News

2023 
8/2023– Chuangtang received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship at Northeastern University. Congratulations!
8/2023– Yihao successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Xu!
4/2023– Yihao received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship at Northeastern University. Congratulations!
4/2023– Yihao received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship at Northeastern University. Congratulations!
4/2023– Nature Photonics published a News & Views article to highligh our recent Science paper.
3/2023– Alex received the prestigous Draper scholarship. Congratulations!
1/2023– Our collaborative work with Prof. Ruwen Peng and Prof. Mu Wang at Nanjing University was published in Science! In this work, we break the fundamental limit of polarization multiplexing capacity of metasurfaces by introducing the engineered noise.
1/2023– Alexander Montes McNeil joined our group as a new PhD student. Welcome on board!
1/2023– Prof. Yongmin Liu was elected as a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Fellows are Members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. Congratulations!.
2022 
11/2022– Prof. Yongmin Liu was elected as a Fellow of OPTICA (formerly OSA). He was honored for significant contributions to the fundamental and application of nanophotonics, particularly plasmonics and photonic metamaterials. Congratualtions!
11/2022– Prof. Zengbo Wang from Bangor University, UK will be visting our group for one year, under the support of the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Welcome, Prof. Wang!
10/2022– Lin’s paper on mode conversion and wavefront shaping by on-chip metasurfaces was published in Advanced Optical Materials. His review article on hybrid inverse design of photonic structures was published in Photonics and Nanostructures. Congratulations, Lin!
9/2022– Two master students, Allen Zhang and Yuxiao Li joined our group. Welcome aboard!
9/2022– Optics & Photonics News interviewed Prof. Liu regarding deep design for optical devices, and highlighted our recent Advanced Materials paper.
8/2022– We welcome our new PhD student Tae Yoon Kim!
8/2022– Prof. Liu was elected to the grade of Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Congratulations!
7/2022– Xianzhe, Lin, and Prof. Liu attended and presented at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on plasmonics and nanophotonics. It was so nice to meet old and new friends, and exchange our ideas!
6/2022– Prof. Liu successfully completed his sabbatical visit at Stanford University. It was a highly rewarding visit. Many thanks to Prof. Jen Dionne and her group members!
4/2022– Our paper on multiplexed metasurfaces designed by machine learning was published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!
4/2022– We were funded by the NSF CDS&E program to study the spectral, spatial and temporal responses of plasmonic nanostructures based on a data-driven approach.
4/2022– Yihao received the Graduate Research Award in College of Engineering. Congratulations, Yihao, and keep up the good work!
3/2022– Ziqiang’s paper on near-infrared reflection modulation through electrical tuning of hybrid graphene metasurfaces was published in Advanced Optical Materials. Nice work, Ziqiang!
2021 
12/2021– Renchao’s paper on optical pulling forces enabled by hyperbolic metamaterials was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!
12/2021– Yihao, Lin and Ziqiang presented their work in MRS Fall meeting. Yihao and Ziqiang received the best student presentation award in symposium EQ08 (New Frontiers in the Design, Fabrication and Applications of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces). Prof. Liu also gave a tutorial talk and an invited talk on the design of photonic metamaterials by deep learning.
9/2021– Lei’s paper on 3D direct printing of mechanical and biocompatible hydrogel meta-structures was published in Bioactive Materials.
8/2021– We published electrically tunable metasurfaces based on phase transition of vanadium dioxide in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
8/2021– We received an NSF award to explore non-Hermitian and topology plasmonics.
4/2021– Our paper on holographic mimicry by metasurfaces was published in Advanced Materials.
2020 
9/2020– Our research was not stopped by the pandemic. Feng published his work on all-optical switching of magnetization in Advanced Optical Materials and Nano Letters. Lin’s paper on harnessing evanescent waves by metasurfaces was published in Laser & Photonics Reviews . Wei’s review article on photonic design by deep learning was published in Nature Photonics. Congratulations to all of you!
8/2020– Feng successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratuatlions, Dr. Feng Cheng! We wish you all the best in your new position as a seismic imaging analyst at CGG.
6/2020– Congratulations to our former group members, Wei, Lin, Zuojia and Zhaoxian, who recently started their new academic positions.
4/2020– Xianzhe Zhang joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome!
2019 
12/2019– Yihao received the John and Katharine Cipolla PhD Merit Award from MIE deparment. Congratulations!
