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Prof. Yu-Jung Lu (呂宥蓉)

    Dr. Yu-Jung Lu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2013, and later joined Prof. Harry Atwater's research group at Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Lu is a renowned materials physicist who specializes in active plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurfaces. Her research focuses on plasmonic nanodevices that enable the harvesting, generation, and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. 
       Her notable work includes the discovery of new properties in ceramic plasmonic materials like conductive transition metal nitrides (TiN, HfN, NbN, ZrN, NbTiN). For the past few years, Dr. Lu has discovered several unique working mechanisms that use plasmonic nanostructures to improve the energy conversion efficiency of nanodevices by engineering the local strong electromagnetic (EM) field to enhance the nanoscale light-matter interaction. She is enthusiastically dedicated to the field of nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. In addition, she is an active member of MRS, SPIE, OPTICA, and serves as a referee for many prestigious journals. She has also chaired, co-chaired, and served as a committee member for international symposiums such as GNP, MRS Fall, META, SPIE O+P, and CLEO Pacific Rim. In 2021, she was selected as one of the SPIE Women in Optics Planners. She has been recognized with numerous awards and frequently speaks at international nanophotonics conferences (over 40 times invited talk). 
     Dr. Lu is an Associate Editor for APL Quantum, Advanced Photonics, and the Journal of Lightwave Technology. She has received several awards from Taiwan, including the 56th Taiwan Ten Outstanding Young Persons (2018), the Career Development Award (2018), the Youth Optical Engineering Medal of the Taiwan Photonics Society (2020), SPIE Senior Member (2023), MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenters (2024). Her research has been published in high-impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology and Science.

May. 2024 Update 

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Research Fields： 

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  • Plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metamaterials

  • 2D photonics and green photonics

  • Plasmonic transition metal nitride materials

  • Superconducting plasmonics

  • Atom-scale light-matter interaction

  • Ultrafast charge-carrier dynamics

 

​     光電材料科學/奈米光電元件物理/表面電漿子

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Education：


Ph.D. in Physics, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) (2013)

​國立清華大學 物理學系 博士 (2013)

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Experience：

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- Associate Research Fellow

  Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica (Oct. 2022 – )

  中央研究院 應用科學研究中心 副研究員

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- Assistant Research Fellow

  Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica (April 2017 –  Oct. 2022)

  中央研究院 應用科學研究中心 助研究員

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- Assistant Professor (Joint Appointment)

  Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (February 2018 – present)

  國立台灣大學 應用物理所 助理教授

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- Visiting Scholar

   Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of  Technology (Caltech) (May 2017 – present)

   美國加州理工學院 應用物理暨材料科學 訪問學者


- Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA     

   (May 2015 – April 2017)

   美國加州理工學院 應用物理暨材料科學 博士後研究員


- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan  (Oct 2013 – April 2015 )

   國立清華大學 物理系 博士後研究員

 

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Professional Services:

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- 台灣資訊儲存技術協會 理事 (2020~)

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- Advanced Photonics, Associate Editor 國際期刊副編輯 (2021/9~)

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- OSA Continuum, Associate Editor 國際期刊副編輯 (2021/9~2023)

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-  Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE), Associate Editor 國際期刊副編輯 (2022/1~)

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- APL Quantum, Associate Editor 國際期刊副編輯 (2023/11~)

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Awards:

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- "SPIE Senior Member" (2023)

   國際光電工程學會資深會員 (2023)

   https://spie.org/profile/Yu-Jung.Lu-4097149?SSO=1

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-台美雙邊合作計畫 (2021-2024)

 

-"SPIE Women in Optics Planner" (2021)

   國際光電工程學會 Women in Optics 封面人物之一 (2021)

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-"Youth Optical Engineering Award, Taiwan Photonics Society" (2020)

   中華民國光電學會  青年光電工程獎 (2020)

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- “Career Development Award, Academia Sinica” (2018)

   中央研究院前瞻計畫 (2018)

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- “56th Ten Outstanding Young Persons”  (2018)

   第56屆中華民國十大傑出青年 (2018)

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- “Postdoctoral Research Abroad Fellowship” Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (2014)

   科技部補助博士後赴海外研究計畫 (2014)


