Keith A. Nelson

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• Zhuquan Zhang“Controlling and probing nonlinear collective mode dynamics in quantum materials”2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jude Deschamps“Weak Shock Waves on a Chip: Generation and Applications”2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Eric Rueyhao Sung“Developments in THz Polaritonics: Towards Integrated Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy”2024 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jet Lem“Materials At Extremes: Shock-induced Fracture and Phase Transitions”2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Blake Stephensen Dastrup“Time-Resolved THz Magnetospectroscopy: Techniques and Applications”2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yuchen Sun“High-Velocity Microparticle Impact for Analytical Modelling of High-Strain-Rate Mechanics and Material Behavior”2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Frank Yi Gao“Photoinduced Dynamics Studied using Single-Shot Optical and Terahertz Spectroscopy”2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Dmitro Jaroslau Martynowych“Materials in extreme conditions : experimental developments and studies of systems far from equilibrium”2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jiaojian Shi“Strong-field Phenomena in Low-dimensional Materials at Terahertz Frequencies”2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Ryan Andrew Duncan“Mechanical properties of complex solids and exotic thermal transport dynamics investigated with optical and extreme-ultraviolet transient grating techniques”2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yu-Hsiang Cheng“Photoinduced dynamics studied by ultrafast single-shot pump-probe spectroscopy”2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Xian Li“Terahertz-field-induced nonlinearity in phonons, electrons and spins”2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Hyun Doug Shin“Expanding ultrafast photoacoustics for investigation of mechanical properties and thermal transport”2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yoseob Yoon“Effects of interactions on correlation, thermalization, and transport of exciton-polaritons”2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yaqing Zhang“Two-dimensional terahertz rotational spectroscopy in the gas phase”2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Leora Eve Dresselhaus-Cooper“Materials far from equilibrium : shock-induced deformation and chemistry in RDX and experimental development”2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jian Lu“Dynamics of lattice vibrations, molecular rotations and spins studied by terahertz spectroscopy”2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Prasahnt Sivarajah“THz polaritonics : control, confinement, and strong light-matter interactions”2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yongbao Sun“Exciton-polaritons in thermal equilibrium : from Bose-Einstein condensation to exciton-polaritonics”2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Benjamin Kwasi Ofori-Okai“Developments and applications of THz polaritonics, efficient THz generation, and single-shot THz detection”2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Colby Peyton Steiner“Single and multi-exciton dynamics in nanoscale semiconductors”2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Samuel Welch Teitelbaum“Photoinduced phase transitions and irreversible dynamics studied with single-shot spectroscopy”2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jeffrey Kristian Eliason“Optical transient grating measurements of micro/nanoscale thermal transport and mechanical properties”2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Kara Jean Manke“Toward ultra-broadband photoacoustic spectroscopy of supercooled liquids”2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Nathaniel Curran Brandt“Developments and advances in nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy”2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Stephanie M Teo“Developments in time-resolved ultrafast imaging and spectroscopy at terahertz frequencies”2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Dylan H Arias“Coherence in nanostructured excitons”2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Patrick Wen“Correlated exciton dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures”2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Johanna Wendlandt Wolfson“Single-shot spectroscopy of solid-state photoinduced dynamics far from equilibrium”2013 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Harold Young Hwang“Nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy of electronic and vibrational responses in condensed matter systems”2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Christopher A. Werley“THz polaritonics : optical THz generation, detection, and control on a chip”2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jeremy A. Johnson“Optical characterization of complex mechanical and thermal transport properties”2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Christoph Klieber“Ultrafast photo-acoustic spectroscopy of super-cooled liquids”2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Gagan Saini“Spectroscopic observation of materials under dynamic conditions”2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Taeho Shin“Photoinduced phase transitions studied by femtosecond single-shot spectroscopy”2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Daniel Burton Turner“Investigating exciton correlations using coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy”2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Zhao Chen“Modeling phonon-polariton generation and control in ferroelectric crystals”2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
• Katherine Walowicz Stone“Coherent multi-exciton dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures via two-dimensional Fourier transform optical spectroscopy”2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Ka-Lo Yeh“The generation of high field terahertz radiation and its application in terahertz nonlinear spectroscopy”2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Cynthia Anne Bolme“Ultrafast dynamic ellipsometry of laser driven shock waves”2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Eric R. Statz“Phonon polariton interaction with patterned materials”2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Darius H Torchinsky“Optical study of shear and longitudinal acoustic waves and complex relaxation dynamics of glass forming liquids”2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Benjamin John Paxton“Development of phonon-polarization THz spectroscopy, and the investigation of relaxor ferroelectrics”2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Jaime Dawn Choi“Generation of ultrahigh frequency acoustic waves for the characterization of complex materials”2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Peter Roland Poulin“Coherent lattice and molecular dynamics in ultrafast single-shot spectroscopy”2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Joshua Charles Vaughan“Two-dimensional ultrafast pulse shaping and its application to coherent control and spectroscopy”2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• David W. Ward“Polaritonics : an intermediate regime between electronics and photonics”2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Nikolay Staykov Stoyanov“Phonon-polaritons in bulk and patterned materials”2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Michael J. Gleason“Terahertz waves in bulk and patterned materials”2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
• Timothy Francis Crimmins“Ultrahigh frequency characterization of complex materials using transient grating techniques”2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Ariya Akthakul“Study of waveguide and anisotropy effects upon surface acoustic wave velocities in thin films”1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
• Dutch D. Chung“Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy of chemical reactions in liquids and crystals”1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Dora Marie Paolucci“Impulsive stimulated thermal scattering of glass-forming liquids”1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Ciaran Joseph Brennan“Femtosecond wavevector overtone spectroscopy of anharmonic lattice dynamics in ferroelectric crystals”1997 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Randy Logan“Optical metrology of thin films”1997 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
• Marc Michael Wefers“Femtosecond optical pulse shaping and multiple-pulse femtosecond spectroscopy”1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yongwu Yang“Impulsive stimulated light scattering from glass-forming liquids : structural relaxation, orientational relaxation and testing of mode coupling theory”1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• John Ashley Rogers“Time-resolved photoacoustic and photothermal measurements on surfaces, thin films and multilayer assemblies”1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Weining Wang“Femtosecond spectroscopic and molecular dynamics simulation studies of chemical reaction dynamics in condensed phases”1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Andrew Robert Cook“Femtosecond through nanosecond investigations of liquid state photochemical reactions”1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Lisa Dhar“Impulsive stimulated scattering spectroscopy of thin film and bulk ferroelectric systems”1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Adam Paul Arkin“An application of artificial intelligence and machine vision to protein engineering”1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Bern Kohler“Ultrafast dynamics of molecular liquids investigated by femtosecond light scattering”1990 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Leah Ruby Williams“Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy of organic molecular crystals”1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
• Yong-Xin Yan“Time-domain light scattering and study of liquid-glass transitions”1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral