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Department of Chemistry

Ben Cerjan, Ph.D.

Ben Cerjan

Senior Instrumentation Specialist

Specialties

  • Nanoscale devices and cleanroom fabrication
  • Signal acquisition and analysis
  • Visible/IR Spectroscopy
  • Scientific Programming
  • Microcontrollers

Education

  • B.A. Physics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  • Ph.D. Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX
  • Post Doc, ECE, Rice University, Houston, TX

Projects

  • High speed arbitrary waveform generator programming
  • Photonic crystal cavity fabrication
  • Automatic rain sampling robot
  • Electrochromic display electronics

Contact Information

BRWN 4151C
560 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765)494-4708
Email: bcerjan@purdue.edu 


Selected Publications

D'Archangel, J., B. Cerjan, L. Deguzman, M. Griep and G. Boreman (2021). "Spectroscopic ellipsometry of thin film cyclic olefin copolymer for use in long-wave infrared metasurfaces." Optical Materials Express 11(11): 3688-3696.

Cerjan, B. and N. J. Halas (2019). "Toward a Nanophotonic Nose: A Compressive Sensing-Enhanced, Optoelectronic Mid-Infrared Spectrometer." ACS Photonics 6(1): 79-86.

Dong, L. L., X. Yang, C. Zhang, B. Cerjan, L. N. Zhou, M. L. Tseng, Y. Zhang, A. Alabastri, P. Nordlander and N. J. Halas (2017). "Nanogapped Au Antennas for Ultrasensitive Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy." Nano Letters 17(9): 5768-5774.

Tumkur, T. U., X. Yang, B. Cerjan, N. J. Halas, P. Nordlander and I. Thomann (2016). "Photoinduced Force Mapping of Plasmonic Nanostructures." Nano Letters 16(12): 7942-7949.

Cerjan, B., X. Yang, P. Nordlander and N. J. Halas (2016). "Asymmetric Aluminum Antennas for Self-Calibrating Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy." ACS Photonics 3(3): 354-360.