Research Areas:

Surface polaritons; nanophotonics; near-field optics; THz photonics 

Courses:

Optics; nonlinear optics; optical waveguide theory; near-field optics

Profile:

  Xuejin Zhang received his Ph. D. degree from the Nanjing University in 2004. Before he joined the Nanjing University in 2011, Xuejin Zhang worked as a postdoctor at the UC-Berkeley, Peking University, Nanyang Technological University, and City University of Hong Kong, respectively. Xuejin Zhang works in the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research is focused on manipulating the light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, which lead to sub-diffraction-limited devices and various field enhancement effects. He has experience in the study of nanomaterials, metamaterials, metasurfaces, nanophotonics, near-field optics, THz photonics, nonlinear optics, optomechanics, as well as surface polaritons. He is currently working on high-quality nanomaterials syntheses, strong coupling and nonlinear optical effects in cavity quantum electrodynamic systems, high-performance subwavelength photonic devices, high-efficiency light emitting devices, ultra-sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates, electrically driven polaritonic devices, miniaturized telecommunication devices, and integrated THz devices.

In Xuejin Zhang's group, a home-built optical measurement platform for nanophotonic research has been built up. The micro-confocal spectroscopy far-field system was integrated by fs/ps tunable pulse lasers, UV-VIS-IR spectrometers, time-correlated single-photon counting workstation, cryostat, etc, with the capability of angle-, time-, polarization-, temperature-, spatial and spectral resolutions. The scanning near-field optical microscope on the basis of NeaSNOM can fulfill nanometer spatial resolution from UV to IR to THz spectral range, as well as intensity and phase measurements of optical near field. Above far-field and near-field systems are connected together to realize more powerful performances. Apart from comprehensive facilities, simulation software was also equipped, such as Lumerical FDTD solutions, Comsol Multiphysics, and RSoft. The closely related funding support comes from the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0303700), the State Key Program for Basic Research of China (Grant Nos. 2010CB630703 and 2012CB921502), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11274159, 11174128 and 11374150).

Research Achievements:

Articles

Subwavelength photonics

Switchable Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with Toroidal Mode in a Graphene-Loaded All-Dielectric Metasurface

Guanghou Sun, Sheng Peng, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

Nanomaterials 10, 1064 (2020).

Particle trapping and beaming using a 3D nanotip excited with a plasmonic vortex

Kai Liu, Nicolò Maccaferri, Yuefeng Shen, Xueyun Li, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Xuejin Zhang, Yuri Gorodetski, and Denis Garoli

Opt. Lett. 45, 823 (2020).

Chiral plasmonic lens with Archimedes-spiral distributed nanoslits

Baifu Zhang, Changbao Hu, Baojie Tang, Jingjing Hao, Xuejin Zhang, Ming Sun, and Jianping Ding

J. Nanophotonics 13, 026008 (2019).

Q-factor enhancement of Fano resonance in all-dielectric metasurfaces by modulating meta-atom interactions

Guanghou Sun, Lierong Yuan, Yi Zhang, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

Sci. Rep. 7, 8128 (2017).

Polarization-independent broadband plasmonic absorber based on a silicon-nanowire array decorated by gold nanoparticles at the optical regime

Ying Han, Jian-An Huang, Xiao-Ying Liu, Xue-Jin Zhang, Jun-Xian Shi, and Chang-Chun Yan

Opt. Express 24, 9178 (2016).

Controlling the state of polarization via optical nanoantenna feeding with surface plasmon polaritons

Yu-Bo Xie, Zheng-Yang Liu, Qian-Jin Wang, Guang-Hou Sun, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 131102 (2016).

Asymmetric transmission and optical rotation of a quasi-3D asymmetric metallic structure

Shan Wu, Su Xu, Yi Zhang, Yanning Wu, Jianjuan Jiang, Qianjin Wang, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

Opt. Lett. 39, 6426 (2014).

Miniature polarization analyzer based on surface plasmon polaritons

Yu-Bo Xie, Zheng-Yang Liu, Qian-Jin Wang, Yong-Yuan Zhu, and Xue-Jin Zhang

Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 101107 (2014).

Double trapped modes due to the hybridization effect in a composite meander wire array

Xia-Mei Tang, Jian-Qiang Liu, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 47, 265304 (2014).

Tunable Fano resonance in hybrid graphene-metal gratings

Zhao-xian Chen, Jin-hui Chen, Zi-jian Wu, Wei Hu, Xue-jin Zhang, and Yan-qing Lu

Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 161114 (2014).

Hybrid plasmonic waveguide in a metal V-groove

Zhao-xian Chen, Zi-jian Wu, Yang Ming, Xue-jin Zhang, and Yan-qing Lu

AIP Adv. 4, 017103 (2014).

Sharp plasmonic resonances based on coupling of high order localized resonance and lattice surface mode in meta-molecules

Jian-Qiang Liu, Meng-Dong He, Dian-Yuan Wang, Xia-Mei Tang, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 47,045303 (2014).

Enhanced rotation of the polarization of a light beam transmitted through a silver film with an array of perforated S-shaped holes

Shan Wu, Zhao Zhang, Yi Zhang, Kaiyin Zhang, Lin Zhou, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 207401 (2013).

Converting surface plasmon to spatial Airy beam by graded grating on metal surface

Xiamei Tang, Lin Li, Tao Li, Qianjin Wang, Xuejin Zhang, Shining Zhu, and Yongyuan Zhu

Opt. Lett. 38, 1733-1735 (2013).

Hybridized effects of plasmonic quadrupolar and dipolar resonances on the perforated planar metallic film

Shan Wu, Lin Zhou, Qianjin Wang, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 46, 065302 (2013).

Gain-assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons via electrically pumped quantum wells

Xuejin Zhang, Yicen Li, Te Li, Shuh Ying Lee, Chengang Feng, Libo Wang, and Ting Mei

Opt. Lett. 35, 3075 (2010).

Negative index modes in surface plasmon waveguides: a study of the relations between lossless and lossy cases

Yuan Zhang, Xuejin Zhang, Ting Mei, and Michael Fiddy

Opt. Express 18, 12213 (2010).

Surface plasmon converging and diverging properties modulated by polymer refractive structures on metal films

D. G. Zhang, X.-C.Yuan, J. Bu, G. H. Yuan, Q. Wang, J. Lin, X. J. Zhang, P. Wang, H. Ming, and T. Mei

Opt. Express 17, 11315 (2009).

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Remarkable SERS Detection by Hybrid Cu2O/Ag Nanospheres

Shuanghua Sheng, Yinshuan Ren, Song Yang, Qianjin Wang, Peng Sheng, Xuejin Zhang, and Yingkai Liu

ACS Omega 5, 17703 (2020).

Synthesis of the hybrid CdS/Au flower-like nanomaterials and their SERS application

Chengxiang Yang, Chen Qing, Qianjin Wang, Xuejin Zhang, Jun Lou, and Yingkai Liu

Sens. Actuators B Chem. 304, 127218 (2020).

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of subwavelength metallic structures

Kang Qin, Lierong Yuan, Jun Tan, Sheng Peng, Qianjin Wang, Xuejin Zhang, Yanqing Lu, and Yongyuan Zhu

Acta Phys. Sin. 68, 147401 (2019).

Plasmonic band-edge modulated surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Lierong Yuan, Kang Qin, Jun Tan, Peng Bao, Guoxin Cui, Qianjin Wang, Stephen D. Evans, Yanqing Lu, Yongyuan Zhu, and Xuejin Zhang

Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 051601 (2017).

Atomic-Layer-Deposition Assisted Formation of Wafer-Scale Double-Layer Metal Nanoparticles with Tunable Nanogap for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Yanqiang Cao, Kang Qin, Lin Zhu, Xu Qian, Xuejin Zhang, Di Wu, and Aidong Li

Sci. Rep. 7, 5161 (2017).

Highly reproducible SERS substrate based on polarization-free Ag nanoparticles decorated SiO2/Si core-shell nanowires array

Xiao-Ying Liu, Jian-An Huang, Bo Yang, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

AIP Adv. 5, 057159 (2015).

Ordered Ag/Si Nanowires Array: Wide-Range Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Reproducible Biomolecule Detection

Jian-An Huang, Ying-Qi Zhao, Xue-Jin Zhang, Li-Fang He, Tai-Lun Wong, Ying-San Chui, Wen-Jun Zhang, and Shuit-Tong Lee

Nano Lett. 13, 5039 (2013).

Enhanced Raman scattering from vertical silicon nanowires array

Jian-An Huang, Ying-Qi Zhao, Xue-Jin Zhang, Lin-Bao Luo, Yan-Kuan Liu, Juan Antonio Zapien, Charles Surya, and Shuit-Tong Lee

Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 183108 (2011).

