Publications
Selected publications:
2024
1. L. Zhang, S. Love, A. Anopchenko, and H.W. Lee. "Hollow core optical fiber enabled by epsilon-near-zero material" Nanophotonics, vol. 13, no. 7, 2024, pp. 1025-1031. (2024)
2023
1. A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, S. Bej, and H.W. Lee. "Field enhancement of epsilon-near-zero modes in realistic ultrathin absorbing films", Nanophotonics, 12 (14), 2913-2920 (2023)
2. D. Dang, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung , Z. Liu , X. Zhou and H.W. Lee. "Neural network design of broadband epsilon near zero perfect optical absorbers", J. Mater. Chem. C, 11, 12906-12914 (2023)
3. J. Yang, K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung and H.W. Lee. "Excitation of epsilon-near-zero mode in optical fiber", Laser Photon. rev. 17, 2200539 (2023)
2022
1. J. Yang, S. Gurung, S. Bej, P. Ni. H. W. Lee, “Active Optical Metasurfaces: A Comprehensive Review on Physics, Mechanisms, and Prospective Applications,” Reports on Progress in Physics 85, 036101 (2022) (invited review).
2. I. Ghimire*, J. Yang*, S. Gurung, S. K. Mishra, H. W. Lee, “Polarization-dependent photonic crystal fiber optical filters enabled by asymmetric metasurfaces,” Nanophotonics (in-press) (2022).
3. A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, S. Bej, H. W. Lee, “Field Enhancement of Epsilon-near-Zero Modes in Realistic Ultra-Thin Absorbing Films,” submitted to Physical Review Letters (2022).
4. J. Yang, K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, H. W. Lee, “Coupling to Epsilon-near-Zero Mode on Ultrathin Atomic Layer Deposited Conducting Oxide Film in Optical Fiber”, submitted to Laser & Photonics Reviews (2022).
5. Z. Y. Chiao, Y. C. Chen, J. W. Chen, Y. C. Chu, J. W. Yang, T. Y. Peng, W. R. Syong, H. W. Lee, V. Tung, S. W. Chu, Y. J. Lu, “Full-Color Plasmonic Pixels Using Refractory Metasurfaces with Ultrahigh Thermostability”, Nanophotonics (2022)
2021
K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, C. Chang, J. Kim, Y. J. Lu, S. Gwo, H. W. Lee, “Enhanced Spontaneous Emission of Monolayer MoS2 on Epitaxially Grown Titanium Nitride Epsilon-Near-Zero Thin Films.” Nano Letter 21, 4928 (2021).
2. M. J. Yu , C. L. Chang , H. Y. Lan , Z. Y. Chiao , Y. C. Chen , H. W. Lee, Y. C. Chang , S. W. Chang , T. Tanaka, V. Tung , H. H. Chou , Y. J. Lu, “Plasmon-Enhanced Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Titanium Nitride Metasurface Broadband Absorbers”, ACS Photonics (in press) (2021).
3. K. Minn, B. Birmingham, B. Ko, H. W. Lee*, Z. Zhang*, “Interfacing photonic crystal fiber with metallic nanoantenna for enhanced light nano-focusing,” Photonics Research 9, 282-285 (2021). (Selected as Spotlight of Optics)
4. Q. H. Wang, P. Ni, Y. Xie, Q. Kan, P. Chen, P. Fu, Y. Dong, G. Pan, H. Chen, H. W. Lee, C. Xu, P. Genevet, “On-chip generation of structured light via Metasurface integrated Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers,” Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2000385 (2021).
5. R. Mishra, C. W. Chang, A. Dubey, Z. Y. Chiao, T. J. Yen, H. W. Lee , Y. J. Lu, S. Gwo, “Optimized Titanium Nitride Epitaxial Film for Refractory Plasmonics and Solar Energy Harvesting”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 13658-13665 (2021)
2020
S. Gurung, A. Anopchenko, S. Bej, J. Joyner, J. Myers, J. Frantz, H. W. Lee, “Atomic layer engineering of epsilon near zero ultrathin films with controllable zero index field enhancement,” Advanced Materials Interfaces 20000844 (2020).
