Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Yin, Xiaobo Assistant Professor and the Bruce S. Anderson Faculty Fellow

Positions

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Physics
Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering and Applied Science

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Yin's research interest is to explore and eventually to control the optic and electronic properties, as well as the light-matter interactions in judiciously tailored nanostructures and nanomaterials, which encompasses nanoelectronics and photonics, plasmonics and electromagnetic metamaterials, nonlinear optics and biophotonics, nanomaterials synthesis and characterizations.

keywords

nanomaterials and nanostructures for artificially tailored optical, electric, and optoelectric properties

Publications

selected publications

conference proceeding
- Large Scale Random Metamaterial for Effective Day-time Radiative Cooling 2017
- Electrical Valley Excitation by Spin Injection in Monolayer TMDC 2015
- Metamaterials Assembled by Light 2015
- Bioelectrochemical oxidation of graphite drives graphene oxide production and electrosynthesis. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2015
- Exciton-related electroluminescence from monolayer MoS2 2014
- Nonlinear optics in zero index materials 2014
- Resonating Metasurface Photon and its Spin Manipulation 2014
- Selective Self-assembly of Symmetry-breaking Nanoplasmonic Structures 2014
- Coherence-Enhanced Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation Length 2013
- Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams beyond the paraxial limit 2013
- Single-emitter quantum electrodynamics in a one-dimensional dielectric continuum far beyond the diffraction limit 2013
- Three-dimensional Indefinite Metamaterial Nanocavities with Anomalous Scaling Law 2013
- Plasmon Nanolaser and Circuit. 149-150. 2012
- Directionality and Integration of Nanoscale Plasmon Lasers 2012
- Dynamically routing surface plasmon polaritons along arbitrary trajectories 2012
- Enhanced Optical Forces in Hybrid Plasmonic Devices 2012
- Gate-controlled Active Graphene Metamaterials 2012
- Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Optical Cavities of Indefinite Metamaterial 2012
- Graphene optical modulator. Proceedings of SPIE. 2011
- Phase Detection Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor in Infrared with Increased Sensitivity and Dynamic Range. 2588-2589. 2007
- Highly sensitive surface plasmon resonance chemical sensor based on Goos-Hanchen effects. Proceedings of SPIE. 2006
journal article
- Colloquium: Phononic thermal properties of two-dimensional materials. Reviews of Modern Physics. 2018
- Orthogonal programming of heterogeneous micro-mechano-environments and geometries in three-dimensional bio-stereolithography. Nature Communications. 2018
- Transitional Goos-Hanchen effect due to the topological phase transitions. Optics Express. 23705-23713. 2018
- Energy saving and economic analysis of a new hybrid radiative cooling system for single-family houses in the USA. Applied Energy. 371-381. 2018
- Programmable localized wrinkling of thin films on shape memory polymers with application in nonuniform optical gratings. Applied Physics Letters. 2018
- Polarization-controlled coherent phonon generation in acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces. Physical Review B. 2018
- Sensing coherent phonons with two-photon interference. New Journal of Physics. 2018
- Three-dimensional nanoscale imaging by plasmonic Brownian microscopy. Nanophotonics. 489-495. 2018
- Non-trivial Statistics and Correlation for Determining Phonon Coherence Using Photon Sideband Detection. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics. 020302-020302. 2018
- Understanding photon sideband statistics and correlation for determining phonon coherence. Physical Review B. 2018
- Modelling study of the low-pump-power demand constructal T-shaped pipe network for a large scale radiative cooled-cold storage system. Applied Thermal Engineering. 1564-1573. 2017
- Development of a single-phase thermosiphon for cold collection and storage of radiative cooling. Applied Energy. 1260-1269. 2017
- Harnessing Surface Wrinkling-Cracking Patterns for Tunable Optical Transmittance. Advanced Optical Materials. 2017
- Optical and acoustic metamaterials: superlens, negative refractive index and invisibility cloak. Journal of Optics. 2017
- Scalable-manufactured randomized glass-polymer hybrid metamaterial for daytime radiative cooling. Science. 2017
- Spin-dependent optics with metasurfaces. Nanophotonics. 215-234. 2017
- Propagation model for vector beams generated by metasurfaces. Optics Express. 21177-21189. 2016