Metallo-Dielectric Photonic Crystals for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Yu Zhao, Xue-Jin Zhang, Jing Ye, Li-Miao Chen, Shu-Ping Lau, Wen-Jun Zhang, and Shuit-Tong Lee

ACS Nano 5, 3027 (2011).

SERS on periodic arrays of coupled quadrate-holes and squares

Yumin Hou, Jun Xu, Xuejin Zhang, and Dapeng Yu

Nanotechnology 21, 195203 (2010).

Localized surface plasmons, surface plasmon polaritons, and their coupling in 2D metallic array for SERS

Luping Du, Xuejin Zhang, Ting Mei, and Xiaocong Yuan

Opt. Express 18, 1959 (2010).

Surface-enhanced emission

Amplified spontaneous emission via the coupling between Fabry–Perot cavity and surface plasmon polariton modes

Jian-Juan Jiang, Yu-Bo Xie, Zheng-Yang Liu, Xia-Mei Tang, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

Opt. Lett. 39, 2378 (2014).

Surface-enhanced fluorescence of a dye-doped polymer layer with plasmonic band edge tuning

Jian-Juan Jiang, Feng Xu, Yu-Bo Xie, Xia-Mei Tang, Zheng-Yang Liu, Xue-Jin Zhang, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

Opt. Lett. 38, 4570 (2013).

Surface-Enhanced Emission from Single Semiconductor Nanoribbons

Xuejin Zhang, Hao Tang, Jian An Huang, Linbao Luo, Juan Antonio Zapien, and Shuit-Tong Lee

Nano Lett. 11, 4626 (2011).

Surface exciton-plasmon polariton enhanced light emission via integration of single semiconductor nanowires with metal nanostructures

Xuejin Zhang, Pengwei Wang, Xinzheng Zhang, Jun Xu, Yongyuan Zhu, and Dapeng Yu

Nano Res. 2, 47 (2009).

Biomedicine

Intracellular targeted delivery of quantum dots with extraordinary performance enabled by a novel nanomaterial design

Jun Wang, Jie Dai, Xuan Yang, Xiaoya Yu, Steven R. Emory, Xueqing Yong, Jinhua Xu, Ling mei, Jinbing Xie, Ning Han, Xuejin Zhang, and Gang Ruan

Nanoscale 11, 552 (2019).

Rational Design of Au@Pt Multibranched Nanostructures as Bifunctional Nanozymes

Jiangjiexing Wu, Kang Qin, Dan Yuan, Jun Tan, Li Qin, Xuejin Zhang, and Hui Wei

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10, 12954 (2018).

Integrated Nanozymes with Nanoscale Proximity for in Vivo Neurochemical Monitoring in Living Brains

Hanjun Cheng, Lei Zhang, Jian He, Wenjing Guo, Zhengyang Zhou, Xuejin Zhang, Shuming Nie, and Hui Wei

Anal. Chem. 88, 5489 (2016).

Nanomaterials

Enhanced second-harmonic generation in monolayer MoS₂ on suspended metallic nanostructures by plasmonic resonances

Qing Leng, Huanhuan Su, Jianqiang Liu, Lin Zhou, Kang Qin, Qianjin Wang, Junqi Fu, Shan Wu, and Xuejin Zhang

Nanophotonics 10, 1871 (2021).

Tunable and enhanced light emission in hybrid WS₂-optical-fiber-nanowire structures

Jinhui Chen, Jun Tan, Guangxing Wu, Xuejin Zhang, Fei Xu, and Yanqing Lu

Light: Sci. Appl. 8, 8 (2019).

Synthesis of WS_1.76Te_0.24 alloy through chemical vapor transport and its high-performance saturable absorption

Zhengting Du, Chi Zhang, Mudong Wang, Xuejin Zhang, Jian Ning, Xinjie Lv, Gang Zhao, Zhenda Xie, JinlongXu, and Shining Zhu

Sci. Rep. 9, 19457 (2019).

Ultrahighly Enhanced Performance of Single Cadmium Selenide Nanobelt by Plasmonic Gold Particles

Hanchun Li, Sheng Peng, Kang Qin, Qunquan Hong, Qiuhong Tan, Xuejin Zhang, Yingkai Liu, and Jun Lou

Phys. Status Solidi A 216, 1900454 (2019).

