Rashid Zia Associate Professor of Engineering, Associate Professor of Physics

Rashid Zia is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University. His research group works at the interface of electrical engineering, materials science, optical physics, and physical chemistry to study how light interacts with solid-state quantum emitters, including atoms, defect centers, ions, molecules, and quantum dots. For this work, he has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Department of Defense nominated Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Rashid has also served as a Fellow of the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education, and he is the lead PI for an ongoing Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Quantum Metaphotonics & Metamaterials sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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Kurvits, Jonathan A., Jiang, Mingming, Zia, Rashid. Comparative analysis of imaging configurations and objectives for Fourier microscopy Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 2015; 32 (11) : 2082 . full text
Zia, Rashid. Dielectric metasurfaces: Transparent design Nature Nanotech. 2015 . full text PubMed
Cueff, Sébastien, Li, Dongfang, Zhou, You, Wong, Franklin J., Kurvits, Jonathan A., Ramanathan, Shriram, Zia, Rashid. Dynamic control of light emission faster than the lifetime limit using VO2 phase-change Nat Comms. 2015; 6 : 8636 . full text
Jiang M, Kurvits JA, Lu Y, Nurmikko AV, Zia R. Reusable Inorganic Templates for Electrostatic Self-Assembly of Individual Quantum Dots, Nanodiamonds, and Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles Nano Letters. 2015; 15 (8) : 5010-5016 . full text PubMed
Li, Dongfang, Jiang, Mingming, Cueff, Sébastien, Dodson, Christopher M., Karaveli, Sinan, Zia, Rashid. Quantifying and controlling the magnetic dipole contribution to 1.5 − μ m light emission in erbium-doped yttrium oxide Phys. Rev. B. 2014; 89 (16) . full text
Dodson, Christopher M., Kurvits, Jonathan A., Li, Dongfang, Jiang, Mingming, Zia, Rashid. Magnetic dipole emission of Dy^3+:Y_2O_3 and Tm^3+:Y_2O_3 at near-infrared wavelengths Optical Materials Express. 2014; 4 (11) : 2441 . full text
Dodson CM, Kurvits JA, Li D, Zia R. Wide-angle energy-momentum spectroscopy. Optics letters. 2014; 39 (13) : 3927-30 . full text PubMed
Mäthger, Lydia M., Senft, Stephen L., Gao, Meng, Karaveli, Sinan, Bell, George R. R., Zia, Rashid, Kuzirian, Alan M., Dennis, Patrick B., Crookes-Goodson, Wendy J., Naik, Rajesh R., Kattawar, George W., Hanlon, Roger T. Bright White Scattering from Protein Spheres in Color Changing, Flexible Cuttlefish Skin Adv. Funct. Mater.. 2013; 23 (32) : 3980-3989 . full text
Karaveli S, Weinstein AJ, Zia R. Direct modulation of lanthanide emission at sub-lifetime scales. Nano Letters. 2013; 13 (5) : 2264-9 . full text PubMed
Cueff, Sébastien, Manel Ramírez, Joan, Kurvits, Jonathan A., Berencén, Yonder, Zia, Rashid, Garrido, Blas, Rizk, Richard, Labbé, Christophe. Electroluminescence efficiencies of erbium in silicon-based hosts Appl. Phys. Lett.. 2013; 103 (19) : 191109 . full text
Schuller JA, Karaveli S, Schiros T, He K, Yang S, Kymissis I, Shan J, Zia R. Orientation of luminescent excitons in layered nanomaterials. Nature Nanotech. 2013; 8 (4) : 271-6 . full text PubMed
Li, Dongfang, Lawandy, Nabil M., Zia, Rashid. Surface phonon-polariton enhanced optical forces in silicon carbide nanostructures Opt. Express. 2013; 21 (18) : 20900 . full text
Li D, Lawandy NM, Zia R. Surface phonon-polariton enhanced optical forces in silicon carbide nanostructures. Optics express. 2013; 21 (18) : 20900-10 . PubMed
Karaveli S, Wang S, Xiao G, Zia R. Time-resolved energy-momentum spectroscopy of electric and magnetic dipole transitions in Cr3+:MgO. ACS Nano. 2013; 7 (8) : 7165-72 . full text PubMed
Dodson, Christopher M., Zia, Rashid. Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole transitions in the trivalent lanthanide series: Calculated emission rates and oscillator strengths Phys. Rev. B. 2012; 86 (12) . full text
Taminiau TH, Karaveli S, van Hulst NF, Zia R. Quantifying the magnetic nature of light emission. Nat Comms. 2012; 3 : 979 . full text PubMed
Karaveli S, Zia R. Spectral tuning by selective enhancement of electric and magnetic dipole emission. Phys. Rev. Lett.. 2011; 106 (19) : 193004 . full text PubMed
Karaveli S, Zia R. Strong enhancement of magnetic dipole emission in a multilevel electronic system. Optics letters. 2010; 35 (20) : 3318-20 . full text PubMed
Shainline, Jeffrey, Elston, Stuart, Liu, Zhijun, Fernandes, Gustavo, Zia, Rashid, Xu, Jimmy. Subwavelength silicon microcavities Opt. Express. 2009; 17 (25) : 23323 . full text
Shainline J, Elston S, Liu Z, Fernandes G, Zia R, Xu J. Subwavelength silicon microcavities. Optics express. 2009; 17 (25) : 23323-31 . PubMed
Zia, Rashid. Optical antennas: Redirecting single molecules Nature Photonics. 2008; 2 (4) : 213-214 . full text
Schuller JA, Zia R, Taubner T, Brongersma ML. Dielectric metamaterials based on electric and magnetic resonances of silicon carbide particles. Phys. Rev. Lett.. 2007; 99 (10) : 107401 . full text PubMed
Brongersma, M.L., Zia, R., Schuller, J.A. Plasmonics – the missing link between nanoelectronics and microphotonics Appl. Phys. A. 2007; 89 (2) : 221-223 . full text
Zia R, Brongersma ML. Surface plasmon polariton analogue to Young's double-slit experiment. Nature Nanotech. 2007; 2 (7) : 426-9 . full text PubMed
Weeber, J.-C., Baudrion, A.-L., Bouhelier, A., Bruyant, A., Colas des Francs, G., Zia, R., Dereux, A. Efficient surface plasmon field confinement in one-dimensional crystal line-defect waveguides Appl. Phys. Lett.. 2006; 89 (21) : 211109 . full text
Zia, Rashid, Schuller, Jon A., Brongersma, Mark L. Near-field characterization of guided polariton propagation and cutoff in surface plasmon waveguides Phys. Rev. B. 2006; 74 (16) . full text
Zia, Rashid, Schuller, Jon A., Chandran, Anu, Brongersma, Mark L. Plasmonics: the next chip-scale technology Materials Today. 2006; 9 (7-8) : 20-27 . full text
Zia R, Chandran A, Brongersma ML. Dielectric waveguide model for guided surface polaritons. Optics letters. 2005; 30 (12) : 1473-5 . full text PubMed
Zia, Rashid, Selker, Mark D., Brongersma, Mark L. Leaky and bound modes of surface plasmon waveguides Phys. Rev. B. 2005; 71 (16) . full text
Zia R, Selker MD, Catrysse PB, Brongersma ML. Geometries and materials for subwavelength surface plasmon modes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 2004; 21 (12) : 2442-6 . full text PubMed
Shin, Hocheol, Yanik, Mehmet Fatih, Fan, Shanhui, Zia, Rashid, Brongersma, Mark L. Omnidirectional resonance in a metal–dielectric–metal geometry Appl. Phys. Lett.. 2004; 84 (22) : 4421 . full text