B. A. Ko, W. Lu, A. O. Sokolov, H. W. Lee, M. O. Scully, Z. Zhang, “Multi-pulse Laser-Induced Bubble Formation and Nanoparticle Aggregation using MoS2 Nanoparticles”, Scientific Report 10, 1 (2020).
Q. Huang, I. Ghimire, J. Yang, N. Fleer, K. S. Chiang, Y. Wang, S. Banerjee, H. W. Lee, “Optical modulation in hybrid anti-resonant hollow- core fiber infiltrated with vanadium dioxide phase change nanocrystals”, Optics Letters 45, 4240 (2020).
2019
K. Minn, H. W. Lee, Z. Zhang, “Enhanced subwavelength coupling and nano-focusing with optical fiber-plasmonic hybrid probe," Opt. Express 44, 3653 (2019)
J. Zhang, L. Tao, A. Anopchenko, H. W. Lee, “Gate-tunable optical filter based on conducting oxide metasurface heterostructure,” Opt. Lett. 44, 3653 (2019)
J. Yang, I Ghirmire, P. C. Wu, S. Gurung, C. Arndt, A. D. P. Tsai, H. W. Lee, “Photonic crystal fiber metalens”, Nanophotonics 8, 443-449 (2019)
B. A. Ko, A. Sokolov, Z. Zhang, M. O. Scully, H. W. Lee, “Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing near the Excitonic Resonances of Bulk MoS2”, Photonics Research 7, 251 (2019).
L. Tao, A. Anopchenko, J. Zhang, S. Gurung, H. W. Lee, “Electrically tunable plasmon induced transparency based conducting oxide plasmonic modulator,” Nature Scientific Reports 9, 2789 (2019)
2018
A. Anopchenko, L. Tao, C. Arndt, H. W. Lee, “Field-Effect Tunable and Broadband Epsilon-Near-Zero Perfect Absorbers with Deep Subwavelength Thickness,” ACS Photonics 5, 2631 (2018)
A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza , H. W. Lee, C. Conti, and A. Marini, “Plasmon-enhanced spin-orbit interaction of light in graphene”, Laser & Photonics Reviews 12, 1800140 (2018)
K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, J. Yang, H. W. Lee, “Excitation of epsilon-near-zero resonance in ultra-thin indium tin oxide shell embedded nanostructured optical fiber,” Nature Scientific Reports 8, 2342 (2018).
A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, L. Tao, C. Arndt, H. W. Lee, “Atomic Layer Deposition of Ultra-thin and smooth Al-doped ZnO for Zero-Index Photonics”, Materials Research Express 5, 014012 (2018)
B. Birmingham, Z. Liege, N. Larson, W. Lu, H. W. Lee, D. V. Voronine, M. O. Scully, Z. Zhang, “Probing charge transfer between individual submonolayer nanoislands and bulk MoS2 using ambient TERS,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122, 2753 (2018).
A. Anopchenko and H. W. Lee, “Broadband and Tunable Perfect Optical Absorption in Conducting Oxide Epsilon-Near-Zero Nano-Films,” Laser Focus World, September issue (2018).
2017
J. N. Kunz, D. V. Voronine, W. Lu, Z. Liege, H. W. Lee, Z. Zhang, and M. O. Scully, “Aluminum plasmonic nano-shielding in ultraviolet inactivation of E. coli bacteria”, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 9026 (2017).
J. N. Kunz, D. V. Voronine, H. W. Lee, A. V. Sokolov, and M. O. Scully, “Rapid Detection of Drought Stress in Plants using Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy,” Opt. Express 25, 7251-7262 (2017).
J. N. Kunz, D. V. Voronine, B. A. Ko, H. W. Lee, A. Rana, M. V. Bagavathiannan, A. V. Sokolov, and M. O. Scully, “Interaction of Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Plants: Towards Distinguishing Weeds and Crops using Plasma Temperature,” Journal of Modern Optics 64, 942-947 (2017).
