Kevin Krogman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
krogman@mit.edu


While working as an undergraduate in the Sunkara group, my early research was part of a group effort into silicon compound nanowires and the mechanism of their growth. The findings were published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and contained very clear images of individual wires coiling around each other during growth. Reseach toward my master of engineering thesis was conducted in conjunction with Optical Dynamics, a local research and development lab, and resulted in the creation of a polymer nano-composite of tunable refractive index. These composite thin films were then used to create anti-reflective coatings. It is believed that these are the first anti-reflective stacks made entirely from colloidal solutions.

I am now a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in nanotechnology. I feel extremely fortunate to have been involved not only with an incredible innovator such as Doctor Sunkara, without whom none of my successs would have been possible, but also to have been a part of such an amazing group of individuals. The tight bond felt between group members is invaluable, and has made the long hours mandated by such intense research seem much more bearable. It is a feeling, and responsibility to your fellow group members, that simply can not be achieved in a big school setting.