Structured nanomaterials

Integrated nanophotonics

Quantum nanophtonics at room temperature

2023    Rising Stars of Light (3 awardees globally, before faculty track)

2022    Rising Stars in EECS, USA

2020    Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, USA

2019    Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley  

2018    Material Research Society Graduate Student Award (GSA) Silver Award

2018    Excellent Poster Award, Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Micro, Nano and Bio Systems

2018    Honorable Mention, International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Student Award

2017    Outstanding Research Award, International Institute for Nanotechnology (Northwestern University)

2013    Excellence Award in National Undergraduate Innovation Training Program, China

2024 – Fudan University                                             

Assistant Professor

Department of Optical Science and Engineering   

2023 – 2024 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light             

Postdoctoral Fellow

Division: Vahid Sandoghdar

2019 – 2023 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA           

Miller Research Fellow

Department of Materials Science and Engineering   

Faculty host: Junqiao Wu

2019 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL           

Ph.D. in Applied Physics

Co-advisors: Teri W. Odom, George C. Schatz                                                                          

2013 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China         

B.S. in Physics

[h-index: 22, i10-index: 23, total citations > 2500]

Patent

1.   Hong, J.; Wu, J.; Wang, D. "Method and Apparatus of Hybrid Integrated Photonics Devices" (US Patent no. 20240184039, June 6, 2024)

First and co-first author

1.   Wang, D.*; Yang, A. “Miniaturized optics from structured nanoscale cavities,” Progress in Quantum Electronics 94, 100507 (2024) (*corresponding author)

2.   Wang, D.; Hu, J.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Superlattice Surface Lattice Resonances in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays with Patterned Dielectrics,” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 14, 38, 8525–8530 (2023)

3.   Wang, D.*; Dong, K.; Li, J.; Grigoropoulos, C.; Yao, J.; Hong, J.; Wu, J.* “Low-loss, Geometry-invariant Optical Waveguides with Near-zero-index Materials,” Nanophotonics 11, 21, 4747–4753 (2022) (*corresponding author)

4.   Wang, D.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Guan, J.; Fumani, A.K.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Lasing from Finite Plasmonic Nanoparticle Lattices,” ACS Photonics 7, 630-636 (2020)

5.   Fernandez-Bravo, A.⁺; Wang, D.⁺; Barnard, E.S.; Teitelboim, A.; Tajon, C.; Guan, J.; Schatz, G.C.; Cohen, B.E.; Chan, E.; Schuck, P.J.; Odom, T.W. “Ultralow-threshold, Continuous-wave Upconverting Lasing from Subwavelength Plasmons,” Nature Materials 18, 1172–1176 (2019) (⁺equal contribution)

6.   Wang, D.; Guan, J.; Hu, J.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Odom, T.W. “Manipulating Light-matter Interactions in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Lattices,” Accounts of Chemical Research 52, 2997-3007 (2019)

7.   Wang, D.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Lee, W.; Li, R.; Trivedi, D.; Knudson, M.P.; Wang, W.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Stretchable Nanolasing from Hybrid Quadrupole Plasmons,” Nano Letters 18, 4549–4555 (2018)

8.   Wang, D.; Yang, A.; Wang. W.; Hua, Y.; Schaller, R.D.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Band-edge Engineering for Controlled Multi-modal Nanolasing in Plasmonic Superlattices,” Nature Nanotechnology 12, 889 (2017)

9. Wang, D.; Wang. W.; Knudson, M.P.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Structural Engineering in   Plasmon Nanolasers,” Chemical Reviews 118, 2865–2881 (2017)

10. Tran, T.T. ⁺; Wang, D.⁺; Xu, Z-Q.⁺; Yang, A.; Toth, M.; Odom, T.W.; Aharonovich, I. “Deterministic Coupling of Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials to Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays,” Nano Letters 17, 2634-2639 (2017) (⁺equal contribution)

11. Wang, D.; Yang, A.; Hryn, A.J.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Superlattice Plasmons in Hierarchical Au Nanoparticle Arrays,” ACS Photonics 2, 1789 (2015)

Co-author

12. Lin, Y.; Fan, L.; Jiang, M.; Wang, D.; He J.; Fu, Y.; Wang, J.; Zhang, X. “Ultrafast Dynamics of Strong Near-Field Coupled Localized and Delocalized Surface Plasmons,” Advanced Optical Materials, 2400109 (2024)

