Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor

Room 3-435B
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-2247
Email: nicfang@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/nanophotonics

Curriculum Vitae

Administrative Contact:
Chevalley Duhart
Room 3-435
Phone: 617-253-3979
Email: cduhart@mit.edu

Research Overview:

Professor Fang seeks to bridge new frontiers in nanophotonics and nanomanufacturing. His research group concentrates on creating devices for focusing photon and sound into nanometer scale and using them for imaging and nanofabrication. These devices and technologies could lead revolutionary methods of diagnosing living cells at molecular scale details, without the use of an electron microscope, and open the door for the non-destructive screening of drugs and other biological materials.

Education:

Nanjing University, China BS, Physics 1996

Nanjing University, China MS, Physics 1998

UCLA PhD, ME 2004

Past Experience:

UCLA Research Engineer Feb 2004 to Oct 2004

UIUC Assistant Professor Nov.2004 to Dec 2010

Awards and Recognitions:

Outstanding PhD Student Award, UCLA Sept. 2003

ASME Pi-Tau-Sigma Gold Medal Nov. 2006

Award of Excellence in Advising, UIUC Dec, 2007

TR35 Young Innovators Sept. 2008

SME Young Manufacturing Engineer Award May, 2009

NSF CAREER Award June, 2009

Xerox Faculty Award, UIUC May, 2010

Cambride Who's who Professional of the year,

Higher Education, Dec 2010

ICO Prize/Ernest Abbe Medal by

the International Commission of Optics Oct, 2011

Fellow, International Society of Nano Manufacturing, Feb, 2013

ASME Chao and Trigger

Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Jun, 2013

Selected Publications:

Howon Lee, Jiaping Zhang, Hanqing Jiang, and Nicholas X. Fang, "Prescribed Pattern Transformation in Swelling Gel Tubes by Elastic Instability",Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 214304(2012).

Cui Y., K. H. Fung, J. Xu, H. Ma, J. Yi, S. He, and N. X. Fang, “Ultra-broadband Light Absorption by a Sawtooth Anisotropic Metamaterial Slab”, Nano Letters 12, 1443(2012).

Kumar A., K. H. Hsu, K. E. Jacobs, P.M. Ferreira, and N.X. Fang, “Direct metal nano-imprinting using an embossed solid electrolyte stamp”, Nanotechnology, Vol. 22:2, art no 155302(2011)

Zhang, S., C. Xia and N. X. Fang, “Broadband Acoustic Cloak For Ultrasound Waves,” Phys. Rev. Lett, Vol 106, art.no. 024301, 2011.

Lee H., C.G. Xia and N. X. Fang, "First Jump of a Microgel: Actuation Speed Enhancement by Elastic Instability," Soft Matter, 2010. DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00092B