12/2019– Yihao, Ziqiang and Lei presented their research at MRS 2019 Fall meeting.
9/2019– We received an NSF award to conduct exciting research on all-optical sensing and sorting of chiral molecules.
7/2019– Wei’s work on probabilistic representation and inverse design of metamaterials based on a dDeep generative model was published in Advanced Materials, and Zhaoxian’s work on complete control of Smith-Purcell radiation by graphene metasurfaces was published in ACS Photonics. Congratulations!
6/2019– We will work with Prof. Raymond Fu’s group on a project of designing complex, multi-functional meta-systems by deep learning techniques, which was funded by NSF.
5/2019– Prof. Liu was selected as the Faculty Fellow of College of Engineering at Northeastern University. The College of Engineering Faculty Fellowship program recognizes the most promising Associate Professors in the College, who will have demonstrated both outstanding achievement and the potential for leadership in their respective departments, COE and Northeastern, and in their discipline.
4/2019– We will work with Prof. Sanjeev Mukerjee’s group on plasmonics enahnced charge transfers and photo-electro-chemical energy conversion, which was funded by Army Reserch Office.
3/2018– Yihao and Prof. Liu presented two talks in APS March meeting.
2/2018– Two collaborative work with Prof. Hongli Zhu’s group on processing and tuning cellulose nanocrystals for photonics was published in Advanced Optical Materials and Advanced Materials Interfaces. Congratudations to Feng!
2/2018– Prof. Liu was invited to write a Physics Viewpoint article about superscattering of light.
1/2018– The collaborative work with Prof. Zhenggao Dong on Dual-mode subwavelength trapping by plasmonic tweezers was published in Optics Letters. Cheers!
2018 
12/2018– Zuojia, our former visiting PhD student and now accosiate professor at Shandong University, received the best Ph.D. thesis award from Chinese Institute of Electronics. Congratulations!
11/2018– Dr. Zhen Liao from Hangzhou Dianzi University joined the group as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
11/2018– Lei, Feng, Qinlong and Bo represented the group and gave oral/poster presentations in the MRS fall conference.
10/2018– Farewell to Lin and Gaoming, who made great contributions to the group in the past years. All the best, Lin and Gaoming.
9/2018– Our work on microwave plasmonic vortices was selected as the back cover of the September issue of Laser & Photonics Reviews.
9/2018– Farewell to Zhouqing, who has completed her one-year visit at Northeastern. All the best, Zhouqing!
8/2018– Welcome to our new PhD students, Chuangtang Wang and Lin Deng!
7/2018– Farewell to Han, who will join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a PhD student. All be best, Han!
7/2018– Farewell to Techaphon Chumworatayee and Thanakrit Tanjasiri, who finished their summer interns in the group and go back to Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Good luck!
7/2018– Wei’s paper on deep-learning-enabled on-demand design of chiral metamaterials was highlighed by Nature Photonics.
6/2018– Wei’s paper on deep-learning-enabled on-demand design of chiral metamaterials was published in in ACS Nano. Nice work! Also see news at Northeastern University, PhysOrg, Scienceblog and Nanowerk.
6/2018– The collaborative work with Prof. Peng Zhan on microwave plasmonic vortices was published in Laser & Photonics Reviews. Cheers!
6/2018– Goodbye Wei. Thank you for your contributions to the group over the past two years. Wish you a successful new career in China!
5/2018– Zhong’s paper on graphene-metal hybrid chiral metamaterials was published in in Optics Letters.
5/2018– Prof. Liu was promoted to associated professor with tenure. Congratulations!
4/2018– Kan’s paper on chiral hotspots in dielectric nanostructures was published in in Nanoscale.
3/2018– We have three papers pulished recently in Physical Review Letters, Advanced Optical Materials, and Physical Reivew Applied. Cheers!
2/2018– Farewell to Kan. Many thanks for your great contributions to the group, and wish you all the best at UT Austin!
1/2018– Bo Xiong and Lei Zhang joined the group as visiting scholars. Welcome!
2017 
12/2017–  Kan’s work on Infrared Plasmonic Resonators Based on Self-Assembled Core–Shell Particles was published in ACS Photonics!
12/2017–  Lin, Kan and Feng presented in the MRS Fall conference.