Sequential Self-Assembly of 1D Branched Organic Homostructures with Optical Logic Gate Function

Yichen Tao, Sheng Peng, Xuedong Wang, Zhizhou Li, Xuejin Zhang, and Liangsheng Liao

Adv. Funct. Mater. 28, 1804915 (2018).

Towards an all-in fiber photodetector by directly bonding few-layer molybdenum disulfide to a fiber facet

Jinhui Chen, Zhaohuan Liang, Lierong Yuan, Cheng Li, Minrui Chen, Yidong Xia, Xuejin Zhang, Fei Xu, and Yanqing Lu

Nanoscale 9, 3424-3428 (2017).

Synthesis of single-crystal low-loss LiB3O5 nanowire and its optical properties

Guang-yuan Qu, Cheng-wei Yang, Guo-xin Cui, Xue-jin Zhang, and Yan-qing Lu

Sci. Rep. 6, 39389 (2016).

Controlled growth and optical properties of hexagonal ZnO microdisks synthesized at ambient atmosphere

Lisha Cai, San Chen, Xuejin Zhang, and Yongyuan Zhu

Mater. Lett. 89, 327 (2012).

Carrier Dynamics in Si Nanowires Fabricated by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching

Hao Tang, Li-Guo Zhu, Liang Zhao, Xuejin Zhang, Jie Shan, and Shuit-Tong Lee

ACS Nano 6, 7814 (2012).

Near-field coupling effect between individual Au nanospheres and their supporting SiO₂/Si substrate

ChaoLing Du, YuMeng You, Kasim Johnson, HaiLong Hu, XueJin Zhang, and ZeXiang Shen

Plasmonics 5, 105 (2010).

Whispering gallery modes in single triangular ZnO nanorods

Xinzheng Zhang, Xuejin Zhang, Jiabin Xu, Xudong Shan, Jun Xu, and Dapeng Yu

Opt. Lett. 34, 2533 (2009).

Polarization-Dependent Confocal Imaging of Individual Ag Nanorods and Nanoparticles

ChaoLing Du, YuMeng You, XueJin Zhang, Kasim Johnson, and ZeXiang Shen

Plasmonics 4, 217 (2009).

Electrical and Photoresponse Properties of an Intramolecular p-n Homojunction in Single Phosphorus-Doped ZnO Nanowires

Ping-Jian Li, Zhi-Min Liao, Xin-Zheng Zhang, Xue-Jin Zhang, Hui-Chao Zhu, Jing-Yun Gao, K. Laurent, Y. Leprince-Wang, N. Wang, and Da-Peng Yu

Nano Lett. 9, 2513 (2009).

Fabrication of Oriented ZnO Nanorod Arrays and Their Optical Performances

B. Q. Wang, X. Z. Zhang, C. H. Xia, X. J. Zhang, J. Xu, P. W. Wang, H. G. Fu, L. Q. Jing, and D. P. Yu

J. Nanosci. Nanotechno. 9, 1113 (2009).

Excitation of dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton observed by using near-field optical microscopy

Zheyu Fang, Xuejin Zhang, Dan Liu, and Xing Zhu

Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 073306 (2008).

Room temperature ferromagnetism and optical tunability in Cu doped GaN nanowires

Pengwei Wang, Xuejin Zhang, Baiqi Wang, Jun Xu, and Dapeng Yu

Chinese Phys. Lett. 25, 3040 (2008).

Artificial structures

Quasi-phase-matched second harmonic generation of long-range surface plasmon polaritons

Guoxin Cui, Zijian Wu, Mengying Wang, Yang Ming, Zheng Xing, Kai Qiu, Lierong Yuan, Jun Tan, Xuejin Zhang, and Yanqing Lu

Opt. Express 26, 4194 (2018).

Terahertz surface polaritons

Xuejin Zhang, Yanqing Lu, Yanfeng Chen, Yongyuan Zhu, and Shining Zhu

Acta Phys. Sin. 66, 148705 (2017).

From Ewald sphere to Ewald shell in nonlinear optics

Huang Huang, Cheng-Ping Huang, Chao Zhang, Xu-Hao Hong, Xue-Jin Zhang, Yi-Qiang Qin, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

Sci. Rep. 6, 29365 (2016).

