Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Recent Publications

Das, A. K., Hegde, S., Woods, T. J., Wani, V. S., & Backlund, M. P. (2025). Direct Observation of Three Chiral Conformers of an Atomically Precise Metal Nanoparticle. Nano letters, 25(18), 7491-7498. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01154

Hegde, S., Durden, D. J., Ajayakumar, L. P., Sivakumar, R., & Backlund, M. P. (2025). Quantum sensing in the fractional Fourier domain. Physical Review Applied, 23(2), Article 024035. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.024035

Snyder, P. J., Allard, V., Bhagia, S., Farahi, R. H., Lereu, A. L., Backlund, M. P., & Passian, A. (2025). Hemicellulose Modulates Nanoscale Lignin Architecture in Synthetic Plant Cell Walls. ACS Nano, 19(47), 40364-40382. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c09006

Mitchell, C. S., & Backlund, M. P. (2023). Tight information bounds for spontaneous-emission-lifetime resolution of quantum sources with varied spectral purity. Physical Review A, 108(2), Article 023712. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.023712

Mitchell, C. S., & Backlund, M. P. (2022). Quantum limits to resolution and discrimination of spontaneous emission lifetimes. Physical Review A, 105(6), Article 062603. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.062603

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