Individual Resume: Wei Cai, the associate professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics Institute at Nankai University, was selected into Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program sponsored by Nankai University in 2014 and was awarded with the Jiecheng Lecture Funds of Nankai University in 2011. In recent years, he has published nearly 40 papers in the following high-level magazines: Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., Light: Sci.& Appl., 2D Mater., Phys. Rev. B, Appl. Phys. Lett., Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, etc., has presided over many scientific research projects, such as the projects fromNational Natural Science Foundationof China, and has also participated in the National Basic Research Program of China, Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team, etc. as the backbone.
Research directions: Micro-nano photonics and nonlinear optics
Research topic and academic works:
Mainly focus on the optical research in nano-micro systems, aim to study light localization, light field detection and light field control based on the surface plasmons, as well as to understand the interaction between light and materials in nanoscale. Representative papers:
1. In-plane electrical connectivity and near-field concentration of isolated graphene resonators realized by ion beams, Weiwei Luo, Wei Cai*, Yinxiao Xiang, Wei Wu, Bin Shi, Xiaojie Jiang, Ni Zhang, Mengxin Ren, Xinzheng Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Adv. Mater. 29, 1701083(2017)
2. Tailorable reflection of surface plasmons in defect engineered graphene, Weiwei Luo, Wei Cai*, Wei Wu, Yinxiao Xiang, Mengxin Ren, Xinzheng Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, 2D Mater. 3, 045001 (2016)
3. Tunable terahertz optical antennas based on graphene ring structures, Penghong Liu, Wei Cai*, Lei Wang, Xinzheng Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100,153111 (2012)
4. Controllable excitation of gap plasmons by electron beams in metallic nanowire pairs, Wei Cai*, Lei Wang, Xinzheng Zhang, Jingjun Xu, and F. J. Garcia de Abajo, Phys. Rev. B 82, 125454 (2010)
5. Efficient Generation of Propagating Plasmons by Electron Beams, Wei Cai, R. Sainidou, Jingjun Xu, A. Polman, and F. J. Garcia de Abajo, Nano Lett. 9, 1176-1181 (2009)
Preside over and participate in the relevant research topics:
1. Investigtion of aluminum plasmons in UV range by cathodoluminescence, General project of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2. The control of infrared light by using graphene plasmons, General project of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
3. Theoretical research on the applications of electron microscope in plasmonics, Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
4. Enhancement and control of optical nonlinear in nano/microstructure, National key research program of China (973 Program).
