It has been a busy and exciting start to the fall 2026 semester at Nie Lab (SHIELD Group). Here is a roundup of our latest news. New Publication in Advanced Optical Materials We are thrilled to share that our paper "Impact of Crystal Orientations on the Circular and Linear Dichroism Signals in Chiral Perovskite" has been published in Advanced Optical Materials. This work, led by PhD student Reshna Shrestha, reveals the distinct circular and linear dichroism signatures of a no

2026/08/25 ​ It's an exciting start of the semester! ​ Welcome our new group members, postdoc scholars Seongheon Kim, Yuqian Yang, and Ph.D. students Gerrit Bosch and Anika Tabassum. We have undergraduate students, Rixi, Jeff, working with us in the summer too! Excited to working with you!

2026/08/21 Big Congrats to Gerrit for the best TA award! ​

2026/08/11 Sailesh has presented his research at CAST workshop!

2025/11/01 We have attended 132nd Topical Symposium of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society (NYSS APS 2025) hosted by UB Physics Department. This workshop is about "Quantum Material and Phenomena", where we have learned a lot about quantum information science. ​

2025/09/01 New Funding! Nie group is awarded with a NSF-DMR funding investigating the exciton dynamics in chiral hetero-structures

2025/08/25 Congratulations to Reshna Shrestha for winning the prestigious "“John Ho and Martha Leung Scholarship”, Spring 2025 ​ Great job, Reshna!

2025/06/16 ​Nie group will attend Excited State Processes conference at Santa Fe, NM. Our graduate student Reshna Shrestha will present her research about chiral perovskites! Look forward to it! ​​​ https://web.cvent.com/event/2d34d179-9bf3-4c99-a8a5-69e3bbb4532f/summary