John Kohoutek

John Kohoutek is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. His doctoral research focused on modeling and measuring Casimir and optical forces in plasmonic devices, and on measuring the near-field and far-field optical characteristics of chip-scale optomechanical systems. John is working with Henri Lezec designing, fabricating, and characterizing plasmonic devices and metamaterials for nanoscale measurement applications.

• Mechanical frequency and amplitude modulation of a quantum cascade laser integrated with a plasmonic nanoantenna,  J. Kohoutek, D. Dey, A. Bonakdar, R. Gelfand, V. Fathipour, O. G. Memis, and H. Mohseni, Small 8, 3781–3785 (2012).
• Integrated all-optical infrared switchable plasmonic quantum cascade laser, J. Kohoutek, A. Bonakdar, R. Gelfand, D. Dey, I. H. Nia, V. Fathipour, O. G. Memis, and H. Mohseni, Nano Letters 12, 2537–2541 (2012). 
• Opto-mechanical force mapping of deep subwavelength plasmonic modes, J. Kohoutek, D. Dey, A. Bonakdar, R. Gelfand, A. Sklar, O. G. Memis, and H. Mohseni, Nano Letters 11, 3378–3382 (2011).