- Electrical generation and control of the valley carriers in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide. Nature Nanotechnology. 597-+. 2016
- Radial spin Hall effect of light. Physical Review A. 2016
- Graphene oxide and H-2 production from bioelectrochemical graphite oxidation. Scientific Reports. 2015
- Rapid, all-optical crystal orientation imaging of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Applied Physics Letters. 2015
- High Purcell Factor Due to Coupling of a Single Emitter to a Dielectric Slot Waveguide (vol 15, pg 464, 2015). Nano Letters. 2763-2763. 2015
- Predicting nonlinear properties of metamaterials from the linear response. Nature Materials. 379-383. 2015
- Observation of piezoelectricity in free-standing monolayer MoS2. Nature Nanotechnology. 151-155. 2015
- High Purcell Factor Due To Coupling of a Single Emitter to a Dielectric Slot Waveguide. Nano Letters. 464-468. 2015
- Axial Plane Optical Microscopy. Scientific Reports. 2014
- Feedback-driven self-assembly of symmetry-breaking optical metamaterials in solution. Nature Nanotechnology. 1002-1006. 2014
- Nonreciprocal photonic crystal add-drop filter. Applied Physics Letters. 2014
- Interacting dark resonances with plasmonic meta-molecules. Applied Physics Letters. 2014
- Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide. Nature: New biology. 214-218. 2014
- Temperature-Gated Thermal Rectifier for Active Heat Flow Control. Nano Letters. 4867-4872. 2014
- Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering. Nature Communications. 2014
- Ultrafast acousto-plasmonic control and sensing in complex nanostructures. Nature Communications. 2014
- Brownian motion of tethered nanowires. Physical Review E. 2014
- Exciton-dominant electroluminescence from a diode of monolayer MoS2. Applied Physics Letters. 2014
- Edge Nonlinear Optics on a MoS2 Atomic Monolayer. Science. 488-490. 2014
- Demonstration of a large-scale optical exceptional point structure. Optics Express. 1760-1767. 2014
- Phase Mismatch-Free Nonlinear Propagation in Optical Zero-Index Materials. Science. 1223-1226. 2013
- Giant Suppression of Photobleaching for Single Molecule Detection via the Purcell Effect. Nano Letters. 5949-5953. 2013
- Plasmonic Brownian ratchet. Physical Review B. 2013
- One-way invisible cloak using parity-time symmetric transformation optics. Optics Letters. 2821-2824. 2013
- All-optical Hall effect by the dynamic toroidal moment in a cavity-based metamaterial. Physical Review B. 2013
- Lipid Bilayer-Integrated Optoelectronic Tweezers for Nanoparticle Manipulations. Nano Letters. 2766-2770. 2013
- Acoustic rainbow trapping. Scientific Reports. 2013
- Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces. Science. 1405-1407. 2013
- Quantum coherence-assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons. Applied Physics Letters. 2013
- Unidirectional light propagation at exceptional points. Nature Materials. 175-177. 2013
- Near-Interface Brownian Motion of Anisotropic Particles. Biophysical Journal. 672A-672A. 2013
- Anti-Hermitian Plasmon Coupling of an Array of Gold Thin-Film Antennas for Controlling Light at the Nanoscale. Physical Review Letters. 2012
- Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber Accelerating Beams. Physical Review Letters. 2012
- Switching terahertz waves with gate-controlled active graphene metamaterials. Nature Materials. 936-941. 2012
- Symmetry breaking and optical negative index of closed nanorings. Nature Communications. 2012
- Mapping the near-field dynamics in plasmon-induced transparency. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics. 2012
- Space-Time Crystals of Trapped Ions. Physical Review Letters. 2012
- Multiplexed and Electrically Modulated Plasmon Laser Circuit. Nano Letters. 5396-5402. 2012
- Optical toroidal dipolar response by an asymmetric double-bar metamaterial. Applied Physics Letters. 2012
- Reflective interferometry for optical metamaterial phase measurements. Optics Letters. 4089-4091. 2012
- Compact Magnetic Antennas for Directional Excitation of Surface Plasmons. Nano Letters. 4853-4858. 2012
- Experimental realization of three-dimensional indefinite cavities at the nanoscale with anomalous scaling laws. Nature Photonics. 450-454. 2012
- Photoinduced handedness switching in terahertz chiral metamolecules. Nature Communications. 2012
- Toroidal dipole response in a multifold double-ring metamaterial. Optics Express. 13065-13070. 2012
- Double-Layer Graphene Optical Modulator. Nano Letters. 1482-1485. 2012
- Proposed isotropic negative index in three-dimensional optical metamaterials. Physical Review B. 2012
- Optical negative refraction by four-wave mixing in thin metallic nanostructures. Nature Materials. 34-38. 2012
