Personal profile

Li Zhiyuan, a professor and doctoral supervisor, was born in May 1972 in Zhangpu County, Fujian. He graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1994 and obtained his PhD from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1999, receiving the President's Special Award. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the National Hundred Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in 2001. From 1999 to 2003, he conducted research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Washington, and the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. In January 2004, he was selected into the Hundred Talents Program of CAS and received Selective Support, with an excellent final evaluation in 2008. In 2005, he was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and in 2011, he was awarded the Wang Dahang Optical Award by the Chinese Optical Society. From 2014 to 2016, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Physics, CAS, as the leader of Group L01, and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics, USTC. Since October 2016, he has been a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, and the director of the Laboratory of Artificial Light and Acoustic Microstructures Physics. He is a Co-Editor of EPL and serves on the editorial boards of Acta Optica Sinica, Chinese Science Bulletin, and Advanced Optical Materials. In 2014, he was selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, and in 2016, he was selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher in China.

Research directions

Theoretical, computational, experimental, and applied research in photonic crystals, nanophotonics, surface plasmon optics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, laser technology, and fundamental quantum physics.

Education and Work Experience

B. Sc.1990/09 - 1994/07, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, China. Major in Optoelectronics. 

Ph. D.1994/09 - 1999/03, Institute o Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. Major in Optics, with Prof. Guo-Zhen Yang and Prof. Ben-Yuan Gu.   

Thesis: Theory and Simulation in Near-Field Optics and Photonic Crystals

 2016/10 - Present, Professor, Deputy Dean, School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China.  

·2007/01 - 2016/10, Principal Investigator of L01 Group, Optical Physics Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.  

·2006/01 - 2009/07, Deputy Director, Optical Physics Laboratory, Institute of  Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.  

·2004/01 - 2016/10, Professor, Optical Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.  

·2001/05 - 2003/12, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.  

·2000/03 - 2001/04, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA  98195, USA.

·1999/03 - 2000/03, Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.  

·1997/10 - 1998/02, Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Representative paper results 

(一) Photonic Crystals

12. Zhe Shi, Lin Gan*, Ting-Hui Xiao, Hong-Lian Guo, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “All-Optical Modulation of Graphene Cladded Silicon Photonic Crystal Cavity”, ACS Photonics 2, 1513-1518 (2015).

11. Chen Wang, Xiao-Lan Zhong, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Linear and passive silicon optical isolator”, Scientific Reports 2, 674(1-6) (2012).(48 citations)

10. Chen Wang, Chang-Zhu Zhou, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “On-chip optical diode based on silicon photonic crystal heterojunctions”, Optics Express 19, 26948-26955 (2011).(77 citations)

9. Ye Liu, Fei Qin, Zi-Ming Meng, Fei Zhou, Qing-He Mao, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “All-optical logical gates based on two-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal slabs”, Optics Express 19, 1945-1953 (2011). (40 citations)

8. Jin-Xin Fu, Rong-Juan Liu, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Robust one-way modes in gyromagnetic photonic crystal waveguides with different interfaces”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 041112 (2010). (50 citations)

7. Ye Liu, Fei Qin, Zhi-Yi Wei, Qing-Bo Meng, Dao-Zhong Zhang, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “10 femtosecond ultrafast all-optical switching in polystyrene nonlinear photonic crystals”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 131116 (2009).(51 citations)

6. Zhifang Feng, Xiangdong Zhang, Yiquan Wang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Bing-Ying Cheng, and Dao-Zhong Zhang, “Negative refraction and imaging using 12-fold symmetry quasicrystals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247402 (1-4) (2005).(73 citations)

5. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Kai-Ming Ho, “Anomalous propagation loss in photonic crystal waveguides,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063904 (1-4) (2004).(27 citations)

4. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Lan-Lan Lin, “Evaluation of lensing in photonic crystal slabs exhibiting negative refraction,” Phys. Rev. B 68, 245110 (1-7) (2003).(166 citations)

3. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Zhao-Qing Zhang, “Fragility of photonic band gaps in inverse-opal photonic crystals”, Phys. Rev. B 62, 1516–1519 (2000).(176 citations)

2. Zhi-Yuan Li*, Jian Wang, and Ben-Yuan Gu, “Creation of partial band gaps in anisotropic photonic-band-gap structures”, Phys. Rev. B 58, 3721-3729 (1998).(202 citations)

1. Zhi-Yuan Li*, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-ZhenYang: “Large absolute band gap in 2D anisotropic photonic crystals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2574-2577 (1998).(206 citations)

(二) Plasmonics

13. Ran Long, Zhoulv Rao, Keke Mao, Yu Li, Chao Zhang, Qiliang Liu, Chengming Wang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Xiaojun Wu, and Yujie Xiong, “Efficiently Coupling Solar Energy into Catalytic Hydrogenation by Well-Designed Pd Nanostructures”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 2425-2430 (2015).(21 citations)

12. Jiafang Li*, Jiajia Mu, Benli Wang, Wei Ding, Ju Liu, Honglian Guo, Wuxia Li,

Changzhi Gu, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Direct laser writing of symmetry-broken spiral tapers for polarization-insensitive three-dimensional plasmonic focusing”, Laser & Photonics Reviews 8, 602-609 (2014).

11. Zhen Liu, Zhongbo Yang, Bo Peng, Cuong Cao, Chao Zhang, Qihua Xiong*,Zhiyuan Li*, Jixiang Fang*, “Highly Sensitive, Uniform and Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy from Hollow Au-Ag Alloy Nanourchins- Non-Conventional Colloid Nanoparticles”, Adv. Mater. 26, 2431-2439 (2014). (50 citations)

10. Yue-Gang Chen, Yu-Hui Chen, and Zhi-Yuan Li*,“Direct method to control surface plasmon polaritons on metal surface”, Opt. Lett. 39, 339-342 (2014).(12 citations)

9. Siyun Liu, Lu Huang, Jiafang Li,* Chen Wang, Zi-Ming Meng, Zhe Shi and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Simultaneous excitation and emission enhancement of fluorescence assisted by double plasmon modes of gold nanorods”, J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 10636-10642 (2013).(41 citations)

8. Y. Wang, K. Black, H. Luehmann, W. Li, Y. Zhang, X. Cai, D. Wan, S. Y. Liu, M. Li, P. Kim, Z. Y. Li, L. V. Wang, Y. Liu, and Y. Xia, “Comparison study of gold nanohexapods, nanorods, and nanocages for photothermal cancer treatment”, ACS Nano 7, 2068-2077 (2013).(186 citations)

7. Yu-Hui Chen, Lu Huang, Lin Gan, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Wave-Front Shaping of Infrared Light through a Subwavelength Hole”, Light: Science & Applications 1, e26 (2012).(33 citations)

6. Aaron R. Rathmell, Stephen M. Bergin, Yi-Lei Hua, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Benjamin J. Wiley, “The Growth Mechanism of Copper Nanowires and their Properties in Flexible, Transparent Conducting Films”, Advanced Materials 22, 3558-3563 (2010).(289 citations)

5. Xinmai Yang, Sara E. Skrabalak, Zhi-Yuan Li, Younan Xia, and Lihong V. Wang, “Photoacoustic Tomography of a Rat Cerebral Cortex in vivo with Au Nanocages as an Optical Contrast Agent”, Nano Letters 7, 3798-3802 (2007). (237 citations)

4. Jingyi Chen, Danling Wang, Jiefeng Xi, Leslie Au, Andy Siekkinen, Addie Warsen, Zhi-Yuan Li, Hui Zhang, Younan Xia, and Xingde Li, “Immuno Gold Nanocages with Tailored Optical Properties for Targeted Photothermal Destruction of Cancer Cells”, Nano Letters 7, 1318-1322 (2007). (633 citations)

