赖 耘
个人信息

Prof. Yun Lai received the PhD degree (Physics) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2005. He worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Physics in HKUST until 2011. From 2011 to 2018, he became a Professor in Soochow University in Suzhou, China. In 2018, he joined the School of Physics in Nanjing University as a Professor. 

 

Prof. Lai's research interests include metamaterials/metasurfaces, photonic and phononic crystals, nanophotonics and plasmonics, etc. He has published 135 SCI papers on high-impact journals, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters/X, Light Science & Applications, Optica, etc. Total citations exceed 5000. He has pioneered some seminal concepts and applications of artificial structures, such as cloaking at a distance and illusion optics, double-zero media as effective void space, hybrid elastic solids with polarization selectivity, clearly transparent materials with diffuse reflection, omnidirectional Brewster effect and anomalous Brewster effect, zero-spacing waveguide arrays and photonic circuits, interface metasurfaces with combined functions of antireflection and wavefront control, soundproof acoustic meta-cage, etc. These breakthroughs have been reported by famous science media like Science, Nature, Physics Today, etc. He has published 4 book chapters and given more than 50 invited talks. He has been granted 20 Chinese patents and 2 US patents. 

 

For a complete list of his publication, pls see his ORCID and Google Scholar.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-9274

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XTPNaQsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Research Group Website: https://lailab.nju.edu.cn


赖耘,南京大学教授、博导。获选国家首批海外高层次青年人才,教育部“新世纪优秀人才”,江苏省“双创人才”。本科毕业于南京大学物理系,后获教育部公派赴香港科技大学物理系直博,并于2005年取得博士学位。2005-2010年 香港科技大学担任副研究员。2011-2018年 苏州大学任特聘教授。2014-2018年 任苏州大学物理学院副院长。2018年3月 加入南京大学。

 

研究人工微结构超构材料二十余年,至今发表135篇SCI论文,包括1篇Science,2篇Nature Materials,9篇Physical Review Letters,2篇Physical Review X,3篇Nature Communications,1篇Science Advances,2篇Light Science & Applications,1篇Optica,2篇Laser & Photonics Reviews等。论文获得他引5000余次,含多篇高被引论文。50多次受邀于国际学术会议上作邀请报告。发表了4部英文论著章节。获得20项中国发明专利授权,2项美国专利授权。长期担任Nature子刊,Phys. Rev. Lett.,Adv. Mater.等学术期刊审稿人。获得了江苏省科学技术奖二等奖(2017,排名第一),江苏省青年光学科技奖(2017),Light Sci. & Appl.期刊最佳审稿人奖(2016)等。

提出了多项新概念与新器件,包括:

1)超越了隐身斗篷的“非盲”隐身与幻像光学;

2)双零折射率材料及有效虚无空间;

3)具有偏振选择功能的超构弹性固体;

4)兼具哑光外貌与清晰透明特性的漫反射透明材料;

5)全角度布儒斯特效应,突破了布儒斯特效应角度限制;

6)反常布儒斯特效应,允许超宽频吸收和折射角调控;

7)零间距波导阵列与光子回路;

8)界面超构表面,融合了减反膜与波前调控功能;

9)可透气隔音的声学超构笼子,等等。

这些成果多次获Science,Nature,Nature Materials等顶级学术刊物报道,以及超构材料领域创始人、狄拉克奖得主J.B. Pendry爵士等多位著名科学家专题亮点评论。



担任课程

《理论力学》 物理学

教材:梁昆淼《力学》下册

研究领域

Prof. Lai's research interests include metamaterials/metasurfaces, photonic and phononic crystals, nanophotonics and plasmonics, etc. He is currently focused on:

1. Breaking some classical limitations in optics, electrodynamics and acoustics, such as the conflict between diffuse reflection and transparency, the bottleneck of dense integration in waveguide systems, the bottleneck of bandwidth in absorptive materials, etc.

2. Optical invisibility, illusion and light-field display.

3. Zero-refractive-index optics and applications.

4. Metamaterials for wireless communications.

5. Energy harvesting and wireless transfer.

6. Non-Hermitian physics.

7. Other original ideas.

 

赖耘教授的研究兴趣集中在超构材料中的新理论与新颖应用,包括:

1. 解决光学,电磁学,声学中的一些经典瓶颈问题,如漫反射与透明之间的矛盾;波导系统的集成度瓶颈;吸波材料的带宽瓶颈,等等。

2. 光学隐身、幻像以及光场显示。

3. 零折射率光学物理与应用。

4. 辅助无线通信的超构材料。

5. 能量收集与无线传输。

6. 非厄米物理。

7. 其他原创想法。

 

招收硕/博士研究生/博士后/助理研究员/副研究员 3-4名,欢迎感兴趣的同学联系。 

 

For a complete list of his publication, pls see his ORCID and Google Scholar.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-9274

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XTPNaQsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Research Group Website: https://lailab.nju.edu.cn


Selected Publications

H.Y. Fan, H.C. Chu, H. Luo, Y. Lai*, L. Gao*, J. Luo*, Brewster metasurfaces for ultrabroadband reflectionless absorption at grazing incidence, Optica 9, 1138 (2022).

