Highlight of past work

Zongfu Yu is recognized as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, defined as "the top 1% by citations for their field and are making an impact in solving the world's biggest challenges"

Multimodal detector and visual perception

Single shot hyperspectral imaging Nature Communications 10, 1020 (2019)

Light sensing inspired by animals' directional hearing Nature Nanotechnology 13, 1143 (2018)

Object Recognition based on optical coherence CVPR (2019)

Optical antenna

Electromagnetic Scattering Laws in Weyl Systems Nature Communications 8, 1388 (2017)

Nanoresonators appear 1000-fold larger than their sizes Physical Review Letters 115, 023903 (2015)

Optical Fano resonance Nature Materials 13, 471-475, (2014)

From EIT to superscattering Physical Review Letters 108, 083902 (2012)

Bowtie nanoantenna makes single molecures brighter Nature Photonics 3, 654, (2009)

Photonics for energy and sustainability

All-day radiative cooling Nature Sustainability 2, 718 (2019)

Black nanostructures for solar water purification Science Advances 2, e1501227, (2016)

A transparent electrode better than ITO Nature Nanotechnology 8, 421 (2013)

Thermodynamic limit of light coupling Physical Review Letters 109,173901 (2012)

Beat the Yablonovitch light trapping limit PNAS 107(41) 17491-17496 (2010)

Nanocone as black absorbers Nano Letters 9 (1), pp 279-282 (2009)

Nonreciprocal photonics

Materials with super strong magneto-optical responses Optica 9, 1156 (2018)

Limitations of nonlinear optical isolators. Nature Photonics 9, 388 (2015)

What is and what is not an optical isolator. Nature Photonics 7, 579 (2013)

The world's first silicon isolator. Physical Review Letters 109, 033901 (2012)

Nonsymmetric is not necessarily nonreciprocal. Science 335, 38, (2012)

Proposal of silicon optical isolators Nature Photonics 3, 91 (2009)

Magnetism for photons

Effective Lorentz force for photons. Nature Photonics 6, 782 (2012)

Photonic Aharonov-Bohm effect. Physical Review Letters 108,153901 (2012)

A one-way road for photons. Physical Review Letters 100, 23902 (2008)

Thermal radiation

How to make a blackbody radiate more Nature Communications 4, 1730 (2013)

High-temperature photonic crystal emitters Nature Communications 4, 2630 (2013)

2D materials

Air-stable monolayers of phosphorene Nature Communications 7, (2016)

The world's thinnes lenses: 10 atoms thick Light: Science & Applications 5, e16046, (2016)

Full list of publications

2020

2019

  • 121. Lei Ying, Ming Zhou, Michael Mattei, Boyuan Liu,1 Paul Campagnola, Randall H. Goldsmith, and Zongfu Yu "Extended range of dipole-dipole interactions in periodically structured photonic media" Physical Review Letters 123, 173901 (2019).
  • 120. Erfan Khoram, Ang Chen, Dianjing Liu, Lei Ying, Qiqi Wang, Ming Yuan, and Zongfu Yu "Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference" Photonics Research (Cover) 10, 1020 (2019).
  • 119. Li Gao Xiaozhong Li Dianjing Liu Lianhui Wang Zongfu Yu "A Bidirectional Deep Neural Network for Accurate Silicon Color Design" Advanced Materials (2019).
  • 118. Lyu Zhou, Haomin Song, Jianwei Liang, Matthew Singer, Ming Zhou, Edgars Stegenburgs, Nan Zhang, Chen Xu, Tien Ng, Zongfu Yu, Boon Ooi, Qiaoqiang Gan "A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling" Nature Sustainability 2, 718 (2019)
  • 117. Zhu Wang, Soongyu Yi, Ang Chen, Ming Zhou, Ting Shan Luk, Anthony James, John Nogan, Willard Ross, Graham Joe, Alireza Shahsafi, Ken Xingze Wang, Mikhail A. Kats, Zongfu Yu "Single-shot on-chip spectral sensors based on photonic crystal slabs" Nature Communications 10, 1020 (2019).
  • 116. Yibo Zhu, Xin Lei, Ken Xingze Wang, Zongfu Yu "Compact CMOS spectral sensor for the visible spectrum" Photonics Research 9, 961 (2019).
  • 115. Zhaoning Yu, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Bradley S Gundlach, Yuzhe Xiao, Zongfu Yu, Mikhail A Kats "Optical components based on multi-refractive-index metamaterials"Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 53,015108,(2019)
  • 114. Sen Lin, Haiyang Wang, Xuenan Zhang, Dong Wang, Di Zu, Jianan Song, Zhenglian Liu, Ya Huang, Kai Huang, Nian Tao, Ziwei Li, Xiaopeng Bai, Bo Li, Ming Lei, Zongfu Yu, Hui Wu "Direct spray-coating of highly robust and transparent Ag nanowires for energy saving windows" Nano Energy 62, 116(2019).
  • 113. Xin Lei, Liangyu He, Yixuan Tan, Ken Xingze Wang, Xinggang Wang, Yihan Du, Shanhui Fan, Zongfu Yu "Direct Object Recognition Without Line-of-Sight Using Optical Coherence" CVPR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2019).

