics and nanotechnology, I hope you will find something interesting for you on this website and that you will visit us again.
Big Congratulations to Professor Vladimir M. Shalaev on being elected a Member of both
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
More pictures from Purdue NAE reception are found here.
We are looking for bright students to join our group with expertise in the areas of quantum photonics, machine learning, nanolasers, and novel optical materials.
You can reach me via:
Phone: +1 765 494-9855
E-mail: shalaev@purdue.edu
Mail: Purdue University (contd.)
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 West State Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
More info on our research and collaborations can be found here:
- Our most impactful publications and the citation metrics, including h-index, can be seen from Google Scholar data.
- On-line course Nanophotonics and Metamaterials This course (Purdue ECE 695S) was posted to nanoHUB and, over the years (*i*, *ii*), it has been viewed by over 69,000 users with nearly perfect readers' rating.
- A series of invited lectures on metamaterials, quantum photonics, and nanophotonics given at University of Southern Denmark, May - June 2016
- Purdue Quantum Center website
- Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering:
Three-part lecture on metamaterials at nanoHUB - A Short Course on Metamaterials
- Course on Nanophotonics (this course was viewed on nanoHUB
close to 40,000 times with nearly perfect readers' rating). The latest version of this course is available here
The video below outlines nanophotonics effort led by Professors V. Shalaev, A Boltasseva, and A. Kildishev at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center:
news (cntd.)
November 2025: Check out our newly issues US Patent NANODEVICE, METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME
November 2025: Single-photon switch could enable photonic computing, Purdue Engineering News, 20.11.2025. This Purdue news release was picked up by a number of science-oriented news outlets, including EurekAlert.org, Phys.org, PhotonicsOnline.com, QuantumWire.com, ScienceVega.com, TheQuantumInsider.com; also selected as Featured Purdue University News item (December 1, 2025).
August 2025: Our paper Plasmonic heating, thermoelectric response, and thermal emission in titanium nitride nanowires came out in APL Materials journal.
July 2025: Our collaborative paper Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials came out in ACS Photonics journal.
June 2025: Our paper Floquet engineering of polaritonic amplification in dispersive photonic time crystals came out in Phys. Rev. Research.
June 2025: Check out our newly granted US patent entitled Systems and methods for single-photon emission.
June 2025: Our paper Generation of photon pairs through spontaneous four-wave mixing in subwavelength nonlinear films came out in Optics Letters. This paper was chosen as an Optics Letters' Editor's Pick.
May 2025: "Mark Lundstrom and Vladimir Shalaev elected members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Purdue News: May 15, 2025, read more ...
May 2025: Our paper Time-refraction near the critical angle and angular streaking with attosecond resolution [Invited] came out in Opt. Mater. Express.
May 2025: Our paper Single-photon emitters in PECVD-grown silicon nitride films: from material growth to photophysical properties came out in Nanophotonics journal.
April 2025: Our papers published by John Wiley & Sons
Coherent Random Lasing in Subwavelength Quasi‐2D Perovskites (Laser & Photonics Reviews)
Nonlinear Loss Engineering in Near‐Zero‐Index Bulk Materials (Advanced Optical Materials),
have been recognized by the Publisher (certificate #1, #2) as being within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published in Las.Phot.Rev. and Adv.Opt.Mat. in 2023.
April 2025: Our paper Tailoring optical response of MXene thin films came out in Nanophotonics journal.