Dr. Stephen Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University (2019-2023)
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, University of Michigan (2019)
M.S. in Analytical Chemistry, University of Michigan (2016)
B.S. in Chemistry and Biology, Sam Houston State University (2014)

Research Interests

My research interest focuses on the mechanisms of nanoparticle interactions with their environment using single-particle time- and frequency- resolved emission spectroscopy.

Publications

  1. C. C. Carlin, A. X. Dai, A. Al-Zubeidi, E. M. Simmerman, H. Oh, N. Gross, S. A. Lee, S. Link, C. F. Landes, F. H. da Jornada, J. A. Dionne, Nanoscale and ultrafast in situ techniques to probe plasmon photocatalysis, Chem. Phys. Rev., 4, 041309 (2023).
  2.  H. Oh, E. K. Searles, S. Chatterjee, Z. Jia, S. A. Lee, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Plasmon Energy Transfer Driven by Electrochemical Tuning of Methylene Blue on Single Gold Nanorods, ACS Nano, 17, 18, 18280–18289 (2023).
  3. S. A. Lee, C. T. Kuhs, E. K. Searles, H. O. Everitt, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, d-Band Hole Dynamics in Gold Nanoparticles Measured with Time-Resolved Emission Upconversion Microscopy, Nano Lett., 23, 8, 3501–3506 (2023).
  4. 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). 
  5. 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, XXX, 318–325. 
  6. C. West, S. A. Lee, J. Shooter, E. K. Searles, H. Goldwyn, K. Willets, S. Link, and D. J. Masiello, Nonlinear effects in single-particle photothermal imaging, J. Chem. Phys. 158, 024202 (2022). 
  7. 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). 
  8. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. A. Lee, and S. Link, Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures, J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021). 
  9. S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, C. A. West, S. A. Lee, H. J. Goldwyn, C. R. Bilchak, Z. Fakhraai, K. A. Willets, S. Link, and D. J. Masiello, Wavelength-Dependent Photothermal Imaging Probes Nanoscale Temperature Differences among Subdiffraction Coupled Plasmonic Nanorod, Nano Lett., 21 (12), 5386 (2021). 
  10. S. A. Lee and S. Link, Chemical Interface Damping of Surface Plasmon Resonances, Acc. Chem. Res., 54 (8), 1950 (2021). 
  11. 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).