11/2017–  The collaborative work with Prof. Wenshan Cai on linear and nonliner chiral meta-mirror was published in Nano Letters!
10/2017–  The collaborative work with Prof. Liang Pan on Optical Switching of Ferromagnetic Thin Film by Ultrafast Optothermal and Optomagnetic Couplings was published in Scientific Reports!
9/2017–  Dr. Gaoming Li joined the group as a visiting scholar. Welcome aboard!
9/2017–  Zhouqing Wang, Qinlong Wen and Zhaoxian Su joined the group as visiting Ph.D. students. Welcome aboard!
9/2017–  The collaborative work with Prof. Nicholas Fang on Ultrafast Fluorescent Decay in Two-Dimensional Molecular Aggregates was published in PNAS!
8/2017–  Yihao Xu and Ziqiang Cai joined the group as new Ph.D. students. Welcome aboard!
8/2017–  Prof. Liu gave a seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, respectively. Many thanks to Profs. Jennifer Dionne and Jie Yao for the hosting.
7/2017–  Prof. Liu gave a pre-conference tutorial and an invited talk in 2017 META conference in Korea. He also gave a seminar in Nanjing University, China.
7/2017–  Kan successfully defended his thesis on July 18th, and became the first Ph.D. in the group. Big congratulations, Dr. Yao!
7/2017–  Our work on Plasmonics in Parity-Time Symmetric Systems is accepted by Physical Review Letters, and Broadband Optical Diode Using Symmetry-breaking Metamaterials is accepted by Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
6/2017–  Our work on Dudal-band Light Focusing by Stacked Graphene Metasurfaces is published in ACS Photonics. Congratulations, Wei, Zhoang and Xiaokang!
5/2017–  Our work on origami-based reconfigurable metamaterials is published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations, Zuojia and Kan!
5/2017–  Kan received College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award. Congratulations!
4/2017– Prof. Liu gave an invited talk at the 2017 SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Conference, and gave three seminars at the University of Southern California, UC San Diego and UC Riverside. Many thanks to Profs. Durdu Guney, Wei Wu, Zhaowei Liu and Ming Liu for the invitations!
4/2017– Prof. Liu led an outreach program entitled ” Illusion Optics – Build Your 3D Image Projector and Invisibility Cloak”, which was supported by the SPIE Education Outreach Grant.
1/2017– Prof. Liu received NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations, and many thanks for the support of NSF!
2016 
12/2016– Prof. Liu was selected as a member of SPIE Rising Researchers. The award ceremony will be held in 2017 SPIE DCS Meeting in Anaheim.
12/2016– Feng successfully denfended his master thesis. Congratulations!
11/2016– Our group was well presented in the MRS Fall conference. Kan, Feng and Prof. Liu gave three oral presentations, and Prof. Liu co-organized and chaired the symposium on Functional Plasmonics.
10/2016– Our paper on Circular Dichroism Metamirrors with Near-Perfect Extinction was published in ACS Photonics. Congratulations!
10/2016– Our paper on Manipulating Smith-Purcell emission with Babinet metasurfaces was published in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations, Zuojia and Kan!
 9/2016– The invited review article on Optical Chiral Metamaterials was published in Nanotechnology. Congratulations, Zuojia, Feng and Thomas!
 9/2016– We were awarded Samsung GRO grant. Congratulations!
 8/2016– Prof. Liu presented two invited talks in PIERS 2016 conference in Shanghai. He also presented a talk in the International Nanophotonics Workshop at Peking University. Many thanks to Profs. Renmin Ma, Chengwei Qiu and Xinfeng Liu for the invitation and host!
 6/2016– Prof. Liu was invited to attend 3M Science and Engineering Faculty Day at Saint Paul, and present our research work.
 4/2016– Prof. Liu received a 2016 SPIE Cycle Education Outreach grant to develop new outreach events to raise the awareness and interest of K-12 students in optics and photonics.
 3/2016– Prof. Liu received the prestigious ONR Young Investigator Award. Congratulations!
 2/2016–  Welcome Prof. Gongli Xiao  from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, who will stay in the group as a visiting professor for one year.
2/2016–  Prof. Liu received 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. Congratulations!
 1/2016– Welcome Prof. Junbo Yang, who will stay in the group as a visiting professor for one month.
2015 
  12/2015– Feng Cheng received NEU Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Research Grant. Congratulations!
