Kevin Kwock
- Program Year: 4
- Academic Institution: Columbia University
- Field of Study: Spectroscopy
- Academic Advisor: P. James Schuck
- Residencies:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2021)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022) - Degree(s):
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020; B.S. Engineering Physics, and B.A. Music, Case Western Reserve University, 2018
Publications
Presentations:2023 DOE SSGF/LRGF Program Review (06/2023), poster presentation by KWC Kwock, et. al.; Photon avalanche in Tm3+-doped nanocrystals: towards environmental sensing in the near-field
2023 Upconverting Nanoparticle Gordon Research Conference (06/2023), poster presentation by KWC Kwock, et. al.; Photon avalanche in Tm3+-doped nanocrystals: towards environmental sensing in the near-field
APS March Meeting (03/2023), presentation by KWK Kwock, et. al.; Furthering nano-optical techniques by integrating tapping-mode AFM and TCSPC
2022 MRS Fall Meeting (11/2022), presentation by KWC Kwock, et. al.; Uncovering polar domains in Rashba semiconductor BiTeI through PFM and SHG microscopy
CINT User Meeting 2022 (09/2022), poster presentation by KWC Kwock, et. al.; Photon avalanche in Tm-doped nanocrystals: towards environmental and magneto-optical sensing
Nearfield Optics 16 (09/2022), poster presentation by KWK Kwock, et. al.; Furthering nano-optical techniques by integrating tapping-mode AFM and TCSPC
2022 DOE SSGF/LRGF Program Review (06/2022), poster presentation by KWC Kwock, et. al.; Photon avalanche in Tm-doped nanocrystals: towards environmental and magneto-optical sensing
APS March 2022, presentation by KWC Kwock, P Padmanabhan, T Darlington, K Yao, TV Traveisan, S Gilinsky, N Sirica, J Kim, K Du, FT Huang, PP Orth, DA Yarotski, SW Cheong, PJ Schuck, RP Prasankumar; Uncovering polar domains in Rashba semiconductor BiTeI through PFM and SHG microscopy.
Pacifichem 2020, presentation by KWC Kwock, C Lee, A Teitelboim, Y Liu, K Yao, SB Alam, BE Cohen, EM Chan, PJ Schuck; Optical heterogeneities in avalanching nanoparticles and implications in sensing.
2021 QISE-NET Annual Review, poster presentation by KWC Kwock, C Lee, B Ursprung, P Padmanabhan, K Yao, A Teitelboim, Y Liu, JC Hone, BE Cohen, E Chan, RP Prasankumar, PJ Schuck; Rare-earth-doped nanocrystals: towards environmental and quantum sensing.
2020 QISE-NET Annual Review, presentation by KWC Kwock, P Padmanabhan, TV Traveisan, S Gilinsky, N Sirica, J Kim, PJ Schuck, PP Orth, DA Yarotski, SW Cheong, RP Prasankumar; Giant second harmonic generation from polar van der Waals Bismuth tellurohalide semiconductors.
APS March Meeting 2019 EFRC: Pro-QM All-Hands Meeting, poster presentation by KWC Kwock, K Yao, T Darlington, X Xu, PJ Schuck; Towards nonlinear nearfield imaging: Ultra-PL and Nano-SHG.
2018 CWRU Research Showcase (04/2018), poster presentation by KWC Kwock, G Chottiner, K Kash; Synthesis and characterization of ZnSnSb2 for phase transition studies.
2017 Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium, poster presentation by KWC Kwock, A Singh, HD Magurudeniya, CJ Hanson, JA Hollingsworth, MA Firestone; Cascade synthesis of binary nanoparticle polymer composite: Geometric organization of giant quantum dots (gQDs) and gold (Au) NPs in poly(ionic liquid)s.
Materials Physics and Applications Division Workshop, poster presentation by KWC Kwock, A Singh, HD Magurudeniya, CJ Hanson, JA Hollingsworth, MA Firestone; Cascade synthesis of binary nanoparticle polymer composite: Geometric organization of giant quantum dots (gQDs) and gold (Au) NPs in poly(ionic liquid)s.
2016 Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium, poster presentation by KWC Kwock, HD Magurudeniya, B Ringstrand, J Zhu, MA Firestone; Correlating Theory and Experiment on Self-Assembling Ionic Liquids: The Role and Balance of Non-Covalent Forces.
Publications:
KWC Kwock, S Gilinsky, RP Prasankumar, and P Padmanabhan, SHG of halide-exchanged Rashba semiconductors, (in progress).
