Josh Caldwell

“Deterministic inverse design of Tamm plasmon thermal emitters with multi-resonant control” published in Nature Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author: Mingze He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua Caldwell. Mingze’s research focuses on engineering the mid-infrared… Read More

Join in welcoming new members of our community, recognizing the accomplishments of our community, and celebrating faculty promotions. WELCOME Michael J. Valenti & Christina L. McGahan FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall – named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair… Read More

“Filterless Nondispersive Infrared Sensing Using Narrowband Infrared Emitting Metamaterials” published in ACS Photonics has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author:  Alyssa was an VINSE NSF REU fellow studying in the Caldwell Lab in 2019. In recently published work, she… Read More

We are pleased to announce that Professor Josh Caldwell has agreed to serve as the new Director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science graduate program starting July 1, 2021, for a three year term. Prof. Caldwell will concurrently serve as the program’s Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). Read More

Researchers devised a hybrid, hyperbolic-silicon photonic waveguide platform that transmits mid-IR and near-IR light at the same time, on the same chip, demonstrating dual-band optical processing.  Illustration: Caldwell Lab A team led by Vanderbilt engineers has achieved the ability to transmit two different types of optical signals across a single chip… Read More

Please congratulate the following members of the VINSE faculty on recent accomplishments and promotions. FFC 2020 program. FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Joshua D. Caldwell named Flowers… Read More

Episode 15 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Guanyu Lu about capturing waste heat to use in optical communication. Guanyu’s paper ” Narrowband Polaritonic Thermal Emitters Driven by Waste Heat” was published in ACS Omega.  Guanyu Lu is a 3rd year graduate student in Mechanical… Read More

Vanderbilt professor Joshua D. Caldwell has been selected as a 2020 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the society’s spring meeting in Phoenix in April. Caldwell, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has merged his prior work in wide band gap semiconductor materials with his efforts… Read More

This week in episode 7 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Thomas Folland about trapping and concentrating light. Tom’s paper “Vibrational Coupling to Epsilon-Near-Zero Waveguide Modes” was published in ACS Photonics.  Thomas is a Postdoctoral Scholar working with Dr. Josh Caldwell in Mechanical Engineering. Thomas Folland –… Read More

Mechanical engineering professors Joshua Caldwell and Kelsey Hatzell are inaugural recipients of Flowers Family faculty awards. Caldwell is the Flowers Family Chancellor Faculty Fellow in Engineering. Hatzell is the Flowers Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering. The awards target professors who have shown a strong evidence of scientific accomplishment early… Read More