2019-2020 Graduate Student Fellow
Previous Faculty Advisor: Prof. Naomi Ginsberg
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
Trevor's work focused on uncovering the mechanisms of energy transport in a range of light-harvesting materials using ultrafast spectroscopy techniques. Correlating the morphology of such materials with their energetic landscape and transport functionality necessitates optical resolution on both spatial scales relevant to structural heterogeneities and temporal scales relevant to transport in the vicinity of such heterogeneities.By utilizing a time-resolved ultrafast super-resolution microscopy technique (time-resolved ultrafast STED, or TRUSTED), we had the capability to probe both the relevant time and length scales of excitation diffusion to characterize the extent to which structural anomalies, like defects, impede energy transport. In collaboration with the Alivisatos group, he studied semiconductor nanocrystal assemblies with varying degrees of predicted electronic coupling to elucidate the nature and degree to which defects hamper energy transport in these distinct regimes.