The main research directions are as follows

1.     Condensed Matter Optical Physics: light-matter interactions and the associated novel effects; nonlinear optics; optical topological insulator and related devices; laser physics; single-particle spectroscopy; ultrafast spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy.

2.     Micro-Nano Optics and Photonics: optical properties of micro-nano materials; plasmonics; light-field control and optical imaging; diffraction optics and digital holography; THz spectral properties and devices; metamaterials; photonic crystals; metasurface physics and integrated photonics.

3.     Photoelectric Conversion and New-Energy Physics: underlying mechanisms for solar-to-electricity conversion; principles, materials and applications of solar cell; fundamentals and applications of hydrogen energy and methanol fuel cell; new principles for catalytic reaction; photothermal conversion; photocatalysis.

4.     Dielectric and Artificial-Crystal Physics: ferroelectric and dielectric materials; growth kinetics of artificial crystals; microstructures, properties and their relationships in functional crystals; perovskite oxides; AFM, SEM, STM and TEM characterizations; computational simulations and associated theories.

5.     Quantum Optics: quantum information processing; fundamental quantum mechanics; entangled photons; quantum communication; quantum computation; quantum storage.