13. Dong, K.; Zhang, T.; Li, J.; Wang, Q.; Yang, F.; Rho, Y.; Wang, D.; Grigoropoulos, C.P.; Wu, J.; Yao J. “Flat bands in magic-angle bilayer photonic crystals at small twists,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223601 (2021)

14. Guan, J.; Sagar, L.K.; Li, R.; Wang, D.; Bappi, G; Wang, W.; Watkins, N.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Levina, L.; Fan, F.; Hoogland, S.; Voznyy, O.; Martins, J.; Schaller, R.D.; Schatz, G.C.; Sargent, E.H.; Odom, T.W. “Quantum dot-plasmon lasing with controlled polarization patterns,” ACS Nano 14, 3426–3433 (2020)

15. Guan, J.; Sagar, L.K.; Li, R.; Wang, D.; Bappi, G; Watkins, N.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Levina, L.; Fan, F.; Hoogland, S.; Voznyy, O.; Martins, J.; Schaller, R.D.; Schatz, G.C.; Sargent, E.H.; Odom, T.W. “Engineering Directionality in Quantum Dot Shell Lasing Using Plasmonic Lattices,” Nano Letters 20, 1468-1474 (2020)

16. Lin, Y.; Wang, D.; Hu, J.; Liu, J.; Wang, W.; Schaller, R.D.; Odom, T.W. “Engineering Symmetry-breaking Nanocrescent Arrays for Nanolasing,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 1904157 (2019)

17. Hu, J.; Wang, D.; Bhowmik, D.; Liu, T.; Deng, S.; Knudson, M.P.; Ao, X.; Odom, T.W. “Lattice-Resonance Metalenses for Fully Reconfigurable Imaging,” ACS Nano 13, 4613-4620 (2019)

18. Ao, X.; Wang, D.; Odom, T.W. “Enhanced Fields in Mirror-backed Low-Index Dielectric Structures,” ACS Photonics 6, 2612-2617 (2019)

19. Li, R.; Wang, D.; Guan, J.; Wang, W.; Ao, X.; Schatz, G.C.; Schaller, R.C.; Odom, T.W. “Plasmon nanolasing with aluminum nanoparticle arrays,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36, 104-111 (2019)

20. Liu, J.; Wang, W.; Wang, D.; Hu, J.; Ding, W.; Schaller, R.D.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Spatially Defined Molecular Emitters Coupled to Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116, 5925-5930 (2019)

21. Knudson, M.P.; Li, R.; Wang, D.; Wang, W.; Schaller, R.D.; Odom, T.W. “Polarization-Dependent Lasing Behavior from Low-Symmetry Nanocavity Arrays,” ACS Nano 13, 7435-7441 (2019)

22. Cherqui, C.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Wang, D.; Schatz, G.C. “Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances: Theory and Computation,” Accounts of Chemical Research 52, 2548-2558 (2019)

23. Li, R.; Bourgeois, M.R.; Cherqui, C.; Guan, J.; Wang, D.; Hu, J.; Schaller, R.D.; Schatz, G.C.; Odom, T.W. “Hierarchical Hybridization in Plasmonic Honeycomb Lattices,” Nano Letters 19, 6435-6441 (2019)

24. Hooper, D. C.; Kuppe, C.; Wang, D.; Wang, W.; Guan, J.; Odom, T.W.; Valev, V.K. “Second harmonic spectroscopy of surface lattice resonances,” Nano Letters 19, 165-172 (2018)

25. Wang, D.; Wang, W.; Odom, T.W. et al. “Roadmap on Plasmonics: Nanoarray Lasing Spasers,” Journal of Optics 20, 043001 (2018)

26. Trivedi, D.; Wang, D.; Odom, T.W.; Schatz, G.C. “Model for Describing Plasmonic Nanolasers Using Maxwell-Liouville Equations with Finite-difference Time-domain Calculations,” Phys. Rev. A. 96, 053825 (2017)

27. Yang, A.; Wang, D.; Wang, W.; Odom, T. W. “Coherent Light Sources at the Nanoscale,” Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 68, 83-99 (2017)

28. Wang, S.; Wang, D.; Hu, X.; Li, T.; Zhu, S. “Compact Surface Plasmon Amplifier in Nonlinear Hybrid Waveguide,” Chinese Physics B 25, 7 (2016)