Welcome
Welcome to The Balogun Research Group at Northwestern University. In our group, we study the propagation of coherent and incoherent elastic vibrations in materials, to understand how these carriers impact energy transport in bulk materials and across interfaces in condensed matter, and to elucidate the structure-property relationships of materials. We utilize optical and scanning probe techniques to image and characterize the thermal conductivity of bulk and low-dimensional electronic materials, and the thermal boundary resistance of interfaces in thermoelectric materials, vibrational properties of condensed matter, viscoelastic properties of biofilms and biological tissues, elastic properties of thin films and interfaces, and to study the coupling of optical and acoustic oscillations in nanostructures. We also rely on continuum modeling to understand the sensor and material physics.