Karpiouk, A.B., S. R. Aglyamov, F. Bourgeois, A. Ben-Yakar, and S. Y. Emelianov, "Quantitive ultrasound method to detect and monitor laser-induced cavitation bubbles," J. Biomed. Optics 13(3), 034011 (2008).

Guo, S.X., F. Bourgeois, T. Chokshi, N. J. Durr, M. A. Hilliard, N. Chronis, and A. Ben-Yakar, "Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy lab-on-a-chip for in vivo nerve regeneration studies," Nature Methods, 5(6), 531-533 (2008). 

• Commentary article about our work was written by Jeffrey Perkel, "Microfluidics- Bringing New Things to Life Science," published in Science, Nov. 7, 2008. Read Commentary

• News and Views article describing our work as pioneering was written by our colleagues S.E. Hulme, S.S. Shevkoplyas, and A. Samuel, "Microfluidics: streamlining discovery in worm biology," Nature Methods 5 (7), 589-590, July (2008). Read Commentary

• Commentary article "Worm-on-a-chip boosts understanding of nerves" appeared in New Scientist, April 21, 2008. Read Commentary

• Commentary article by Roger Highfield "Scientists invent microscopic operating table for 1-mm worm,"Telegraph.uk.com, April 13, 2008.  

Hoy, C.L., "A miniaturized probe for combined two-photon microscopy and femtosecond laser microsurgery," Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin (2007).

Eversole, D.S., "Plasmonic laser nanoablation of solid material," Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin (2007).  

Holfeld, B.A., "Study of imaging depth in turbid tissue  with two-photon microscopy," Master's Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin (2007).

Eversole, D.S., B. Luk’yanchuk, and A. Ben-Yakar, “Plasmonic laser nanoablation of silicon by the scattering of ultrafast pulses near gold nanospheres,” Invited Paper, Applied Physics A, 89, 283–291 (2007).

 Bourgeois, F. and A. Ben-Yakar, “Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy properties and their effect on axonal recovery in C. elegans," Optics Express, 15 (14), 8521-8531 (2007).  

• Erratum (2008)

Durr, N.J., T. Larson, D. K. Smith, B. A. Korgel, K. Sokolov, and A. Ben-Yakar, “Two-photon luminescence imaging of cancer cells using molecularly targeted gold nanorods," Nano Letters, 7 (4), 941-945 (2007).

• This article is one of the most-accessed articles published in Nano Letters in 2007.
• Commentary article by G. Boas, “Gold nanorods attract attention” Biophotonics International Magazine, p. 49-50, May 2007.

Ben-Yakar, A., A. Harkin, J. Ashmore, R. Byer, and H. Stone, "Thermal and fluid processes of a thin melt zone during femtosecond laser ablation of glass: the formation of rims by single laser pulses," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 40, 1447–1459 (2007).

• The paper has been selected as one of the highlights of the articles published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2007.

Yanik, F., H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, and A. Ben-Yakar, “Nerve regeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans after femtosecond laser axotomy,” Invited Paper on Nanophotonics by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 12 (6), 1283–1291 (2006).