  12/2015– The group participated in the MRS Fall conference. Zuojia Wang and Kan Yao gave two oral presentations, Feng Cheng competed for the Science of Art, and Prof. Liu chaired one symposium session.
  8/2015– The collaborative work with Prof. Shuang Zhang on Line Degeneracy and Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling of Light with Bulk Bianisotropic Metamaterials was published in Physical Review Letters.
  8/2015– Prof. Liu gave an invited talk at University of Dayton. Many thanks for Prof. Qiwen Zhan for the host.
  8/2015– Prof. Liu gave an invited talk at Purdue University. Many thanks to Profs. Tongcang Li and Liang Pan for the host.
  7/2015– Prof. Liu visited AFRL and gave an invited talk. Many thanks to Dr. Shin Mou for the host.
  7/2015– The work of Graphene Plasmonic Metasurfaces to Steer Infrared Light was published in Scientific Reports.
  6/2015– The work of An Active Metamaterial Platform for Chiral Responsive Optoelectronics was published in Advanced Materials.
  5/2015– The work of Chiral Surface Waves Supported by Biaxial Hyperbolic Metamaterials was accepted by Light Science & Applications.
  5/2015– Kan Yao received NEU Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Research Grant. Congratulations!
  4/2015– Prof. Liu received AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship.
  1/2015– The work of Plasmonic superpensing in doped GaAs was published in Nano Letters.
2014 
  12/2014– The invited reviewer paper on Light manipulation with encoded plasmonic nanostructures was published in EPJ Applied Metamaterials.
  12/2014– Prof. Liu organized, chaired and presented in Symposium L on optical metamaterials and plasmonics in MRS 2014 Fall conference. Kan Yao presented a poster in the same symposium, which was nominated for the best poster award. Many thanks for all the speakers and participants for the success of the symposium.
  11/2014– Zuojia Wang from Zhejiang University joined the group as a visiting PhD student. Welcome aboard!
  11/2014– The collaborative work with Prof. Sheng Shen’s group at CMU on Thermal plasmonic interconnects in graphene was published in Physical Review B.
  9/2014– The collaborative work with Profs. Zhida Gao and Yanyan Song on Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance under Visible Light for Photoinactivation of Bacteria was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
  8/2014– Feng Cheng joined the group as a PhD student. Dr. Hui Jia joined the group as a visiting scholar. Welcome aboard!
  8/2014– Kan passed the qualify exam. Congratulations!
  7/2014– The collaborative work with Prof. Jiasen Zhang on Single-molecule Detection and Radiation Control was published in Nanoscale.
  6/2014– Kan’s paper on Analogy Strategy for Transformation Optics was published in New Journal of Physics.
  6/2014– Prof. Liu presented a contributed talk in CLEO conference.
  6/2014– Prof. Liu visited Beijing and Tianjin, and presented four invited talks in Institute of Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Peking University, Nankai University and Tianjin University. Many thanks to all the hosts.
  5/2014– The collaborative work with Prof. Jiasen Zhang on Single-molecule Detection and Radiation Control was accepted by Nanoscale!
  5/2014– Prof. Liu visited Singapore, and presented four invited talks in META 2014 conference, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (A*STAR), and Division of Physics and Applied Physics of Nanyang Technological University.
  4/2014– Prof. Shufang Fu completed her 1-year visit in the group. Farewell, Prof. Fu!
  4/2014– Prof. Liu was invited to serve as an editorial board member of EPJ Applied Metamaterials.
  3/2014– Prof. Liu will work with Profs. Federico Capasso, Andrea Alù and Mario Agio to organize Symposium L on optical metamaterials and plasmonics in MRS 2014 Fall conference, which is to be held in Boston from November 30 to December 5, 2014.
  3/2014– Prof. Liu presented an invited talk in the conference of Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy (NGC2014) in Phoenix.
  2/2014– A short ariticle on metamaterials was published by Encyclopedia Britannica.
  1/2014– The collaborative work with Prof. Zhenyu Liu on modeling and optimization of photonic crystals based on transformation optics was published by Optics Express.
  1/2014– An invited review article on plasmonic metamaterials was published by Nanotechnology Reviews.
2013 
  12/2013– Kan and Prof. Liu will give two oral presentations in MRS Fall meeting in Syposium V (Enabling Metamaterials–From Science to Innovation).
