Weinan Liu

weinanl3@illinois.edu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

Sun Yat-sen University, M.S. in Optics, 2020

Sun Yat-sen University, B.S. in Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering, 2015

Research Interests

My research interest lies in the design and fabrication of nano-photonics devices especially for their notable electromagnetic properties in spectroscopic, imaging and sensing applications.

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Metaphotonics Group, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University

Advisors: Dr. Jianwen Dong and Dr. Fuli Zhao.

  • Narrow-band sharp angular filters using cascaded meta-gratings, 2019
  • High efficiency anomalous refraction of dielectric meta-grating, 2018
  • Spectroscopic research of dielectric meta-grating, 2017

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Metaphotonics Group, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University

Advisor: Dr. Jianwen Dong

  • Effective medium theory of metamaterial, 2014

Publications

  1. Wei-Nan Liu, Rui Chen, Wei-Yi Shi, Ke-Bo Zeng, Fu-Li Zhao, and Jian-Wen Dong, “Narrow-frequency sharp-angular filters using all-dielectric cascaded meta-gratings”. Nanophotonics, 9(10), 3443-3450, 2020.
  2. Wei-Yi Shi, Wei-Min Deng, Wei-Nan Liu, Ze-Peng Zhuang, Zhi-Bin Fan, and Jian-Wen Dong. “Rectangle dielectric metagrating for high-efficiency diffraction with large-angle deflection”. Chinese Optics Letters, 18(7): 07, 2020.

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate of Sun Yat-sen University, 2020.
  • Second Class Prize in University physics experiment designing competition of Guangdong province, 2012