We have a dynamic research team with wide collaborations at University of Michigan, dearborn campus, energy institute at ann arbor campus and MIT microsystems technology laboratory, microphotonics center and materials processing center. Our research is focused on integrated nano scale optoelectronics, nano photonics and nanoelectronics with applications on biomedical sciences&engineering, photovoltaic cells/renewable energy, optical communication, quantum optics, solid state lighting/display/medical imaging, and OptoMEMS.

 We are recruiting: Please send me an email if you are interested!

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D, Electronics and Optoelectronics, June 2004

Research News

• Book titled 'Integrated nanophotonic resonators: fundamentals, devices and applications', Editor-in-Chief, to be published by Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. Singapore in March, 2015

• Book chapter 'Strong interaction between nanoparticle and integrated microresonators for its applications on optical biomedical spectroscopy', to be published by CRC press in Summer 2014

• 'Strong multimode photonic microresonator and nanoparticle interactions', Invited talk at  Photonic Atoms & Molecules, as a part of ICTON'12 in England July, 2012 

• Our work on Broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell Si nanowires has been featured in Physics Today, print issue, November, 2011

• Our latest research on Broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell Si nanowires for photovoltaic cell applications has been featured in Physics Today, September, 2011

• ''Oscar Madison' approach to solar cells may outshine 'Felix Unger' design', our latest work on broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell nanowires for photovoltaic cell applications has been featured in American Physics Institute news highlights, Septemeber, 2011.

• 'Integrated Photonic Molecules', Invited talk at  Photonic Atoms & Molecules, as a part of ICTON'11 in Stockholm June, 2011 

• Three new patents (US7933022, US7903240, and US7903906) on integrated photonic miroresonators have been issued by United States Patent Office in April, 2011

• Our paper 'Strong coupling between on chip notched ring resonator and nanoparticle' was one of Applied Physics Letters's monthly top 20 most-downloaded articles in 2010

• International nanophotonics and renewable energy symposium held in Beijing, Jan.17-19, 2011, by Institute of Physics, China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory) and Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, Conference Chair and Organizing Committee Member                                                                

• A notch above for single nanoparticle detection, research news in Photonics Spectra, Oct. 2010

• Notched microring resonator senses individual nanparticles, newsbreaks in Laser Focus World, Oct. 2010 

• Next generation photovoltaic and solar cells for renewable energy applications http://www.cas.ac.cn/hy/xshd/200907/t20090724_2540380.shtml

• NSF/ONR sponsored renewable energy faculty workshop Feb.4-6th, 2010 at Tucson, AZ