B.A., Concordia College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Femtosecond Spectroscopy, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Physics

The Turner Lab uses optical spectroscopy to study complex femtosecond dynamics in condensed media. We use and develop spectroscopic techniques to probe the photoexcitation processes in biological and synthetic materials, and we are motivated by problems in renewable energy.

"Coherent multidimensional optical spectra measured using incoherent light," D. B. Turner, P. C. Arpin, S. D. McClure, D. J. Ulness, and G. D. Scholes, Nature Communications 4, 2298 (2013)

"Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy using incoherent light: theoretical analysis," D. B. Turner, D. J. Howey, R. A. Hendrickson, M. W. Gealy, E. J. Sutor, and D. J. Ulness, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 117, 5926–5954 (2012)

"Solar light harvesting by energy transfer: From ecology to coherence," G. D. Scholes, T. Mirkovic, D. B. Turner, F. Fassioli, and A. Buchleitner, Energy & Environmental Science 5, 9374–9393 (2012)

"Persistent exciton-type many-body interactions in GaAs quantum wells measured using two-dimensional optical spectroscopy," D. B. Turner, P. Wen, D. H. Arias, K. A. Nelson, H. Li, G. Moody, M. E. Seimens, and S. T. Cundiff, Physical Review B 85, 201303(R) (2012)

"Quantitative investigations of quantum coherence for a light-harvesting protein at conditions simulating photosynthesis," D. B. Turner, R. Dinshaw, K.-K. Lee, M. S. Belsley, K. E. Wilk, P. M. G. Curmi, and G. D. Scholes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14, 4857–4874 (2012)

"Electronic coherence lineshapes reveal hidden excitonic interactions and correlation in photosynthetic light harvesting," C. Y. Wong, R. M. Alvey, D. B. Turner, K. E. Wilk, D. A. Bryant, P. M. G. Curmi, R.J. Silbey, and G. D. Scholes, Nature Chemistry 4, 396–404 (2012)

"Exciton superposition states in CdSe quantum dots measured using broadband 2D electronic spectroscopy," D. B. Turner, Y. Hassan, and G. D. Scholes, Nano Letters 12, 880–886 (2012)

"Comparison of electronic and vibrational coherence measured by 2D electronic spectroscopy," D. B. Turner, K. E. Wilk, P. M. G. Curmi, and G. D. Scholes, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2, 1904–1911 (2011)

"Coherent measurements of high-order electronic correlations in quantum wells," D. B. Turner and K. A. Nelson, Nature 466, 1089–1092 (2010)

"Two-quantum 2D FT electronic spectroscopy of biexcitons in GaAs quantum wells," K. W. Stone, K. Gundogdu, D. B. Turner, X. Li, S. T. Cundiff, and K. A. Nelson, Science 324, 1169–1173 (2009)