Qi-Huo Wei
Biography
Dr. Qi-Huo Wei鈥檚 research is currently focused on nanomanufacturing, material engineering, plasmonic photopatterning, liquid crystals, liquid crystal polymers, colloids
Education
Ph.D. Nanjing University, China
B.S. Nanjing University, China
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Chenhui Peng, Yubing Guo, Taras Turiv, Miao Jiang, Qi-Huo Wei, Oleg. D Lavrentovich, 鈥淧atterning of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals by Photoalignment with Photonic Metamasks鈥� Advanced Materials, (in Press) 2017
Matthew S. Lehnert, Andrew Bennett, Kristen E. Reiter, Patrick D. Gerard, Qi-Huo Wei, Miranda Byler, Huan Yan, Wah-Keat Lee 鈥淢outhpart conduit sizes of fluid-feeding insects determine the ability to feed from pores鈥� Proceedings of The Royal Society B 284, 20162026 (2017)
Yubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Oleg D Lavrentovich, Qi-Huo Wei 鈥淒esigns of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals鈥� Crystals 7, 8(2017)
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Qi-Huo Wei, Oleg. D Lavrentovich, 鈥淐ommand of active matter by topological defects and patterns鈥� Science 354, 882-885(2016)
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo, Sergei V Shiyanovskii, Qi-Huo Wei, Oleg D Lavrentovich 鈥淐ontrol of colloidal placement by modulated molecular orientation in nematic cells鈥� Science Advances 2, e1600932(2016)
Yubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Oleg Lavrentovich, Qi-Huo Wei 鈥淗igh鈥怰esolution and High鈥怲hroughput Plasmonic Photopatterning of Complex Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals鈥� Advanced Materials 28, 2353鈥�2358(2016)
Yubing Guo, S. Afghah, Jie Xiang, Oleg D Lavrentovich, Robin L. B. Selinger, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淐holesteric liquid crystals in rectangular microchannels: skyrmions and stripes鈥� Soft Matter 12, 6312-6320(2016)
Ayan Chakrabarty, Feng Wang, Kai Sun, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淓ffects of translation鈥搑otation coupling on the displacement probability distribution functions of boomerang colloidal particles鈥� Soft matter 12, 4318-4323(2016)
Chenhui Peng, Yubing Guo, Christopher Conklin, Jorge Vi帽als, Sergij V Shiyanovskii, Qi-Huo Wei, Oleg D Lavrentovich, 鈥淟iquid crystals with patterned molecular orientation as an electrolytic active medium鈥� Physical Review E 92, 052502(2015)
Feng Wang, Qi-Huo Wei, Han Htoon, 鈥淪witchable and non-switchable zero backscattering of dielectric nano-resonators鈥� Optical Materials Express 5, 668-675(2015)
Feng Wang, Qi-Huo Wei, Han Htoon, 鈥淕eneration of steep phase anisotropy with zero-backscattering by arrays of coupled dielectric nano-resonators鈥� Applied Physics Letters 105, 121112 (2014)
Ayan Chakrabarty, Andrew Konya, Feng Wang, Jonathan V. Selinger, Kai Sun, and Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淏rownian Motion of Arbitrarily Shaped Particles in Two Dimensions鈥�, Langmuir, 30, 13844鈥�13853 (2014).
Fred Minkowski, Feng Wang, Ayan Chakrabarty, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淩esonant Cavity Modes of Circular Plasmonic Patch Nanoantennas鈥�, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 021111 (2014).
Ayan Chakrabarty, Andrew Konya, Feng Wang, Jonathan V. Selinger, Kai Sun, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淏rownian Motion of Boomerang Colloidal Particles鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160603 (2013).
Ayan Chakrabarty, Feng Wang, Chun-Zhen Fan, Kai Sun, and Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淗igh-Precision Tracking of Brownian Boomerang Colloidal Particles Confined in Quasi Two Dimensions鈥�, Langmuir 29, 14396鈥�14402 (2013).
Feng Wang, Ayan Chakrabarty, Fred Minkowski, Kai Sun, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淧olarization conversion with elliptical patch nanoantennas鈥�, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 023101 (2012).
