
Daniel Shanks
JPL Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Bio
Daniel Shanks is an MDL Next postdoc in the Microdevices Laboratory, working on diffractive optics fabricated using grayscale e-beam lithography, metasurfaces applications for the habitable worlds observatory, and superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from UCLA in 2017, where he performed research on nanopatterned cathodes as electron beam sources under Professor Pietro Musumeci. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Arizona with Professor John Schaibley, using nanopatterned graphene to create quantum dots and circuitry in 2-dimensional semiconductors.
Education
- Ph. D., Physics, University of Arizona, 2022
- B.S., Physics, UCLA 2017
Research Interests
- Grayscale e-beam lithography
- Metasurface applications
- Superconducting photon detectors
- Novel nanofabrication techniques
- Coronagraph optics
Topic Area(s)
Achievements
Publications
- Shanks, Daniel N., et al. "Nanoscale trapping of interlayer excitons in a 2D semiconductor heterostructure" Nano letters 21.13 (2021): 5641-5647.
- Shanks, Daniel N., et al. "Quasiatomic layer etching of silicon nitride enhanced by low temperature." JVST A 41, 052601 (2023):
- Shanks, Daniel N., et al. "Interlayer Exciton Diode and Transistor” Nano Letters, 22.16 (2022): 6599–605.