- “6th Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science”— Chui-Chu Mon Fellowship (2013)

   第六屆台灣傑出女科學家獎- 孟粹珠獎學金 (2013)


- “Chien-Shiung Wu Fellowship” Physical Society of the Republic of China (2013)

   中華民國物理學會- 吳健雄獎學金 (2013)


- The President's Scholarship of NTHU (2010)

   國立清華大學校長獎學金 (2010)


- The Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China (2010)

  中華民國斐陶斐榮譽學會會員 (2010)

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RESEARCH GRANTS

•    MOST “Study on Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Electrically Tunable Plasmonic Ceramic Nanosystems” under grant number MOST-106-2112-M-001-036-MY3. 10/2017-07/2020 (role: PI)
•    Career Development Award, Academia Sinica “Development of Energy-efficient Active Plasmonic/Nanophotonic Devices and Its Applications” under grant number AS-CDA-108-M08 01/2019-12/2022 (role: PI)
•    MOST “Development of Plasmonic Transition Metal Nitride Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Its Optoelectronic Applications” under grant number 109-2112-M-001-043-MY3. 08/2020-07/2023 (role: PI)
•    MOST ”Multi-Functional van der Waals Superlattices for Integrated Photonics” under grant number MOST-110-2124-M-001 -008 -MY3. 08/2021-07/2024 (Taiwan/USAF Program; role: PI)
•    NSTC” Temperature-Dependent Optoelectronic Properties of Plasmonic Transition Metal Nitrides: Fundamentals and Applications (1-3)” under grant number NSTC-112 -2112-M-001-045 08/2023-07/2026 (role: PI)

•   Thematic Research Program, Academia Sinica ” Exploring Emerging Metamaterials for Thermoplasmonics: A Promising Platform for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion” under grant number AS-TP-113-M02. 01/2024-12/2026 (role: PI)

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CHAIR/CO-CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

  1. Symposium Chair of “Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces”, 2023 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2023.

  2. Symposium Chair of “Flat Optics (FlatOptics)”, Optica Imaging Congress, Boston, MA, USA, Aug., 2023.

  3. Symposium Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XXI”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2023.

  4. Symposium Chair of “Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials—From Design to Applications”, 2022 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2022.

  5. Symposium Co-Chair of “Plasmonics and Metamaterials”, CLEO-PR2022, Sapporo, Japan, July, 2022.

  6. Symposium Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XX”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2022.

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  8. Symposium Chair of “Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, and Metaphotonics: Design, Materials, and Applications”, 2021 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2021.

  9. Symposium Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XIX”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2021.

  10. Symposium Chair of “Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces and zero-index optics” Meta 2021, Warsaw, Poland, Jul., 2021. virtual conference due to Covid-19

  11. Session Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XVIII”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2020. virtual conference due to Covid-19

  12. Conference Chair of 2019 Global Nanophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec., 2019.  

  13. Symposium Chair of “ Emerging Material Platforms and Approaches for Plasmonics, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces”, 2019 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Dec., 2019.

  14. Session Chair of the International Symposium on Plasmonics and Nano-photonics (iSPN 2019), Kobe, Japan, Nov., 2019.

  15. Session Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XVII”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2019.

  16. Session Chair of OSA Advanced Photonic Congress, San Francisco, Jul., 2019.

  17. Session Co-chair of ICMAT 2019, Singapore, Jun., 2019. 

  18. Session Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XVI”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2018.

  19. Session Co-chair of PIERS 2018, Toyama, Japan, Aug., 2018.

  20. Session Chair of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2017.

  21. Session Chair of “The 8th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP8)”, Taipei, Taiwan, May., 2017.

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COMMITTEE MEMBER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

  1. Symposium Organizer of “Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces”, 2023 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2023.

  2. Technical Program Committee of “Photonics: Devices / Integration / Related Technology”, SSDM2023, Nagoya, Japan Sep., 2023.

  3. Symposium Organizer of “Flat Optics (FlatOptics)”, Optica Imaging Congress, Boston, MA, USA, Aug., 2023.

  4. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XXI”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2023.

  5. Program Committee of “Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2023”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2023.

  6. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials—From Design to Applications”, 2022 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2022.

