Prof. Xiang Zhang's Laboratory

at UC Berkeley

Site Updated:
5/11/2012

Recent Breakthroughs

22nm-Resolution Maskless Plasmonic Lithography

Published in Scientific Reports, Nov 2011

 

Optical Negative Refraction by Four-wave Mixing

Published in Nature Materials, Oct 2011

 

Dynamic Control of Plasmonic Airy Beams

Published in Optics Letters, August 2011

See the story from OSA & LBL news

 

Hybrid Plasmon Polariton Nanoscale Waveguide

Published in Nature Communications, May 2011

See the story from LBL news

 

 
 
 
Journal Covers


An Optical
Cloak

Cover story July 2009 in Nature Materials



Mimicking Blackholes

Published in Nature Physics , September 2009
See the news from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
 

     

 

 
News at Xlab
April 2012: Jun Suk Rho won MRS Graduate Student Silver Medal
April 2012: Former group member Dr. Xiaodong Yang won the 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Oct 2011: Dr. Daniel Lanzillotti Kimura won the 2011 International Photoacoustic and Photothermal Association (IPPA) Junior Prize
Oct 2011: Our recent work on subcellular sensing work is selected as one of the Research Highlights in Nature Photonics
August 2011: Jun Suk Rho won 2011 Korean Honor Scholarship
June 2011: Ze'ev Abrams won the Best Poster Award at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference
June 2011: Former group member Dr. Cheng Sun won Chao & Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
June 2011: Our recent hybrid plasmon waveguide work is selected as one of the Research Highlights in Nature
May 2011: Jun Suk Rho won the 2011 SPIE Scholarship
April 2011: Prof. Xiang Zhang won the 2011 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience
April 2011: Dr. Maiken H. Mikkelsen won the 2011 European Physical Society PhD Thesis Prize
April 2011: Volker J. Sorger won the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting Graduate Student Gold Award
March 2011: Dr. Jia Zhu won the ACS DIC Young Investigator Symposium Award
March 2011: Volker J. Sorger won the prestigious 2010 USAC-ICO Student Best Paper Award. Each year, OSA, SPIE and IEEE Photonics Society only recommend one student to receive this award.
March 2011: Our recent hyperlens work is selected as one of the Research Highlights in Nature Photonics
Jan 2011: "Plasmonic Luneberg and Eaton lenses" Nature Nanotechnology
Jan 2011: Our nanolasers work was reported in MIT Technology Review
Jan 2011: Dr. Boubacar Kante won Prix Richelieu de la Chancellerie des universites de Paris 2010 in science for his PhD work on metamaterials
Jan 2011: Former group member, Dr. Shuang Zhang won IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2010
Dec 2010: Former group member, Dr. Shuang Zhang's recent work on visible-light cloaking was chosen as No.4 among the Top 10 Breakthrough for 2010 by Physics World
Dec 2010: "Room temperature plasmon laser" Nature Materials
Dec 2010: "Optical Mobius Symmetry in Metamaterials" Physical Review Letters
Nov 2010: Dr. Sheng Shen won Philomathia Foundation Research Fellowships in Alternative Energy
Nov 2010: Former group member, Dr. Zhaowei Liu won SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Award and UCSD Hellman Faculty Fellow Award
Nov 2010: "Acoustic deep-subwavelength imaging" Nature Physics
July 2010: "Nanoscale optics: Plasmonics gets transformed." Nature Nanotechnology
April 2010: Jason Valentine has won the MRS Student Gold Medal Award at 2010 MRS Spring meeting.
April 2010: Daniel Shuldman has won the NSF GRFP fellowship and DOE SCGF fellowship
March 2010: Our nano-laser work has been referenced in "Year of the Laser" issue of MIT Technology Review, Vol. 13/No. 2, p.26-31 (2010)
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