Dr. Xiaodong Yang
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
United States of America
Biography
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University (2009) - M.S. in Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003) - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (2000) - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology (2011-present) - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2009-2011) - Guest Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley (2010) - Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Columbia University (2003-2008) - Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000-2003)
Research Interest
Optical materials and devices in nanophotonics and plasmonics - Physics and applications of optical metamaterials - Nanoscale optomechanics, optical nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) - Integrated optofluidic devices and optical sensors - Photon management for solar/thermal energy harvesting - Optical device micro-/nano-fabrication
Publications
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X. Yang, M. Yu, D. L. Kwong, and C. W. Wong, “All-optical analogue to electromagnetically induced transparency in multiple coupled photonic crystal nanocavities,†Physical Review Letters, 102, 173902 (2009).
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X. Yang, M. Yu, D. L. Kwong, and C. W. Wong, “Coupled resonances in multiple silicon photonic crystal cavities in all-optical solid-state analog to electromagnetically-induced transparency,†IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 16, 288-294 (2010).
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J. Yao, X. Yang, X. Yin, G. Bartal, and X. Zhang, “Three-dimensional nanometer-scale optical cavities of indefinite medium,†Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 11327-11331 (2011).
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X. Yang, A. Ishikawa, X. Yin, and X. Zhang, “Hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal nanocavities,†ACS Nano, 5, 2831-2838 (2011).
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X. Yang, Y. Liu, R. F. Oulton, X. Yin, and X. Zhang, “Optical forces in hybrid plasmonic waveguides,†Nano Letters, 11, 321-328 (2011).
