Zhuo Li

ORCID: 0000-0003-3861-3681
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Research Areas
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
  • Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Near-Field Optical Microscopy
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology
  • Silk-based biomaterials and applications
  • Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis
  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
  • Advanced optical system design
  • Civil and Structural Engineering Research
  • Bladed Disk Vibration Dynamics
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings

Huawei Technologies (United States)
2025

Carnegie Mellon University
2021-2025

Xiangtan University
2024

Sichuan University
2022

State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering
2022

Beijing Institute of Technology
2019-2022

Beijing Institute of Optoelectronic Technology
2022

Guizhou Education University
2022

Henan University of Science and Technology
2012

Heilongjiang University of Technology
2003

Active metasurfaces have recently emerged as compact, lightweight, and efficient platforms for dynamic control of electromagnetic fields optical responses. However, the complexities associated with their post-fabrication tunability significantly hinder widespread applications, especially mid-infrared range due to material scarcity design intricacy. Here, we experimentally demonstrate highly dynamic, pixelated modulations coherent emission based on an electrically programmable plasmonic...

10.1038/s41467-025-56811-z article EN cc-by-nc-nd Nature Communications 2025-02-15

Plasmonic metasurfaces with adjustable optical responses can be achieved through phase change materials (PCMs) high contrast. However, the on–off behavior of process results in binary response photonic devices, limiting applications to two-stage modulation. In this work, we propose a reconfigurable metasurface emitter based on gold nanorod array VO2 thin film for achieving continuously tunable narrowband thermal emission. The electrode line connecting center each not only enables emission...

10.1063/5.0165663 article EN cc-by APL Photonics 2024-01-01

Effective heat dissipation remains a grand challenge for energy-dense devices and systems. As heterogeneous integration becomes increasingly inevitable in electronics, thermal resistance at interfaces has emerged as critical bottleneck management. However, existing interface solutions are constrained by either high or poor reliability. We report strategy to create printable, high-performance liquid-infused nanostructured composites, comprising mechanically soft thermally conductive...

10.1038/s41467-025-56163-8 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Nature Communications 2025-01-17

With the continuous advancement of nanotechnology, nanodevices have become crucial components in computing, sensing, and energy conversion applications. The structures typically possess subwavelength dimensions separations, which pose significant challenges for understanding transport phenomena nanodevices. Here, on basis a judiciously designed thermal photonic nanodevice, we report first measurement near-field between two coplanar over temperature bias up to ∼190 K. Our experimental results...

10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03748 article EN cc-by Nano Letters 2024-01-26

In nature, leafhoppers cover their body surfaces with brochosomes as a protective coating. These leafhopper-produced are hollow, buckyball-shaped, nanoscopic spheroids through-holes distributed across surfaces, representing class of deployable optical materials that rare in nature. Despite discovery the 1950s, it remains unknown why sizes and consistently fall within range hundreds nanometers different leafhopper species. Here, we demonstrate hierarchical geometries engineered narrow size...

10.1073/pnas.2312700121 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024-03-18

Abstract: Miniaturized pixel sizes in near-eye digital displays lead to emission patterns with large divergence angles, necessitating efficient beam collimation solutions improve the light coupling efficiency. Traditional optics, such as lenses and cavities, are wavelength-sensitive cannot simultaneously collimate red (R), green (G), blue (B) light. In this work, we employed inverse design optimization finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation techniques a collimator comprised of...

10.3390/nano15030190 article EN cc-by Nanomaterials 2025-01-25

Microscale thermal signature control using incoherent heat sources remains challenging, despite recent advancements in plasmonic materials and phase-change materials. Inspired by leafhopper-generated brochosomes, we design binary metastructures functioning as pixel twins to achieve pixelated at the microscale. In infrared range, exhibit distinct emissivities, creating counterparts of “0-1” states for storing displaying information. visible engineered surface morphology ensures similar...

10.1126/sciadv.adl4027 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2024-03-01

Using transdimensional plasmonic materials (TDPM) within the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics, we demonstrate nonlocality in dielectric response alters near-field heat transfer at gap sizes on order hundreds nanometers. Our theoretical study reveals that, opposite to local model prediction, propagating waves can transport energy through TDPM. However, by polaritons shorter separations is reduced due metallic TDPM stronger than that predicted model. experiments conducted for a...

10.1103/physrevlett.131.086901 article EN Physical Review Letters 2023-08-23

Metasurfaces, together with graphene plasmonics, have become prominent for the emissivity control in thermal engineering, both passively through changing geometric parameters and packing density of metasurfaces, actively gating or doping. We demonstrate a graphene-nanowire coupled plasmonic metasurface utilizing hybrid localized surface plasmon modes nanowire array graphene. The makes mode localized, allowing free-space excitation. single layer graphene, via between underneath mirror top...

