Nicholas X. Fang

  • Title: D’Aberloff Career Development Associate Professor
  • Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Collaborators

  • A. Belcher, MIT
  • K. Bertoldi, Harvard
  • M. Boyce, MIT
  • A. Bratkovski, Hewlett-Packard
  • D. Cahill, UIUC
  • P. Doyle, MIT
  • P. Ferreira, UIUC
  • E. Hwang, Samsung MTC
  • K. Nelson, MIT
  • C. Spadaccini, LLNL
  • K. Toussaint, UIUC
  • E. Thomas, Rice University
  • S.-Y. Wang, Hewlett-Packard
  • L. Zhou, Fudan University

Graduate Students

  • M. Klug,  Research Assistant, ME
  • A. Kumar, Research Assistant, ME
  • Y. K. Lee, Research Assistant, ME

Support Staff

  • C. Duhart, Administrative Assistant

Publications

US Patent # 7,998,330, N. Fang, P. M. Ferreira, K. H. Hsu, P. Schultz, and A. Kumar, Direct Nanoscale Patterning of Metals Using Polymer Electrolytes.

Srituravanich W., Fang N., Sun C., Luo, Q., and Zhang X.,  “Plasmonic Nanolithography”, Nano Letters, Vol 4(6), pp1085-1088, (2004).

Fang N., Lee H., Sun C., and Zhang X.,  “Sub–Diffraction-Limited Optical Imaging with a Silver Superlens”, Science, Vol 308(5721), pp534-537, (2005).

Fang N., D. Xi, J. Xu, M. Ambati, C. Sun and X. Zhang, “Ultrasonic Metamaterials with Negative Modulus,” Nature Materials, Vol 5 (6), pp 452-456, (2006).

Hsu K. H., P. L. Schultz, P. M. Ferreira, and N. X. Fang, “Electrochemical Nanoimprinting with Solid-State Superionic Stamps,” Nano Letters, (2007) 7:2, 446-451.

Zhang, S., L. Yin and N. X. Fang, “Focusing Ultrasound with an Acoustic Metamaterial Network,” Phys. Rev. Lett, (2009) 102, art.no. 194301.

Chaturvedi, P., K. H. Hsu, A. Kumar, K. H. Fung, J. C. Mabon and N. X. Fang, “Imaging of Plasmonic Modes of Silver Nanoparticles Using High-Resolution Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy, ” ACS Nano, (2009), 3:10, 2965-2974.

C.G. Xia and N. X. Fang, “Fully three-dimensional micro fabrication with grayscale polymeric self-sacrificial structure”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, (2009) 19(11), art. no. 115029.

P. Chaturvedi, W. Wu, V. Logeeswaran, Z. Yu, M. Saif Islam, S. Y. Wang, R. Stanley Williams, and Nicholas X. Fang, “A smooth optical superlens”, Appl. Phys. Lett., (2010), 96, 043102.

Chern, W., Hsu K., Chun I.-S., de Azeredo B. P., Ahmed N., Kim K-H, Zuo J., Fang N., Ferreira P., and Li X., “Nonlithographic Patterning and Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching for Manufacturing of Tunable Light-Emitting Silicon Nanowire Arrays”, Nano Letters, (2010), 10:5, pp 1582-1588.

Lee H., C.G. Xia and N. X. Fang, “First Jump of a Microgel: Actuation Speed Enhancement by Elastic Instability,” Soft Matter, (2010) 6, pp4342-4345.

Zhang S., C.G. Xia, and N.X. Fang, “Broadband Acoustic Cloak for Ultrasound Waves”, Physical Review Letters, (2011), 106, art no 024301.

Ko K., A. Kumar, K.-H. Fung, R. Ambekar, G. L. Liu, N.X. Fang and K. Toussaint, Jr, “Nonlinear Optical Response from Arrays of Au Bowtie Nanoantennas”, Nano Letters, (2011), 11(1), pp 61-15.

Kumar A., K. H. Hsu, K. E. Jacobs, P.M. Ferreira, and N.X. Fang, “Direct metal nano-imprinting using an embossed solid electrolyte stamp”, Nanotechnology, (2011),  22(2), art no 155302.

Wang J., K. H. Fung, H.-Y. Dong, T. J. Cui, and N. X. Fang, “Zeeman splitting of photonic angular momentum states in a gyromagnetic Cylinder”, Physical Review B, (2011), 84(23), art no. 235122.

Roxworthy B. J., Kaspar D. Ko, Anil Kumar, Kin Hung Fung, K. C. Chow, G. Logan Liu, Nicholas X. Fang, and K. C. Toussaint, Jr., “Application of Plasmonic Bowtie Nanoantenna Arrays for Optical Trapping, Stacking, and Sorting”, Nano Letters (2012), 12(2), pp 796–801.

Cui Y., K. H. Fung, J. Xu, H. Ma, J. Yi, S. He, and N. X. Fang, “Ultra-broadband Light Absorption by a Sawtooth Anisotropic Metamaterial Slab”, Nano Letters(2012), 12 (3), pp 1443–1447.

Howon Lee, Jiaping Zhang, Hanqing Jiang, and Nicholas X. Fang, “Prescribed pattern transformation in swelling gel tubes by elastic instability”, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012), 108, art no.214304.

Faculty & Topics