Scholars

Professor

Positions:

Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

overview

I have research interests in solid materials for quantum optics, especially "dark resonance" excitation, materials and techniques for resonant nonlinear optics, phase-conjugate-based turbulence aberration and compensation, spectral hole burning materials and techniques for ultra-dense memories and high temperature operation, quantum computing in solid materials, quantum communication and teleportation in trapped atoms, holographic optical memory materials, smart pixels devices, optical correlators, photorefractive applications, atomic clocks, and laser trapping and cooling.

education and training

Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1984
B.S. in , University of Dayton - (Dayton, Ohio, United States) 1976

selected publications

Academic Articles171

Keppler, M. A., Steelman, Z. A., Coker, Z. N., Nesldek, M., Hemmer, P. R., Yakovlev, V. V., & Bixler, J. N. (2022). Dynamic nitrogen vacancy magnetometry by single-shot optical streaking microscopy.. Photonics Research. 10(9), 2147-2156.
Alkahtani, M., Qasem, H., Alenzi, S. M., Alsofyani, N., Alfahd, A., Aljuwayr, A., & Hemmer, P. R. (2022). Electrodeposition of Lithium-Based Upconversion Nanoparticle Thin Films for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells.. Nanomaterials. 12(12), 2115-2115.
Shmelev, A. G., Nikiforov, V. G., Zharkov, D. K., Andrianov, V. V., Muranova, L. N., Leont'ev, A. V., ... Hemmer, P. R. (2022). Monitoring of the Natural Excretion of YVO4:Yb, Er Upconversion Nanoparticles from a Land Snail. 67(4), 283-288.
Alkahtani, M., Zharkov, D. K., Leontyev, A. V., Shmelev, A. G., Nikiforov, V. G., & Hemmer, P. R. (2022). Lightly Boron-Doped Nanodiamonds for Quantum Sensing Applications.. Nanomaterials. 12(4), 601-601.
Rajil, N., Esmaeili, S., Neuman, B. W., Nessler, R., Wu, H., Yi, Z., ... Scully, M. O. (2022). Quantum optical immunoassay: upconversion nanoparticle-based neutralizing assay for COVID-19.. Scientific Reports. 12(1), 1263.

Chapters1

Acosta, V. M., Budker, D., Hemmer, P. R., Maze, J. R., & Walsworth, R. L. (2013). Optical magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Optical Magnetometry. 142-166. Cambridge University Press (CUP).

Conference Papers84

Zharkov, D. K., Shmelev, A. G., Leontyev, A. V., Nikiforov, V. G., Lyadov, N. M., Lobkov, V. S., ... Hemmer, P. R. (2019). Luminescence properties of YVO4:Yb,Er nanoparticles dispersed in water. Journal of Physics : Conference Series. 1283(1), 012015-012015.
Keppler, M. A., Tovar, C., Alghannam, F. S., Hemmer, P. R., & Yakovlev, V. V. (2019). Widefield relaxometry with phosphorus doped NV sensor. Proceedings of SPIE, Synthesis and Photonics of Nanoscale Materials XVI. 10907, 109070a-109070a-8.
Coker, Z., Marble, K., Alkahtani, M., Hemmer, P., & Yakovlev, V. V. (2018). Developing upconversion nanoparticle-based smart substrates for remote temperature sensing. Proceedings of SPIE, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XVIII: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics. 10501, 105011l.
Altangerel, N., Ariunbold, G. O., Gorman, C., Bohlmeyer, D., Yuan, J., Hemmer, P., & Scully, M. O. (2016). Early, in vivo, Detection of Abiotic Plant Stress Responses via Raman Spectroscopy. Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. sf1h.3.
Gyongyosi, L., & Imre, S. (2016). Adaptive Gaussian quadrature detection for continuous-variable quantum key distribution. Proceedings of SPIE, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication IX. 9762, 97620e-97620e-15.

in the news

Multiplicative suppression of decoherence Science Magazine September 18, 2020

patents

Patents2

Hemmer, P., Zapata, T., Struzhkin, V., & Fei, Y. (2021). Engineered fluorescent nanodiamond.
Babinec, T., Hausmann, B., Khan, M., Zhang, Y., Hemmer, P., & Loncar, M. (2013). Diamond nanowires.