We are proud to be part of the groundbreaking research, “Hybrid photoacoustic and fast super-resolution ultrasound imaging”, recently published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to the first author, Shensheng Zhao, and the rest of the team for their outstanding work and contributions. For more details on this exciting development, please visit the following link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37680-w.
Category Archives: Research Highlight
Yang co-organizes MRS Spring Symposium on Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Thank you, Howard Lee, Pin-Chieh Wu, Yao-Wei Huang, for a great conference!

Hanwei receives the prestigious Hong, McCully and Allen Fellowship!
Congratulations to my graduate student, Hanwei Wang, for being awarded the prestigious Hong, McCully and Allen Fellowship! This is a well-deserved recognition of Hanwei’s hard work and dedication to research. We are proud to have Hanwei as part of our team and look forward to seeing the impact of his work. Congratulations again, Hanwei!
Our new preprint on Qi-compatible metasurface is now available on arXiv
Check out our new research on a metasurface that can manipulate the magnetic nearfield distribution with an application to enhance wireless power transfer efficiency under the Qi standard.
Our collaborated work is accepted for publication in Frontiers
Our new collaborated paper, “Photoacoustic signal enhancement in dual-contrast gastrin-releasing peptide receptor-targeted nanobubbles“, is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology! Congratulations to Shensheng Zhao and the coauthors!
New paper published in Photoacoustics!
Our collaborative research, “Understanding the Near-Field Photoacoustic Spatiotemporal Profile from Nanostructures,” is now published in Photoacoustics. Congratulations to Hanwei Wang and the coauthors!
Hanwei receives the prestigious Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award!
Proud to announce that our graduate student, Hanwei Wang, has received the prestigious Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award! Well deserved, Hanwei!

“The Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award recognizes an Illinois graduate student whose innovative and sustained international research or public service abroad has had a significant, societal impact.”
To learn more about this award, please see https://international.illinois.edu/awards-funding/achievement/grad.html
Yang gives an invited talk at SPIE Optics and Photonics
Yang gives an invited talk on “Ultrafast Optical Force Nanoscopy” at SPIE Optics and Photonics. Thank you, Prof. Din Ping Tsai, Prof. Takuo Tanaka, and Prof. Yu-Jung Lu, for the invitation!

Yang gives an invited talk at GRC
Yang gives an invited talk on “Visualizing Ultrafast Photothermal Dynamics with Decoupled Optical Force Nanoscopy” at Gordon Research Conference Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. Thank you, Jen and Javier for the invitation!
Hanwei receives the prestigious Hong, McCully, and Allen Fellowship!
Congratulations to our PhD student, Hanwei Wang, on winning the prestigious Se June Hong and Karen McCully Hong Fellowship! Great work Hanwei, we are so proud of you!
The BioNanophotonics lab expresses our sincere appreciation for the generous gift from the sponsor in supporting our graduate students and honoring their academic achievements!
Read more about this fellowship: https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/grad/fellowships/hong