Welcome to the Youngblood Photonics Lab at Pitt

Our research combines unique optoelectronic materials with scalable photonic circuits to create new platforms for low-latency machine learning, reconfigurable photonic devices, and precision biosensing. Key to our work is a fundamental understanding of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale and use of advanced nanofabrication techniques to address major challenges facing these disciplines. The following areas of research in our group are: 1) Programmable Photonic Devices and Architectures for Machine Learning; 2) Waveguide-Integrated Circuits for Biosensing; and 3) Waveguide-Integrated 2D Materials for High Performance Optoelectronics.

News:

Vivswan joins the lab!

Posted on August 10, 2020

The lab welcomes Vivswan Shah to Pitt! Vivswan is a new PhD student starting this fall who graduated from Illinois College with a double major in Physics and Computer Science. He will be developing waveguide-integrated 2D optoelectronic memory using MoTe2 and will use his coding chops to automate experiments in... [Read More]
Tags: graduate students new team member

Youngblood Photonics Lab wins an NSF grant to explore 2D PCMs

Posted on May 11, 2020

Our proposal on “Elucidating Structural Transformations in MoTe2 for Efficient Optoelectronic Memory” in collaboration with Feng Xiong from Pitt was funded! We are excited to better understand the mechanism for phase transition in the 2D material MoTe2 using optical and electrical techinques. See the following technical abstract for more information:... [Read More]
Tags: electro-optic memory phase-change photonics 2D materials

Funding Sources:

Our lab acknowledges generous funding support provided by: