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 laboratory at Texas A&M University. We believe massless photons are the next generation of information carriers to connect and manage a network of physical devices for an internet of photonic things. We thus strive to bring photonic solutions to address challenges in energy, manufacturing, health science, information technology, and national security.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Nature Communications (2014, 2017), Nature Materials (2015)
Two-dimensional Materials, Nano Letters (2020), ACS Nano (2020)
Flat Optics and Metamaterials, Advanced Materials (2014, 2015), ACS Photonics (2019)

1) Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

2) Two-dimensional Materials

3) Flat Optics and Metamaterials

4) Plasmonics and Optoelectronics

5) Optomechanics and Integrated Photonics

6) Biochemical Sensing and Synthesis

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

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.