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Ph.D., 2003 -University of Toronto
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Micro- and Nano-Photonics
- Photonic band gap formation in non-crystallographic photonic structures
- Nonlinear optics and all-optical information processing in micro-structured photonic materials
- Thermal radiation in nano-structured photonic materials; thermal
management and
thermophotovoltaic energy conversion systems
Linear optical quantum computing in photonic nanostructures
- Single-photon sources and detectors
- Quantum memory and loss quenching in quantum information systems
Nano-electronics and spintronics
- Spin and electronic properties of quantum dots: spin dephasing and relaxation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Effects of random link removal on the photonic band gaps of honeycomb networks ", Applied Physics Letters 97, 452523 (2010).
- Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Designer disordered materials with large complete photonic band gaps", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 20658 (2009).
- Christian Schuler, Christian Wolff, Kurt Busch, and Marian Florescu, "Thermal radiation from finite photonic crystals", Applied Physics Letters 95, 241103 (2009).
- Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul Steinhardt, "Complete band gaps in two-dimensional photonic quasicrystals", Physical Review B 80, 155112 (2009).
- Marian Florescu, Kurt Busch and Jonathan P. Dowling, "Thermal radiation in photonic crystals", Physical Review B Rapid Communications 75, 201101 (R) (2007);
- Marian Florescu and Pawel Hawrylak, "Spin relaxation in lateral quantum dots: Effects of spin-orbit interaction", Physical Review B 73, 045304 (2006);
- Marian Florescu, Stefan Scheel, Hartmut Haeffner, Hwang Lee, Dmitry V.Strekalov, Peter L. Knight, and Jonathan P. Dowling, "Single photons on demand from 3D photonic band-gap structures", Europhysics Letters 69 (6), 945 (2005).
- Marian Florescu and Sajeev John, "Resonance fluorescence in photonic band gap waveguide architectures: Engineering the vacuum for all-optical switching", Physical Review A 69, 053810 (2004).
- Marian Florescu and Sajeev John, "Single-atom switching in photonic crystals, Physical Review A 64, 033801 (2001).