Listed below are examples of a few (but not all) of the active thrust areas being conducted in the Shih group.  The group also engages in many interdisciplinary collaborative research activities.  Collaborators include theorists and experimentalists, both domestic and international.

Quantum Optical Control of Semiconductor Nanostructures

Quantum Engineering of Metallic Thin Film Structures

Atomically Smooth Epitaxial Metallic Films on Silicon as a Platform for Plasmonics