L. Lei, J. Yang, and H. W. Lee, “Observation of the energy transfer processes in Yb/Er: NaGdF4@Yb: NaGdF4@Yb:NaNdF4 nanocrystals,” World Scientific NANO 12, 1750086 (2017).
2016
Y. W. Huang*, H. W. Lee*, R. Sokhoyan, K. Thyagarajan, R. Pala, S. Han, D. P. Tsai, and H. A. Atwater, “Gate-tunable conducting oxide metasurfaces,” Nano Lett. 16, 5319-5325 (2016) .
C. Rizal, B. Niraula, and H. W. Lee, “Bio-Magnetoplasmonics, Emerging Biomedical Technologies and Beyond,” J Nanomed Res 3, 00059 (2016).
2015 and Prior
H. W. Lee, G. Papadakis, S. P. Burgos, K. Chander, A. Kriesch, R. Pala, U. Peschel and H. A. Atwater, “Nanoscale conducting oxide plasMOStor,” Nano Letters 14, 6463-6468 (2014).
S. P. Burgos*, H. W. Lee*, E. Feigenbaum, R. M. Briggs and H. A. Atwater, “Synthesis and Characterization of Plasmonic Resonant Guided Wave Networks”, Nano Letters, 14, 3284-3292 (2014) (*equal author contribution).
A. Marini, M. Conforti, G. D. Valle, H. W. Lee, T. X. Tran, W. Chang, M. A. Schmidt, P. St.J. Russell and F. Biancalana, “Ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons in gold nanowires due to the intrinsic nonlinearity of metals”, New J. Phys. 15, 013033 (2013).
P. Uebel, M. A. Schmidt, H. W. Lee and P. St.J. Russell, “Polarization-resolved near-field mapping of a coupled plasmonic waveguide array,” Opt. Express 20, 28409-28417 (2012).
G. K. L. Wong, M. S. Kang, H. W. Lee, F. Biancalana, C. Conti, T. Weiss and P. St.J. Russell, “Orbital angular momentum resonances in helically twisted photonic crystal fiber,” Science 337, 446-449 (2012). (Highlighted in Laser focus world and Phys.org)
H. W. Lee, M. A. Schmidt and P. St.J. Russell, “Excitation of a nanowire "molecule" in gold-filled photonic crystal fiber” Opt. Lett. 37, 2946-2948 (2012). (Highlighted in vol. 6, p.501 Nature Photonic)
M. A. Schmidt, L. Wondraczek, H. W. Lee, N. Granzow, N. Da and P. St.J. Russell, “Complex faraday rotation in microstructured magnetooptical fiber waveguides,” Adv. Material 23, 2681-2688 (2011).
H. W. Lee, M. A. Schmidt, R. F. Russell, N. Y. Joly, H. K. Tyagi, P. Uebel and P. St.J. Russell, “Pressure-assisted melt-filling and optical characterisation of Au nano-wires in microstructured fibres,” Opt. Express 19, 12180-12189 (2011).
H. W. Lee, M. A. Schmidt, P. Uebel, H. Tyagi , N. Y. Joly, M. Scharrer and P. St.J. Russell, “Optofluidic refractive-index sensor in step-index fiber with parallel hollow micro-channel,” Opt. Express 19, 8200-8207 (2011). (Highlighted in Vol. 6, Iss. 5 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics)
H. K. Tyagi, H. W. Lee, P. Uebel, M. A. Schmidt, N. Y. Joly, M. Scharrer, and P. St.J. Russell, “Plasmon resonances on gold nanowires directly drawn in step-index fiber,” Opt. Lett. 35, 2573-2575 (2010).
H. W. Lee and K. S. Chiang, “CO2 laser writing of long-period fiber grating in photonic crystal fiber under tension,” Opt. Express 17, 4533-4539 (2009).
Y. Liu, H. W. Lee, K. S. Chiang, T. Zhu and Y. J. Rao, “Glass structure changes in CO2 laser writing of long-period gratings in boron-doped single-mode fibers,” J. Lightwave Technol. 27, 857-863 (2009).
