We are a nano-optics and molecular biophysics laboratory in the Department of Physics at the University of Utah.  The mission of our lab is to investigate the relationship between the structure and properties of biological and synthetic materials and to study optoelectronic phenomena at the nanometer scale. 

Our goals are to develop nanoscale optical techniques that allow us to probe the optoelectronic, optomechanical, and structure of a system at the molecular length scale.  The primary technique we employ is tip-enhanced fluorescence microscopy (TEFM), which is a type of near-field optical microscopy.  We also use atomic force microscopy (AFM), confocal microscopy, and time-resolved photon counting in our work.

Finally, we investigate the inherent optoelectronic properties of carbon nanotubes and use them to fabricate scannable nano-optical antennae to probe energy and charge transfer of fluorescent samples.