  11/2013– Prof. Liu presented invited talks at McGill University. Many thanks to Prof. Zetian Mi for the gracious hosts, especially on the Thanksgiving day!
  11/2013– The work of suppressing photobleaching via the strong Purcell effect was published in Nano Letters.
  11/2013– Shuai Chen joined the group from Northeastern University (China) as a visiting student. Welcome aboard, Shuai!
  10/2013– The work of metasurface to manipulate surface plasmons was published in Applied Physics Letters.
  9/2013– Prof. Liu was invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group.
  9/2013– Prof. Zubin Li joined the group from Nankai Univeristy as a visiting scholar. Welcome aboard!
  8/2013– Prof. Liu presented an invited talk, and chaired two focus sessions in PIERS 2013, Stockholm.
  8/2013– The work on reconfigurable plasmofluidic lenses in collaboration with Prof. Tony Huang at Penn State was published in Nature Communications. See the news reports by News@Northeastern, Penn State News, Science Daily, PhysicsOrg, National Science Foundation (NSF).
  8/2013– Xuefei Tan and Yuqing Liu joined our group. Welcome aboard!
  4/2013– Prof. Shufang Fu joined the group from Harbin Normal University as a visiting scholar. Welcome aboard, Prof. Fu!
  4/2013– The Nano Letters work of compact magnetic antenns was cited by two Science papers in the issue of April 19th.
  4/2013– Prof. Liu chaired the Optomechanics and Optoelectronics sessionin MRS Spring conference at San Francisco, and presented a talk on one-way asymmetric transmission through optical metamaterials.
  3/2013– Two proposals are funded by the 2014 NEU TIER 1 grant (total 21 awards). We will explore exciting research on self-assembled plasmonic structures (with Prof. Ke Zhang’s group), and graphene photonics (with Prof. Swastik Kar’s group). Many thanks to COE and COS for the support!
  1/2013– Kan Yao joined the group as the first PhD student. Welcome aboard!
  1/2013– Prof. Liu was invited to organize two Focus Sessions (“Metamaterials and Plasmonics based on Graphene” and “Plasmonics in the Quantum Regime”) at the Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2013) to be held August 12-13, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden.
2012 
  11/2012– Prof. Liu chaired the Plasmonics session of Metamaterials Symposium in MRS Fall conference held in Boston, and presented a talk on compact magnetic antennas.
  11/2012– Prof. Liu was invited to participate the NSF Panel Review to be held on Dec. 17-18th in Arlington.
  09/2012– Group website has been launched!
  08/2012– Dr. Yongmin Liu joined Northeastern University!
  08/2012– The work of compact magnetic antenns is published in Nano Letters. It is among the top 20 most downloaded articles of Nano Letters in August.
  07/2012– The invitied review paper on transformation optics is published in Nanoscale.
2011 
  08/2011– The work of carpet cloak for visible light is published in Nano Letters. See the news from ACS Weekly Press, Science News, Live Science, MSNBC and New Scientist.
  08/2011– The work of plasmonic airy beam is featured in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab News, OSA News, R&D Magazine and New Scientist.
  03/2011– The paper of perovskite superlens is published in Nature Communications. See the news from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, American Ceramics Society and BioOptics World.
  01/2011– The paper of plasmonic Luneberg and Eaton lenses is published in Nature Nanotechnology. See the news from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Science Daily, PhysOrg and RedOrbit.
2010 
  07/2010– The paper of nanoscale plasmonic motors is published in Nature Nanotechnology. See the research highlight/press report by Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Discovery, IEEE Spectrum, Physics World and Science Daily.
  07/2010– The work of transformational plasmon optics is featured in the News and Views article by Nature Nanotechnology, as well as Lawrence Berkeley National Lab News, Science Daily and PhysOrg.
2008 
  12/2008– The work of broadband optical negative refraction in bulk metamaterials is ranked among Top 100 Stories by Discovery Magazine.
  11/2008– The work of broadband optical negative refraction in bulk metamaterials is ranked among Top 10 Scientific Discoveries and 50 Best Inventions by the Time Magazine.
  08/2008– Our work of broadband optical negative refraction in bulk metamaterials was published in journal of Science, and reparted by numerous press media including BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, ABS Science, National Geographic, NPR News, the Australian, CBC News.
2007 
  12/2007– The work of subwavelength solitons is highlighted by Nature Photonics.