Dr. Chang received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in Materials Science. He was formerly a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and afterwards an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University. Dr. Chang is currently a staff scientist in CINT Nanophotonics and Optical Nanomaterials (NPON) thrust and Laboratory for Ultrafast Materials and Optical Science (LUMOS) at LANL.
(4) Expertise: Dr. Chang is an experimentalist with strong expertise and extensive experience in the design, fabrication, and characterization of a wide variety of electronic, optoelectronic, and nanophotonic structures and devices based on both conventional semiconductor and emergent material systems. His research interests include plasmonics, metamaterials, micro- and nano-fabrication, terahertz science and technology, semiconductor optoelectronics, and light-matter interactions in low-dimensional and emergent materials.
Email: cchang@lanl.gov
Dr. Chang is an experimentalist with strong expertise and extensive experience in the design, fabrication, and characterization of a wide variety of electronic, optoelectronic, and nanophotonic structures and devices based on both conventional semiconductor and emergent material systems. His research interests include plasmonics, metamaterials, micro- and nano-fabrication, terahertz science and technology, semiconductor optoelectronics, and light-matter interactions in low-dimensional and emergent materials.Theoretical quantum and classical nanophotonics/nanoplasmonics, theory of open quantum systems, photoexcited processes in semiconductor nanostructures and quantum materials.
• V. E. Babicheva and C.-C. Chang, “Atomic layer deposition for enhanced light confinement in nonlinear metasurfaces” ACS Omega 10, 23150 (2025).
• J. Pettine, P. Padmanabhan, T. Shi, L. Gingras, L. McClintock, C.-C. Chang, K. W. C. Kwock, L. Yuan, Y. Huang, J. Nogan, J. K. Baldwin, P. Adel, R. Holzwarth, A. K Azad, F. Ronning, A. J. Taylor, R. P. Prasankumar, S.-Z. Lin, and H.-T. Chen, “Light-driven nanoscale vectorial current,” Nature 626, 984–989 (2024).
• Z. Shaikhanov, M. Al-Madi, H.-T. Chen, C.-C. Chang, S. Addamane, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly, “Audio misinformation encoding via an on-phone sub-terahertz metasurface” Optica 11, 1113 (2024).
• J.-Y. Wu, Y.-F. Wang, C.-Y. Liu, S.-C. Kuo, T.-H. Chen, J.-Y. Li, C.-Y. Huang, C.-H. Liu, J.-Y. Yang, C.-C. Chang, and T.-H. Chang, “High-quality GeSn thin-film resonant cavities for short-wave infrared applications,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 41(4), 042202 (2023).
• C.-C. Chang, S.-C. Kuo, H.-E. Cheng, H.-T. Chen, and Z.-P. Yang, “Broadband titanium nitride disordered metasurface absorbers,” Opt. Express 29(26), 42813–42826 (2021).
• C.-C. Chang, Z. Zhao, D. Li, A. J. Taylor, S. Fan, and H.-T. Chen, “Broadband linear-to-circular polarization conversion enabled by birefringent off-resonance reflective metasurfaces,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123(23), 237401 (2019).
• C.-C. Chang, J. Nogan, Z.-P. Yang, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, T. S. Luk, D. A. R. Dalvit, A. K. Azad, and H.-T. Chen, “Highly plasmonic titanium nitride by room-temperature sputtering,” Sci. Rep. 9(1), 15287 (2019).
• C.-C. Chang, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, M. Sykora, J. Nogan, T. S. Luk, A. K. Azad, D. A. R. Dalvit, and H.-T. Chen, “High-temperature refractory metamaterials for solar thermal-photovoltaic energy harvesting,” Nano Lett. 18(12), 7665–7673 (2018).
• C.-C. Chang, L. Huang, J. Nogan, and H.-T. Chen, “Invited Article: Narrowband terahertz bandpass filtering employing bilayer metasurface antireflection structures,” APL Photonics 3, 051602 (2018).
• L. Huang, C.-C. Chang, B. Zeng, J. Nogan, S.-H. Luo, A. J. Taylor, A. K. Azad, and H.-T. Chen, “Bilayer metasurfaces for dual- and broadband optical antireflection,” ACS Photonics 4, 2111 (2017).
• C.-C. Chang, D. Headland, D. Abbott, W. Withayachumnankul, and H.-T. Chen, “Demonstration of highly efficient terahertz flat lens employing tri-layer metasurfaces,” Opt. Lett. 42, 1867 (2017).