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Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

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room 3-449D

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Administrative Contact Duhart, Chevalley 3-435 617.253.3979

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Printing with Light

Printing with Light

Using light to imprint features onto polymer or plastic, Associate Professor Nick Fang's research led his team to disprove the established diffraction limit.

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Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale

Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale

Professor Nicholas Fang has used the ancient art of kirigami to manipulate light at the nanoscale, potentially opening up new possibilities for the creation of new light-based communications.

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See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat

See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat

Professor Nicholas Fang has developed a heat-rejecting material that could be used to coat windows and save on air-conditioning costs.

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Faculty Details

Education

  • 1996

    NANJING UNIVERSITY

    B.Sc.

  • 1998

    NANJING UNIVERSITY

    M.Sc.

  • 2004

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES

    Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Optical Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication
  • Optical Instrumentation
  • Ultrasound Materials and Instrumentation
  • Lightweight Composite Materials
  • Tissue Engineering

Online Data

  • ResearchID: (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5856-2008)
  • Google Scholar: (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PcoqNjgAAAAJ&hl=en)

Honors + Awards

  • 2021, Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • 2013, Fellow, International Society for Nanomanufacturing (ISNM)
  • 2013, ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
  • 2011, ICO prize/Ernest Abbe Medal, the International Commission for Optics
  • 2009, NSF CAREER Award, Nanomanufacturing
  • 2008, Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award
     

Related Experience

  • 2004-2010, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Sciences and Eng., UIUC
  • 2004, Research Engineer, Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., UCLA

Memberships

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • American Physics Society (APS)
  • Materials Research Society (MRS)
  • Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)    
  • The International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
     

Professional Service

  • 2013-present, Topic Editor in Chief, Frontiers in Optics and Photonics
  • 2012-present, Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing (JMNM)
  • 2009-present, Topic Co-Organizer, ASME symposium on Acoustic and Phononic Metamaterials
     

MIT Service

  • 2011-present, Deparment Graduate Admissions Committee

Teaching

  • Optics (2.71/2.710)
  • Photonic Materials (2.718/2.719)
  • Thermal-Fluids Engineering II(2.006)
  • Instrument and Measurement (2.671)
  • Thermal-Fluidic Science in the Kitchen (2.S993)

Publications

  • Z Liu, H Du, J Li, L Lu, ZY Li, NX Fang, "Nano-kirigami with giant optical chirality", Science advances 4 (7), eaat4436, (2018)

  • Q Hu, D Jin, J Xiao, SH Nam, X Liu, Y Liu, X Zhang, NX Fang, "Ultrafast fluorescent decay induced by metal-mediated dipole–dipole interaction in two-dimensional molecular aggregates", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (38), 10017-10022, (2017)

  • Dafei Jin, Qing Hu, Daniel Neuhauser, Felix von Cube, Yingyi Yang, Ritesh Sachan, Ting S Luk, David C Bell, Nicholas X Fang,"Quantum-Spillover Enhanced Surface-Plasmonic Absorption at the Interface of Silver and High-Index Dielectrics", Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 193901 (2015)

  • Anshuman Kumar, Tony Low, Kin Hung Fung, Phaedon Avouris, Nicholas X Fang, "Tunable Light–Matter Interaction and the Role of Hyperbolicity in Graphene–hBN System", Nano Lett., 15(5), 3172-3180(2015).

  • C. Shen, J. Xu, N. X. Fang, Y. Jing, “Anisotropic Complementary Acoustic Metamaterial for Canceling out Aberrating Layers”, Phys Rev X, 4, 041033 (2014).

  • X. Zheng, H. Lee, T.H. Weisgraber, M. Shusteff, J. Deotte, E. B. Duoss, J. D. Kuntz, M. M. Biener, Q. Ge, J. A. Jackson, S. O. Kucheyev, N. X. Fang, and C.M. Spadaccini, "Ultralight, Ultrastiff Mechanical Metamaterials", Science, 344, 1373(2014).
  • Anshuman Kumar, Kin Hung Fung, M. T. Homer Reid, and Nicholas X. Fang, "Photon emission rate engineering using graphene nanodisc cavities",Opt. Express, 22, 6400(2014)   
  • N. Boechler, J. K. Eliason, A. Kumar, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, and N. Fang, " Interaction of a Contact Resonance of Microspheres with Surface Acoustic Waves", Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 036103(2013).
  • D. Jin, A. Kumar, K. H. Fung, J. Xu and N. X. Fang, "Terahertz plasmonics in ferroelectric-gated graphene", Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 201118(2013).
  • X. Dang,  J. Qi, M. Klug, P-Y. Chen, D. S. Yun, N. X. Fang, P. Hammond, and A. Belcher, "Tunable localized surface plasmon-enabled broadband light harvesting enhancement for high-efficiency panchromatic dye-sensitized solar cells", Nano Letters, 13, 637 (2013).
  • 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.

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