Research Programming Light-Matter Interactions

Manipulation by Light
We harness optical and light-driven multiphysical fields to program the motion, interactions, structure, and transformation of matter.

manipulation of Light
We engineer materials and photonic architectures to program the generation, propagation, interaction, and properties of light.

advanced photonic Systems
We integrate manipulation by light and manipulation of light to create advanced photonic systems with broad impact.
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, integrating both directions to create advanced photonic systems with broad impact.

Group Leader: Yuebing Zheng
Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Materials Institute
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, United States
Phone: 1 (512) 471-0228
Email: zheng@austin.utexas.edu
Recent Publications
- Optothermal Bubble Etch Lithography
- 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
- Photoluminescent Amorphous Silicon Microspheres with Intrinsic Whispering-Gallery-Mode Coupling and Waveguide Integration
- 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
- Persistent and Responsive Collective Motion with Adaptive Time Delay
- Tuning Multipolar Mie Scattering of Particles on a Dielectric-Covered Mirror
- Near-Field Nanoimaging of Colloidal Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Waveguides
Featured Publications
Thermal Photonics with Machine Learning [Nature]
Nanophotonics and Machine Learning [Springer]

Opto-Thermoelectric Tweezers [Nature Photonics]
