Dr. Britain Willingham

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2013)
B.S. in Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio

Dissertation

The Characterization of Coupled Plasmonic Systems

Publications

  1. L. S. Slaughter, L.-Y. Wang, B. A. Willingham, J. M. Olson, P. Swanglap, S. Dominguez-Medina, S. Link, Plasmonic polymers unraveled through single particle spectroscopy, Nanoscale 4, 11451 (2014).
  2. B. Willingham, S. Link, A Kirchhoff solution to plasmon hybridization, Appl. Phys. B 13, 4, 519 (2013).
  3. D. Solis, Jr., B. Willingham, S. L. Nauert, L. S. Slaughter, J. Olson, P. Swanglap, W.-S. Chang, S. Link, Electromagnetic Energy Transport in Nanoparticle Chains via Dark Plasmon Modes, Nano Lett. 12, 1349 (2012). 
  4. W.-S. Chang, B. Willingham, L. S. Slaughter, S. Dominguez-Medina, P. Swanglap, S. Link, Radiative and Nonradiative Properties of Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Their Assemblies, Acc. Chem. Res. 45, 1936 (2012).
  5. S. Slaughter, B. A. Willingham, W.-S. Chang, M. H. Chester, N. Ogden, S. Link, Toward Plasmonic Polymers, Nano Lett. 12, 3967 (2012).
  6. Y. Fang, W.-S. Chang, B. Willingham, P. Swanglap, S. Dominguez-Medina, S. Link, Plasmon emission quantum yield of single gold nanorods as a function of aspect ratio, ACS Nano 6, 7177 (2012). 
  7. B. Willingham, S. Link, Energy Transport in Metal Nanoparticle Chains via Sub-Radiant Plasmon Modes, Opt. Express. 19, 6450 (2011). 
  8. B. P. Swanglap, L. S. Slaughter, W.-S. Chang, B. Willingham, B. P. Khanal, E. R. Zubarev, S. Link, Seeing double: Coupling between substrate image charges and collective plasmon modes in self-assembled nanoparticle superstructures, ACS Nano 5, 4892 (2011). 
  9. W.-S. Chang, B. Willingham, L. S. Slaughter, B. P. Khanal, E. R. L. Vigderman, E. R Zubarev, S. Link, Low absorption losses of strongly coupled surface plasmons in nanoparticle assemblies, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 19879 (2011). 
  10. L. S. Slaughter, Y. Wu, B. Willingham, P. Nordlander, S. Link, Effects of Symmetry Breaking and Conductive Overlap on the Plasmon Coupling in Gold Nanorod Dimers, ACS Nano 4, 4657 (2010).