Dr. Wei Wang is a postdoc researcher in Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory. He has graduated in the spring of 2019 and received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

His research in nanophotonics is a multidisciplinary research area that bridges the researchers across the fields of engineering, applied physics, optics, and material science. He is dedicated to design, fabrication and characterization of nanophotonic, plasmonic and optical metamaterial devices for understanding light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, which will advance many exciting applications in optical energy harvesting, optical sensing, chip-scale light sources and optical information processing.

Research Interests

1. Functional photonic, plasmonic, metamaterial and metasurface devices
2. Linear and nonlinear metamaterials and metasurfaces for generation and detection of optical vortex beams
3. Metasurface-based ultrasensitive and selective biomolecule sensing and imaging
4. Energy-efficient devices with classical and nonclassical light absorption and emission in metamaterials and metasurfaces
5. Nanofabrication of nanomaterials and nanophotonic devices

Education

• PhD., Mechanical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, 2013-2019
• M.S., Optical Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM), Shanghai, P. R. China, 2009-2012
• B.S., Applied Physics , Northwestern Ploytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, P. R. China, 2005-2009

Publication

1. Wei Wang, Jianguo Wen, Elena Shevchenko, and Xuedan Ma. ​“Spontaneous formation of anisotropic microrods from paraffin wax in an aqueous environment.” Soft Matter 18, no. 1 (2022): 156-161.
2. Wei Wang, and Xuedan Ma. ​“Achieving extreme light confinement in low-index dielectric resonators through quasi-bound states in the continuum.” Optics Letters 46, no. 24 (2021): 6087-6090.
3. Wei Wang, Xuedan Ma, ​“Strain-Induced Trapping of Indirect Excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 Heterostructures”, ACS Photonics, 7.9 (2020): 2460-2467.
4. Wei Wang, Xiaodong Yang, and Jie Gao, ​“Enhanced Quantum Dots Emission Rate with Plasmonic Perfect Absorber”, Applied Physics Letters 114 (2019): 021103.
5. Wei Wang, Xiaodong Yang, and Jie Gao, ​“Scaling law of Purcell factor in hyperbolic metamaterial cavities with dipole excitation”, Optics Letters 44 (2019): 471-474.
6. Wei Wang, Daniel Rosenmann, David A. Czaplewski, Xiaodong Yang, and Jie Gao. ​“Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic V-groove metasurfaces.” Optics Express 25, no. 17 (2017): 20454-20465. 
7. Zhigang Li*, Wei Wang*, Daniel Rosenmann, David A. Czaplewski, Xiaodong Yang, and Jie Gao. ​“All-metal structural color printing based on aluminum plasmonic metasurfaces.” Optics Express 24, no. 18 (2016): 20472-20480. (*Equal contribution)
8. Lintao Peng, Xuedan Ma, Hua Zhu, Ou Chen, Wei Wang, ​“Influence of local structures on the energy transfer efficiencies of quantum-dot films”, Phys. Rev. B, Accepted.
9. Leixin Ouyang, Wei Wang, Daniel Rosenmann, David A. Czaplewski, Jie Gao, and Xiaodong Yang, ​“Near-infrared chiral plasmonic metasurface absorbers,” Optics Express 26, 31484-31489 (2018).
10. Ling Li, Wei Wang, Ting S. Luk, Xiaodong Yang, and Jie Gao. ​“Enhanced quantum dot spontaneous emission with multilayer metamaterial nanostructures.” ACS Photonics 4, no. 3 (2017): 501-508. 
11. Lei Sun, Xiaodong Yang, Wei Wang, and Jie Gao. ​“Diffraction-free optical beam propagation with near-zero phase variation in extremely anisotropic metamaterials.” Journal of Optics 17, no. 3 (2015): 035101. 
12. Yichen Liang, Wei Wang, Jong-Sik Moon, and Jeffrey G. Winiarz. ​“Enhancement in the photorefractive performance of organic composites photosensitized with functionalized CdSe quantum dots.” Optical Materials 58 (2016): 203-209. 
13. Peng Zhang, Youen Jiang, Wei Wang, and Xuechun Li. ​“High-efficiency hybrid brillouin/ytterbium fiber laser.” Chinese Optics Letters 10, no. 6 (2012): 061402.