About Us

The prime motivation of our lab is to challenge the forefront of science and technology. We strive to pursue solid experimental work in addition to theoretical modeling. Our research focuses on the interaction of light with nanostructures that leads to exotic electromagnetic properties, which could be applied to the field of metamaterials, plasmonics, electronics, photonics, energy, acoustics, imaging, sensing and biology.


  • Scientific Reports, April 2013
  • Science, March 2013
  • Nature Materials, February 2013
  • Nature communications, November 2012
  • PRL, November 2012

Recent Publications

[224]Ming Liu and Xiang Zhang, "Plasmon-boosted magneto-optics", Nature Photonics, 7, 429-430.
[223]Sadao Ota, Sheng Wang, Yuan Wang, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang, "Lipid Bilayer-Integrated Optoelectronic Tweezers for Nanoparticle Manipulations", Nano Letters, Article ASAP.
[222]Jie Zhu, Yongyao Chen, Xuefeng Zhu, Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, Xiaobo Yin, Weili Zhang & Xiang Zhang, "Acoustic Rainbow Trapping", Scientific Reports, 3, 1728.
[221]Xiaobo Yin, Ziliang Ye, Junsuk Rho, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, "Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces", Science, 339, 1405-1407.
[220]Pankaj K. Jha, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang, "Quantum coherence-assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons", Applied Physics Letters, 102, 091111.

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Lab News

Jun 2013: Our alum Hu Cang has received the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging.

Jun 2013: Jun has received the Incubic & Milton Chang award at CLEO.

Apr 2013: Ziliang received the MRS Graduate Student Gold Award.

Apr 2013: Kedar received the MRS Graduate Student Silver Award.

Apr 2013: David has received the NDSEG Fellowship.

Apri 2013: Our alum Prof. Zhaowei Liu has received the 2013 ONR Young Investigator Award.

Mar 2013: Our recent work in Science on the photonic spin Hall effect was featured in Science's research highlights, LBL News, and Physics World.

Mar 2013: Our alum Dr. Rupert Oulton was awarded the Beller Lectureship at the APS March meeting.

Mar 2013: Ziliang was named 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

Mar 2013: Ania has recently won the Raymond Davis Award in Imaging.

Feb 2013: Our former member Prof. Sheng Shen has recieved the NSF Career Award.

Jan 2013: Our recent work in Nano Letters was highlighted in Science.

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