Yongmin Liu
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office
- 267 Snell
- 617.373.4457
Lab
- 150 EC
- 617.373.2038
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Research Focus
Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
Education
- PhD (2009), Applied Science and Technology, University of California at Berkley
Honors & Awards
- Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award (2024)
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow (2023)
- Fellow Member of Optica (2023)
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Senior Member (2022)
- Faculty Fellow of College of Engineering, Northeastern University (2019)
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2017)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2016)
- SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Rising Researcher (2016)
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2016)
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (2009)
- TIME magazine Top 10 Scientific Discoveries and 50 Best Inventions of 2008
- DISCOVER magazine Top 100 Stories of 2008 (ranked No. 7)
- International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Scholarship Award (2008)
Teaching Interests
- Nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Materials properties and processing
- Dynamics and vibrations
Professional Affiliations
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
Research Overview
Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
Yongmin Liu Research Group
Interdisciplinary research that bridges engineering, optics, applied physics and nanoscience. Our research is a synergetic integration of fundamental science, nano material/structure design, and prototype device development. We are developing novel nano optical materials and devices for various applications including next-generation optical information processing, super-resolution imaging, efficient light harvesting and ultra-sensitive biomedical detection.
Selected Research Projects
- Nano-opto-mechanical Piezoelectric Resonant Infrared-sensitive Metamaterials for Quantum-Limited Photodetection
- – Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA
- CAREER: Spin Plasmonics for Ultrafast All-Optical Manipulation of Magnetization in Hybrid Metal- Ferromagnet Structures
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Chiroptical Sensing and Sorting by Structured Materials and Structured Light
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Multi-Functional Optical Meta-Systems Enabled by Deep-Learning-Aided Inverse Design
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Ma, Z., Liu, C., Kudyshev Z. A., Boltasseva, A., Cai, W., Liu, Y. M. (2021). Deep Learning for the Design of Photonic Structures, Nature Photonics 15, 77.
- Cheng, Z., Du, D., Wang, X. J., Cai, Z. Q., Li, L., Wang, C. T., Benabbas, A., Champion, P., Sun, N. X., Pan, L., Liu, Y. M. (2020). All‐Optical Helicity‐Dependent Switching in Hybrid Metal–Ferromagnet Thin Films, Advanced Optical Materials 8, 2000379.
- Cheng, F., Wang, C. T., Su, Z. X., Wang, X. J., Cai, Z. Q., Sun, N. X., Liu, Y. M. (2020). All-Optical Manipulation of Magnetization in Ferromagnetic Thin Films Enhanced by Plasmonic Resonances, Nano Letters 60, 6437.
- Li, L., Yao, K., Wang, Z. J., Liu, Y. M. (2020). Harnessing Evanescent Waves by Bianisotropic Metasurfaces, Laser and Photonics Reviews 14, 1900244.
- Ma, W., Cheng, F., Xu, Y.H., Wen, Q.L., Liu, Y.M. (2019). Probabilistic Representation and Inverse Design of Metamaterials Based on a Deep Generative Model with Semi-Supervised Learning Strategy, Advanced Materials 31, 1901111.
- Su, H., Shen, X., Su, G., Li, L., Ding, J., Liu, F., Zhan, P., Liu, Y. M., Wang, Z. (2018). Efficient Generation of Microwave Plasmonic Vortices via a Single Deep-Subwavelength Meta-Particle, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 12, 1800010.
- Ma, W., Cheng, F., Liu, Y.M. (2018). Deep-Learning-Enabled On-Demand Design of Chiral Metamaterials, ACS Nano, 12(6), 6326–6334.
- Wang, Z.J., Jing, L.Q., Yao, K., Yang, Y.H., Zheng, B., Soukoulis, C.M., Chen, H.S., Liu, Y.M. (2017). Origami-Based Reconfigurable Metamaterials for Tunable Chirality, Advanced Materials, 29, 1700412.
- Wang, L., Wang, Q., Xue, R. D., Chen, H. L., Guo, R. P., Liu, Y. M., Chen, J. (2017). Unidirectional Excitation of Radiative-Loss-Free Surface Plasmon Polaritons in PT-Symmetric Systems, Physical Review Letters 119, 077401.
- Wang, Z.J., Yao, K., Chen, M., Chen, H., Liu, Y.M. (2016). Manipulating Smith-Purcell Emission with Babinet Metasurfaces, Physical Review Letters, 117(15), 157401.
Feb 01, 2024
Faculty and Staff Awards 2024
The College of Engineering recognized faculty and staff at the annual faculty and staff awards event and thanked everyone for their hard work and dedication in support of our students, college, and university during the 2023-2024 academic year. View award recipients and photo gallery.
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those […]
May 15, 2023
Unidirectional Excitation and Reflection of Surface Plasmon Polaritons Using Non-Hermitian Metagratings
MIE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu’s group published their research on “Subwavelength Control of Light Transport at the Exceptional Point by Non-Hermitian Metagratings” in Science Advances.
Feb 14, 2023
$4 Million DARPA Grant for Ultra-Small, Fast, High-Resolution Infrared Sensors
Matteo Rinaldi, professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and director of the Northeastern SMART research center, is leading a $4 million DARPA grant under the DARPA Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) program.
Jan 25, 2023
Liu’s Optical Metasurfaces Research Published in Science
MIE/ECE associate professor Yongmin Liu published research in Science that details a new method of using engineered noise to augment the information capacity of an optical polarization multiplexing system.
Jan 06, 2023
Liu Selected as SPIE Fellow
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Nov 09, 2022
Liu Elected 2023 Fellow Member of Optica
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was elected as a 2023 Fellow Member of Optica (formerly OSA). He is being honored specifically for significant contributions to the fundamental and application of nanophotonics, particularly plasmonics and photonic metamaterials. Fellow membership in Optica is limited to no more than ten percent of the membership and is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes […]
Aug 25, 2022
Liu Selected as SPIE Senior Member
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a senior member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Apr 14, 2022
Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions Using Plasmonic Nanostructures
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu received a $466K NSF grant for “Elucidating and Controlling the Spectral, Spatial and Temporal Responses of Plasmonic Nanostructures based on a Data-Driven Approach.”