Light up the path toward smart and precision chem/ bio sensing and imaging

Lecture by Prof. Wei-Chuan Shih, Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Houston

Light-matter interactions can provide rich compositional information from various samples in a non-invasive fashion. Prof. Wei-Chuan Shih has developed opto-analytical spectroscopy, imaging, and sensing technologies to address various biological length scales including molecules, vesicles, cells, and tissue. The central innovations in his work include nano and microengineering, imaging and spectroscopy instrumentation, and machine learning techniques. He will discuss some plasmonics-related examples in this seminar. Harnessing localized surface plasmons (LSP) and coupling modes, Prof. Wei-Chuan Shih has engineered enhanced light-matter interactions near nanostructured surfaces for molecular sensing, catalysis, photothermal manipulation, and single extracellular vesicle profiling.