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Samuel Ginn
College of Engineering

News & Highlights

2025
Nature Communications: Polariton mode conversions (Link)
NSF DMR Grant (Link)
2023
NSF CAREER Award (Link)
Nature Communications: Isotope heterostructures (Link)
2022
Auburn Research Support Program grant (Link)
2020
Nature Materials: Twisted phonon polaritons (Link)
  • Featured in Nano Letters: "The Rise of Twist-Optics" (Link)
  • Featured in Nature Materials: "A twist for nanolight" (Link)
2017
UCSD Physics Chair’s Challenge award 2017
2016
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (Link)
2015
Hybrid Plasmon-phonon polaritons in graphene/hBN metastructures
  • "Physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials" by ScienceDaily.com (Link)
  • "Graphene/hBN metastructure goes hyperbolic" by nanotechweb.org (Link)
  • "Tunable hyperbolic polaritons created with home-grown graphene" by delta.tudelft.nl (Link)
  • "Physicists fine-tune control of flexible outlandish materials" by az-neweer.com (Link)
2014
Tunable phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride
  • "Far Out! Making Crystals Ripple with Light" by livescience.com (Link)
  • "Crystals ripple in response to light" by phys.org (Link)
  • "Light on Boron Nitride Creates Tunable Ripples" by spectrum.ieee.org (Link)
  • "Phonon polaritons propagate in 2D" by nanotechweb.org (Link)
  • "Phonon Polaritons" by nanotechetc.com (Link)
  • "Vibrating Atoms with Light" by overclockersclub.com (Link)
2013
Plasmons at graphene grain boundaries
  • "Surface plasmons: a probe for graphene electronics" by Remi Carminati in Nature Nanotech. (Link)
  • "Surface plasmons reveal grain boundaries in graphene" by nanotechweb.org (Link)
  • "Researchers use surface plasmons to see and study graphene grain boundaries" by graphene-info.com (Link)
  • "Atomic ruptures in a conductive carbon net" by CeNS news, Germany (Link)