  7. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics and Metamaterials”, CLEO-PR2022, Sapporo, Japan, July, 2022.

  8. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XX”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2022.

  9. Program Committee of “Novel Optical Materials and Applications”, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2022, Netherland, Jul., 2022.

  10. Technical Program Committee of “2022 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials”, Japan, Sep. 2022.

  11. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, and Metaphotonics: Design, Materials, and Applications”, 2021 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Nov., 2021.

  12. Symposium Organizer of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XIX”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2021.

  13. Program Committee of “Novel Optical Materials and Applications”, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2021, Montreal, Canada, Jul.., 2021.

  14. Technical Program Committee of “2020 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials”, Japan, Sep. 2020. virtual conference due to Covid-19

  15. Program Committee of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2020. virtual conference due to Covid-19

  16. Symposium Organizer of “Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces and zero-index optics” Meta 2020, Warsaw, Poland, Jul., 2020. rescheduled due to Covid-19

  17. Program Committee of “Novel Optical Materials and Applications”, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2020, Montreal, Canada, Jul.., 2020. virtual conference due to Covid-19

  18. Symposium Organizer of “Emerging Material Platforms and Approaches for Plasmonics, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces”, 2019 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Dec., 2019.

  19. Conference Organizer of 2019 Global Nanophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec., 2019.

  20. Technical Program Committee of “The International Symposium on Plasmonics and Nano-photonics (iSPN 2019)”, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Nov., 2019.

  21. Program Committee of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2019.

  22. Program Committee of “Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications”, SPIE O+P, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug., 2018.

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Lecture:

-  National Taiwan University  General Physics (2019)

   國立台灣大學 普通物理

-  National Taiwan University  Plasmonics and NanophotonicsＩ(2021, 2022, 2024)

   國立台灣大學 奈米光學與電漿子學Ｉ

-  National Taiwan University  General Physics (2023)

   國立台灣大學 普通物理乙 (藥學系＋醫學相關科系)

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Membership:

 - MRS

 - SPIE

 - GRC

 - OSA

 - 中華民國物理學會

 - 中華民國光電學會

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Reviewer for scientific journal:  

 - Scientific reports

 - ACS Photonics

 - Light and Technology

 - Nanoscale

 - Nanoscale Research Letters

 - Advanced Optical Materials

 - Nano Letters

 - Science Advances

 - Nanophotonics

 - ACS Nano

 - Advanced Materials

 - Nature Nanotechnology

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Conference session committee/ referee:

 - SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA

 - MRS Fall, Boston, MA, USA

 - OSA Advanced Photonics Congress_NOMA

 - SSDM, Japan

 - OPTIC (Taiwan Photonics Society) 光電年會

 - The annual meetings of PSROC Taiwan 物理年會

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Selected publications:

  • Wei-Ren Syong, Jui-Han Fu, Yu-Hsin Kuo, Yu-Cheng Chu, Mariam Hakami, Tzu-Yu Peng, Jason Lynch, Deep Jariwala, Vincent Tung, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Enhancing Photogating Gain in Scalable MoS2 Plasmonic Photodetectors via Resonant Plasmonic Metasurfaces. ACS Nano (Accepted) (2024)

  • Jing-Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Daniel D. A. Clarke, Frank Daniel Bello, Jia-Wern Chen, Hao-Chen Yeh, Wei-Ren Syong, Chi-Te Liang, Ortwin Hess,* and Yu-Jung Lu*, Nanoscale Gap-Plasmon-Enhanced Superconducting Photon Detectors at Single-Photon Level. Nano Letters 23, 11387–11394 (2023)

  • Jui-Han Fu, Jiacheng Min, Che-Kang Chang, Chien-Chih Tseng, Qingxiao Wang, Hayato Sugisaki, Chenyang Li, Yu-Ming Chang, Ibrahim Alnami, Wei-Ren Syong, Ci Lin, Feier Fang, Lv Zhao, Chao-Sung Lai, Wei-Sheng Chiu, Wen-Hao Chang, Yu-Jung Lu, Kaimin Shih, Lain-Jong Li*, Yi Wan*, Yumeng Shi*, Vincent Tung*. Orientated Lateral Growth of Two-Dimensional Materials on C-plane Sapphire. Nature Nanotechnology 18, 1289–1294 (2023)

