Jason Valentine

  • Spotlight Podcast Episode 19: Austin Howes – optical limiting using materials that change their properties when exposed to external energy sources

    Spotlight Podcast Episode 19: Austin Howes – optical limiting using materials that change their properties when exposed to external energy sources

    Episode 19 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Austin Howes tells Alice Leach about optical limiting using materials that change their properties when exposed to external energy sources. Austin’s paper “Optical Limiting Based on Huygens’ Metasurfaces” was published in Nano Letters. Austin graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering… Read More

    Sep. 8, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Florence Sanchez and Jason Valentine awarded VU Discovery Grants

    Two VINSE faculty received 2020 Discovery Grants, which are two-year awards of up to $25,000 each year for pilot or feasibility studies in areas with the potential to make significant breakthroughs. Florence Sanchez, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for Storing energy in 3D printed functionally graded concrete structures; Jason Valentine,… Read More

    Jul. 14, 2020

  • Spotlight Podcast Episode 1: You Zhou  – Photonics: the manipulation of light

    Spotlight Podcast Episode 1: You Zhou – Photonics: the manipulation of light

    VINSE introduces the new VINSE Spotlight Podcast. In the podcast, we interview the author of a VINSE Spotlight publication. We find out what their paper is about, the science behind it and how their nano research fits into the bigger picture. This week Alice Leach talks to You… Read More

    May. 5, 2020

  • VINSE Deputy Director Jason Valentine named Vanderbilt faculty liaison with ORNL

    VINSE Deputy Director Jason Valentine named Vanderbilt faculty liaison with ORNL

    The Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaboration with Vanderbilt University will grow stronger through a new faculty liaison—a School of Engineering professor—and enhanced management of travel assistance awards. Jason Valentine, associate professor of mechanical and electrical engineering, is the new faculty liaison and will carry on the collaborations established by Carlos Lopez,… Read More

    Nov. 20, 2019

  • Duvall and Valentine named as 2018 Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Duvall and Valentine named as 2018 Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    VINSE faculty Craig Duvall and Jason Valentine join 10 outstanding faculty members from across the university as the 2018 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty. “Our world-class faculty are the heart of Vanderbilt, and investing in our faculty is… Read More

    Jan. 18, 2018

  • NSF equipment grant expands nanoscale research capabilities

    NSF equipment grant expands nanoscale research capabilities

    An advanced tool to be housed at Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering core facilities will allow researchers to deposit uniform, ultrathin films for microelectronics, energy conversion devices and biomaterials. A $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Instrumentation Program is acquiring an ALD – atomic layer deposition… Read More

    Oct. 24, 2017

  • Jason Valentine Wins Chancellor’s Research Award

    Jason Valentine Wins Chancellor’s Research Award

    Jason Valentine, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was one of five Vanderbilt professors who won a Chancellor’s Award for Research this week. The award recognizes excellence in works published or presented in the last three calendar years. Recipients also received $2,000 and an engraved pewter julep cup. Valentine was honored for work… Read More

    Aug. 30, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    First circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip

    Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could expand the use of polarized light for drug screening, surveillance, optical communications and quantum computing, among other potential applications. The new detector was developed by a… Read More

    Sep. 22, 2015

  • Jason Valentine featured in C&EN News and Nature Materials

    Jason Valentine featured in C&EN News and Nature Materials

    VINSE member Jason Valentine’s work published in ACS Photonics was featured in C&EN magazine and Nature Materials 06/15/2015 “Simple Process Creates Near-Perfect Mirrors Out Of A Metamaterial Photonics: A layer of self-assembled particles allows researchers to etch an almost-perfect reflector that might be used in telescopes and lasers out… Read More

    Jun. 16, 2015

  • Jason Valentine receives NSF Early Career Award

    Jason Valentine receives NSF Early Career Award

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Valentine has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The four-year, $400,000 grant – All-Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces For Controlling Wave Fronts – will allow Valentine to continue research that will lead to a new class of ultra-compact optical elements that can… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2014