Education:
Ph. D. Applied Physics 2009
Stanford University
M.S. Management Science and Engineering 2008
Stanford University
B.S. Physics 2004
University of Science and Technology of China
Postdoc and graduate student openings starting Sep 2013 are
available at UW Madison. Postdoc candidates should have research experiences in photonics or electromagnetics. Send email with CV to zfyu at stanford dot edu if interested.
Invited talks:
1. IEEE Photonics Conference (LEOS) “Managing sunlight and thermal emission with broadband nanophotonics”, San Francisco, CA, 2012
2. OSA (Optical Society of America) Annual Meeting “Light trapping for managing broadband radiation: sunlight and thermal radiation” Rochester, NY, 2012
3. MRS (Materials Research Society) Fall Meeting “Wave domain light trapping theory”, Boston, MA, 2011
4. IEEE 35th Photovoltaics Specialist Conference “Nanodome Solar Cells with Efficient Light Harvesting”, 30 minutes Extended Talk, Honolulu, HI, 2010
5. NNIN National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network workshop “Nanophotonics Theory and Simulations”, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2010
6. SPIE Photonics West “Dynamic photonic structures for integrated photonics”, San Francisco, CA, 2010
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Publications:
2012:
46. Zongfu Yu, Nicholas Sergeant, Torbjorn Skauli, Gang Zhang, Hailiang Wang, and Shanhui Fan "Thermal Extraction: enhancing thermal emission of a macroscopic blackbody to far-field vacuum ", Nature Communication (2013) in press
45. Zongfu Yu, A. Raman, S. Fan "Thermodynamic upper bound on broadband light coupling with photonic structures" Physical Review Letters, 109,173901 (2012)
44. Zongfu Yu and Shanhui Fan "Photonic Transition in Nanophotonics" Book Chapter Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena,Springer Series in Optical Sciences (2012)
43. Kejie Fang, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan " Realizing effective magnetic field for photons by controlling the phase of dynamic modulation" Nature Photonics, DOI:10.1038/nphoton.2012.236 (2012).
42. H. Lira, Zongfu Yu, S. Fan and M. Lipson "Electro-optical silicon isolator" Physical Review Letters, 109, 033901 (2012).
41. K. Wang, Zongfu Yu, V. Liu, Y. Cui, S. Fan "Absorption Enhancement in Ultrathin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Antireflection and Light trapping Nanocone Gratings" Nano Letters, Feb, ASAP (2012).
40. K. Fang, Zongfu Yu, S. Fan " Photonic Aharonov-Bohm effect based on dynamic modulation" Physical Review Letters, 108,153901 (2012).
39. L. Verslegers, Zongfu Yu, Z. Ruan, P. Catrysse, S. Fan " From Electromagnetically Induced Transparency to Superscattering with a Single Structure: A Coupled-Mode Theory for Doubly Resonant Structures", Physical Review Letters, 108, 083902 (2012).
38. Anika Kinkhabwala, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan, and W.E. Moerner " Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy at high concentrations using gold bowtie nanoantennas", Chemical Physics DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031(2012)
37. S. Jeong, E. Garnett, S. Wang, Z. Yu, S. Fan, M. Brongersma, M. McGehee, and Y. Cui "Hybrid Silicon Nanocone-Polymer Solar Cells" Nano Letters 2012, 12 2971(2012)
36. Liang, D., Huo, Y., Kang, Y., Wang, K. X., Gu, A., Tan, M., Yu, Z., Li, S., Jia, J., Bao, X., Wang, S., Yao, Y., Wong, H.-S. P., Fan, S., Cui, Y. and Harris, J. S. (2012), Optical Absorption Enhancement in Freestanding GaAs Thin Film Nanopyramid Arrays. Adv. Energy Mater.. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201200022 (2012)
35. S. Fan, R. Baets, A. Petrov, Zongfu Yu, J. D. Joannopoulos, W. Freude, A. Melloni, M. Popvic, M. Vanwolleghem, D. Jalas, M. Eich, M. Krause, H. Renner, E. Brinkmeyer, C. R. Doerr " Comment on 'Nonreciprocal Light Propagation in a Silicon Photonic Circuit' " Science, 335, 38, (2012) Technical Comments
2011:
34. Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Ramn, and Shanhui Fan, " Nanophotonic light trapping theory for solar cells", Applied Physics A, 105, 329-339, (2011). Invited
33. Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan " Angular constraint on light-trapping absorption enhancement in solar cells" Applied Physics Letters 98, 011106 (2011).
32. Zongfu Yu and Shanhui Fan "Optical Isolation: A non-magnetic approach" Nature Photonics, 5, 517-519, (2011). News & Views
31. Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Extraordinarily high spectral sensitivity in refractive index sensors using multiple optical modes" Optics Express, 19 10029 (2011).
30. Kejie Fang, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Microscopic theory of photonic one-way edge mode" Physical Review B, 84, 075477, (2011).
29. Aaswath Raman, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Dielectric nanostructures for broadband light trapping in organic solar cells" Optics Express 19, 19051, (2011).
28. Kejie Fang, Zongfu Yu, Victor Liu, and Shanhui Fan, "Ultracompact non-reciprocal optical isolator based on guided resonance in a magneto-optical photonic crystal slab" Optics Letter 36, 4254 (2011).
27. Varat Intaraprasonk, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan " Image transfer with subwavelength resolution on metal-dielectric interface" Journal of Optical Society of America B 28, 1335 (2011).
