Abstract:Nanophotonic structures, where the minimum feature sizes are reduced to below a single wavelength, offers tremendous new opportunities for controlling light-matter interactions towards new device opportunities. In this talk, I will review some of our recent works towards elucidating the basic physics of nanophotonic structures, and towards exploiting nanophotonic structures for applications in information and energy technology.
Biography: Shanhui Fan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Stanford University. He received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was a research scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT prior to his appointment at Stanford. His research interests are in computational and theoretical studies of solid state and photonic structures and devices, especially photonic crystals, plasmonics, and meta-materials. He has published 240 refereed journal articles that were cited over 15,000 times with an h-index of 58, has given over 180 invited talks, and was granted 43 US patents. Prof. Fan received a National Science Foundation Career Award (2002), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2003), the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research (2007), and the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America (2007). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the SPIE, and the IEEE.