Structured nanomaterials

Integrated nanophotonics

Quantum nanophtonics at room temperature

2026.07 Session Organizer

Metadevices: Emitters, Modulators, Sensors, and Detectors 1 & 2, PIERS, Suzhou

2023.11 Session Co-chair

International Workshop on Quantum Materials for 2D Photonics & Optoelectronics, Singapore

2023.06 Co-chair 

Gordon Research Seminar (Lasers in Micro, Nano and Bio Systems), USA

Editorial Board

Discover Nano, Nature Publishing group

Ad Hoc Reviewer                                                        

Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, ACS Photonics, Optica, Optics and Laser Technology, Optics Letters etc.

Member

Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society

2025    MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific

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 - now 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: 23, i10-index: 23, total citations > 3000]

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• First and corresponding author

• 1.   Lin, S.†; Ma, X.†; Liao, X.; Chen, Y.; Su, H.; Wang, D.* “Quantum Nanophotonics Enabled by Subwavelength Optical Nanocavities,”invited review, submitted

• 2.   Li, Z.; Su, H.; Wang, D.*; Cai, Y.*; Chen, X.*; Ao, X.* “Robust High-Q Resonances and Critical Coupling via Mirror-Enhanced Bound States in the Continuum”, submitted

• 3.  Bi, X.; Wang, D.*; Ao, X.* “All-Optically Tunable Self-Referenced Multibeam Visible Lasing Based on Silicon–Organic Hybrid Metasurfaces”, ACS Photonics 13, 18, 5434–5440 (2026) (*corresponding author)

• 4.   Zheng, H.; Huang, C.; Chen, Y.; Ji, Q.; Zhou, P.; Rong, C.; Tang, J.; Xuan, F.; Zhang, B.*; Ding, M.*; Wang, D.*; Deng, S.* MXene Nanoparticle Lattices Support Chemically Tunable Nanolasing, Laser & Photonics Reviews (2026) (*corresponding author)

• 5.   Wang, D.*; Lu, Z.; Warkander, S.; Gupta, N.; Wang, Q.; Ci, P.; Guo, R.; Li, J.; Javey, A.; Yao, J.; Wang, F.; Wu, J.* “Long-range Optical Coupling with Epsilon-near-zero Materials,”Nature Communications 16, 9172 (2025) (*corresponding author)(长程光学耦合)

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

• 7.   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)

• 8.   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) DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0445 (*corresponding author)(低损耗微纳波导)

• 9.   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)

• 10.   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)(极低阈值纳米激光)

• 11.   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)

• 12.   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) (应力可调纳米激光)

• 13.   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)(可控多模纳米激光)

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

• 15.  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)(室温单光子光源增强)

• 16.  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

• 17.   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)

• 18.   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)

• 19.   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)

• 20.   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)

• 21.   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)

• 22.   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)

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

• 24.   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)

• 25.   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)

• 26.   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)

• 27.   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)

• 28.   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)

• 29.   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)

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

• 31.   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)

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

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

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• Patent

• 1.   Hong, J.; Wu, J.; Wang, D. "Method and Apparatus of Hybrid Integrated Photonics Devices" (US Patent no. US12619027B2, May, 2026)

EDUCATION     

Fudan University                                                                         2024 – 

Assistant Professor

College of Future Information Technology

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light                   2023 – 2024 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Division: Vahid Sandoghdar

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

Miller Research Fellow

Faculty host: Junqiao Wu

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                 2019

Ph.D. in Applied Physics

Advisors: Teri W. Odom, George C. Schatz

Thesis: Manipulating Light-Matter Interactions with Plasmonic Nanoparticle Lattices 

Nanjing University, Nanjing, China                                         2013

B.S. in Physics 

Advisors: Tao Li, Shining Zhu