Sampath Gamage
Department of Physics and Astronomy
QuaNTRASE Program Coordinator
EDUCATION
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA (2014)
BSc in Physics, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2003)
Experimental physicist and instructor with hands on experience in the following areas:
Nano-optics/photonics, Nano-imaging, nano-spectroscopy
Study the light-matter interaction in low dimensional systems at nano-scale using Scattering type Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM), nano-FTIR, Tip-enhanced Raman/PL spectroscopy.
2D materials
Investigate surface plasmonic/polaritonic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), graphene, boron nitride, black phosphorus etc.
Group-III nitrides
Experienced in growth of III-nitrides using high-pressure chemical vapor deposition (HP-CVD), characterization of nitride thin films using raman, photoluminiscense (PL), FTIR, XRD and SNOM techniques techniques.
-Undergraduate teaching