    • 2018

    • 112. Lei Ying, Ming Zhou, Xiaoguang Luo, Jinfeng Liu, and Zongfu Yu "Strong magneto-optical response enabled by quan-tum two-level systems" Optica 5, 1156 (2018).
    • 111. Soongyu Yi, Ming Zhou, Zongfu Yu, Pengyu Fan, Nader Behdad, Dianmin Lin, Shanhui Fan, and Mark Brongersma "Subwavelength Angle-sensing Photodetectors Inspired by Directional Hearing in Small Animals" Nature Nanotechnology 13, 1143 (2018).
    • 110. Dianjing Liu , Yixuan Tan, Erfan Khoram, and Zongfu Yu "Training Deep Neural Networks for the Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures" ACS Photonics 5 (4), pp 1365-1369 (2018).
    • 109. C Hu, L Zhang, RY Zhu, A Chen, Z Wang, L Ying, Z Yu "Ultrafast Inorganic Scintillators for Gigahertz Hard X-Ray Imaging" IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 65 (8), 2097-2104
    • 108. Ming Zhou,Zongfu Yu "Artificial transpiration: an efficient means of waste-water treatment" National Science Review News and Views (2018).
    • 107. Yang Zhang, Yang Wu, Xiaoxin Wang, Lei Ying, Rahul Kumar, Zongfu Yu, Eric R. Fossum, Jifeng Liu, Gregory Salamo, and Shui-Qing Yu "Detecting Single Photons Using Capacitive Coupling of Single Quantum Dots" ACS Photonics (2018).
    • 106. H. Song, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, M. H. Singer, C. Li, A. R. Cheney, D. Ji, L. Zhou, N. Zhang, X. Zeng, Z.Bei, Z. Yu, S. Jiang, and Q. Gan "Cold Vapor Generation beyond the Input Solar Energy Limit" Advanced Science 5, 1800222 (2018).
    • 105. M. Kim, S. Yi, J. D. Kim, X. Yin, J. Li, J. Bong, D. Liu, S.-C. Liu, A. Kvit, W. Zhou, X. Wang, Z.Yu, Z. Ma, and X. Li "Enhanced Performance of Ge Photodiodes via Monolithic AntireflectionTexturing and Ge Self - Passivation by Inverse Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching" ACS Photonics (2018) 12, 6748(2018).