10.1103/physrevb.106.115416 article EN Physical review. B./Physical review. B 2022-09-14

This work demonstrates a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) technology based infrared thin film, which converts absorbed visible light energy into radiation. The principle of the film and experiment for studying its thermodynamic characteristics are presented. radiation spectrum conforms to blackbody spectrum, average emissivity in band is 0.638. thermal diffusion distance decreases with decrease substrate thickness. Moreover, fabrication periodic pixel arrays on substrates can...

10.1364/oe.27.032779 article EN cc-by Optics Express 2019-10-25

Thermal radiation has diffusive and broad emission characteristics. Controlling spectrum direction is essential for various applications. Nanoparticle arrays, supporting collective lattice resonances, can be employed controlling optical properties. However, thermal characteristics remain unexplored due to the lack of a theoretical model. Here, we develop an analytical model predict from nanoparticle array using fluctuation–dissipation theorem Green's functions. Our findings reveal that...

10.1063/5.0117131 article EN publisher-specific-oa Applied Physics Letters 2022-12-12

Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensors have been widely used in bioassays due to their high sensitivity, fast response, simple equipment and low cost. Signal amplification is an important means improve the sensitivity of ECL biosensors. The common enhancement strategies include DNA amplification, enzyme-assisted signal enhancement, nanomaterials-based application redox-active probes luminophores. Among them, hybridization chain reaction (HCR) shows experiment operation efficiency, which...

10.20964/2022.06.35 article EN cc-by-nc-nd International Journal of Electrochemical Science 2022-05-10

The capability of manipulating heat flux at the nanoscale has important implications in thermal circuits and management electronics. In this work, by employing both fluctuating surface current method Wiener-chaos expansion method, we demonstrate a tunable rectification effect based on near-field radiation for nanowire nanocross structures. Due to different decay behaviors phonon polaritons plasmon polaritons, can be bidirectionally controlled various rates tuning separation between...

10.1016/j.mtphys.2022.100921 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Materials Today Physics 2022-11-15

The capability of manipulating heat flux at the nanoscale has important implications in thermal circuits and management electronics. In this work, by employing both fluctuating surface current method Wiener-chaos expansion method, we demonstrate a tunable rectification effect based on near-field radiation for nanowire nanocross structures. Due to different decay behaviors phonon polaritons plasmon polaritons, can be bidirectionally controlled various rates tuning separation between...

10.2139/ssrn.4234188 article EN 2022-01-01

The Wiener chaos expansion method provides a direct approach to accurately compute the thermal radiation from arbitrary structures. Here, we further extend this structures with permittivity or temperature inhomogeneity. inhomogeneous treats two kinds of inhomogeneities same governing equation and thus systematic solution radiative spectra. Compared traditional that approximates an structure by superposition contributions its quasihomogeneous subparts, our calculates entire simultaneously...

10.1103/physrevb.104.195426 article EN Physical review. B./Physical review. B 2021-11-22

Abstract Nanostructured gold has attracted significant interest from materials science, chemistry, optics and photonics, biology due to their extraordinary potential for manipulating visible near‐infrared light through the excitation of plasmon resonances. However, nanostructures are rarely measured experimentally in plasmonic properties hardly used high‐temperature applications because inherent instability mass shape high surface energy at elevated temperatures. In this work, first direct...

10.1002/smll.202007274 article EN Small 2021-03-14

Near-field radiation can exceed the blackbody limit due to contributions from evanescent waves. One promising approach further enhance near-field beyond existing bulk materials is utilize metamaterials or metasurfaces made subwavelength plasmonic structures. In this work, we investigate thermal between complex structures with higher-order symmetry and degeneracy, which crucial for understanding radiative heat exchange at extremely small gaps. We demonstrate that introduction of degeneracy...

10.1364/oe.405308 article EN cc-by Optics Express 2020-10-01

Large-pixel-array infrared emitters are attractive in the applications of imaging and detection. However, array scale has been restricted traditional technologies. Here, we demonstrated a light-driven photothermal transduction approach for an ultralarge pixel emitter. A metal-black coating with nanoporous structures silicon (Si) layer microgap were proposed to manage thermal input output issues. The effects nanoscale black microscale Si investigated. Remarkable modulation could be obtained...

10.1038/s41378-021-00315-5 article EN cc-by Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2021-12-03

Plasmonic metamaterials with strong localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) have been improved by incorporating a nano-opto-electro-mechanical system (NOEMS) for tunable optical and electrical responses. However, conventional NOEMS devices suffer from the inefficient free-space coupling due to limited design of reconfigurable antennas low tunability electrostatic pull-in moving parts. In this paper, we propose efficient mid-infrared plasmonic nanoslits variable nanometer-sized gaps...

10.1016/j.mtphys.2024.101369 article EN cc-by Materials Today Physics 2024-02-15

Active metasurfaces have recently emerged as compact, lightweight, and efficient platforms for dynamic control of electromagnetic fields optical responses. However, the complexities associated with their post-fabrication tunability significantly hinder widespread applications, especially mid-infrared range due to material scarcity design intricacy. Here, we experimentally demonstrate highly dynamic, pixelated modulations coherent emission based on an electrically programmable plasmonic...

10.48550/arxiv.2403.07145 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-03-11
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