Group News
April 2021: Congrats Terry Phang to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars in 2021, the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering! https://news.uga.edu/2021-goldwater-scholars/
April 2021: Congrats Dr. Minh Thien Pham for his successful Ph.D Thsis Defense!
March 2021: Congratulations to Minh and Hoang! Their paper titled "Pd80Co20 Nanohole Arrays Coated with Poly(methyl methacrylate) for High-Speed Hydrogen Sensing with a Part-per-Billion Detection Limit" has been publishes in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
March 2021: Many congratulations to Hoang, Minh and Richa! Their manuscript titled "Sub-second and ppm-level Optical Sensing of Hydrogen Using Templated Control of Nano-hydride Geometry and Composition" has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
January 2021: Congrats Hoang Luong to be chosen as one of three finalists for the 2021 ICMCTF Graduate Student Awards by AVS Advanced Surface Engineering Division Awards Comittee! https://www.physast.uga.edu/blogs/news/posts/hoang-luong
January 2021: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Active Ag/Co Composite Chiral Nanohole Arrays" has been published on The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
October 2020: Our group has just conducted optical tests of the effectiveness of various face masks and gaiters in reducing the disbursement of respiratory droplets during a speech. It is on the news now: on Washington Post, prnewswire.com, Textile World, Department news, UGA Research News, and Yahoo! 
September 2020: Congratulations to Hoang! Hoang has been selected as the recipient of the Graduate Education Advancement Broad Fellowship. See the full story at Department news.
August 2020: Welcome new graduate student Tu-Anh Ngo to join our group! Tu-Anh receives the Graduate School's Scholarship! Congratulations! 
- April 2020: Congratulations to Hoang and Terry! Hoang has been selected to be the recipient of the Sean M. Kirkpatrick Award this year. Terry has been selected to receive Undergraduate Grants for Research in Physics and Astronomy. The full story can be found at https://www.physast.uga.edu/blogs/news/posts/winners-of-2020-graduate-awards-announced and https://www.physast.uga.edu/blogs/news/posts/2020-undergraduate-award-winners-announced
March 2020: Congratulations to Minh and Hoang! Their paper "Origin of Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling in 2D and 3D Lead Iodide Perovskites" has been published in Scientific Reports.
February 2020: Congratulations to Rugang, Minh, and Hoang! Their paper "Giant spin Seebeck effect through an interface organic semiconductor" has been published in Materials Horizons.
January 2020: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Bilayer Plasmonic Nano-lattices for Tunable Hydrogen Sensing Platform" has been published in Nano Energy.
October 2019: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Enhanced Resonant Faraday Rotation in Multilayer Magneto-Plasmonic Nano-Hole Arrays and Their Sensing Application" has been accepted by JPCC.
October 2019: Congratulations to Minh! His paper "Fabrication of core-sheath nanoyarn via touchspinning and its application in wearable piezoelectric nanogenerator" has been published.
September 2019: Terry received the Center of Undergraduate Resreach Oppotunities (CURO) Award! Congratulations to Terry! 
August 2019: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their conference paper "Plasmonic sensing of hydrogen in Pd nano-hole arrays" has been published.
June 2019: Congratulations to Rugang, Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Magnetically tunable organic semiconductors with superparamagnetic nanoparticles" has been accepted by Materials Horizons.
June 2019: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Magnetoplasmonic properties of Ag-Co composite nano-triangle arrays" has been accepted by Nanotechnology.
June 2019: Congratulations to Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Magnetoplasmonic properties of Ag-Co composite nanohole arrays" has been published in Physical Review B.
July 2018: Congratulations to Hoang! His paper "Weak Enhanced Resonant Faraday Rotation in Pure Cobalt Plasmonic Lattices: Thickness Dependent Faraday Rotation Studies" has been accepted by Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
July 2018: Congratulations to Rugang, Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Correlation between the width and the magnitude of magnetoconductance response in π-conjugated polymer-based diodes" has been accepted by Journal of Photonics for Energy.
January 2018: Congratulations to Rugang, Hoang and Minh! Their paper "Effect of electron localization on the effective hyperfine interaction in organic semiconducting polymers" has been accepted by Physical Review Letters.
July 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Rugang Geng on his successful PhD defense.
January 2017: Congratulations to Ram, Rugang and Hoang! Their paper "Large Magnetoelectric Effect in Organic Ferroelectric Copolymer-based Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions" has been been published in Applied Physics Letter.
January 2017: Welcome the new graduate student Pham Thien Minh to join our group!
September 2016: Congratulations to Rugang and Hoang! Their review paper "A review on organic spintronic materials and devices: II. Magnetoresistance in organic spin valves and spin organic light emitting diodes" has been published in Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices.
June 2016: Congratulations to Rugang and Hoang! Their review paper "A review on organic spintronic materials and devices: I. Magnetic field effect on organic light emitting diode" has been published in Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices.
August 2016: Welcome the new graduate student Hoang Luong to join our group!
May 2016: Congratulations to Rugang! He received the Disertation Completion Award from The UGA Graduate School.
February 2016: Congratulations to Rugang! His paper "Engineering of spin injection and spin transport in organic spin valves using π-conjugated polymer brushes" has been published in Advanced Functional Materials.