I. Control of light
by metamaterials
Resonance control
Fano resonances
Emission engineering
Engineering of optical nonlinearity
Tailoring the beam profile
Beam trajectory control
Vortex beam generation and separation
Spin-orbit interaction of light
II. Metamaterials
for optical imaging
Inorganic metamaterials
Organic metamaterials
Epsilon near zero metamaterials
Hyperbolic metamaterials
III. Light nanoscopy
with metamaterials
Super-resolution microscopy
Label-free nanoscopy
Three dimensional nanoscopy
Super-speed nanoscopy
Lab-on-a-chip nanoscopy
Bio/chemical sensing and imaging
I. Control of light by metamaterials
Relevant publications:
Y. U. Lee et al.,"Reflection resonance switching in metamaterial twisted nematics cell", Opt. Express 21, 17492 (2013)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Electro-optic switching in phase-discontinuity complementary metasurface twisted nematics cell", Opt. Express 22, 20816 (2014)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Electro-optic switching in metamaterial by liquid crystal", Nano Convergence 2, 23 (2015)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Control of optical spin Hall shift in phase-discontinuity metasurface by weak value measurement post-selection”, Sci. Rep. 5, 13900 (2015)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Double Fano resonances in a composite metamaterial possessing tripod plasmonic resonances", J. Opt. 17, 025103 (2015)
K. J. Lee‡, Y. U. Lee‡ et al., “Blue-shifting intramolecular charge transfer emission by nonlocal effect of hyperbolic metamaterials”, Nano Lett. 18, 1476-1482 (2018)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Optical spin-dependent beam separation in cyclic group symmetric metasurface”, Nanophotonics 9, 3459-3471 (2020)
II. Metamaterials for optical imaging
Relevant publications:
Y. U. Lee et al., “Strong Nonlinear Optical Response in the Visible Spectral Range with Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Organic Thin Films”, Adv. Opt. Mater. 6, 1701400 (2018)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Organic Monolithic Natural Hyperbolic Material”, ACS Photonics 6, 1681-1689 (2019)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Low‐Loss Organic Hyperbolic Materials in the Visible Spectral Range: A Joint Experimental and First‐Principles Study”, Adv. Mater. 32, 2002387(2020)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Unprecedented fluorophore photostability enabled by low loss organic hyperbolic materials”, Adv. Mater. 33, 2006496 (2021)
III. Light nanoscopy with metamaterials
Relevant publications:
Y. U. Lee et al., “Imaging of Nanoscale Light Confinement in Plasmonic Nanoantennas by Brownian Optical Microscopy”, ACS Nano 14, 7666 (2020)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Metamaterial-Assisted Photobleaching Microscopy with Nanometer Scale Axial Resolution”, Nano Lett. 20, 6038 (2020)
Y. U. Lee et al., “Metamaterial assisted illumination nanoscopy via random super-resolution speckles”, Nature Communications 12, 1559 (2021)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Imaging of cell morphology changes via metamaterial-assisted photobleaching microscopy", Nano Lett. 21, 1716 (2021)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Organic Hyperbolic Material Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy", Adv. Sci. 2102230 (2021)
Y. U. Lee et al., "Hyperbolic material enhanced scattering nanoscopy for label-free super-resolution imaging", Nature Communications 13, 6631 (2022)