Professional Career

• 2006 - present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials Sciences Division

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley-2004

Contact Information MS-J585, C-PCS Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 phone: (505) 665-1746 fax: (505) 667-7289 e-mail: jmcguire@lanl.gov

Current Research:

My current research is focused on optical studies of electronic dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots.

Previous Research:

My previous research was primarily on subpicosecond electronic and vibrational dynamics at surfaces.

Selected Publications

• V.I. Klimov, S.A. Ivanov, J. Nanda, M. Achermann, I. Bezel, J.A. McGuire, and A. Piryatinski, “Single-exciton optical gain in nanocrystals,”  Nature 447, 441 (2007).

• J.A. McGuire and Y.R. Shen, “Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Water Interfaces,” Science 313, 1945 (2006).
• J.A. McGuire, M.B. Raschke, and Y.R. Shen, “Electron Dynamics of Silicon Surface States: Second-Harmonic Hole Burning on Si(111)-(7x7),” Physical Review Letters 96, 087401 (2006)