- No association of vitamin D intake or 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in childhood with risk of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes: the Diabetes Autoimmunity Study in the Young (DAISY). Diabetologia. 2779-2788. 2011
- Design, fabrication and characterization of indefinite metamaterials of nanowires. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 3434-3446. 2011
- Plasmonic Airy beams with dynamically controlled trajectories. Optics Letters. 3191-3193. 2011
- Three-dimensional nanometer-scale optical cavities of indefinite medium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 11327-11331. 2011
- A Carpet Cloak for Visible Light. Nano Letters. 2825-2828. 2011
- Magnetized Plasma for Reconfigurable Subdiffraction Imaging. Physical Review Letters. 2011
- A graphene-based broadband optical modulator. Nature: New biology. 64-67. 2011
- Experimental demonstration of low-loss optical waveguiding at deep sub-wavelength scales. Nature Communications. 2011
- Hybrid Photonic - Plasmonic Crystal Nanocavities. ACS Nano. 2831-2838. 2011
- Optical Forces in Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides. Nano Letters. 321-328. 2011
- Probing the electromagnetic field of a 15-nanometre hotspot by single molecule imaging. Nature: New biology. 385-+. 2011
- A holey-structured metamaterial for acoustic deep-subwavelength imaging. Nature Physics. 52-55. 2011
- The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 1-28. 2011
- Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies. Nature Communications. 2010
- Fluorescence enhancement by a two-dimensional dielectric annular Bragg resonant cavity. Optics Express. 25029-25034. 2010
- Magma mixing in upper mantle: Evidence from high Mg-# olivine hosted melt inclusions in MORBs near East Pacific Rise 13 degrees N. Chinese Science Bulletin. 1643-1656. 2010
- Overview: oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rainforest (the OP3 project): introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 169-199. 2010
- Experimental demonstration of an acoustic magnifying hyperlens. Nature Materials. 931-934. 2009
- Deriving depths of deep chlorophyll maximum and water inherent optical properties: A regional model. Continental Shelf Research. 2270-2279. 2009
- Mercury contamination in vicinity of secondary copper smelters in Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, China: Levels and contamination in topsoils. Environmental Pollution. 1787-1793. 2009
- A Study on Decreasing the Instrument Detection Limit of Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry (AFS-930) for Hg. Guangpuxue Yu Guangpu Fenxi. 1431-1433. 2009
- Predictions of Spatially Averaged Cadmium Contents in Rice Grains in the Fuyang Valley, PR China. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1126-1136. 2009
- [Arsenic contents in soil, water, and crops in an e-waste disposal area].. Huan Jing Ke Xue. 1713-1718. 2008
- [Characteristics of six elements contents in human hairs in the vicinity of metal smelting factories].. Huan Jing Ke Xue. 1376-1379. 2008
- The structure of the tame kernels of quadratic number fields (III). Communications in Algebra. 1012-1033. 2008
- An analytical algorithm with a wave age factor for altimeter wind speed retrieval. Remote Sensing Reviews. 5699-5716. 2008
- ANYL 45-Ultrahigh resolution surface plasmon resonance biosensor based on Goos-Hanchen effect. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2007
- Mercury-selenium association in antarctic seal hairs and animal excrements over the past 1,500 years. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 381-386. 2007
- Goos-Hanchen shift surface plasmon resonance sensor. Applied Physics Letters. 2006
- A 1500-year record of lead, copper, arsenic, cadmium, zinc level in Antarctic seal hairs and sediments. Science of the Total Environment. 252-257. 2006
- Temporal and spectral nonspecularities in reflection at surface plasmon resonance. Applied Physics Letters. 041102-041102. 2006
- Realtime study of plume ejection dynamics in silicon laser ablation under 5 ns pulses. Applied Physics Letters. 2006
- The structure of the tame kernels of quadratic number fields (II). Acta Arithmetica. 217-262. 2005
- Large positive and negative lateral optical beam displacements due to surface plasmon resonance. Applied Physics Letters. 372-374. 2004
- Summertime surface N2O concentration observed on Fildes Peninsula Antarctica: Correlation with total atmospheric O-3 and solar activity. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 204-210. 2004
- Domain observation and transition from giant magnetoresistance to anisotropy magnetoresistance in Ag1-x(Ni0.8CO0.2)(x) granular films. Solid State Communications. 719-723. 2003
