Ruwen PENG is a distinguished professor in the School of Physics, Nanjing University, and a principal investigator at the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, China.

Ruwen PENG received her Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from Nanjing University, China in 1998. She was a research scientist at the Department of Applied Physics, Twente university, the Netherland, in 1994; and she worked as a visiting professor in IMM–CNR Institute, Italy, in 2001. Currently, she works at Nanjing University, China. Her research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials and plasmonics, photonic quasicrystals, phononic transport, and heat transfer in nanostructures. 

In addition, she serves as  the Deputy Director of the Committee for Micro/Nano Photonics of the Chinese Optical Society since 2016, the Vice Chair in Women in Physics Working Group of Chinese Physical Society (WIP, China-Beijing) since 2011, and the member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Working Group 5 since 2022. She received National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars by NSF of China in 2006, the Chinese Young Women Scientists' Award in 2011, and Xie Xide Award from the Chinese Physical Society in 2013.

i) Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics;

ii) Mechanism (Classical Physics);

iii) Wave Phenomena.

i) Nanophotonics;

ii) Metamaterials and plasmonics;

iii) Optoelectronics and its applications;

iv) Photonic crystals and quasicrystals;

v) Phononic transport, and heat transfer in nanostructures. 

Publications

More than 220 academic papers published in Science, Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Physical Review X, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Physical Review journals, etc.. Specifically about 30 papers published in Optics Express or Optics Letters.

Here are 10 recently selected publications.

1) Bo Xiong, Yu Liu, Yihao Xu, Lin Deng, Chao-Wei Chen, Jia-Nan Wang, Ruwen Peng*, Yun Lai, Yongmin Liu*, Mu Wang*,

 “Breaking the limitation of polarization multiplexing in optical metasurfaces with engineered noise”,

Science 379, 294-299 (2023).

2) Ya-Jun Gao, Zheng Wang, Yue Jiang, Ru-Wen Peng*, Zi-Yu Wang, Dong-Xiang Qi, Ren-Hao Fan, Wen-Jie Tang, and Mu Wang*,

 “Multichannel distribution and transformation of entangledphotons with dielectric metasurfaces”,

Physical Review Letters 129, 023601 (2022).

3) Fei Chen, Zihao Yang, Jing-Ning Li, Fei Jia, Fan Wang, Di Zhao, Ru-Wen Peng*, Mu Wang*,

“Formation of Magnetic Nanowire Arrays by Cooperative Lateral Growth”,

Science Advances 8, eabk0180 (2022).

4) Wei Ma*, Yihao Xu, Bo Xiong, Lin Deng, Ru-Wen Peng*, Mu Wang, and Yongmin Liu*,

“Pushing the limits of functionality-multiplexing capability in metasurface design based on statistical machine learning”,

Advanced Materials 34, 2110022 (2022).

5) Tongtong Song, Hongchen Chu, Jie Luo, Zizheng Cao, Meng Xiao, Ruwen Peng*, Mu Wang *, Yun Lai *, 

“Ultra-Compact Photonic Circuits Without Cladding Layers”,

Physical Review X 12, 011053 (2022).

6) Jie He, Cheng-Yao Li, Dong-Xiang Qi, Qing Cai, Yu Liu, Ren-Hao Fan, Jing Su, Pengcheng Huo, Ting Xu, Ruwen Peng*, and Mu Wang*, 

“Improving Photoelectric Conversion with Broadband Perovskite Metasurface”,

Nano Letters 22, 6655−6663 (2022).

7) Hongchen Chu, Xiang Xiong, Ya-Jun Gao, Jie Luo, Hao Jing, Cheng-Yao Li, Ruwen Peng*, Mu Wang*, Yun Lai*,

“Diffuse reflection and reciprocity-protected transmission via a randomflip metasurface”,

Science Advances 7, eabj0935 (2021).

8) Bo Xiong, Yihao Xu, Jianan Wang, Lin Li, Lin Deng, Feng Cheng, Ru-Wen Peng*, Mu Wang*, Yongmin Liu*, 

“Realizing colorful holographic mimicry by metasurfaces”,

Advanced Materials 33, 2005864 (2021).

9) Ya-Jun Gao, Xiang Xiong, Zhenghan Wang, Fei Chen, Ru-Wen Peng*, and Mu Wang*

“Simultaneous generation of arbitrary assembly of polarization states with geometrical -scaling-induced phase modulation”

Physical Review X 10, 031035 (2020).

10) Ren-Hao Fan, Bo Xiong, Ru-Wen Peng*, and Mu Wang*，

“Constructing Metastructures with Broadband Electromagnetic Functionality”

Advanced Materials 32, 1904646 (2020).