{"609702":{"#nid":"609702","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech OSA Invited Speaker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Prof. Jie Yao,\u0026nbsp;University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Novel Optical Material Platforms for Nanophotonics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDate and Time:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Wednesday, August 15, 12:00-1:00 pm\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E Bunger-Henry Building, Room 388\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPizza\/Drinks will be provided!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELight is one of the most important carriers of energy\u0026nbsp;and information. Optical materials play important roles in the\u0026nbsp;future development of technologies that are based on the\u0026nbsp;generation, transmission and processing of light. In this talk,\u0026nbsp;I will introduce our recent efforts in 2 research directions on\u0026nbsp;optical materials. One is the investigation of optical\u0026nbsp;materials for novel metaphotonic applications. By\u0026nbsp;introducing materials with different optical responses to the\u0026nbsp;design of metamaterials, we are now able to achieve a\u0026nbsp;much wider range of optical functionalities. For example, by\u0026nbsp;utilizing a phase change material vanadium dioxide to\u0026nbsp;construct a completely reconfigurable \u0026ldquo;meta-canvas\u0026rdquo;, we\u0026nbsp;can easily write and erase a metaphotonic structure on the\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;canvas\u0026rdquo; and such processes can be repeated for at least\u0026nbsp;hundreds of times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other is the exploration of new materials with fundamentally new optical responses and\u0026nbsp;their\u0026nbsp;optoelectronic and nanophotonic applications, such as van der Waals materials with\u0026nbsp;semiconducting\u0026nbsp;properties. We have discovered room-temperature high-polarization valleytronic behaviors in a van\u0026nbsp;der Waals material, tin monosulfide (SnS), which has non-degenerate valleys due to its strong in-plane\u0026nbsp;anisotropy. I will discuss its unique performance and the physics behind those behaviors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProf. Jie Yao obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in\u0026nbsp;2010 and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University after that. He joined the\u0026nbsp;Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley as an assistant\u0026nbsp;professor in 2013. His research interests are mainly focused on optical materials and\u0026nbsp;nanophotonics, including the exploration of new material platforms, such as 2D\u0026nbsp;materials, phase changing materials, etc., for nanophotnic applications. Prof. Yao has\u0026nbsp;won the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and Early Career\u0026nbsp;award from SPIE. He is also a recipient of the Hellman Fellowship from the Hellman\u0026nbsp;Foundation and Bakar Fellowship from the Bakar Fellow program at UC Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Jie Yao from UC Berkeley will be giving a seminar on August 15 at 12 noon. The seminar is entitled \u0026quot;Novel Optical Material Platforms for Nanophotonics.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Jie Yao from UC Berkeley will be giving a seminar on August 15 at 12 noon. 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