KWC Kwock, T Darlington, J Kim, K Du, FT Huang, SW Cheong, RP Prasankumar, PJ Schuck, and P Padmanabhan, Uncovering polar domains in the Rashba semiconductor BiTeI through piezoresponse force and second harmonic generation microscopy, (in progress).
T Darlington, M Rahaman, KWC Kwock, E Yanev, X Wu, L Holtzman, M Holbrook, G Kim, KY Ma, HS Shin, A Krayev, M Strasbourg, NJ Borys, DN Basov, JC Hone, AN Pasupathy, D Jariwala, and PJ Schuck, Highly tunable room-temperature plexcitons in monolayer WSe2/gap-plasmon nanocavities, (2023, submitted).
J Pettine, P Padmanabhan, T Shi, L Gringas, L McClintock, CC Chang, KWC Kwock, L Yuan, Y Huang, J Nogan, JK Baldwin, P Abdel, R Holzwarth, AK Azad, F Ronning, AJ Taylor, RP Prasankumar, SZ Lin, and HT Chen, Light-Driven Nanoscale Vectorial Currents, (2023, arXiv).
C Lee, EZ Xu, KWK Kwock, A Teitelboim, Y Liu, N Fardian-Melamed, CCS Pedroso, HS Park, J Kim, SD Pritzl, SH Nam, T Lohmueller, P Ercius, YD Suh, BE Cohen, EM Chan, and PJ Schuck, Indefinite and Bidirectional Near Infrared Nanocrystal Photoswitching, Nature, 618, 951-958, (2023).
P Padmanabhan, FL Buessen, R Tutchton, KWC Kwock, S Gilinsky, MC Lee, MA McGuire, SR Singamaneni, DA Yarotski, A Paramekanti, JX Zhu, and RP Prasankumar, Coherent Helicity-Dependent Spin-Phonon Oscillations in the Ferromagnetic van der Waals Crystal CrI3, Nat. Comm., 13, 4473 (2022).
L Yuan, J Jeong, KWC Kwock, ES Yanev, M Grandel, DA Rhodes, TS Luk, PJ Schuck, D Yarotski, JC Hone, I Brener, RP Prasankumar, Manipulation of Exciton Dynamics in Single-Layer WSe2 Using a Toroidal Dielectric Metasurface, Nano Lett., 21(3), 9930-9938 (2021).
KWC Kwock, C Lee, A Teitelboim, Y Liu, K Yao, SB Alam, BE Cohen, EM Chan, PJ Schuck, Surface-Sensitive Photon Avalanche Behavior Revealed by Single-Avalanching-Nanoparticle Imaging, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125(43), 23976-23982 (2021).
A Nipane, MS Choi, PJ Sebastian, K Yao, A Borah, P Deshmukh, Y Jung B Kim, A Rajendran, KWC Kwock, A Zangiabadi, VM Menon, PJ Schuck, WJ Yoo, JC Hone, JT Teherani, Damage-Free Atomic Layer Etch of WSe2: A Platform for Fabricating Clean Two-Dimensional Devices, ACS App. Mat. & Int., 13(1), 1930-1942 (2020).
P Padmanabhan, KWC Kwock, S Gilinsky, and RP Prasankumar, Observation of ultrafast, temperature-dependent spin-wave dynamics in bulk CrI3, (in progress).
P Padmanabhan, S Gilinsky, KWC Kwock, and RP Prasankumar, SHG of halide-exchanged Rashba semiconductors, (in progress).
BT Nebgen, HD Magurudeniya, KWC Kwock, BS Ringstrand, T Ahmed, S Seifert, J Zhu, S Treitak, and MA Firestone, Design principles from multiscale simulations to predict nanostructure in self-assembling ionic liquids, Faraday Discussions, 206, 159-181, (2017).
Awards
Directed Energy Professional Society Scholar (2022-2023)Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs - International Fellow (2020-2021)
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholar (2020)
DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellow (2020-2023)
NSF GRFP-Honorable Mention (2020)
QISE-NET Fellow (2020-2023)
LANL Graduate Research Assistant Award (2019-2020)
Dean's High Honors List (Fall 2014, Fall 2016)
Dean's Honors List (Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring
2018)
Department of Engineering Leadership and Professional Practice
Workshop Fellow (2018)
Alexandria Piepho Scholarship Recipient (2017)
AAAS CASE Workshop Fellow, Washington D.C. (2017)
Center for Civic Engagement and Learning Scholar Award (2016)
President's Award (2014)