H. W. Lee, M. A. Schmidt, H. K. Tyagi, L. Prill Sempere and P. St.J. Russell, “Polarization-dependent coupling to plasmon modes on submicron gold wire in photonic crystal fiber,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 111102 (2008). (link) (Highlighted in Vol. 18, Iss. 13 Virtual Journal for Nanoscale science and Technology)
H. W. Lee, Y. Liu, and K. S. Chiang, “Writing of long-period gratings inconventional and photonic-crystal polarization-maintaining fibers by CO2-laser pulses,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 20, 132-134 (2008).
K. N. Yu, H. W. Lee, A.W.T. Wong, Y. L. Law, S. F.L. Cheung, D. Nikezic and F. M.F. Ng, “Optical appearance of alpha particle tracks in CR-39 SSNTD,” Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 263, 271-278 (2007).
N. J. Baker, H. W. Lee, I. C. Littler, C. M. de Sterke, B. J. Eggleton, D.-Y. Choi, S. Madden and B. Luther-Davies, “Sampled Bragg gratings in chalcogenide (As2S3) rib-waveguides,” Opt. Express 14, 9451-9459 (2006).
International Conferences
Most recent:
H. W. Lee, “Active Zero-Index Photonics in Planner and Optical Fiber Platforms”, 51th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE 2022), Utah, USA (January 2022) (Invited).
H. W. Lee, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, K. Minn, J. Yang “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero Photonics”, 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting (December 2021) (Invited).
H. W. Lee, “Field-Effect Tunable Meta-Optics and “Meta”-Optical Fibers”, iCANX Young Scientist Award Competition, iCANX online platform (December 2021) (Invited).
H. W. Lee, “Gate-Tunable Zero-Index Metasurfaces and Optical Fibers”, Rising Star of Light Competition, iCANX online platform (October 2021) (Invited).
S. Gurung, K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, S. Bej, H. W. Lee, “Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity and Spontaneous Emission in Nano-engineered Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”, SPIE Optics + Photonic Conference 2021, San Diego, USA (Virtual) (August 2021) (Invited).
H. W. Lee, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, K. Minn, J. Yang, “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero Photonics”, International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2021), (Virtual) (July 2021) (Keynote presentation).
H. W. Lee, “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) photonics”, 1st Colloquium on the Physics and Applications of Metasurfaces, France (Virtual) (June 2021)(Invited).
J. Yang,, I. Ghimire, K. Minn2, A. Anopchenko, H. W. Lee, “Hybrid Planar and Optical Fiber Waveguides Integrated with Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”, SPIE Photonic West Conference 2021, Virtual (February 2021) (Invited).
Invited Talk and Seminars
Most recent:
S. Gurung, K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, S. Bej, H. W. Lee, “Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity and Spontaneous Emission in Nano-engineered Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”, SPIE Optics + Photonic Conference 2021, San Diego, USA (Virtual) (August 2021) (Invited).
H. W. Lee, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, K. Minn, J. Yang, “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero Photonics”, International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2021), (Virtual) (July 2021) (Keynote presentation).
H. W. Lee, “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) photonics”, 1st Colloquium on the Physics and Applications of Metasurfaces”, France (Virtual) (June 2021) (Invited).
J. Yang, I. Ghimire, K. Minn2, A. Anopchenko, H. W. Lee, “Hybrid Planar and Optical Fiber Waveguides Integrated with Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”, SPIE Photonic West Conference 2020, Virtual (February 2021) (Invited).
S. Gurung, K. Minn, A. Anopchenko, S. Bej, H. W. Lee, “Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity and Spontaneous Emission in Nano-engineered Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”, SPIE Optics + Photonic Conference 2021, San Diego, USA (August 2021). (Invited).
H. W. Lee, A. Anopchenko, S. Gurung, K. Minn, J. Yang, “Active Epsilon-Near-Zero Photonics”, International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2020), (Virtual) (July 2021) (Invited).