Ayan Chakrabarty, Feng Wang, Fred Minkowski, Kai Sun, Qi-Huo Wei 鈥淐avity modes and their excitations in elliptical plasmonic patch nanoantennas鈥� Opt. Express 20, 11615-11624 (2012)
Bhuwan Joshi, Ayan Chakrabarty, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淣umerical Studies of Metal鈥揇ielectric鈥揗etal Nanoantennas鈥�, IEEE Trans. in Nanotechnology 9, 701-707 (2010).
Bhuwan Joshi, Ayan Chakrabarty, Christopher Bruot, Hannah Ainsworth, Gail Fraizer, and Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淒NA-WT1 Protein Interaction Studied by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy鈥�, Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 396, 1415-1421 (2010).
Feng Wang, Min Xiao, Kai Sun, Qi-Huo Wei, 鈥淕eneration of Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Light through Concentric Circular Nanoslits in Ag Films鈥� Opt. Express 18, 63-71 (2010).
B. P. Joshi, Q. H. Wei, 鈥淐avity Resonances of Metal-Dielectric-Metal Nanoantennas鈥�, Opt. Express 16, 10315(2008).
F. S. Zhou, and Q. H. Wei, 鈥淪caling Laws for NanoFET Sensors鈥�, Nanotechnology 19, 015504 (2008)
J. Gu, R. Gupta, C. -F. Chou, Q. -H. Wei and Frederic Zenhausern, 鈥淎 simple Polysilsesquioxane Sealing of Nanofluidic Channels below 10 nm at Room Temperature鈥�, Lab-on-a Chip 7, 1198 (2007).
K.-H. Su, Q. -H. Wei, X. Zhang, 鈥淭unable and Augmented Plasmon Resonances of Au/SiO2 Nanodisks鈥�, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 063118 (2006).
Z. W. Liu, Q. -H. Wei, X. Zhang, 鈥淪urface Plasmon Interference Nanolithography (SPIN)鈥�, NanoLett., 5, 957-961 (2005).
Q.-H. Wei, K.-H. Su, S. Durant, X. Zhang, 鈥淧lasmon Resonance of Finite One-dimensional Nano Au Particle Chains鈥�, NanoLett. 4, 1067 (2004).
Q.-H. Wei and X. L. Wu, 鈥淕rain Boundary Dynamics under Mechanical Annealing in Two-dimensional Colloids鈥�, Phys. Rev. E 70: 020401 (2004).
K.-H. Su, Q.-H. Wei, X. Zhang, J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, 鈥淚nterparticle Coupling Effects on Plasmon Resonances of Nano Metallic Particles鈥�, NanoLett. 3, 1087 (2003).
Q. H. Wei, C. Demid, X. L. Wu, 鈥淐ontrolled assembly of 2D colloidal crystals with mechanic annealing鈥�, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 1641 (2000).
C. Bechinger, Q. H. Wei, P. Leiderer, 鈥淩eentrant melting of two-dimensional colloidal systems鈥�, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, A425 (2000).
Q. H. Wei, C. Bechinger, P. Leiderer, 鈥淪ingle-file diffusion of colloids in one-dimensional channels鈥�, Science 287, 625(2000).
Q. H. Wei, C. Bechinger, D. Rudhardt, P. Leiderer, 鈥淓xperimental study of laser induced melting in two-dimensional colloids鈥�, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2606 (1998).
Affiliations
Employment
2017-, Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, 天天吃瓜
2011-2017, Associate Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, 天天吃瓜
2006-2011, Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, 天天吃瓜
2003-2006, Staff Scientist, Center for Applied Nanobioscience, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
2001-2003, Postgraduate Researcher/Assistant Research Engineer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
2000-2001, visiting assistant professor, Wayen State University
1999-2000, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
1997-1999, A. v. Humboldt Senior Research Fellow, University of Konstanz, Germany
Expertise
Micro/Nanofabrication
Plasmonics
Optoelectronics
Nanosensors
Soft matter physics
Soft Matter
plasmonic nanophotonics
micor/nanomanufacturing
colloids
Liquid Crystal Polymer