Individual Resume
The associate professor, ‘100 Young Academic Leader Program’ Investigator in Nankai University. He was awarded PhD of Physics from Nankai University in 2012. He worked as an exchange academic student in Optoelectronics Research Centre of University of Southampton, and worked as a postdoctor in Foxconn nanotechnology research center in Tsinghua University. He undertook or participated as the backbone member in many scientific research projects such as major national research and development plan, National Basic Research Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.. His personal awards include the Prize for Important Achievements of Chinese Optics (2012), Wang Daheng Optics Award (2013), Rao Yutai Basic Optics Award (2013).
Research direction:
Nonlinear optics in micro/nano systems and its applications
Research topic and academic works:
At present, he has published about 20 papers in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Light: Science & Applications and other journals as the first or corresponding author. He participated in the compilation of book Advances in Nonlinear Optics Chapter of Germany De Gruyter Press. He holds 6 invention patents, including CN, US, UK patents. He also contributes to invited talks at major conference, and his researches have been highlighted by various media including ‘Optics.org’ and ‘Advances in Engineering’.
List of partial works:
1. Mengxin Ren, Eric Plum, Jingjun Xu, et al. Giant nonlinear optical activity in a plasmonic metamaterial. Nat. Commu., 3: 833 (2012).
2. Mengxin Ren, Wei Wu, Wei Cai, et al. Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light-polarization control by light. Light: Sci. & Appl., 6, e16254 (2017).
3. Mengxin Ren, Baohua Jia, Jun-Yu Ou, et al. Nanostructured plasmonic medium for terahertz bandwidth all-optical switching. Adv. Mater., 23(46): 5540 (2011).
4. Mengxin Ren, Mo Chen, Wei Wu, et al. Linearly Polarized Light Emission from Quantum Dots with Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays. Nano Lett., 15, 2951 (2015).
5. Bin Shi, Wei Cai, Xinzheng Zhang, et al. Tunable Band-Stop Filters for Graphene Plasmons Based on Periodically Modulated Graphene. Sci. Rep., 6, 26796 (2016).
6. Wei Wu, Mengxin Ren, Biao Pi, et al. Displacement sensor based on plasmonic slot metamaterials. Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 073106 (2016).
7. Wei Wu, Mengxin Ren, Biao Pi, et al. Scaffold metamaterial and its application as strain sensor. Appl. Phys. Lett., 107, 091104 (2015).
8. Chongpei Pan, Mengxin Ren, Qunqing Li, et al. Broadband Asymmetric Transmission of Optical Waves from Spiral Plasmonic Metamaterials. Appl. Phys. Lett., 104, 121112 (2014).
9. Mengxin Ren, Chongpei Pan, Qunqing Li, et al. Isotropic spiral plasmonic metamaterial for sensing large refractive index change. Opt. Lett., 38, 3133 (2013).
