Dr. Behnaz Ostovar

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Ph.D. in Electrical & Computational Engineering, Rice University (2022)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (2016)

Dissertation

Plasmon-Mediated Carrier Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles and Hybrid Nanostructures

Publications

  1.  B. Ostovar, S. A. Lee, A. Mehmood, K. Farrell, E. K. Searles, B. Bourgeois, W. -Y. Chiang, A. Misiura, N. Gross,  A. Al-Zubeidi, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, M. Zanni, B. G. Levine, and S. Link, The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer, Sci. Adv., 10, eadp3353 (2024)
  2. W.-Y. Chiang, A. Bruncz, B. Ostovar, E. K. Searles, S. Brasel, G. V. Hartland, and S. Link, Electron–Phonon Relaxation Dynamics of Hot Electrons in Gold Nanoparticles Are Independent of Excitation Pathway, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 43, 21176–21185 (2023).
  3. N. Gross, C. T. Kuhs, B. Ostovar, W.-Y. Chiang, K. S. Wilson, T. S. Volek, Z. M. Faitz, C. C. Carlin, J. A. Dionne, M. T. Zanni, M. Gruebele, S. T. Roberts, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Progress and Prospects in Optical Ultrafast Microscopy in the Visible Spectral Region: Transient Absorption and Two-Dimensional Microscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 14557–14586 (2023).
  4. N. Gross, M. Madadi, B. Ostovar, P. D. Dongare, L. A. McCarthy, W.-Y. Chiang, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, C. F. Landes, J. E. Sader, and S. Link, Strong Substrate Binding Modulates the Acoustic Quality Factors in Gold Nanodisks, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 10, 5054-5066 (2023).
  5. A. Al-Zubeidi, B. Ostovar, C. C. Carlin, B. C. Li, S. A. Lee, W,-Y, Chiang, N. Gross, S. Dutta, A. Misiura, E. K. Searles, A. Chakraborty, S. T. Roberts, J. A. Dionne, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons, PNAS, 120 (3) (2023). 
  6. E. K. Searles, E. Gomez, S. A. Lee, B. Ostovar, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Single-Particle Photoluminescence and Dark-Field Scattering during Charge Density Tuning, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 2, 318–325. 
  7. G. T. Forcherio, B. Ostovar, J. Boltersdorf, Y,-Y, Cai, A. C. Leff, K. N. Grew, C. A. Lundgren, S. Link, and D. R. Baker, Single-Particle Insights into Plasmonic Hot Carrier Separation Augmenting Photoelectrochemical Ethanol Oxidation with Photocatalytically-Synthesized Pd-Au Bimetallic Nanorods, ACS Nano, 16, 8, 12377–12389 (2022). 
  8. S. A. Lee, B. Ostovar, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Spectroscopic signatures of plasmon-induced charge transfer in gold nanorods, J. Chem. Phys. 156 (5), 064702 (2022). 
  9. K. Shiratori, L. D. C. Bishop, B. Ostovar, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Machine-Learned Decision Trees for Predicting Gold Nanorod Sizes from Spectra, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (35), 19353 (2021). 
  10. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link, Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures, J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021).
  11. C. Flatebo, C. Dutta, B. Ostovar, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Heterogeneity and Hysteresis in the Polymer Collapse of Single Core–Shell Stimuli-Responsive Plasmonic Nanohybrids, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (33), 18270 (2021). 
  12. M.-N. Su, B. Ostovar, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, W.-S. Chang, and S.Link, Acoustic Vibrations and Energy Dissipation Mechanisms for Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (3), 1621 (2021). 
  13. B. Ostovar, Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, S. A. Lee, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission, ACS Nano, 14 (11), 15757 (2020).
  14. B. Ostovar, M.-N. Su, D. Renard, B. D. Clark, P. D. Dongare, C. Dutta, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, C. F. Landes, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, and S. Link, Acoustic Vibrations of Al Nanocrystals: Size, Shape and Crystallinity Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. A, 124 (19) , 3924 (2020). 
  15. Y.-Y. Cai, S. S. E. Collins, M. J. Gallagher, U. Bhattacharjee, R. Zhang, T. H. Chow, A. Ahmadivand, B. Ostovar, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Wang, P. Nordlander, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Single particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes, ACS Energy Letters, 4, 2458 (2019).
  16. M.-N. Su, C. J. Ciccarino, S. Kumar, P. D. Dongare, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, D. Renard, Y. Zhang, B. Ostovar, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas, R. Sundararaman, P. Narang, and S. Link, Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Single Aluminum Nanostructures, Nano Lett. Article, 19(5), 3091 (2019). 
  17. Y.-Y. Cai, E. Sung, R. Zhang, L. J. Tauzin, J. G. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Anti-Stokes Emission from Hot Carriers in Gold Nanorods, Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1067 (2019). 
  18. C. Yi, M.-N. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y.-Y. Cai, D. M. Marolf, R. N. Kress, B. Ostovar, L. J. Tauzin, F. Wen, W.-S. Chang, M. R. Jones, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link, Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping, Nano Lett., 18 (6), 3494 (2018).