Hi there! I'm Morgan Blevins, a PhD candidate at MIT in the EECS department working in the Metamaterials group, advised by Dr. Svetlana Boriskina.
I recieved my Bachelors degree from Harvey Mudd in 2019 and my masters degrees from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in 2021. I started working on my PhD in MIT EECS in 2021.
PhD Research Projects
During my PhD I've been intersted in light-matter interaction in topological materials and I've worked on projects that explore nonreciprocal plasmonics and anomalous photocurrents.
Using semiclassical theory, I derived and showed how current biasing Dirac/Weyl semimetals can unlock a unique nonreciprocal plasmonic response via an effect called "plasmon Fizeau drag": ACS Photonics 2024, 11, 2, 537–549.
I extended this work to show how this effect can unlock highly tunable near-field heat transfer through the modulation of surface and hyperbolic modes: Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 22, 8876–8883.
I've built a scanning photocurrent microscope from scratch to characterize the local photocurrent response in the visible and infrared. I'm currently probing nonlinear photocurrents in quantum materials to both better fundamentally understand their optoelectronic behavior and enable applications in energy harvesting, sensing, and nonreciprocal transport.
