About

When light meets matter, energy, momentum, and information flow between them. We program these interactions to control matter with light and light with matter, bridging manipulation by light and manipulation of light to create a new generation of advanced photonic systems with broad impact.

Recent Publications

• Programmable Rotation of Single Cells Along Arbitrary Axes via Opto-Thermo-Osmotic Torque
• Ice-Phase Optothermal Tweezers
• Freeform Optical Flow Based on Meta-Conveyors for Compact, Programmable In-Situ Nanomanipulation
• Patterned High-Entropy Alloy Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution via Laser-Directed Bubble Printing
• High-Q Multimodal Guided-Surface Lattice Resonances in Index-Discontinuous Environments
• Sound Matters: Using Acoustics to Move Material
• Optical Colloidal Assembly
• Optothermal Bubble Etch Lithography
• Tunable Photon-Recoil Forces and Negative Torque at Flat-Top Beam Edges
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Materials
• Manipulating Fano Coupling in an Opto-Thermoelectric Field
• Dual-Functional Photonic Battery Enabling Dynamic Radiative Thermal Management and Power Supply
• Ultrabroadband and Band-selective Thermal Meta-emitters by Machine Learning
• Bioinspired Photonic Materials for Advanced Thermal Management
• Optothermal Ice-Water Interface Management for Cross-Scale Enrichment and Molecular Sensing
• Independently Tunable Flat Bands and Correlations in a Graphene Double Moiré System
• Light-Driven C-H Activation Mediated by 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
• Synchronous and Fully Steerable Active Particle Systems for Enhanced Mimicking of Collective Motion in Nature
• Persistent and Responsive Collective Motion with Adaptive Time Delay
• Near-Field Nanoimaging of Colloidal Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Waveguides