News

December 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Wu on being promoted to full professor.

October 2023

Congratulation to Zerui Liu on getting the Best Paper of Pillar AI Award in 2023 IEEEConference.

Our paper “End-to-End Diverse Metasurface Design and Evaluation Using an Invertible Neural Network” was just accepted by Nanomaterials!

July 2023

Dr.Tse-Hsieh Ou successfully defend his Ph.D., congratulations!

Jun 2023

Congratulation to Tse-Hsieh Ou on getting the Best Poster Award in EIPBN 2023.

May 2023

Dr. Pan Hu successfully defend his Ph.D., congratulations!

Our paper “Hybrid Tuning of Sub-filaments to Improve Analog Switching Performance in Memristive Devices” was just accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies!

November 2022

Our paper “Ultrafast Early Warning of Heart Attacks through Plasmon‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy using Collapsible Nanofingers and Machine Learning just published on Journal of Small. Congratulations!

October 2022

Our paper “Hot electron-driven photocatalysis using sub-5 nm  gap plasmonic nanofinger array just published on Journal of Nanomaterials. Congratulations!

September 2022:

Our paper Collapsed nanofingers by DNA functionalization as SERS platform for mercury ions sensing just published on Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Congratulations!

March 2022:

USC Viterbi School of Engineering reported our collaborative work “Achieving Success Through Imprecision

October 2021:

Our paper “Optical Metrology of Characterizing Wetting States” just published on Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B. Congratulations!

June 2021:

The collaboration work with Prof. Fanxin Liu on Plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells through collapsible gold nanofingers just published on Nanotechnology. Congratulations!

January 2021:

We have three new patents (U.S. Patent 10,626,511; U.S. Patent 10,688,771; U.S. Patent 10,786,569) issued. Congratulations!

October 2020:

Our work “A memristor-based hybrid analog-digital computing platform for mobile robotics.” was reported by IEEE Spectrum.

Our paper “Probing the Mechanisms of Strong Fluorescence Enhancement in Plasmonic Nanogaps with Sub-nanometer Precision.” has been accepted by ACS Nano.

Our paper “A memristor-based hybrid analog-digital computing platform for mobile robotics.” has been accepted by Science Robotics.

May 2020:

Our paper “Memristive Device Characteristics Engineering by Controlling the Crystallinity of Switching Layer Material.” has been accepted by ACS Applied Electronic Materials.

April 2020:

Our paper “Effects of roughness and resonant-mode engineering in all-dielectric metasurfaces.” has been accepted by Nanophotonics.

Dec 2019:

Dr. Boxiang Song successfully defend his Ph.D., congratulations!

May 2019:

Dr. Yuanrui Li successfully defend his Ph.D., congratulations!

Ms. Vanessa Pangbourne just graduated, congratulations!

Vanessa Pangbourne adapts to new challenges in leadership and in engineering! Culture, Family, and Nanotechnology

January 2019:

Our paper “Switchable All-Dielectric Metasurfaces for Full-color Reflective Display.” has been accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.

Our paper “Detection of Fake Alcoholic Beverages Using an Electrolyte-free Nanogap Electrochemical Cell.” has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Our paper “Bio-inspired Functional Surfaces Enabled by Multiscale Stereolithography.” has been accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies.

August 2018:

Our paper “Sculpting Extreme Electromagnetic Field Enhancement in Free Space for Molecule Sensing” was just published on Small.

December 2017:

Yifei Wang just got his Ph.D., Congratulations!

July 2017:

Our paper “Field-Assisted Splitting of Pure Water based on Deep-sub-Debye-Length Nanogap Electrochemical Cells” was just published on ACS Nano.

June 2017:

Our paper “Probing Gap Plasmons Down to Subnanometer Scales Using Collapsible Nanofingers” was just published on ACS Nano.

Our paper “All-Dielectric Heterogeneous Metasurface as an Efficient Ultra-Broadband Reflector” was just published on Advanced Optical Materials.

Yuanrui Li won “The Best Photon Micrograph” award at the 2017 EIPBN conference. Congratulations!

April 2017:

He Liu and Yuhan Yao just got their Ph.D., Congratulations!