Education and Research Experience:Zhang Yang is a researcher at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), a joint professor at the School of Physical Sciences, and a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from the Department of Physics at USTC in 2004 with a bachelor's degree and received his Ph.D. from the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale at USTC in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Orsay of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In August 2013, he began his research at the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale at USTC. In 2016, he received funding from the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In the same year, he received the Outstanding Researcher President Award of USTC.
In recent years, he has been dedicated to developing scanning probe techniques combined with optical detection to characterize the optoelectronic properties of single molecules and other nanostructures with ultra-high spatial resolution. His research focuses on developing optical characterization methods with ultra-high spatial resolution for key scientific issues in the study of single-molecule optoelectronics. Using these new methods and equipment, he has gained new insights into molecular optoelectronic behaviors and interactions, thus advancing the understanding of scientific problems. He has published over 30 papers in international journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters.
Education and Work Experience
· 07/2020 - Present: Researcher of the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC; Joint Professor of the School of Physical Sciences, USTC
· 04/2017 - 06/2020: Specially Appointed Professor of the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC
· 08/2013 - 03/2017: Specially Appointed Associate Researcher of the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC
· 11/2010 - 07/2013: Postdoctoral Researcher of the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Orsay, CNRS, France
· 09/2004 - 09/2010: Ph.D. of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC
· 09/2000 - 07/2004: Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Department of Physical Sciences, USTC
Current Research Directions
1. Development of ultra-high spatial resolution optical imaging techniques combined with scanning probe technology
2. Study of molecular and surface plasmon interactions under localized plasmonic fields
3. Investigation of the interaction between molecules and plasmonic structures, mechanisms of energy and electron transfer between molecules, and their applications (such as optoelectronic integration and photosynthesis)
Ongoing Research Projects
1. Sub-nanometer spatial resolution study of coherent dipole interactions between molecules on surfaces, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (01/2020 - 12/2023), Principal Investigator
2. High-resolution molecular imaging and precise chemical measurements under localized fields, Major Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (subproject), Participant (01/2018 - 12/2022)
3. Ultra-high spatial resolution techniques and experimental studies of energy transfer between molecules, Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Principal Investigator (01/2017 - 12/2019)
Representative Papers(Co-first authors marked with #, corresponding authors marked with *)
1. Fanfang Kong#, Xiaojun Tian#, Yang Zhang*, Yunjie Yu, Shihao Jing, Yao Zhang, Guangjun Tian*, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou, Probing intramolecular vibronic coupling through vibronic-state imaging, Nature Communications 12, 1280 (2021)
2. Ben Yang#, Gong Chen#, Atif Ghafoor, Yufan Zhang, Yao Zhang, Yang Zhang*, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Vahid Sandoghdar, Javier Aizpurua, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou*, Sub-nanometre resolution in single-molecule photoluminescence imaging, Nature Photonics 14, 693-699 (2020)
3. Yang Luo#, Gong Chen#, Yang Zhang*, Li Zhang, Yunjie Yu, Fanfang Kong, Xiaojun Tian, Yao Zhang, Chongxin Shan, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Vahid Sandoghdar, Zhenchao Dong*, and J. G. Hou*, Electrically Driven Single-Photon Superradiance from Molecular Chains in a Plasmonic Nanocavity, Physical Review Letters 122, 233901 (2019)
4. Li Zhang#, Yunjie Yu#, Liuguo Chen, Yang Luo, Ben Yang, Fanfang Kong, Gong Chen, Yang Zhang*, Qiang Zhang, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, and J. G. Hou*, Electrically driven single-photon emission from an isolated single molecule, Nature Communications 8, 580 (2017)
5. Yang Zhang#, Yang Luo#, Yao Zhang#, Yunjie Yu, Yanmin Kuang, Li Zhang, Qiushi Meng, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou*, Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole-dipole coupling in real space, Nature 531, 623−627 (2016)
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