Dr. Ashley J. Shin

Postdoctoral fellow
Room: A.3.126
Telephone: +49 9131 7133334
E-mail

Using single molecule microscopy techniques, I study the spectral properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. I investigate the dominant dephasing mechanisms that affect the coherence of optical transitions of interest. By doing so, my research contributes to expanding the application of single molecules in quantum optics, sensing, and information science.

2023

Shin, A. J.; Bhagwandin, D. D.; Prado, R.; Ghoshal, K.; Mensah, S. T.; Shaked, S; Casey, J. R. Course elements associated with observed increase in student engagement in remote discussion sections. J. Chem. Educ. 2023. [In preparation]

2022

Shin, A. J.; Zhao, C.; Shen, Y.; Dickerson, C. E.; Li, B. Y.; Bim, D.; Atallah, T. L.; Oyala, P. H.; Alson, L. K.; Alexandrova, A. N.; Diaconescu, P. L.; Campbell, W. C.; Caram, J. R. Toward liquid cell quantum sensing: Ytterbium complexes with ultra-narrow absorption. ChemRxiv. 2022. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-vg4jr. [This content is a pre-print].

Tenney, S. M.; Tan, L. A.; Sonnleitner, M. L.; Sica, A. V.; Shin, A. J.; Ronquillo, R.; Ahmed, T.; Atallah, T. L.; Caram, J. R. Mesoscale Quantum-Confined Semiconductor Nanoplatelets through Seeded Growth. Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 6048-6056.

2021

Shin, A. J.; Hossain, A.; Tenney, S. M.; Tan, X.; Tan, L.; Foley, J. J.; Atallah, T. L.; Caram, J. R. Dielectric Screening Modulates Semiconductor Nanoplatelet Excitons. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 4958-4964.

Dickerson, C. E.; Guo, H.; Shin, A. J.; Augenbraun, B. L.; Caram, J. R.; Campbell, W. C.; Alexandrova, A. N. Franck-Condon tuning of Optical Cycling Centers by Organic Functionalization. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2021, 126, 123002.

Guo,H.; Dickerson, C.; Shin, A. J.; Zhao, C.; Atallah, T.; Caram, J. R.; Campbell, W.; Alexandrova, A. Surface Chemical Trapping of Optical Cycling Centers. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 211-218.

2020

Tenney, S. M.; Vilchez, V.; Sonnleitner, M. L.; Huang, C.; Friedman, H. C.; Shin, A. J.; Atallah, T. L.; Deshmukh, A. P.; Ithurria, S.; Caram, J. R. Mercury Chalcogenide Nanoplatelets—Quantum Dot Hetereostructures as a New Class of Continuously Tunable Bright Shortwave Infrared Emitters. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 3473-3480.

Gibbard, J. A.; Castracane, E.; Shin, A. J.; Continetti, R. E. Dissociative photodetachment dynamics of the oxalate monoanion. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, Advance Article.

2019

Atallah, T. L.; Sica, A. V.; Shin, A. J.; Friedman, H. C.; Caram, J. R. Decay Associated Fourier Spectroscopy: Visible to Shortwave Infrared Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectra. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2019, 123, 6792-6798.

Albeck, Y.; Lunny, K. G.; Benitez, Y.; Shin, A. J.; Strasser, D.; Continetti, R. E. Resonance‐Mediated Below‐Threshold Delayed Photoemission and Non‐Franck–Condon Photodissociation of Cold Oxyallyl Anions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 131, 5366–5369.

2018

Gibbard, J. A.; Shin, A.J.; Castracane, E.; Continetti, R. E. A high beam energy photoelectron-photofragment coincidence spectrometer for complex anions. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2018, 89, 1233.

Ashley Shin studied Chemistry and Computer Science (B. A.) from Washington University in St. Louis. She worked with Prof. Richard Mabbs (WUSTL), Prof. Robert Continetti (UCSD), and Prof. Mark Brouard (Oxford) on various gas phase chemistry experiments as an undergraduate/post-bach researcher. She received her Ph. D. in Chemistry from University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked with Prof. Justin Caram on absorption spectroscopy of liquid systems in ambiet and cryogenic temperatures, including colloidal nanoplatelets and rare earth inorganic complexes. Ashley joined the group of Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light as a postdoctoral researcher to work on single molecule microscopy.

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