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From left to right: Justin Gregory, Jingbo Qi, Tony Hmelo, Ying Xu, Heungman Park, Joyeeta Nag, Vimal Deepchand, Norman Tolk, Travis Wade, Sandy Childress, Jane Fall, Drew Steigerwald, Dongmin Seo, Jason Greaving, Stephanie Gilbert

Vanderbilt University's Center for Molecular and Atomic Studies at Surfaces (CMASS) has active research programs in linear and non-linear optics, time-resolved ultra-fast spectroscopy, and spintronics. Experimental facilities include an array of ultrafast intense lasers (covering mid-infrared to UV) including the Vanderbilt Free Electron Laser (FEL), FTIR, a 9T superconducting magnet, and an ion implantation facility. Specifically, we have research projects in the fields of:

  1. Coherent Acoustic Phonon Spectroscopy
  2. Second Harmonic Generation
  3. Nonlinear Optical Absorption
  4. Spintronics
We hope that this work will lead to advances in the study of surfaces and interfaces and in the new science of quantum computing.