Publications
1. Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
W. Jia, J. Bai, K. Roberts, K. Le and D. Zhou, "Design and Simulation of a tunable polarization-insensitive metamaterial Terahertz absorber with five bands," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 62 (6), pp. 2649-2655, June 2020.
J. Bai, B. Wang, J. Zhang and F. Liu, “Comparative study of effects of group-velocity dispersion on mid-infrared quantum-cascade lasers with Fabry-Perot and ring cavities,”Journal of Nanophotonics, 12(2), 026003, April 2018. DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.12.026003.
Y. Sun, D. Zhou, S. Wang, J. Bai and E. Hauser, “Test of a Tubular Shaped Artificial Skin Sensor Array for Colonoscopy,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 18(6):2291 – 2298, March 2018.
J. Bai, B. Wang, Q. Wang, D. Zhou, K. Le and B. Wang, “Coherent pulse progression of mid-infrared quantum-cascade lasers under group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 52, no. 9, 2300106, Sept. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2016.2592798.
K. Le, J. Bai, Q. M. Ngo, and P. Chen, "Fabrication and numerical characterization of infrared metamaterial absorbers for refractometric biosensors," Journal of Electronic Materials (published online in October, 2016). DOI:10.1007/s11664-016-4979-2.
D. Zhou, Y. Sun, J. Bai, E. Hauser, S. Wang, and B. Han “Modeling and experimental investigation of the maximum stresses due to bending in a tubular-shaped artificial skin sensor,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1549-1556, March 2016.
K. Le, J. Bai, and H. P. T. Nguyen, " Fano-induced spontaneous emission enhancement of molecule placed in a cluster of asymmetrically-arranged metallic nanoparticles," Journal of Luminescence, vol. 173, pp. 199-202, Jan. 2016.
K. Le, J. Bai, and P. Chen, “Perfect antireflection fiber arrays for absorption enhancement in thin-film organic tandem solar cells,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 22, no. 1, 4100406, June 2015. DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2447551.
K. Le, M. Nixon, and J. Bai "Calibrated dielectric fiber arrays for light-trapping enhancement in organic solar cells," IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1125-1129, July 2015.
K. Le and J. Bai, "Enhanced absorption efficiency of ultrathin metamaterial solar absorbers by plasmonic Fano resonance," Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 595-600, April 2015.
K. Le, A. Alu, and J. Bai, "Multiple Fano interferences in a plasmonic metamolecule consisting of asymmetric metallic nanodimers," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 117, no. 2, 023118, January, 2015.
D. Zhou, H. Wang, J. Bai and J. Cao, “Effects of oxygen plasma treatment and E-beam evaporation on AgNWs/PDMS based stretchable electrode”, Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 23, no. 10, 104001, October 2014.
J. Bai and D. Zhou, "Effect of group-velocity dispersion on the stability of quantum-cascade lasers," Journal of Nanophotonics, vol. 7, no. 1, 073079, October 2013.
J. Bai, “Phase Instability and Amplitude Instability of Quantum-Cascade Lasers with Fabry-Perot Cavity”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 292-297, March 2012. (Published online in October 2011).
J. Bai, “Effect of self-phase modulation on the instabilities of quantum-cascade lasers”, Journal of Nanophotonics, vol. 4, 043519, 2010.
J. Bai, "A Generalized Modeling Strategy of Quantum-Cascade Structures with Resonance-Enhanced Harmonic Oscillations", Physica E, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 843-847, March, 2009
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, "Intracavity Nonlinearities in Quantum-Cascade Lasers", Applied Physics Reviews-Focused Review, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 106, no. 3, 031101, Aug. 2009. (Appear as the cover article of the issue, http://link.aip.org/link/?JAP/106/3/htmltoc)
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, "Enhancement of Optical Kerr Effect in Quantum-Cascade Lasers with Multiple Resonance Levels", Optics Express, vol.17, no. 16,pp. 12599-12606, August, 2008.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Design of Nonlinearity-Enhanced Quantum Cascade Lasers”, Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 40, no. 2-4, pp. 191-195, March, 2008.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Optical and Transport Characteristics of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Optimized Second Harmonic Generation”, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 43, no. 5, 2007.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Supersymmetric Optimization of Second-Harmonic Generation in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers,” Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 4043-4048, March, 2006.
Z. M. Xiao and J. Bai, “Numerical simulation on a coated piezoelectric sensor interacting with a crack,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 38: 691-706, 2002.
Z. M. Xiao, J. Bai, and R. Maeda, “Electro-static stress analysis on piezoelectric inhomogeneity-crack interaction,” International Journal of Solids and Structure, 38: 1369-1394, 2001.
Z. M. Xiao and J. Bai, “On piezoelectric inhomogeneity related problem - part I: a close-form solution for the stress field outside a circular piezoelectric inhomogeneity,” International Journal of Engineering Science, 37:945-959, 1999.
Z. M. Xiao and J. Bai, “On piezoelectric inhomogeneity related problem - part II: a circular piezoelectric inhomogeneity interacting with a nearby crack,” International Journal of Engineering Science, 37:961-976, 1999.
2. Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications
J. Erickson and J. Bai, "Collection of Heat Loss in Photovoltaic System by Parallely Connected Thermoelectric Network," 49th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Philadelphia, PA, June 5-10, 2022,
W. Jia, J. Bai, K. Roberts, D. Gosztola, G. Wiederrecht, and D. Zhou “Broadband infrared metamaterial absorber with raindrop-shaped submicron-scale disk array,” SPIE Photonics West 2020, San Francisco, CA, February 1-6, 2020.
