About me

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Education
2002 - 2007 (M.S. Ph.D.)	Electrical Engineering with minor in Applied Physics, Caltech
2001 - 2002	Aeronautics, Caltech
1998 - 2001 (M.S.)	Mechanics and Mechanical Eng, University of Science and Technology of China
1994 - 1998 (B.S.)	Mechanics and Mechanical Eng, University of Science and Technology of China


Honors
- Singapore Investigatorship Award, Singapore 09/2007
- Russell R. Vought Fellowship, Caltech 09/2001


Work experience
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering, Advisor: Axel Scherer 07/2007- Present
- RA, Nanofabrication group Caltech, Advisor: Axel Scherer 07/2002- 06/2007
- TA, "Solid-State Electronics for Integrated Circuits" Caltech 10/2002 - 03/2003


Publications

12. Zhang ZY, Liu V, and Scherer A, Electrically Pumped 2D Photonic Crystal Laser (in preparation).

11. Chen Y, Li ZY, Zhang ZY, Psaltis D, and Scherer A, Nanoimprinted Circular Grating Distributed Feedback Dye Laser, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 91 (5): Art. No. 051109 JUL 30 2007.

10. Zhang ZY, Yang L, Liu V, Hong T, Vahala K, and Scherer A, Visible Submicron Semiconductor Disk Laser, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 90 (11): Art. No. 111119 MAR 12 2007.

9. Zhenyu Li, Zhaoyu Zhang, Axel Scherer, and Demetri Psaltis, Mechanically tunable optofluidic distributed feedback dye laser, OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (22): 10494-10499 Oct 30 2006

8. Zhang ZY, Yoshie T, Zhu XL, Xu JJ, Scherer A, Visible Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slab Laser, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 89 (7): Art. No. 071102 AUG 14 2006

7. Li ZY, Zhang ZY, Emery T, Scherer A, Psaltis D, Single Mode Optofluidic Distributed Feedback Dye Laser, OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (2): 696-701 JAN 23 2006

6. Okamoto K, Neal TD, Zhang ZY, Wei DT, Scherer A, Molecular dynamics study of photochromic molecules probed by the mask pattern transferred transient grating technique, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 414 (1-3): 155-160 OCT 3 2005

5. Okamoto K, Zhang ZY, Scherer A, Wei DT, Mask pattern transferred transient grating technique for molecular-dynamics study in solutions APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 85 (21): 4842-4844 NOV 22 2004

4. Okamoto K, Zhang ZY, Wei DT, Scherer A, Photothermal molecular sensing by using metal thin-film nanograting for chemical and biomedical applications THIN SOLID FILMS 469-70: 420-424 DEC 22 2004

3. Shuhua Xu, Xiaojun Wang, Gangming Zhang, Juwei Chen, Zhaoyu Zhang; Experimental Investigation on Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Kevlar Fiber-Reinforced Composite Laminates, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS (CHINESE), Vol 16, 01 (2001)

2. Yongchi Li, Hongwu Wang, Songqing Jiang, Linfa Zhu, Zhaoyu Zhang; Research on the Thermal-viscoplastic Constitutive Relation of Damaged Materials and Numerical Simulation of Circular Tubes Fracture, EXPLOSION AND SHOCK WAVES (CHINESE), Vol 21, 02 (2001)

1. Wei Zhigang, Li Yongchi, Li Dahong, Zhang Zhaoyu, Li Sainan; Damage and Fracture Mechanism of TC 4 Cylindrical Shell under Inner Explosive Loading, JOURNAL OF BALLISTICS (CHINESE), Volume 04, 1999


Patents
1. Mechanically Tunable Elastomeric Optofluidic Distributed Feedback Dye Lasers

Presentations
9. “Ultrasmall Functional Lasers” College of Information Engineering, Zhe Jiang Univeristy of Technology, Nov., 2007
8. “Submicron Functional Semiconductor Lasers” Dept of Optical Engineering, Zhe Jiang University, Oct., 2007
7. Invited talk “Towards Functional Miniaturized Lasers” China Academy of Engineering Physics, China Oct., 2007
6. “Towards Electrically Pumped 2D Photonic Crystal Lasers” Frontiers in Optics 2007, San Jose, CA, Sept., 2006
5. Invited talk “Photonic crystal lasers” LEOS Photonics in Switching 2007, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2007
4. “Visible 2D Photonic Crystal Laser” CLEO/QELS 2007, Baltimore, MD, May 2007
3. “Visible Submicron Semiconductor Disk Laser” SPIE Photonic West 2007, San Jose, CA, Jan, 2007
2. Invited talk “ Where Fluidics and Optics Meet” Frontiers in Optics 2006, Rochester, NY, Oct., 2006
1. “Visible Planar Photonic Crystal Laser” Frontiers in Optics 2006, Rochester, NY, Oct., 2006


Lab skills
- Quantum well wafers layer design, photonic crystal laser cavity design using FDTD simulation software - Electron beam lithography Leica EBPG 5000+ and electron beam writer based on Hitachi 3500 SEM - Photolithography Heidelberg DWL laser writer system for making masks; Mask aligner - Dry etching RIE, ICPRIE - Electrode patterning Thermal evaporator and Electron beam evaporator - Furnace oxidation, SiO2 film deposition, Wet chemical etching. - Ion implantation and SIMS - Characteristic measurement of the laser devices, including the micro photoluminescence setup and time resolved measurement using streak camera.

Last updated: Nov 13 2007