Yongmin Liu

Selected Publications

• Xiong, Bo, Liu, Yu, Xu, Yihao, Deng, Lin, Chen, Chao-Wei, Wang, Jia-Nan, Peng, Ruwen, Lai, Yun, Liu, Yongmin, Wang, Mu (2023). Breaking the limitation of polarization multiplexing in optical metasurfaces with engineered noise. Science, 379(6629),294-299. 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADE5140
• 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.

In the Media

Aug 28, 2024

Metamaterials Design via and for Computation

MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was featured in a Nature Computational Science Focus Q&A on “Metamaterials Design via and for Computation,” where he discussed the synergy between photonic metamaterials and AI.

Faculty

Aug 01, 2024

Revolutionizing Computing With Meta-ONNs

MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $467,930 NSF grant for “Design and Realization of Multiplexed Meta-Optical Neural Networks.” He will design and implement a novel class of metasurface-based ONNs, which can operate at optical frequencies and realize diverse functions.

Faculty

Jul 24, 2024

$1.5M NSF Grant To Develop New Photonic Materials

MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, are leading a $1.5 million NSF DMREF grant for “Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach.”

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

Jan 25, 2023

Liu’s Optical Metasurfaces Research Published in Science

MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu’s research on “Breaking the Limitation of Polarization Multiplexing in Optical Metasurfaces With Engineered Noise” was published in Science. It details a new method of using engineered noise to augment the information capacity of an optical polarization multiplexing system.

Faculty

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).

Faculty

Nov 09, 2022

Liu Elected 2023 Fellow Member of Optica

MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was elected 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.

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