Associate Professor of Physics

B.S., Hankuk University of Forign Studies

Ph.D., Hampton University (1997)

Room 102 Olin Engineering Building
Phone: 757.727.5149
Fax: 757.269.7363
Email: jaetae.seo@hamptonu.edu

Research Interests:

Optical nanoscience has brought great attention to investigating the nonlinear optical properties of nanoscale materials for photonic nanotechnology applications. Strong quantum confinement, large surface effect, and art-like morphology enormously modify the nonlinear optical physics of nanoscale materials.

The objectives of our research are to: (1) understand the nonlinear optical physics of nonlinear optical propagation, multi-order susceptibilities, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering of various optical materials, and (2) investigate optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals, nanometals, nanoaerogels, supramolecular semiconductors, and biocompatible nanomaterials for optical power limiting, biochem photonic sensing, and tumor detection and ablation. The Applied Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Laboratory is fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to conduct nanoscale materials development, cw to ultrafast spectroscopy, and device testing.

Selected Publications:

• JaeTae Seo, Qiguang Yang, SeongMin Ma, Russell Battle, Linwood Creekmore, Ashley Jackson, Tifney Skyless, Herbert Brown, Bagher Tabibi, Sam-Shajing Sun, Cheng Zhang, SungSoo Jung, and Min Namkung, “Nonlinear Optical Properties of Nanostructured Supramolecular Organic Semiconductor,” Journal of Physics 38, 53 (2006).
• Qiguang Yang, JaeTae Seo, Bagher Tabibi and Huitian Wang, “Slow Light and Superluminality in Kerr Media without Pump,” Physics Review Letter 95, 63902 (2005).
• J.T. Seo, S.M. Ma, B. Tabibi, C. Rankins, P. Muhoro, J. Mangana, C. Pompey, S. Creekmore, Z. Xie, X. Peng, J. Qu, W. Yu, A. Wang, S. Jung, and H. Ruh, “Cadmium Chalcogenide Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Optical Power Limiting Application,” phys. stat. sol. (c), 1(4), 771 (2004).
• Q. Yang, J.T. Seo, S.J. Creekmore, D. Temple, K.P. Yoo, S.Y. Kim, S. S. Jung, and A. Mott, “Distortions in Z-scan Spectroscopy,” Applied Physics Letters, 82(1), 19 (2003).
• J.T. Seo, Q. Yang, S. Creekmore, D. Temple, K.P. Yoo, S.Y. Kim, A. Mott, M. Namkung, and S.S. Jung, “Large pure refractive nonlinearity of nanostructure silica,” Applied Physics Letters, 82(25), 4444 (2003).
• Q. Yang, J.T. Seo, S. Creekmore, D.A. Temple, P. Ye, M. Namkung, S.S. Jung, and J.H. Kim, “Influence of nonlinear phase mismatch on the atomic four-wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates,” Physical Review A, 67, 13603 (2003).