Overview

Trey Long is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science program studying under Dr. Joshua Caldwell. He has served as a VINSE TA for 2 semesters and counselor for the Vanderbilt Summer Academy. His research pertains to the confinement of electromagnetic energy in the nano- to atomic-scale and the interactions between light and matter within these confined systems. This involves the sub-diffraction confinement of light using 'polaritons' within the optical spectral domain (primarily the infrared), the design of nanoscale optical "meta-materials", and identifying and characterizing novel optical materials. He is utilizing these techniques to control heat flow within and along the surface of matter on the nanoscopic scale.