News: 

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

新华日报 https://xh.xhby.net/pc/layout/202504/09/node_9.html#content_1437405  

简介：

课题组网页：https://lailab.nju.edu.cn

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

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

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年任苏州大学物理科学与技术学院特聘教授。2014-2018年任苏州大学物理科学与技术学院副院长。2018年3月加入南京大学物理学院。

赖耘教授研究人工微结构超构材料二十余年，至今发表180余篇SCI论文，包括1篇Science，2篇Nature Materials，11篇Physical Review Letters，2篇Physical Review X，5篇Nature Communications，2篇Science Advances，4篇Light Science & Applications等。论文获引用10000余次，多篇论文引用超过500次。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。70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。

赖耘教授的研究方向主要包括：

1）超构材料与超构表面原理

2）微波-太赫兹超构器件

3）透明哑光材料及应用

4）无包层波导系统及应用

5）隐身、幻象与平行空间原理

6）声学降噪与隐身技术

7）振动能量回收器件及应用

Selected Publications:

【2025】

C. Wang, J. Qin, H.Y. Liu, H.C. Chu*, W. Liu, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, "Electromagnetic Duality Metagratings for Transparency with Minimized Specular Reflection", ACS Photonics 12, 6141 (2025).

T.T. Song, Y.X. Jing, C.H. Shen, H.C. Chu, J. Luo, R.Q. Jia, C. Wang, M. Xiao, Z.Q. Zhang, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, C. T. Chan*, Y. Lai*, "Nonlocality-enabled photonic analogies of parallel spaces, wormholes and multiple realities", Nature Communications 16, 8915 (2025).

J.J. Shi, J. Luo*, C.K. Liu, H.C. Chu, Y.X. Jing, C.Q. Xu, X.Z. Liu*, J. Li* and Y. Lai*, "From directional to omnidirectional: meta-devices for ultrabroadband sound absorption with near-causality-limit performance", Materials Horizons 12, 9262 (2025).

J.J. Shi, H.C. Chu, A. Merkel, C.K. Liu, J. Christensen*, X.Z. Liu*, Y. Lai*, "Parity Metamaterials and dynamic acoustic mimicry", Research 8, 0826 (2025).

C.Q. Xu*, J.J. Shi, X.Z. Liu, Z.G. Chen*, Y. Wu*, Y. Lai*, Deterministic Double-Zero Media and Robust Wave Manipulation Using a Phononic Weyl Semimetal, Physical Review Letters 135, 046902 (2025).

【2024】

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). 

媒体报道: 

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  

新华日报 https://xh.xhby.net/pc/layout/202504/09/node_9.html#content_1437405

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

媒体报道: 

新华日报 https://xh.xhby.net/pc/layout/202504/09/node_9.html#content_1437405

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).

C. Wang, X. Li, H. Chu*, B. Liu, S. Miao, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang*, Y. Lai*, Programmable flip-metasurface with dynamically tunable reflection and broadband undistorted transmission, Nanophotonics 13, 2151 (2024).

【2023】

W.J. Ji, J. Luo*, H.C. Chu, X.X. Zhou, X.D. Meng, R.W. Peng*, M. Wang* and Y. Lai*, Crosstalk prohibition at the deep-subwavelength scale by epsilon-near-zero claddings, Nanophotonics 12, 2007 (2023).

Y.X. Jing, H.C. Chu, B. Huang, J. Luo, W. Wang* and Y. Lai*, A deep neural network for general scattering matrix, Nanophotonics 12, 2583 (2023).

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). 

媒体报道: 

Add noise for better multiplexing, Nature Photonics 17, 294 (2023).

【2022】

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). 

媒体报道: 

Cladding-Free Photonic Circuits Boost Dense On-Chip Integration, Physics 15, 39 (2022). 

Photonic waveguides shed their cladding, Physics Today 75, 6, 20 (2022).

【2021】

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).

T. Dong, J. Luo*, H.C. Chen, X. Xiang, R.W. Peng, M. Wang, Y. Lai*, Breakdown of Maxwell Garnett theory due to evanescent fields at deep-subwavelength scale, Photonics Research 9, 848 (2021).

【2020】

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).

【2018】

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).

【2016】

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)

【2015】

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).

【2014】

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). 

【2011】

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 1030 times)

Y. Lai†, Y. Wu†, P. Sheng, and Z.-Q. Zhang, Hybrid elastic solids, Nature Materials 10, 620-624 (2011).  (cited by 513 times) 

媒体报道: 

Neither Solid nor Liquid, Nature Materials 10, 565 (2011).

【2009】

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 816 times) 

媒体报道: 

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 774 times) 

媒体报道: 

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). 

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 180 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 10000. 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.

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

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

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