John Weiner

John Weiner is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He is Professeur Èmèrite from the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. John received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Chemical Physics. Following postdoctoral studies and a lectureship at Yale, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College. Later, John spent a year as visiting professor at the Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moléculaires at Orsay, France, returning to the US to join the faculty at the University of Maryland, where he investigated atomic collisions at submillikelvin temperatures achieved by optical cooling techniques. After two decades at Maryland, John returned to France, where he became interested in light localization by plasmonic structures. At the CNST, he is working with Henri Lezec on the design, fabrication, and characterization of nanoscale optical resonator arrays.

• Observation of Associative Ionization of Ultra-Cold Laser-Trapped Sodium Atoms, P. L. Gould, P. D. Lett, P. S. Julienne, W. D. Phillips, H. R. Thorsheim, and J. Weiner, Physical Review Letters 60, 788 (1988).
• Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems, J. Weiner, Cambridge UK:Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• The Optical Response of Nanostructured Surfaces and the Composite Diffracted Evanescent Wave Model,  G. Gay,  O. Alloschery, B. Viaris de Lesegno, C. O’Dwyer, J. Weiner, and H. J. Lezec, Nature Physics 2, 262-267 (2006).
• Surface Wave Generation and Propagation on Metallic Subwavelength Structures Measured by Far-field Interferometery, G. Gay, O. Alloschery, B. Viaris de Lesgno, H. J. Lezec, and J. Weiner, Physical Review Letters 96, 213901 (2006).
• Quantitative Determination of Optical Transmission through Subwavelength Slit Arrays in Ag films: The Essential role of Surface Wave Interference and Local Coupling between Adjacent Slits, D. Pacifici, H. J. Lezec, H. Atwater, and J. Weiner, Physical Review B 77, 115411 (2008).
• The Physics of Light Transmission Through Subwavelength Apertures and Aperture Arrays, J. Weiner, Reports on Progress in Physics 72, 064401 (2009).