Aaswath was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Optica in 2025, and a Fellow of SPIE in 2026.

Aaswath was a winner of the Faculty Track of the Rising Stars of Light competition held by Light Science & Applications

Our recent paper in Nature Sustainability on outdoor radiant cooling was featured as the cover of the June 2025 issue!

We have a new paper out in Nano Letters on resonant anti-reflection metasurfaces for transmission optics in the infrared: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02375

We are happy to share our new paper out in Advanced Materials on a doped semiconductor-based approach to gradient ENZ materials that can exhibit remarkable control of their spectral and directional emissivity: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202302956

We have a new paper out in Phys Rev Applied on a temporal coupled-mode theory for thermal emission that can handle multiple arbitrarily-coupled resonators and their influence on emitted thermal radiation: https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.034037

We are excited to share our new article in Joule on a new passive approach to desalination: radiative cooling-driven freezing desalination (click on the text to the left to view the article).

We are happy to share that we’ve received a NSF CAREER grant to pursue the dynamic photonic control of thermal emission. Many thanks to NSF, and all lab members for their support and work on this topic.

We have two new papers in Nano Letters in collaboration with the Bargatin and Jariwala groups: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03273 (led by John Brewer from our group) and https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03272 (led by Matthew Campbell with the Bargatin group). Funded by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.

We are grateful and excited to work on an exciting new research direction in electroluminescent cooling with DARPA support over the next few years. More information here: https://samueli.ucla.edu/materials-scientist-receives-darpa-young-faculty-award-to-advance-cooling-technologies/