• July 29 - August 1, 2019: Professor Kuznetsova presented at the Advanced Photonics Congress in San Francisco, CA.


• July 17, 2019: "Engineering the structural, plasmonic, and optical properties of multilayered aluminum-doped zinc oxide metamaterial grown by pulsed laser deposition" published in Applied Optics.


• June 14, 2019: Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly for successful PhD defense!


• April 12, 2019: Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly for winning the Los Alamos Award and Women in Computational Science and Engineering (WCSE) Award at the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) poster symposium this year.


• March 20, 2019: "Three-level system for numerical modeling of ultraviolet and visible photoluminescence of aluminum-doped zinc oxide" published in JOSA B.



September 16-20, 2018: Professor Kuznetsova and graduate student, Priscilla Kelly, presented at Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science conference in Washington, D.C. September 2017: The school year has begun and we welcome undergraduate students Skylar Lilledahl and Erick Dietz to the group. August 11-15, 2018: Professor Kuznetsova and graduate students, Priscilla Kelly and Bethany Campbell, presented at SPIE+Photonics conference in San Diego, CA.

• April 6, 2018: Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly for winning the Director’s Award at the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) poster symposium on April 6, 2018.


• March 14, 2018: "Pulse shaping in the presence of enormous second-order dispersion in Al:ZnO/ZnO epsilon-near-zero metamaterial" published in Applied Physics B.


• January 30, 2018: Professor Kuznetsova presented at SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, CA.


• December 4, 2017: Professor Kuznetsova presented at the Claremont Colleges applied math seminar.


• September 2017: The school year has begun and we welcome graduate student Bethany Campbell join the group.


• August 2017: Professor Kuznetsova and graduate student, Priscilla Kelly, presented at SPIE+Photonics conference in San Diego, CA.


• June 2017: We welcome graduate student Shouxun Wang join the group.


• May 2017: Congratulations to Evan Zarate for graduating with his Masters in the SDSU class of 2017.


• April 2017: “Subwavelength silicon disk whispering-gallery-mode microcavities for size-dependent nanoparticles detection in the mid-infrared” published in Optical Engineering.


• February 2, 2017: Professor Kuznetsova presented at SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, CA.


• October 7, 2016: "Optical mode confinement in three-dimensional Al/SiO2 nano-cavities with hyperbolic dispersion " published in Journal of Nanophotonics.


• September 2016: The school year has begun and we welcome undergraduate student Ian Lyster and graduate student Evan Zarate join the group.


• Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2016: Professor Kuznetsova and PhD student Priscilla Kelly presented at SPIE Optics+Photonics conference in San Diego, CA.


• July 10-15, 2016: Professor Kuznetsova presented at the Gordon conference on "Plasmonics and Nanophotonics," Sunday River, ME.


• May 2016: Congratulations to Natalie Best and Ryan Albrecht, our senior thesis students, who have graduated in the SDSU Class of 2016.


• April 25, 2016: Congrats to Priscilla Kelly for winning the Los Alamos National Laboratory award at the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) poster symposium.


• March 2016: Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly, one of three students from SDSU, for being accepted into the Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship 2016.


• March 14, 2016: "Designing optical metamaterial with hyperbolic dispersion based on Al:ZnO/ZnO nano-layered structure using Atomic Layer Deposition technique" published in Applied Optics


• March 4,5 2016: Priscilla Kelly and Grant Varnau present at the Student Research Symposium 2016.


• January 2016: Congratulations to Carla Bacco for graduating with her Masters in the SDSU class of 2016.



September 2015: The school year has begun and we welcome three undergraduate students Ryan Albrecht, Natalie Best and Grant Varnau join the group. Welcome! August 9-13, 2015: Professor Kuznetsova and graduate students, Priscilla Kelly and Carla Bacco, presented at SPIE Optics+Photonics conference in San Diego, CA. June 2015: We are excited to have graduate student, Harshitha Ashwathnarayan, join the lab.

• May 2015: Congratulations to Jeff Dionne and Evan Chicoine, our senior thesis students, who have graduated in the SDSU Class of 2015.


• April 21, 2015: Congrats to Priscilla Kelly for winning the Tioga Research award at this years Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) poster symposium.


• April 16, 2015: Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly on receiving a very prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year!


• January 26, 2015: Congrats to Jeffery Dionne for receiving the S-STEM Award for 2015.


• January 12, 2015: Professor Kuznetsova received UGP Grant from San Diego State University.


• October 19-23, 2014: Professor Kuznetsova and undergraduate students, Grace Cordes and Daniel White, presented at Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference in Tucson AZ.


• September 2014: Congrats to Grace Cordes for winning the Undergraduate S-STEM Scholarship.


• September 2014: The school year has begun and we welcome two senior undergraduate students Evan Chicoine and Jeffery Dionne.



August 2014: Congrats to Priscilla Kelly for winning the Graduate S-STEM Scholarship. July 13-17, 2014: Professor Kuznetsova and undergraduate student, Grace Cordes, present poster at Integrated Photonics Conference in San Diego. May 2014: We are excited to have graduate students Priscilla Kelly, Carla Bacco, and E.E. senior, undergraduate student Daniel White join the lab. Also congratulations to Brandon Himmel, our senior thesis student, who has graduated in the SDSU Class of 2014. March 2014: Undergraduate student Grace Cordes presented a poster at the SDSU Student Research Symposium. November 2013: Our lab is being renovated.