      • 2017

      • 104. Ming Zhou, Lei Ying, Ling Lu, Lei Shi, Jian Zi, Zongfu Yu "Electromagnetic Scattering Laws in Weyl Systems" Nature Communications 8, 1388 (2017).
      • 103. Ming Zhou, Jingfeng Liu, Mikhail A. Kats, and Zongfu Yu "Optical Metasurface Based on the Resonant Scattering in Electronic Transitions" ACS Photonics 4 (5), 1279(2017).
      • 102. Kai Zang, Xiao Jiang, Yijie Huo, Xun Ding, Matthew Morea, Xiaochi Chen, Ching-Ying Lu, Jian Ma, Ming Zhou, Zhenyang Xia, Zongfu Yu, Theodore I Kamins, Qiang Zhang, James S Harris "Silicon single-photon avalanche diodes with nano-structured light trapping" Nature Communications 8, 628 (2017).
      • 101. Ming Zhou, and Zongfu Yu "Photodetectors: a heated junction" Nature Nanotechnology doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.97 (News & Views) (2017).
      • 100. Zhenyang Xia, Haomin Song, Munho Kim, Ming Zhou, Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Dong Liu, Xin Yin, Kanglin Xiong, Hongyi Mi, Xudong Wang, Fengnian Xia, Zongfu Yu, Zhenqiang Jack Ma, Qiaoqiang Gan "Single-crystalline germanium nanomembrane photodetectors on foreign nanocavities" Science Advance 3, e1602783 (2017).
      • 99. Jie Wang, Dezhuan Han, Ang Chen, Yunyun Dai, Ming Zhou, Xinhua Hu, Zongfu Yu, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi "Using active gain to maximize light absorption" PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96, 195419 (2017).
      • 98. Dengxin Ji, Alec Cheney, Nan Zhang, Haomin Song, Jun Gao, Xie Zeng, Haifeng Hu, Suhua Jiang, Zongfu Yu, Qiaoqiang Gan "Efficient Mid Infrared Light Confinement within Sub 5 nm Gaps for Extreme Field Enhancement" Advanced Optical Materials 1700223 (2017).
      • 97. Mingwei Zhu, Yiju Li, Guang Chen, Feng Jiang, Zhi Yang, Xiaoguang Luo, Yanbin Wang, Steven D Lacey, Jiaqi Dai, Chengwei Wang, Chao Jia, Jiayu Wan, Yonggang Yao, Amy Gong, Bao Yang, Zongfu Yu, Siddhartha Das, Liangbing Hu "Tree Inspired Design for High Efficiency Water Extraction" Advanced Materials 1704107, (2017).
      • 96. Jingfeng Liu, Ming Zhou, Lei Yin, Xuewen Chen, and Zongfu Yu "Enhancing the optical cross section of quantum antenna" Physical Review A 95, 013814 (2017).
      • 95. Yang Wang, Lin Zhou, Qinghui Zheng, Hong Lu, Qiaoqiang Gan, Zongfu Yu, and Jia Zhu "Spectrally selective solar absorber with sharp and temperature dependent cut-off based on semiconductor nanowire arrays" Applied Physics Letters 110, 201108 (2017)
      • 94. Liu, Zhejun, Haomin Song, Dengxin Ji, Chenyu Li, Alec Cheney, Youhai Liu, Nan Zhang, Xie Zeng, Borui Chen, Jun Gao, Yuesheng Li, Xiang Liu, Diana Aga, Suhua Jiang, Zongfu Yu, Qiaoqiang Gan "Extremely Cost Effective and Efficient Solar Vapor Generation under Nonconcentrated Illumination Using Thermally Isolated Black Paper." Global Challenges 1, 1600003 (2017).

