Yang receives the prestigious MIRA ESI award from NIH!
Yang receives the prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early-Stage Investigators from NIH/NIGMS! We are extremely grateful for this support and excited to develop tailored nanophotonic platforms to advance biomedical sciences!
Yang gives an invited talk at IEEE RAPID 2025
Yang gave an invited talk on our recent research, “Passive and Active Metasurfaces for Unity Efficiency, Sustainable Wearable Devices,” at the IEEE RAPID Conference 2025! Thank you to the organizers for making this great opportunity to build connections among academia, industry, and government. I’m impressed by the high quality of the talks and the poster presentations from the high school students!
Yang gives an invited talk at MRS Spring meeting
Yang gave an invited talk on our recent research, “Longitudinal Brain Activity Tracking with A Metasurface-Enabled Wireless Implantable Sensor,” at the MRS Spring meeting in Seattle! Thank you so much to the Chairs of Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, and Metasurfaces, Prof. Howard Lee, Prof. Prof. Yu-Jung Lu, Prof. Pin-Chieh Wu, and Dr. Qitong Li, for the invitation and opportunity to share our work!
Our collaborated work is published in Advanced Science!
I’m excited to be part of the collaboration on “Label-Free Dual-Modal Photoacoustic/Ultrasound Localization Imaging for Studying Acute Kidney Injury,” now published in Advanced Science! This work demonstrates, for the first time, that the dual-modality, super-resolution imaging technique PAUL can achieve micrometer-resolution imaging in deep tissue without any labels—a major step forward for noninvasive biomedical imaging.
Check out more details of this work here:
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202414306
Yang gives two invited talks at SPIE Photonics West
Yang presented two invited talks on our recent research, “Revealing the True Chirality of Molecules ,” and “Understanding nanophotonic chirality transfer using single molecule optical force nanoscopy,” at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco! Thank you so much to the Chairs of High-Contrast Metastructures XIV (Prof. Chang-Hasnain, Prof. Andrea Alu, and Dr. Weimin Zhou) and Chair of Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XVIII (Prof. Debashis Chanda) for the invitation!
Our review paper “Perspectives of chiral nanophotonics: from mechanisms to biomedical applications” is now published in npj Nanophotonics
In this review, we examine nanophotonic techniques for enhancing and detecting chirality, with a focus on plasmon-enhanced, tip-enhanced, chiral optical cavities, and photothermal approaches. These methods, which are based on light-matter interactions, provide high sensitivity with challenges in identifying their mechanisms. We discuss recent biomedical applications, emphasizing the potential of nanophotonics in enabling cost-effective and rapid diagnosis with improved chiral signal detection. The review highlights the future potential of chiral nanophotonics in biomedical applications.
Yang gives an invited talk at MRS Fall 2024
Yang presented an invited talk on our recent research, “Probing Nanoscale Chirality Using Decoupled Optical Force Nanoscopy,” at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston. It was an incredible event! A big thank you to the EL 08 organizers for the invitation and opportunity to share our work.
Yang gives an invited talk at SPIE Optics and Photonics 2024
Yang delivered an invited talk on ‘Probing Nanoscale Chirality Using Decoupled Optical Force Nanoscopy’ at SPIE Optics and Photonics 2024 in San Diego! Thank you to the organizers of the Enhanced Spectroscopies and Nanoimaging session for the kind invitation!
Yang gives an invited talk at META 2024
Yang delivered an invited talk on ‘Nanoscale Extended Chirality Density Enhanced by Plasmonic Nanoresonator’ at META 2024 in the beautiful city of Toyama, Japan! Grateful for the opportunity to connect with leading researchers in metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics. A heartfelt thank you to the organizers for making this experience unforgettable!
Celebrating Our Students’ Success: ECE Fellowship and Award Recipients!
I am thrilled to announce that my students have excelled in securing prestigious fellowships and awards!
- Henry (Hanwei) Wang has been honored with the Paul D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award;
- Shensheng Zhao has been awarded the Elsa and Floyd Dunn Award;
- Xiaodong Ye is the recipient of both the Promise of Excellence Fellowship and the Tadao Murata Graduate Fellowship;
- Binh Minh Nguyen has received the John and Sheila Woythal Scholarship and the Edward C. Jordan Award;
- David Song has been awarded the Frank C. Mock Scholarship;
- Jiho Choi has received the Russell E. Berthold Scholarship;
- Akshat Mehrotra has been honored with the Samsung Technology Track Scholarships;
Congratulations to all the award winners on their remarkable achievements!