Z. Xiao, X. He, J. Bai and D. Zhou, “Colonoscope size influence to the deformation of colon,” The 3rd International Conference on Biological Information and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE 2019), Hangzhou, China, July 20-22, 2019.
X. He, J. Bai, and D. Zhou, “Numerical simulation of the influence of gender on the performance of colonoscopies,” 16th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and the 4th Conference on Imaging and Visualization (CMBBE), Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA, August 14-16, 2019.
J. Bai, B. Wang, J. Zhang, F. Liu and D. Zhou, “Theoretical investigation on effects of group-velocity dispersion on mid-infrared quantum-cascade lasers with Fabry-Perot and ring cavities,” SPIE Photonics West 2019, San Francisco, CA, February 2-7, 2019.
J. Bai, B. Wang, and D. Zhou, “Coherent pulse progression in nonlinear quantum-cascade laser medium under group-velocity dispersion,” SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 28-February 2, 2017.
J. Bai, B. Wang and D. Zhou, "Investigation on Soliton Related Effects in Mid-Infrared Quantum-Cascade Lasers, " 2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 2-6, 2016.
J. Bai, B. Wang, Q. Wang, D. Zhou, K. Le, and Bo. Wang, "Coherent Pulse Propagation in Mid-infrared Quantum-Cascade Lasers with Nonlinear Dispersive Gain Medium", OSA Conference on Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS), Hilton Long Beach, Long Beach, California, March 20-22, 2016.
J. Bai and D. Zhou, “Stability Analysis of quantum-cascade lasers with intracavity nonlinearity and group-velocity dispersion," Nonlinear Optics 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, July 26-31, 2015.
D. Zhou, Y. Sun, J. Bai, H. Wang, and J. Cao, "Pressure Distribution of a Tubular-shaped E-Skin Sensor when Bent," The 2015 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, National Harbor, Maryland, June 14-17, 2015.
H. Wang, J. Bai, J. Cao and D. Zhou, "Effects of oxygen plasma treatment and e-beam evaporation on AgNWs/PDMS based stretchable electrode," 2014 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Symposium R: Materials Challenges and Integration Strategies for Flexible Energy Devices and Systems, San Francisco, California, April 21-25, 2014.
J. Bai, G. Silenshi, S. Burns, G. Nordehn, and L. Wittmers, "Heart sound detection using laser technology," 2012 Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2012), Minneapolis, MN, April 10-12, 2012.
J. Bai,"Amplitude Instability and Phase Instability of Quantum-Cascade Lasers under Kerr Effect," the 11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2011), Portland, Oregon, Aug. 15-19, 2011.
X. Qian, and J. Bai, "Strain-tuned light trapping performance of plasmonic solar cells", the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 37), Seattle, WA, June 19-24, 2011.
J. Bai, "Instabilities of quantum-cascade lasers under self-phase modulation," IEEE Proceedings on 2011 International Conference on Electronics and Optoelectronics (ICEOE), V3-258 - V3-261, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/ICEOE.2011.6013353. (Dalian, P. R. China, July 29-31, 2011)
J. Bai, G. Nordehn, G. Sileshi, S. Burns, L. Wittmers, and R. Ulseth,"Optical system design of laser-based stethoscope", 2011 Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2011) , Minneapolis, MN, April 12-14, 2011.
J. Bai and D. Zhou, "Single-mode instability and multi-mode instability of quantum-cascade lasers", IEEE Proceedings of 10th Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE Nano 2010), pp. 815-820, 2010. DOI: 10. 1109/NANO. 2010. 5697829. (Seoul, Korea, Aug. 17-20, 2010)
J. Bai, “Compression of laser pulse in multi-resonance quantum-cascade structures”, SPIE Symposium on Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, April 12-16, 2010. (Accepted for oral presentation).
D. Zhou and J. Bai,"Infrared (IR) Thermal Imaging-Based Automatic Tumor Tracking During Breast Cancer Radiotherapy", Design of Medical Devices (DMD) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 13-15, 2010. Abstract published in Journal of Medical Devices, Vol.4, Issue 2, 2010. DOI:10.1115/1.3454863.
J. Bai, “A generalized Modeling Strategy for Quantum-Cascade Structures with Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities”, IEEE Proceedings on the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Pacific Rim 2009), pp. 1-2, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292487. (Shanghai, P.R. China, Aug. 30-Sep. 03, 2009)
J. Bai, “Effect of Multi-Resonance Subband Structure on the Kerr Nonlinearity of Quantum-Cascade Lasers”, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Harmonic-Resonance Enhanced Third-Order Nonlinear Susceptibilities in Quantum-Cascade Lasers”, SPIE Symposium on Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, April 7-11, 2008.
E. Trybus, O. Jani, S. Burnham, J. Bai, D. S. Citrin, I. Ferguson, W. A. Doolittle, C. Honsberg and M. Steiner, "Characteristics of InGaN Designed for Photovoltaic Applications", 7th International Conference of Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-7), Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 16-21, 2007.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Performance Analysis of Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers with Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity”, The 9th International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells, Ambleside, Cumbria, U.K., September 9-14, 2007.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Design of Nonlinearity Enhanced Quantum Cascade Lasers”, PHASE & IPSSO 2007, Metz, France, March 28-30, 2007.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers”, CLEO/QELS, Long Beach, CA, May 21-26, 2006.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Optimization and Rate-Equation Model for Second-Harmonic Generation in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Optimization of Second-Harmonic Generation in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers,” presented at 4th ESA Workshop on Millimetre Wave Technology and Applications, Espoo, Finland, February 15-17, 2006.
J. Bai and D. S. Citrin, “Supersymmetric Optimization of Second-Order Nonlinear Susceptibilities in Long-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers”, The 8th International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells, Cape Cod, MA, September 11-16, 2005.