Rate My Professor Mark L. Brongersma

Mark L. Brongersma is the Stephen Harris Professor and a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves by courtesy as Professor of Applied Physics. He is the Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM). He received his PhD in Materials Science from the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1998. From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, during which time he coined the term “Plasmonics” to describe a device technology that exploits the optical properties of nanoscale metallic structures to route and manipulate light at the nanoscale. His research focuses on the development and physical analysis of nanostructured materials for applications in nanoscale electronic and photonic devices.