Publications
Facile measurement of the rotation of a single optically trapped nanoparticle using the diagonal ratio of a quadrant photodiode
Yuval Yifat, John Parker, Tian-Song Deng, Stephen K. Gray, Stuart A. Rice & Norbert F. Scherer
ACS Photonics, 2021
Data-driven reaction coordinate discovery in overdamped and non-conservative systems: application to optical matter structural isomerization
Shiqi Chen, Curtis W. Peterson, John Parker, Stuart A. Rice, Andrew L. Ferguson & Norbert F. Scherer
Nature Communications, 2021
Optical matter machines: angular momentum conversion by collective modes in optically bound nanoparticle arrays
John Parker, Curtis W. Peterson, Yuval Yifat, Stuart A. Rice, Zijie Yan, Stephen K. Gray, Norbert F. Scherer
Optica, 2020
Excitation of nonradiating anapoles in dielectric nanospheres
John Parker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Brighton Coe, Daniel Eggena, Minoru Fujii, Norbert F. Scherer, Stephen K. Gray, Uttam Manna
Physical Review Letters, 2020
Designing “metamolecules” for photonic function: reduced back scattering
Tian-Song Deng, John Parker, Yutaro Hirai, Nolan Shepherd, Hiroshi Yabu, Norbert F. Scherer
Physica Status Solidi B: Basic Solid State Physics, 2020
Discrete pH-responsive plasmonic actuators via site-selective encoding of nanoparticles with DNA triple helix motif
Kyle J. Gibson, Aleksander Prominski, Margaret S. Lee, Timothy M. Cronin, John Parker, Yossi Weizmann
Cell Reports Physical Science, 2020
Controlling the dynamics and optical binding of nanoparticle homodimers with transverse phase gradients
Curtis W. Peterson, John Parker, Stuart A. Rice, Norbert F. Scherer
Nano Letters, 2019
Dark plasmon modes in symmetric gold nanoparticle dimers illuminated by focused cylindrical vector beams
Tian-song Deng, John Parker, Yuval Yifat, Nolan Shepherd, Norbert F. Scherer
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018
Dynamics of the optically directed assembly and disassembly of gold nanoplatelet arrays
Delphine Coursault, Nishant Sule, John Parker, Ying Bao, Norbert F. Scherer
Nano Letters, 2018
Reactive optical matter: light-induced motility in electrodynamically asymmetric nano-scale scatterers
Yuval Yifat, Delphine Coursault, Curtis W. Peterson, John Parker, Ying Bao, Stephen K. Gray, Stuart A. Rice, Norbert F. Scherer
Light: Science & Applications, 2018
Crossover from positive to negative optical torque in mesoscale optical matter
Fei Han, John Parker, Patrick McCormack, Yuval Yifat, Stephen K. Gray, Norbert F. Scherer, Zijie Yan
Nature Communications, 2018
Optical magnetism in core-satellite nanostructures excited by vector beams
John Parker, Stephen K. Gray, Norbert F. Scherer
SPIE, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures VIII, 2018
Multipolar analysis of electric and magnetic modes excited by vector beams in core-satellite nano-structures
John Parker, Stephen K. Gray, Norbert F. Scherer
arXiv, 2017
Selective induction of optical magnetism
Uttam Manna, Jung-hoon Lee, Tian-Song Deng, John Parker, Nolan Shepherd, Yossi Weizmann, Norbert F. Scherer
Nano Letters, 2017
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Dissertation
Collective electrodynamic excitations and non-conservative dynamics in optical matter and meta-atom systems
University of Chicago, Department of Physics, August 2020