- Formation of nanostructured copper filaments in electrochemical deposition. Physical Review E. 2003
- Formation of nanostructured copper filaments in electrochemical deposition. Physical Review E. 2003
- Near-field two-photon nanolithography using an apertureless optical probe. Applied Physics Letters. 3663-3665. 2002
- The orientation-selective growth of LaNiO3 films on Si(100) by pulsed laser deposition using a MgO buffer. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 545-549. 2002
- Modification of a YBa2Cu3O7-delta thin film using an atomic force microscope. Chinese Physics Letters. 854-856. 2002
- Orientation selective growth of MgO films on Si (100) by pulsed laser deposition. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 703-706. 2002
- Selective growth of (100)-, (110)-, and (111)-oriented MgO films on Si(100) by pulsed laser deposition. Journal of Applied Physics. 5728-5734. 2002
- SrBi4Ti4O15 thin films and their ferroelectric fatigue behaviors under varying switching pulse widths and frequencies. Journal of Applied Physics. 3160-3164. 2002
- Formation of arrays of straight copper wires on solid substrate by electrodeposition. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 1452-1455. 2001
- Transport properties, microstructures and domain observation in Ag1-x-(Ni0.8Co0.2)(x) granular films. Nanostructured Materials. 1437-1441. 2001
- Nanostructured copper filaments in electrochemical deposition. Physical Review Letters. 3827-3830. 2001
- Structural characterization of TiO2 thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition on GaAs(100) substrates. Applied Surface Science. 35-39. 2001
- Investigation of the structural and electrical properties of Sr1-xBi2.2Ta2O9 thin films with deficient Sr contents. Applied Surface Science. 307-312. 2001
- Magnetic properties and magnetic domain structure of Nd6Dy2Fe82Co4B6 nanocomposite magnets. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 296-298. 2001
- Epitaxial growth of TiO2 thin films by pulsed laser deposition on GaAs(100) substrates. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. 391-393. 2001
- Characterization of SrBi2Ta2O9 films prepared by metalorganic decomposition using rapid thermal annealing. Integrated Ferroelectrics. 253-259. 2001
- Growth and characterization of SrBi2Ta2O9 thin films prepared by rapid thermal annealing. Ferroelectrics. 1603-1608. 2001
- Effect of excess bismuth on the microstructures and electrical properties of strontium bismuth tantalate (SBT) thin films. Thin Solid Films. 215-219. 2000
- Preparation of (Ba0.5Sr0.5) TiO3 thin films by sol-gel method with rapid thermal annealing. Applied Surface Science. 309-314. 2000
- Surface morphology and structural observation of laser interference crystallized a-Si : H/a-SiNx : H multilayers. Applied Surface Science. 85-90. 2000
- Effects of processing on the characteristics of SrBi2Ta2O9 films prepared by metalorganic decomposition. Journal of Applied Physics. 1035-1041. 2000
- The giant magnetoresistance and domain observation of Co-35(SiO2)(65) nano-granular film. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 73-78. 1999
- Intrinsic instability of the concentration field in diffusion-limited growth and its effect on crystallization. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 1901-1905. 1999
- Intrinsic instability of the concentration field in diffusion-limited growth and its effect on crystallization.. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 1901-1905. 1999

Teaching

courses taught

MCEN 4848 Independent Study (Spring 2019)
MCEN 8999 Doctoral Thesis (Spring 2019)
ECEN 5840 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
MCEN 4228 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2018)
MCEN 4848 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
MCEN 5228 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2018)
MCEN 6228 Special Topics (Fall 2018)
MCEN 6848 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
MCEN 6949 Master's Degree Candidacy (Fall 2018)
MCEN 6959 Master's Thesis (Fall 2018)
MCEN 8999 Doctoral Thesis (Fall 2018)
MSEN 5919 Special Topics in MSE (Fall 2018)
MCEN 4848 Independent Study (Summer 2018)
MCEN 8999 Doctoral Thesis (Summer 2018)
MCEN 4848 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
MCEN 8999 Doctoral Thesis (Spring 2018)

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Stanford University 2008
M.S., Nanjing Univ of Sci & Tech (China) 2001

awards and honors

Moore Inventor Fellow (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), conferred by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2017

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ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8344-9166

Google Scholar

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