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赖教授团队发明的透明哑光玻璃获选为“光学超构材料三年优秀成果”，“三年光电子领域优秀创新成果”。

NewScientist报道：https://www.newscientist.com/article/2422515-gold-flecks-make-super-transparent-glass-fully-opaque-from-one-side/

江苏卫视 · 江苏新时空报道：https://m.jstv.com/video/2024/4/13/1228789913586044928.html

江苏卫视 · 新闻眼报道：https://m.jstv.com/video/2024/4/13/1228776306156576768.html

湖南卫视 · 新闻大求真报道：https://www.mgtv.com/b/607797/21267736.html?t=videoshare&externalsource=v_play&tc=jXKKosRPSAN7&f=wxf&dc=460e2a59-50d0-4ece-a7f9-4f7267905969

南京日报报道：http://njrb.njdaily.cn/njrb/h5/html5/2024-04/12/content_53_146525.htm

金陵晚报报道：http://jlwb.njdaily.cn/h5/html5/2024-04/12/content_552_146426.htm

简介：

课题组网页：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。

赖耘教授研究人工微结构超构材料二十余年，至今发表160余篇SCI论文，包括1篇Science，2篇Nature Materials，9篇Physical Review Letters，2篇Physical Review X，4篇Nature Communications，2篇Science Advances，1篇Advanced Science，3篇Light Science & Applications，1篇Optica，2篇Laser & Photonics Reviews等。论文获得他引7000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），光学超构材料三年优秀成果奖（2024），三年光电子领域优秀创新成果奖（2024）等。

赖耘教授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透明哑光玻璃；

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。

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。 

课题组网页：https://lailab.nju.edu.cn

Biography:

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 more than 160 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 7000. 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

Selected Publications:

H. Chu, X. Xiong, N. X. Fang, F. Wu, R. Jia, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, Matte surfaces with broadband transparency enabled by highly asymmetric diffusion of white light, Science Advances 10, eadm8061 (2024). Highlights: New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2422515-gold-flecks-make-super-transparent-glass-fully-opaque-from-one-side/ 江苏卫视 · 江苏新时空 https://m.jstv.com/video/2024/4/13/1228789913586044928.html   江苏卫视 · 新闻眼 https://m.jstv.com/video/2024/4/13/1228776306156576768.html 湖南卫视 · 新闻大求真 https://www.mgtv.com/b/607797/21267736.html?t=videoshare&externalsource=v_play&tc=jXKKosRPSAN7&f=wxf&dc=460e2a59-50d0-4ece-a7f9-4f7267905969  南京日报 http://njrb.njdaily.cn/njrb/h5/html5/2024-04/12/content_53_146525.htm 金陵晚报 http://jlwb.njdaily.cn/h5/html5/2024-04/12/content_552_146426.htm. 

C.K. Liu, C. Ma, Y. Lai*, N.X. Fang*, Ultra-broadband illusion acoustics for space and time camouflages, Nature Communications 15, 8046 (2024).

H. Luo, J. Luo*, Z.H. Zhang, C. Wu, Q. Li, W. Liu, R.W. Peng, M. Wang, H.Q. Li*, and Y. Lai*, Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect, Light: Science & Applications 13, 262 (2024).

W. Ji, J. Luo*, T. Song, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, Cladding-Free Hyperbolic Waveguide Arrays, ACS Photonics 11, 2422 (2024).

R. Mei, Y.D. Xu, L. Gao, H.X. Xu*, Y. Lai*, and J. Luo*, Skin Effect of Electromagnetic Flux in Anisotropic Zero‐Index Metamaterials, Advanced Optical Materials 2401569 (2024).

R.Q. Jia, Y.X. Jing, H.C. Chu*, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, and Y. Lai*, Dewdrop Metasurfaces and Dynamic Control Based on Condensation and Evaporation, Advanced Science 2404010 (2024).

B. Xiong, Y. Liu, Y.H. Xu, L. Deng, C.-W. Chen, J.-N. Wang, R.W. Peng*, Y. Lai, Y.M. Liu*, M. Wang*, Breaking the limitation of polarization multiplexing in optical metasurfaces with engineered noise, Science 379, 294 (2023). Highlights: Add noise for better multiplexing, Nature Photonics 17, 294 (2023).

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).