  • Zong-Yi Chiao, Yu-Chia Chen, Jia-Wern Chen, Yu-Cheng Chu, Jing-Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Wei-Ren Syong, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Shi-Wei Chu, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Full-Color Generation Enabled by Refractory Plasmonic Crystals. Nanophotonics 11, 2891–2899 (2022)

  • Meng-Ju Yu, Chih-Li Chang, Hao-Yu Lan, Zong-Yi Chiao, Yu-Chia Chen, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Yia-Chung Chang, Shu-Wei Chang, Takuo Tanaka, Vincent Tung, Ho-Hsiu Chou*, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Plasmon-Enhanced Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Titanium Nitride Metasurface Broadband Absorbers. ACS Photonics 8, 3125–3132 (2021). 

  • Hao-Yu Lan, Yu-Hung Hsieh, Zong-Yi Chiao, Deep Jariwala, Min-Hsiung Shih, Ta-Jen Yen, Ortwin Hess, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Gate-Tunable Plasmon-Enhanced Photodetection in a Monolayer MoS2 Phototransistor with Ultrahigh Photoresponsivity. Nano Letters 21, 3083–3091 (2021).

  • Yu-Jung Lu*, Teng Lam Shen, Kang-Ning Peng, Pi-Ju Cheng, Shu-Wei Chang, Ming-Yen Lu, Chih Wei Chu, Tzung-Fang Guo, and Harry Atwater*, Upconversion Plasmonic Lasing from an Organolead Trihalide Perovskite Nanocrystal with Low Threshold. ACS Photonics 8, 335–342 (2021).

  • Yu-Hung Hsieh, Bo-Wei Hsu, Kang-Ning Peng, Kuan-Wei Lee, Chih Wei Chu, Shu-Wei Chang, Hao-Wu Lin*, Ta-Jen Yen*, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Perovskite Quantum Dot Lasing in a Gap-Plasmon Nanocavity with Ultralow Threshold, ACS Nano 14, 11670–11676 (2020). (Issue cover)

  • Yu-Jung Lu, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Wen-Hui Cheng, Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh, Artur Davoyan, Ragip A. Pala, Krishnan Thyagarajan, and Harry A. Atwater*, Dynamically Controlled Purcell Enhancement of Visible Spontaneous Emission in a Gated Plasmonic Heterostructure, Nature Communications 8, 1631 (2017).

  • Yu-Jung Lu, Chun-Yuan Wang, Jisun Kim, Hung-Ying Chen, Ming-Yen Lu, Yen-Chun Chen, Wen-Hao Chang, Lih-Juann Chen, Mark I. Stockman, Chih-Kang Shih*, and Shangjr Gwo*, All-Color Plasmonic Nanolasers with Ultralow Thresholds: Auto-tuning Mechanism for Single-Mode Lasing. Nano Lett. 14, 4381-4388 (2014).

  • Yu-Jung Lu, Ming-Yen Lu, Yu-Chen Yang, Hung-Ying Chen, Lih-Juann Chen, and Shangjr Gwo*, Dynamic Visualization of Axial p–n Junctions in Single Gallium Nitride Nanorods under Electrical Bias. ACS Nano 7, 7640-7647 (2013).

  • Yu-Jung Lu, Jisun Kim, Hung-Ying Chen, Chihhui Wu, Nima Dabidian, Charlotte E. Sanders, Chun-Yuan Wang, Ming-Yen Lu, Bo-Hong Li, Xianggang Qiu, Wen-Hao Chang, Lih-Juann Chen, Gennady Shvets, Chih-Kang Shih*, and Shangjr Gwo*, Plasmonic Nanolaser Using Epitaxially Grown Silver Film. Science 337, 450-453 (2012).

Active Plasmonics
Y-J Lu et al. Nature Communications 8, 1631 (2017)
Plasmonic Nanolasers
Y-J Lu et al. Science 337, 450 (2012)
Y-J Lu et al. Nano Lett. 14, 4381(2014)
InGaN Nano LEDs
Y-J Lu et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 233101 (2011)
Nano Optoelectronic Devices
Y-J Lu et al. ACS Nano ,7, 7640(2013)
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