Joseph B. Jackson
Rice University
Physics and Astronomy Department
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Phone: (713) 348-3468 phone
Fax: (713) 348-5686
3131 Timmons Ln #1007
Houston, TX 77027
(713) 552-1699
Email: jjackson@rice.edu
Webpage: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~jjackson/jackson_research.html
Education
 Rice University
Ph.D. in Applied Physics, soon
Thesis Title: The Understanding and Application of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering of Nanoshells
Thesis Advisor: Dr. N. J. Halas
 Rice University
MS in Applied Physics, May 2000
Thesis Title: Metal Nanoshell Fabrication and Application to Raman Spectroscopy
Thesis Advisor: Dr. N. J. Halas
 University of Missouri-Rolla
B.Sc. Physics, May 1996
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, May 1996
Honors and Awards
 Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student President 2000-2001
 Vice Provost Award May 2000
 Missouri Academy of Science Award May 1995 (undergraduate)
Relevant Job Experience
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Rice University, Houston, TX
Research Assistant in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 1998 – present
Teaching Assistant in Physics and Astronomy Department, 1998-2000
Rice University Graduate Student Pub, Houston, TX
Manager, April 1999-March 2000
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO
Research Assistant, May 1995 – May 1996
Research Interests
 Photonics materials, structures, and devices
 Nonlinear optical properties of nanoparticles
 Nonlinear optics
Professional Memberships
 American Physical Society
 Materials Research Society
 American Chemical Society
 Optical Society of America
Publications
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L. R. Hirsch, J. B. Jackson, A. Lee, N. J. Halas, and J. L. West “A Rapid Whole Blood Immunoassay using
Gold Nanoshells” , submitted to Analytical Chemistry
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J. B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, L. R. Hirsch, J. L. West, and N. J. Halas " Controlling the Surface Enhanced
Raman Effect via the Nanoshell Geometry ", Applied Physics Letters, 82, 257 (2003).
C. Radloff, C. E. Moran, J. B. Jackson, and N. J. Halas "Nanoparticles: Building Blocks for Functional
Nanostructures" in Molecular Nanoelectronics, Mark Reed and Takhee Lee, Eds., American Scientific
Publishers, 2003.
S. L. Westcott, J. B. Jackson, C. Radloff, and N. J. Halas "Relative Contributions to the Plasmon Lineshape
of Metal Nanoshells", Phys. Rev. B, 66, 155431 (2002).
J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas "Probing the optical near field of a nanolens", Proceedings of SPIE, 4810, 10
(2002).
S. Lal, R. N. Taylor, J. B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas "Light Interaction
between Gold nanoshells Plasmon Resonance and Planar Optical Waveguides", J. Phys. Chem. B., 106,
5609 (2002).
T. Pham, J. B. Jackson, N. J. Halas, and T. R. Lee "Preparation and Characterization of Gold Nanoshells
Coated with Self-Assembled Monolayers", Langmuir, 18, 4915 (2002).
J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, "Silver Nanoshells: Variations in Morphologies and Optical Properties", J.
Phys. Chem. B 105, 2743, (2001).
G. D. Hale, J. B. Jackson, O. E. Shmakova, T. R. Lee, and N. J. Halas, "Enhancing the Active Lifetime of
Luminescent Semiconducting Polymers via Doping With Metal Nanoshells", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1502
(2001).
S. J. Oldenburg, J. B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, and N. J. Halas, "Infrared Extinction Properties of Gold
Nanoshells", Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 2897 (1999).
S. J. Oldenburg, G. D. Hale, J. B. Jackson, and N. J. Halas, "Light scattering from dipole and quadrupole
nanoshell antennas", Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1063 (1999).
D. B. Wolfe, S. J. Oldenburg, S. L. Westcott, J. B. Jackson, M. S. Paley, and N. J. Halas, "Photodeposition
of Molecular Layers onto Nanoparticle Substrates", Langmuir 15, 2745 (1999).
D. B. Wolfe, S. J. Oldenburg, S. L. Westcott, J. B. Jackson, M. S. Paley, and N. J. Halas, "Preparation and
characterization of polymer-coated nanoparticles", SPIE Proceedings, 3793, 129 (1999).
Presentations
1. “Controlling the Surface Enhanced Raman Effect on Nanoshells in a Film Geometry” J. B. Jackson, L. R.
Hirsch, J. L. West and N. J. Halas American Chemical Society, March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.
2. “Controlling the Surface Enhanced Raman Effect on Nanoshells in a Film Geometry” J. B. Jackson, L. R.
Hirsch, J. L. West and N. J. Halas American Physical Society, March Meeting, Austin, TX, March 2003.
3. “Raman Based Sensing Properties of Nanoshells in a film Geometry” J. B. Jackson, L. R. Hirsch, and N. J.
Halas, Rice Quantum Institute Summer Research Colloquium, Houston, TX, August 2002.
4. “Probing the Optical Near Field of a Nanolens” J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, SPIE Conference, Seattle, WA,
July 2002.
5. “Probing the Optical Near Field of a Nanolens” J.B. Jackson, S. L. Westcott, L. R. Hirsch, J. L. West, and N. J.
Halas Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
(QELS), Long Beach, CA May 2002.
6. “Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering with Silver Nanoshells: Local Field Effects” J. B. Jackson, L. R. Hirsch
and N. J. Halas American Physical Society, March Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2001.
7. “An Introduction to Metal Nanoshell Technologies” J. B. Jackson, C. Radloff, C. Moran, S. Sershen, L. R.
Hirsch, and N. J. Halas, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO Dec 2000. (invited)
8. “Growth Morphologies and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering of Plated Silver on Nanoparticle Substrates” J.
B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov 2000. (Poster)
9. “Understanding the Surface Enhanced Raman effect using Nanoshells” J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, Texas
Section of the American Physical Society Fall Meeting, Houston, TX, October 2000.
10. “Understanding the Surface Enhanced Raman effect using Nanoshells” J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, Rice
Quantum Institute Summer Research Colloquium, Houston, TX, August 2000.
11. “SnCl2 Fabrication of Metal Nanoshells” J. B. Jackson and N. J. Halas, Rice Quantum Institute Summer
Research Colloquium, Houston, TX, August 1999.
12. “Growth of Silver Nanoshells” J. B. Jackson, S. J. Oldenburg, and N. J. Halas, Rice Quantum Institute Summer
Research Colloquium, Houston, TX, August 1998. (Poster)
13. “Dielectric Recombination of Rydberg States of Barium” J. B. Jackson and G. Story, Missouri Academy of
Science, Kansas City, MO, May (1995).