T.T. Song, H.C. Chu, J. Luo, Z.Z. Cao, M. Xiao, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, Ultracompact Photonic Circuits without Cladding Layers, Physical Review X 12, 011053 (2022). Highlights: Cladding-Free Photonic Circuits Boost Dense On-Chip Integration, Physics 15, 39 (2022). Photonic waveguides shed their cladding, Physics Today 75, 6, 20 (2022).

H.C. Chu, X. Xiong, Y.-J. Gao, J. Luo, H. Jing, C.-Y. Li, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, Diffuse reflection and reciprocity-protected transmission via a random-flip metasurface, Science Advances 7, eabj0935 (2021). 

C.Q. Xu, H.C. Chu, J. Luo, Z.H. Hang, Y. Wu*, and Y. Lai*, Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Void Space, Physical Review Letters 127, 123902 (2021). 

H.C. Chu, H.Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, R.W. Peng, M. Wang, Y. Hao*, and Y. Lai*, Invisible surfaces enabled by the coalescence of anti-reflection and wavefront controllability in ultrathin metasurfaces, Nature Communications 12, 4523 (2021).

C.K. Liu, J.J. Shi, W. Zhao, X.X. Zhou, C. Ma, R.W. Peng, M. Wang, Z. H. Hang, X.Z. Liu, J. Christensen, N.X. Fang*, and Y. Lai*, Three-Dimensional Soundproof Acoustic Metacage, Physical Review Letters 127, 084301 (2021). (Editor's Suggestion)

J. Luo*, H.C. Chu, R.W. Peng, M. Wang, J. Li*, Y. Lai*, Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity, Light: Science & Applications 10, 89 (2021).

C.Q. Xu, G.C. Ma, G. Chen, J. Luo, J.J. Shi, Y. Lai*, Y. Wu*,Three-Dimensional Acoustic Double-Zero-Index Medium with a Fourfold Degenerate Dirac-like Point, Physical  Review Letters 124, 074501 (2020).

H. Chu, Q. Li, B. Liu, J. Luo, S. Sun*, Z. H. Hang*, L. Zhou, and Y. Lai*, A hybrid invisibility cloak based on integration of transparent metasurfaces and zero-index materials, Light: Science and Applications 7, 50 (2018).  

J. Luo, J. Li*, and Y. Lai*, Electromagnetic Impurity-Immunity Induced by Parity-Time Symmetry, Physical Review X 8, 031035 (2018).

J. Luo, B. Liu, Z. H. Hang*, and Y. Lai*, Coherent Perfect Absorption via Photonic Doping of Zero-Index Media, Laser & Photonics Reviews 12, 1800001 (2018).

G.C. Ma*, C.X. Fu, G.H. Wang, d.H. Philipp, J. Christensen, Y. Lai*, and P. Sheng, Polarization bandgaps and fluid-like elasticity in fully solid elastic metamaterials, Nature Communications 7, 13536 (2016).

J. Luo, Y.T. Yang, Z.Q. Yao, W.X. Lu, B. Hou, Z.H. Hang*, C.T. Chan, and Y. Lai*, Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions, Physical Review Letters 117, 223901, (2016). (Editor's Suggestion, PRL Cover Story)

J. Luo, Z. H. Hang, C. T. Chan, and Y. Lai*, Unusual percolation threshold of electromagnetic waves in double-zero medium embedded with random inclusions, Laser & Photonics Reviews 9, 523-529 (2015).

J. Luo, W. Lu, Z. Hang, H. Chen, B. Hou, Y. Lai*, and C.T. Chan, Arbitrary Control of Electromagnetic Flux in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media with Near-Zero Index, Physical Review Letters 112, 073903 (2014). 

X. Huang†, Y. Lai†, Z.H. Hang†, H. Zheng, and C.T. Chan, Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials, Nature Materials 10, 582-586 (2011). (cited by 630 times)

Y. Lai†, Y. Wu†, P. Sheng, and Z.-Q. Zhang, Hybrid elastic solids, Nature Materials 10, 620-624 (2011).  (cited by 313 times) Highlight: Neither Solid nor Liquid, Nature Materials 10, 565 (2011).

Y. Lai, J. Ng, H. Chen, D. Han, J. Xiao, Z.-Q. Zhang, and C.T. Chan, Illusion Optics: The Optical Transformation of an Object into Another Object, Physical Review Letters 102, 253902 (2009).  (Editor's Suggestion, cited by 516 times) Highlights: All smoke and metamaterials, Nature 460, 579 (2009).  Dream On, Nature Materials 8, 542 (2009).

Y. Lai, H. Chen, Z.-Q. Zhang, and C.T. Chan, Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell, Physical Review Letters 102, 093901 (2009).  (Editor's Suggestion, cited by 474 times) Highlights: Cloaking at a distance, Physics 2, 17 (2009). Invisibility Umbrella Would Let Future Harry Potters See the Light, Science 323, 701 (2009). Beyond the invisibility cloak, Nature 458, 128 (2009). 




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