26. Hui Wu, Liangbing Hu, Thomas Carney, Zhichao Ruan, Desheng Kong, Zongfu Yu, Yan Yao, Judy Cha, Jia Zhu, Shanhui Fan and Yi Cui "Low Reflectivity and High Flexibility of Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Nanofiber Transparent Electrodes" Journal of American Chemical Society 133, 27 (2011).
2010:
25. Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, and Shanhui Fan " Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells" PNAS 107(41) 17491-17496 (2010).
24. Zongfu Yu and Shanhui Fan, “Integrated Non-Magnetic Optical Isolators based on Photonic Transitions”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (Invited), 16, 459 (2010)
23. Zongfu Yu and Shanhui Fan, “Optical resonances created by photonic transitions” Applied Physics Letters, 96, 011108, (2010).
22. Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, and Shanhui Fan " Fundamental limit of light trapping in grating structures" Optics Express, 18, A366 (2010).
21. Varat Intaraprasonk, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Combining radiationless interference with evanescent field amplification" Optics Letters, 35, 1659 (2010)
20. L. Verslegers, P.B. Catrysse, Zongfu Yu, W. Shin, Z. Ruan and S. Fan, "Phase front design with metallic pillar arrays" Optics Letters, 35, 844,(2010).
19. Judy Cha, Zongfu Yu, Eric Smith, Martin Couillard, Shanhui Fan, and David A. Muller, "Mapping local optical densities of states in silicon photonic structures with nanoscale electron spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. B. 81,113102, (2010).
18. L. Verslegers, Zongfu Yu, P.B. Catrysse, and S. Fan "Temporal coupled-mode theory for resonant apertures" Journal of Optical Society of America-B, 27,1947 (2010).
17. Jia Zhu, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan, and Yi Cui "Nanostructured Photon Management for high performance solar cells" Material Science and Engineering-R. doi:10.1016/j.mser.2010.06.018 (2010).
16. Cao L, Fan P, Vasudev AP, White JS, Yu Z, Cai W, Schuller JA, Fan S, Brongersma ML “Semiconductor nanowire optical antenna solar absorbers”, 10(2), 439 Nano Letters (2010).
2009:
15. Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan “ Optical isolation based on nonreciprocal phase shift induced by interband photonic transitions” Applied Physics Letters , 94, 171116 (2009).
14. Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan “ Complete Optical Isolation created by indirect interband photonic transitions” Nature Photonics, 3, 91 (2009).
13. A. Kinkhabwala, Zongfu Yu, S. Fan, Y. Avlasevich, K. Mullen, and W.E. Moerner “Single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a Bowtie nanoantenna” Nature Photonics, 3, 654, (2009).
12. Jia Zhu, Zongfu Yu, George F. Burkhard, Ching-Mei Hsu, Stephen T. Connor, Yueqin Xu, Qi Wang, Michael McGehee, Shanhui Fan and Yi Cui “ Optical Absorption Enhancement in Amorphous Silicon Nanowire Arrays ” Nano Letters 9 (1), pp 279–282 (2009).
11. Georgios Veronis, Zongfu Yu, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, David A. B. Miller, Mark L. Brongersma, and Shanhui Fan “ Metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide devices for manipulating light at the nanoscale” Chinese Optics Letters (Invited Paper), 7, 302,(2009).
10. Jia Zhu, Ching-Mei Hsu, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan and Yi Cui “Nanodome solar cells with efficient light management and self-cleaning”, Nano Letters, DOI: 10.1021/nl9034237, Nov (2009).
9. White JS, Veronis G, Yu Z, Barnard ES, Chandran A, Fan S, Brongersma ML “Extraordinary optical absorption through subwavelength slits”, Optics Letters, 34 (5): 686-8 (2009).
8. L. Verslegers, P.B. Catrysse, Z. Yu and S. Fan “ Deep-subwavelength focusing and steering of light in aperiodic metallic waveguide array”, Physical Review Letters, 103, 033902 (2009).
7. P.B. Catrysse, L. Verslegers, Z. Yu, J. S. White, E. S. Barnard, M. L. Brongersma, and S. Fan, "Planar lenses based on nanoscale slit arrays in a metallic film", Optics and Photonics News, 20, 24, (2009)
6. L. Verslegers, P.B. Catrysse, Z. Yu and S. Fan “ Planar metallic nanoscale slit lenses for angle compenstation”, Applied Physics Letters, 95, 071112 (2009).
5. Lieven Verslegers, Peter B. Catrysse, Zongfu Yu, Justin S. White, Edward S. Barnard, Mark L. Brongersma and Shanhui Fan “ Planar Lenes Based on Nanoscale Slit Arrays in a Metallic Film” Nano Letters, 9(1), pp 235-238 (2009).
2008:
4. Zongfu Yu, G. Veronis, Z. Wang and S. Fan “One-way electromagnetic waveguide formed at the interface between a plasmonic metal under static magnetic field and a photonic crystal”, Physical Review Letters, 100, 23902 (2008).
3. Zongfu Yu, G. Veronis, M. L. Brongersma, and S. Fan “Gain-induced switching in metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide” Applied Physics Letters 92, 041117 (2008).
2007:
2. Zongfu Yu, Z. Wang and S. Fan “One-way total reflection with one-dimensional magneto-optical photonic crystals” Applied Physics Letters 90, 121133 (2007).
2006:
1. Zongfu Yu, G. Veronis, M. L. Brongersma, and S. Fan “Design of mid-infrared photodetectors enhanced by surface plasmons on grating structures” Applied Physics Letters89, 151116 (2006).
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