Matt, Aamir, and Abdulhafeez attended the MRS meeting in Seattle, Washington, from April 7-11, 2025, where Aamir gave a talk on the potential of stacked CVD-grown MoS2 monolayers as high-specific-power photovoltaics for space applications. At the same time, Abdulhafeez presented a poster focused on the prospect of adaptive metasurfaces based on a phase transition material as a transmissive spatial light modulator. The oral presentation title was “Stacking CVD-grown MoS2 monolayers for high-performance 2D optoelectronics,” while the poster title was “Pixelated Control of Tunable VO2 Metasurfaces.” Afeez won a best poster award at the symposium “Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces.” The group also met with group alumna Thalia and enjoyed a dinner together. We wrapped up the trip to Seattle with a ferry ride to explore Bainbridge Island.
Aamir, Abdulhafeez, and Matt during the poster session.
At the Spheres with group alumna Thalia after dinner.
Aamir and Abdulhafeez on the ferryride to Bainbridge Island.