Dr. Behnaz Ostovar

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computational Engineering, Rice University (2022)

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (2016)

Dissertation

Plasmon-Mediated Carrier Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles and Hybrid Nanostructures. View dissertation

Publications

1. A. Al-Zubeidi, B. Ostovar, C. C. Carlin, B. C. Li, S. A. Lee, W,-Y, Chiang, N. Gross, S. Dutta, A. Misiura, E. K. Searles, A. Chakraborty, S. T. Roberts, J. A. Dionne, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link “Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons” PNAS, 120 (3) (2023). View article

2. E. K. Searles, E. Gomez, S. A. Lee, B. Ostovar, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Single-Particle Photoluminescence and Dark-Field Scattering during Charge Density Tuning J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, XXX, 318–325. View article

3. G. T. Forcherio, B. Ostovar, J. Boltersdorf, Y,-Y, Cai, A. C. Leff, K. N. Grew, C. A. Lundgren, S. Link, and D. R. Baker Single-Particle Insights into Plasmonic Hot Carrier Separation Augmenting Photoelectrochemical Ethanol Oxidation with Photocatalytically-Synthesized Pd-Au Bimetallic Nanorods. ACS Nano, 16, 8, 12377–12389 (2022). View article

4. S. A. Lee, B. Ostovar, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Spectroscopic signatures of plasmon-induced charge transfer in gold nanorods J. Chem. Phys. 156 (5), 064702 (2022). View article

5. K. Shiratori, L. D. C. Bishop, B. Ostovar, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Machine-Learned Decision Trees for Predicting Gold Nanorod Sizes from Spectra J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (35), 19353 (2021). View article

6. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021). View article

7. C. Flatebo, C. Dutta, B. Ostovar, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Heterogeneity and Hysteresis in the Polymer Collapse of Single Core–Shell Stimuli-Responsive Plasmonic Nanohybrids J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (33), 18270 (2021). View article

8. M.-N. Su, B. Ostovar, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, W.-S. Chang, and S.Link Acoustic Vibrations and Energy Dissipation Mechanisms for Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (3), 1621 (2021). View article

9. B. Ostovar, Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, S. A. Lee, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission ACS Nano, 14 (11), 15757 (2020). View article

10. B. Ostovar, M.-N. Su, D. Renard, B. D. Clark, P. D. Dongare, C. Dutta, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, C. F. Landes, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, and S. Link Acoustic Vibrations of Al Nanocrystals: Size, Shape and Crystallinity Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. A, 124 (19) , 3924 (2020). View article

11. Y.-Y. Cai, S. S. E. Collins, M. J. Gallagher, U. Bhattacharjee, R. Zhang, T. H. Chow, A. Ahmadivand, B. Ostovar, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Wang, P. Nordlander, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Single particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes. ACS Energy Letters, 4, 2458 (2019). View article

12. M.-N. Su, C. J. Ciccarino, S. Kumar, P. D. Dongare, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, D. Renard, Y. Zhang, B. Ostovar, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas, R. Sundararaman, P. Narang, and S. Link Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Single Aluminum Nanostructures. Nano Lett. Article, 19(5), 3091 (2019). View article

13. Y.-Y. Cai, E. Sung, R. Zhang, L. J. Tauzin, J. G. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Anti-Stokes Emission from Hot Carriers in Gold Nanorods. Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1067 (2019). View article

14. C. Yi, M.-N. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y.-Y. Cai, D. M. Marolf, R. N. Kress, B. Ostovar, L. J. Tauzin, F. Wen, W.-S. Chang, M. R. Jones, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping Nano Lett., 18 (6), 3494 (2018). View article