Research Interests

> Optical materials and nanostructures in photonics, plasmonics and metasurfaces

> Physics and applications of optical metamaterials, metasurfaces, and 2D materials

> Nonlinear optics in metasurfaces and 2D materials

> Thermal radiation and photon management for solar/thermal energy harvesting

> Thermoplasmonics and nanoscale heat transfer

> Nanoscale optical forces, optomechanics and optical MEMS/NEMS

> Integrated optofluidic devices and optical sensors

> Optical device micro-/nano-fabrication and nano-manufacturing

Research Project Highlights

> Anisotropic nonlinear 2D materials and heterostructures

> Atomically thin nonlinear 2D material holograms

> Nonlinear metasurfaces for optical beam conversion

> Plasmonic chiral metamaterials and metasurfaces

> Plasmonic metasurface holograms for wavefront shaping

> Structured light manipulation with metamaterials

> Plasmonic metasurfaces for structural color printing

> Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials with metal-dielectric multilayers

> 3D optical metamaterials and indefinite metamaterial cavities

> Plasmonic forces and optomechanics