Group Mission

We are dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach towards research that bridges the areas of nanoscale photonics, nanostructured materials, and plasmonics as well as their potential applications in optoelectronics and the biological sciences. The research topics transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines and are typically a combination of fundamental science exploration, engineering design and optimization, device fabrication and characterization, and various applications.

Recent News

Our new website is now live!! Check us out at www.zliugroup.com or www.zhaowei.us (Mar 2019)

Qingqing and Qian's paper on Array atomic force microscopy for real time multiparametric analysis was published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (Mar 2019)

Haoliang's paper on large optical nonlinearity enabled by coupled metallic quantum wells was published in Light: Science & Applications (Jan 2019)

Haoliang's paper on efficient light generation from enhanced inelastic electron tunnelling was published in Nature Photonics (July 2018)

     Related Press release: Jacobs School News, UC San Diego News, DOE Science News

The "Plasmonics and Super-Resolution Imaging" book edited by Prof. Liu was recently published. (Jun. 2017)

Joe's paper on LPSIM was published in ACS Nano (Jun. 2017)

Congratulations to Sonika who received the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship! (May 2017)

Hao and Li's paper on Optical Observation of Plasmonic Nonlocal Effects was published in Nano Letters (Feb. 2017)

Conor's paper on broadband absorption from hyperbolic metamaterial nanoparticles was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Jan. 2017)

     Related Press release: Jacobs School News, University of California News

Haoliang's paper on giant Kerr response of ultrathin gold films was published in Nature Communications (Oct. 2016)

Prof. Liu has been elected as OSA Fellow (Nov. 2015)

Congratulations to Dylan Lu for his ECE PhD thesis award (Aug. 2015)