Yuan Guanghui, male, Special-term Professor, was selected into the National Innovative Talents Program Youth Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 2020. In recent years, he has been engaged in research on far-field optical super-resolution imaging and optical metrology, vector light field-controlled metasurface micro-nano devices, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and novel optical material devices. To date, he has published over 60 academic papers as a first author or corresponding author in internationally renowned journals such as Science, Nature Reviews Physics, Light: Science and Applications, Nano Letters, and Advanced Optical Materials. In January 2022, he was appointed as a young editorial board member of the journal Laser & Optoelectronics Progress. He has reviewed over 150 papers for dozens of international renowned journals including Nature Communications, Light: Science and Applications, Nanoscale, Optics Letters, and Optics Express. In 2019, he became a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and has been repeatedly recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of the Year by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
Educational Background and Scientific Research Experience
August 2021 - Present: Special-term Professor at the Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
January 2021 - July 2021: Principal Research Fellow at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University
December 2012 - December 2020: Senior Research Fellow at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University
April 2008 - December 2012: Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University
July 2007 - March 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
July 2002 - June 2007: PhD from the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
August 1998 - June 2002: Bachelor's degree from the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Research Directions
Nanophotonics
Super-resolution Optical Imaging
High-precision Optical Metrology
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Vector Light Fields
Optical Vortices
Recent Representative Publications
1. N. I. Zheludev#, G. H. Yuan#, “Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit”, Nature Reviews Physics 4, 16-32 (2021). (#co-corresponding author)
2. G. H. Yuan, and N. I. Zheludev, “Detecting nanometric displacements with optical ruler metrology”, Science 364, 771-775 (2019)
3. Z. Wang*, G. H. Yuan*, M. Yang, J.-W. Chai, Q.Y. Steve Wu, T. Wang, M. Sebek, D. Wang, L. Wang, S.J. Wang, D.Z. Chi, G. Adamo, C. Soci, H.D. Sun, K. Huang, and J.H. Teng, “Exciton-Enabled Meta-Optics in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”, Nano Letters 20, 7964-7972 (2020) (*co-first author)
4. G. H. Yuan, E. T. F. Rogers, and N. I. Zheludev, “‘Plasmonics’ in free space: observation of giant wavevectors, vortices, and energy backflow in superoscillatory optical fields”, Light: Science and Applications 8, 2 (2019) (ESI highly-cited paper)
5. G. H. Yuan, E. T. F. Rogers, and N. I. Zheludev, “Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing”, Light: Science and Applications 6, e17036 (2017)
6. G. H. Yuan, S. Vezzoli, C. Altuzarra, E. T. F. Rogers, C. Couteau, C. Soci, and N. I. Zheludev, “Quantum super-oscillation of a single photon”, Light: Science and Applications 5, e16127 (2016)
7. S. S. Kou*, G. H. Yuan*, Q. Wang, L.P. Du, E. Balaur, D.H. Zhang, D.Y. Tang, B. Abbey, X.-C. Yuan, J. Lin, “On-chip photonic Fourier transform with surface plasmon polaritons”, Light: Science and Applications 5, e16034 (2015). (*co-first author)
Patents
1. Nikolay Ivanovich Zheludev, Guanghui Yuan, “Method and apparatus for super-resolution optical metrology”, Patent No. US 11,187,518 B2 (US Patent). Date of Patent: November 30, 2021.
Scientific Research Projects
1. National Innovative Talents Program Youth Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences and USTC's supporting research start-up fund, 6 million RMB, ongoing, Principal Investigator
Personal Honors
1. Selected into the National Innovative Talents Program Youth Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020
Position Openings
1. Graduate and postdoctoral positions are currently available.