3. J. M. McLellan, Z. Y. Li, A. Siekkinen, and Y. Xia, “The SERS Activity of a Supported Ag Nanocube Strongly Depends on Its Orientation Relative to Laser Polarization”, Nano Letters 7, 1013-1017 (2007). (204 citations)

2. J. Chen, F. Saeki, B. J. Wiley, H. Cang, M. J. Cobb, Z. Y. Li, L. Au, H. Zhang, M. B. Kimmey, X. Li, and Y. Xia, “Gold nanocages: bioconjugation and their potential use as optical imaging contrast agents”, Nano Letters 5, 473-477 (2005). (652 citations)

1. Yu Lu, Yadong Yin, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Younan Xia, “Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Au@SiO2 Core-Shell Colloids”, Nano Letters 2, 785-788 (2002). (419 citations)

(三) Nonlinear Optics and Laser Technology

2. Bao-Qin Chen, Chao Zhang, Chen-Yang Hu, Rong-Juan Liu, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “High-Efficiency Broadband High-Harmonic Generation from a Single Quasi-Phase-Matching Nonlinear Crystal”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083902 (1-5) (2015).

1. Bao-Qin Chen, Ming-Liang Ren, Rong-Juan Liu, Yan Sheng, Bo-Qin Ma, Chao Zhang, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Simultaneous Broadband Second and Third Harmonic Generation in Chirped Nonlinear Photonic Crystal”, Light: Science & Application 3, e189 (1-6) (2014).(10 citations)

(四) Nanophotonics Physics, Model and Theory

10. Bao-Qin Chen, Chao Zhang, Jiafang Li, Zhi-Yuan Li*, and Younan Xia, “On the Critical Role of Rayleigh Scattering for Single-Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering via Plasmonic Nanogap”, Nanoscale 8, 15730-15736 (2016).

9. Chao Zhang, Bao-Qin Chen, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Optical origin of subnanometer resolution in tip-enhanced Raman mapping”, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 11858-11871 (2015).(15 citations)

8. Ben-Li Wang, Rui Wang, Rong-Juan Liu, X. H. Lu, Jimin Zhao*, Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Origin of shape resonance in second harmonic generation in metallic nanohole arrays”, Scientific Reports 3, 2358 (1-8) (2013).(20 citations)

7. Si-Yun Liu, Jia-Fang Li, Fei Zhou, Lin Gan, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Efficient surface plasmon amplification from gain-assisted gold nanorods”, Optics Letters 36, 1296 (2011).(50 citations)

6. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Younan Xia, “Metal nanoparticles with gain towards single-molecule detect via surface-enhanced Raman scattering”, Nano Letters 10, 243-249 (2010). (111 citations)

5. Fei Zhou, Zhi-Yuan Li*, Ye Liu, and Younan Xia, “Quantitative analysis of dipole and quadrupole excitation in surface plasmon resonance of metal nanoparticles”, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 20233-20240 (2008). (102 citations)

4. Jing-Juan Li, Zhi-Yuan Li*, and Dao-Zhong Zhang, “Second harmonic generation in one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals solved by transfer matrix method”, Phys. Rev. E 75，056606 (2007).(40 citations)

3. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Kai-Ming Ho, “Light propagation in semi-infinite photonic crystal and related waveguide structures,” Phys. Rev. B 68, 155101 (1-15) (2003).(73 citations)

2. Zhi-Yuan Li* and Lan-Lan Lin, “Photonic band structures solved by a plane-wave based transfer-matrix method,” Phys. Rev. E 67, 046607 (1-11) (2003).(210 citations)

1. Zhi-Yuan Li*, Lan-Lan Lin, and Zhao-Qing Zhang, “Spontaneous emission from photonic crystals: Full vectorial calculations”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4341-4344 (2000).(101 citations)

联系方式

电子邮箱：phzyli@scut.edu.cn