Peter Nordlander
Peter J. Nordlander is a Swedish physicist.
Career
Nordlander completed a doctorate in theoretical physics at Chalmers University of Technology. Following postdoctoral research at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Bell Labs, and Rutgers University, Nordlander began teaching at Rice University in 1989. He works within the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice, and serves as the Wiess Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.Research
Nordlander's research focuses on theoretical nanophotonics and plasmonics. He has collaborated extensively with Naomi Halas at Rice University on the development of plasmonic nanostructures and their applications in optics, sensing, and catalysis.Together with Halas and then-student Emil Prodan, Nordlander developed the Plasmon Hybridization model. This theory explains the plasmonic properties of nanoparticles of complex shapes in terms of interacting primitive plasmon modes.
His group has investigated plasmonic nanocavities, nanoparticle dimers, and active optical antennas. These studies revealed symmetry-breaking effects, Fano resonances, and quantum plasmonic behaviors in metallic nanostructures.