        • 2016

      • 93. Jingfeng Liu, Ming Zhou, and Zongfu Yu, "Quantum scattering theory of Fock states in high-dimensional space" Optics Letters 41, 4166 (2016).
      • 92. Ya Huang, Xiaopeng Bai, Ming Zhou, Suiyang Liao, Zongfu Yu, Yaping Wang, and Hui Wu. "Large-Scale Spinning of Silver Nanofibers as Flexible and Reliable Conductors." Nano Letters 16, 5846 (2016).
      • 91. Ali Haddadpour, Vahid Foroughi Nezhad, Zongfu Yu, and Georgios Veronis "Highly compact magneto-optical switches for metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides" Optics Letters 41, 4340 (2016).
      • 90. Zhu Wang, Ziyu Wang, and Zongfu Yu, "Photon management with index-near-zero materials" Applied Physics Letters 109, 051101 (2016).
      • 89. Munho Kim, Jung-Hun Seo, Zongfu Yu, Weidong Zhou, and Zhenqiang Ma "Flexible germanium nanomembrane metal-semiconductor-metal photodiodes" Applied Physics Letters 109, 051105 (2016).
      • 88. Yixuan Tan, Baoan Liu, Sheng Shen, Zongfu Yu, "Enhancing radiative energy transfer through thermal extraction" Nanophotonics, (2016).
      • 87. Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan, Dengxin Ji, Bin Zhu, Pei Zhang, Jun Xu, Qiaoqiang Gan, Zongfu Yu and Jia Zhu "Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation' Science Advances , 2, e1501227, (2016).
      • 86. Minkyu Cho, Jung-Hun Seo, Munho Kim, Jaeseong Lee, Dong Liu, Weidong Zhou, Zongfu Yu and Zhenqiang Ma "Resonant cavity germanium photodetector via stacked single-crystalline nanomembranes" J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 34, 040604 (2016)
      • 85. Xiaolong Liu,Xiaoguang Luo,Haiyan Nan, Hui Guo, Peng Wang, Linglong Zhang,Minmin Zhou, Ziyi Yang, Yi Shi, Weida Hu, Zhenhua Ni, Teng Qiu, Zongfu Yu, Jian-Bin Xu, Xinran Wang "Epitaxial Ultrathin Organic Crystals on Graphene for High-Efficiency Phototransistors" Advanced Materials DOI 10.1002/adma.201600400 (2016)
      • 84. Xiaoguang Luo, Ming Zhou, Jingfeng Liu, Teng Qiu and Zongfu Yu "Magneto-optical metamaterials with extraordinarily strong magneto-optical effect" Applied Physics Letters, 108,131104 (2016)
      • 83. Jiajie Pei, Xin Gai, Jiong Yang, Xibin Wang, Zongfu Yu, Duk-Yong Choi, Barry Luther-Davies, and Yuerui Lu "Producing air-stable monolayers of phosphorene and their defect engineering" Nature Communications, 7. (2016)
      • 82. Jiong Yang, Zhu Wang, Fan Wang, Renjing Xu, Jin Tao, Shuang Zhang, Qinghua Qin, Barry Luther-Davies, Chennupati Jagadish, Zongfu Yu and Yuerui Lu "Atomically thin optical lenses and gratings" Light: Science & Applications 5, e16046, (2016)
      • 81. Linxiao Zhu, Fengyuan Liu, Hongtao Lin, JuejunHu, Zongfu Yu, Xinran Wang, Shanhui Fan "Angle-selective perfect absorption withtwo-dimensional materials" Light:Science & Applications 5, e16052 (2016)
      • 80. Hongli Zhu, Zhiqiang Fang, Zhu Wang, Jiaqi Dai, Yonggang Yao, Fei Shen, Colin Preston, Wenxin Wu, Peng Peng, Nathaniel Jang, Qingkai Yu, Zongfu Yu, and Liangbing Hu "Extreme Light Management in Mesoporous Wood Cellulose Paper for Optoelectronics" ACS Nano, 10 (1), pp 1369-1377 (2016)
      • 79.Renjing Xu, Shuang Zhang, Fan Wang, Jiong Yang, Zhu Wang, Jiajie Pei, Ye Win Myint, Bobin Xing, Zongfu Yu, Lan Fu, Qinghua Qin, and Yuerui Lu "Extraordinarily Bound Quasi-One-Dimensional Trions in Two-Dimensional Phosphorene Atomic Semiconductors" ACS Nano, 10 (2), pp 2046-2053 (2016)

