James Schuck

LBNL Staff Scientist

pjschuck@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-4822

Education
B.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D, Applied Physics, Yale University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

General Research Interests
My primary interests are in the field of nanoscale optical imaging spectroscopy. The research objective of this lab is to develop and apply new nanophotonic systems for the investigation of physical, chemical and biological processes with nanometer-scale accuracy and sub-picosecond time resolution. These new ultrasensitive spectroscopic probing modalities will use linear and non-linear contrast mechanisms as tools for better understanding condensed-phase and biological structures in the quantum and single-molecule regimes.

MSD Research Projects:

Molecular Foundry: The Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility program

Personal Website:  http://www.foundry.lbl.gov/science/imaging/imaging_staff_schuck.html

Figure: Optical field intensity distributions surrounding gold plasmonic nanoantennas. Finite element method simulations of the fields near a single triangle (a), a bowtie nanoantenna with a 20 nm gap (b), a bowtie with a 10 nm gap (c), a bowtie with a 5 nm gap (d), a symmetric double-bowtie, or “cross”, nanoantenna (f), and an asymmetric double-bowtie nanoantenna (g-h).  An scanning electron microscope image of a double-bowtie nanoantenna is shown in (e).