LAN RESEARCH

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” – Niels Bohr

Welcome to the Lan research lab at Texas A&M University. We believe massless photons are next-generation information carriers for the internet of photonic things (iOpt). Therefore, our research interest is the fundamental studies of light-matter interactions in natural and engineered structures and materials. We strive to bring photonic solutions to grand challenges in energy, manufacturing, health science, information technology, and national security. To that end, we have a research roadmap with part of the photonic things in the following (read more).

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Apr 2021: Our third Nature Communications paper is online, working on the magneto-chiral effect at the atomic scale. The magneto-chiral effect can induce asymmetric synthesis, and arguably it also accounts for the homochirality of all living organisms on the earth. Congrats!

Nov 2020: Instead of modifying 2D materials themselves, we summarize the latest achievements in engineering the photonic environment that surrounds them. Thanks for the contributions from Professors Nathan Youngblood, Xiaoze Liu, Xiaomu Wang, and the groups, our invited review article is online in Nanophotonics. Congrats!

Nov 2020: In collaboration with Professors Xiaomu Wang, Yang Xu, Douglas H. Werner, Lei Kang, and Mark L. Brongersma, our paper on a monolithic full-Stokes graphene-silicon polarimeter is online in ACS Nano. Congrats!

Jan 2020: Our paper on nonlinear optics of exciton polaritons is online in Nano Letters. Congrats!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are grateful for the support from T3: Texas A&M Triads for Transformation, Texas A&M University, Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI), and Mr. Holly Frost. We are also proud to affiliate with the INVENT lab.