Group Mission

We are dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach towards research that bridges the areas of nanoscale photonics, nanostructured materials, and plasmonics as well as their potential applications in optoelectronics and the biological sciences. The research topics transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines and are typically a combination of fundamental science exploration, engineering design and optimization, device fabrication and characterization, and various applications.

Recent News

Metamateirals for enhanced SP excitation by using TE incidenct wave was published in ACS NANO (Jun. 2011)

Dylan's first paper on tunable SPPs was published in Applied Physics Letters (Jun. 2011)

Changbao's theoretical paper on metalens design was published in J. Nanophotonics (Apr. 2011)

Recent work on 2-D imaging with a spherical hyperlens was published in Nature Comunications (Dec. 2010)

Recent work on plasmonic structured-illumination microscopy was published in Nano Letters (Aug. 2010)

Prof. Liu received the UCSD Hellman Faculty Fellow Award 2010-2011 (May 2010)

Recent work on a super-resolution metalens has been published in Applied Physics Letters (May 2010)

Recent work on plasmonic dark-field microscopy was published in Applied Physics Letters (March 2010)