Mimicing Surface Phonon Polaritons in Microwave Band Based on Ionic-type Phononic Crystal

Xi-Kui Hu, Yang Ming, Xue-Jin Zhang, Yan-Qing Lu, and Yong-yuan Zhu

Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 151109 (2012).

Artificial phonon-plasmon polariton at the interface of piezoelectric metamaterials and semiconductors

Xuejin Zhang, Dongmin Wu, Cheng Sun, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 76, 085318 (2007).

Phonon-polaritons in quasiperiodic piezoelectric superlattices

Xue-jin Zhang, Yan-qing Lu, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yan-feng Chen, and Shi-ning Zhu

Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 3531 (2004).

Phonon-polariton dispersion and the polariton-based photonic band gap in piezoelectric superlattices

Xue-jin Zhang, Ran-qi Zhu, Jun Zhao, Yan-feng Chen, and Yong-yuan Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 69, 085118 (2004).

New type of polariton in a piezoelectric superlattice

Yong-yuan Zhu, Xue-jin Zhang, Yan-qing Lu, Yan-feng Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, and Nai-ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053903 (2003).

Integrated switchable reflector based on periodically poled acoustic superlattice LiNbO₃

Xue-jin Zhang, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yan-feng Chen, Zhi-liang Wan, Yan-qing Lu, and Nai-ben Ming

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 35, 1414 (2002).

TE-TM mode converter based on PPLN waveguide

Yuan-xin Xi, Quan Wang, Zhi-liang Wan, Xue-jin Zhang, Yan-qing Lu, and Nai-ben Ming

Ferroelectrics 253, 201 (2001).

Electo-optic spectral filter based on optical superlattice LiNbO₃

Yan-qing Lu, Quan Wang, Yuan-xin Xi, Zhi-liang Wan, Xue-jin Zhang, and Na-iben Ming

Ferroelectrics 253, 217 (2001).

Fabrication of the ionic-type phononic crystal and its long-wavelength optical properties

Yan-qing Lu, Quan Wang, Yuan-xin Xi, Zhi-liang Wan, Xue-jin Zhang, and Nai-ben Ming

Ferroelectrics 252, 289 (2001).

Miscellaneous

Impact of Metal Nanocrystal Size and Distribution on Resistive Switching Parameters of Oxide-Based Resistive Random Access Memories

Chang Liu, Lai-Guo Wang, Kang Qin, Yan-Qiang Cao, Xue-Jin Zhang, Di Wu, and Ai-Dong Li

IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 65, 4674 (2018).

TiO_xN_y Modified TiO₂ Powders Prepared by Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition for Highly Visible Light Photocatalysis

Yanqiang Cao, Xirui Zhao, Jun Chen, Wei Zhang, Min Li, Lin Zhu, Xuejin Zhang, Di Wu, and Aidong Li

Sci. Rep. 8, 12131 (2018).

Refractive index sensitivities of plane Ag nanosphere cluster sensors

Chaoling DuAuthor Vitae, BinBin WangAuthor Vitae, Fan SunAuthor Vitae, Mingli HuangAuthor Vitae, ChongJun HeAuthor Vitae, YouWen LiuAuthor Vitae, XueJin ZhangAuthor Vitae, and Daning Shi

Sens. Actuators B: Chem. 215, 142 (2015).

Defect states and charge trapping characteristics of HfO₂ films for high performance nonvolatile memory applications

Y. Zhang, Y. Y. Shao, X. B. Lu, M. Zeng, Z. Zhang, X. S. Gao, X. J. Zhang, J.-M. Liu, and J. Y. Dai

Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 172902 (2014).

Combinatorial studies of (1-x)Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃-xBaTiO₃ thin film chips

Hong-wei Cheng, Xue-jin Zhang, Shan-tao Zhang, Yan Feng, Yan-feng Chen, Zhi-guo Liu, and Guang-xi Cheng

Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2319 (2004).

Structural and optical properties of Bi_4-xNd_xTi₃O₁₂ thin films prepared by metal-organic solution deposition

Yue-hua Wang, Guo-ding Xu, Xue-jin Zhang, Yan Feng, Wei-shi Tan, Guang-xu Cheng, and Yong-yuan Zhu

Mater. Lett. 58, 813 (2004).

Enhanced room-temperature geometric magnetoresistance in a modified van der Pauw disk

Guo-liang Yuan, Jun-Ming Liu, Xue-jin Zhang, and Zhi-guo Liu

Mater. Lett. 56, 995 (2002).