        • 2015

      • 78. Ming Zhou, Lei Shi, Jian Zi, and Zongfu Yu "Extraordinarily large optical cross section for localized single nanoresonator" Physical Review Letters, 115, 023903 (2015)
      • 77. Jian Ma, Ming Zhou, Zongfu Yu, Xiao Jiang, Yijie Huo, Kai Zang, Jun Zhang, James S. Harris, Ge Jin, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan "Simulation of a high-efficiency and low-jitter nanostructured silicon single-photon avalanche diode" Optica, 2, 974 (2015)
      • 76. Peter Bermel, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Zongfu Yu, and Karl Joulain "Control of radiative processes for energy conversion and harvesting" Optics Express, 23, A1533 (2015)
      • 75. Ming Zhou, Soongyu Yi, Ting Shan Luk, Qiaoqiang Gan, Shanhui Fan and Zongfu Yu "Analog of superradiant emission in thermal emitters" Physical Review B, 92, 024302 (2015)
      • 74. Soongyu Yi, Ming Zhou, Xi Shi, Qiaoqiang Gan, Jian Zi, Zongfu Yu "A multiple-resonant approach for broadband light absorption in a single layer of nanostructured graphene" Optics Express, 23, 10081 (2015).
      • 73. Yu Shi, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan "Limitations of nonlinear optical isolators due to dynamic reciprocity" Nature Photonics, 9, 388 (2015).
      • 72. Jiong Yang, Renjing Xu, Jiajie Pei, Ye Win Mint, Fan Wang, Zhu Wang, Shuang Zhang, Zongfu Yu and Yuerui Lu "Optical Tuning of exciton and trion emissions in monolayer phosphorene " Light: Science & Applications, 4, e312 (2015).
      • 71. Zhu Wang, Ting Shan Luk, Yixuan Tan, Dengxin Ji, Ming Zhou, Qiaoqiang Gan and Zongfu Yu "Tunneling-enabled spectrally selective thermal emitter based on flat metallic films" Applied Physics Letters, 106, 101104 (2015).
      • 70. Sunil Sandhu, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan "Photon management for enhanced open-circuit voltage in nanostructured solar cells" J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 48, 413001 (2015) Invited Review

        • 2014

      • 69. Zhu Wang, Zongfu Yu "Spectral analysis based on compressive sensing in nanophotonic structures" Optics Express, 22, 25608 (2014).
      • 68. Soongyu Yi, Ming Zhou, Zhu Wang, Zongfu Yu "Superradiant absorption in multiple optical nanoresonators" Physical Review B, 89, 195449 (2014).
      • 67. K. Wang, Z. Yu, S. Sandhu, V. Liu, and S. Fan, "Condition for perfect antireflection by optical resonance at material interface" Optica, 1, 388-395 (2014).
      • 66. Shuang Zhang, Jiong Yang, Renjing Xu, Fan Wang, Weifeng Li, Muhammad Ghufran, Yong-Wei Zhang, Zongfu Yu, Gang Zhang, Qinghua Qin, and Yuerui Lu "Extraordinary Photoluminescence and Strong Temperature/Angle-Dependent Raman Responses in Few-Layer Phosphorene" ACS Nano, 8(9) 9590 (2014).
      • 65. Ken X Wang, Zongfu Yu, Victor Liu, Aaswath Raman, Yi Cui, Shanhui Fan "Light trapping in photonic crystals" Energy & Environmental Science, (2014)
      • 64. Pengyu Fan, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan, Mark Brongersma "Optical Fano resonance of an individual semiconductor nanostructure" Nature Materials, 13, 471-475, (2014).
      • 63.C. Sigler, J. D. Kirch, T. Earles, L. J. Mawst, Z. Yu, and D. Botez "Design for high-power, single-lobe, grating-surface-emitting quantum cascade lasers enabled by plasmon-enhanced absorption of antisymmetric modes" Applied Physics Letters, 104, 131108 (2014).
      • 62.Huang, Siya, Hui Wu, Ming Zhou, Chunsong Zhao, Zongfu Yu, Zhichao Ruan, and Wei Pan. "A flexible and transparent ceramic nanobelt network for soft electronics" NPG Asia Materials, 6, no. 2 e86 (2014)
      • 61. Zongfu Yu, Sunil Sandhu, and Shanhui Fan "Efficiency above the Shockley-Queisser Limit by Using Nanophotonic Effects To Create Multiple Effective Bandgaps With a Single Semiconductor" Nano Letters, 14, 66 (2014).
      • 60. Suni Sandhu, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Detailed Balance Analysis and Enhancement of Open-Circuit Voltage in Single-Nanowire Solar Cells" Nano Letters, 14, 1011 (2014).
      • 59. Wang Ken Xingze, Zongfu Yu, Victor Liu, Mark L. Brongersma, Thomas F. Jaramillo, and Shanhui Fan. "Nearly Total Solar Absorption in Ultrathin Nanostructured Iron Oxide for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting" ACS Photonics, (2014).

