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Mohammad Hafezi

Minta Martin Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics (Joint appointment), Simons Fellow

Fellow
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Contact Information

UMD

Email:
hafezi@umd.edu
Office:

2307 Atlantic Building

Additional Info

CV:
Mohammad-Hafezi_CV-website.pdf

Research Groups

Recent Publications

Recent News

  • a graphic showing a chip with silver grooves guiding energy to a two-dimensional material

    Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit

    October 3, 2025

    There's a limit to how tightly a lens can focus a laser beam. For researchers studying the interactions between light and matter, this makes experiments more challenging. A new chip made from a thin, grooved sheet of silver defies this limit, delivering the energy of 800-nanometer laser light to a sample in peaks and valleys just a few dozen nanometers apart.

  • The head and shoulders of a man with a beard standing in front of an out of focus green wall.

    Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award

    June 13, 2025

    The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has honored JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi for his impactful research and will support him visiting Germany to collaborate in person with colleagues there.

  • a schematic illustration of light carrying orbital angular momentum interacting with electrons in a sample of graphene

    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    November 26, 2024

    Scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and matter demonstrated a novel way to use light to give electrons a spinning kick. In the journal Nature Photonics, they reported the results of an experiment, showing that a light beam can reliably transfer orbital angular momentum to itinerant electrons in graphene.