        • 2013

      • 58. 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 Communications, 4, 1730 (2013).
      • 57. Xi Shi, Dezhuan Han, Yunyun Dai, Zongfu Yu, Yong Sun, Hong Chen, Xiaohan Liu, and Jian Zi, "Plasmonic analog of electromagnetically induced transparency in nanostructure graphene" Opt. Express, 21, 28438-28443 (2013)
      • 56. Kejie Fang, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Photonic de Haas-van Alphen effect" Optics Express, 21, 18216-18224 (2013).
      • 55. Hui Wu, Desheng Kong, Zhichao Ruan, Po-Chun Hsu, Shuang Wang, Zongfu Yu, Thomas J Carney, Liangbing Hu, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui "A transparent electrode based on nanotrough network" Nature Nanotechnology, 8, 421 (2013).
      • 54. Dirk Jalas, Alexander Petrov, Manfred Eich, Wolfgand Fredue, Shanhui Fan, Zongfu Yu, Roel Baets, Milos Popovic, Andrea Melloni, John D. Joannopoulos, Mathias Vanwolleghem, Christopher R. Doerr, and Hagen Renner, "What is and what is not an optical isolator" Nature Photonics, 7, 579 (2013)
      • 53. Kevin A. Arpin, Mark D. Losego, Andrew N. Cloud, Hailong Ning, Justin Mallek, Nicholas P. Sergeant, Linxiao Zhu, Zongfu Yu, Berc Kalanyan, Gregory N. Parsons, Gregory S. Girolami, John R. Abelson, Shanhui Fan, and Paul V. Braun. "Three-Dimensional Self-Assembled Photonic Crystals with High Temperature Stability for Thermal Emission Modification" Nature Communications, 4, 2630 (2013).
      • 52 Kejie Fang, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan "Experimental Demonstration of a Photonic Aharonov-Bohm Effect" Physical Review B, Rapid Communication, vol. 87, art. No. 060301 (2013)
      • 51. Sunil Sandhu, Zongfu Yu and Shanhui Fan, "Detailed balance analysis of nanophotonic solar cells" Optics Express, vol. 21, pp. 1209-1217 (2013).
      • 50. K. X. Wang, Zongfu Yu, Sunil Sandhu and Shanhui Fan, "Fundamental Bounds on Decay Rates in Asymmetric Single-Mode Optical Resonators" Optics Letters, vol. 38, pp. 100-102 (2013)
      • 49. Cha, Judy J., Kristie J. Koski, Kevin CY Huang, Ken Xingze Wang, Weidong Luo, Desheng Kong, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan, Mark L. Brongersma, and Yi Cui. "Two-Dimensional Chalcogenide Nanoplates as Tunable Metamaterials via Chemical Intercalation" Nano letters, 13, no. 12 : 5913-5918. (2013)

        • 2012

      • 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, 6, 782 (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 415, 309(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. "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).
      • 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" Nano Letters, 10(2), 439 (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 "Large 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 Letters 89, 151116 (2006).