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most citedStructural Multi-Colour Invisible Inks with Submicron 4D Printing of Shape Memory Polymers

204 citations · 332 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2026

Enhancing Volumetric Optical Chirality through 2D-3D Structural Design Evolution

Chia-Te Chang, Xiaoyan Zhou, Dmitrii Gromyko +6

Circular dichroism (CD) sensing plays a pivotal role in probing molecular chirality in biomedical sciences. However, engineering superchiral electromagnetic fields that can reliabl…

physics.optics2025

Encoding orbital angular momentum of light in space with optical catastrophes

Xiaoyan Zhou, John You En Chan, Chia-Te Chang +6

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess an unbounded set of orthogonal modes, offering significant potential for optical communication and security. However, ex…

physics.optics2025

Inverse Design of Chiral Structures for Giant Helical Dichroism

Chia-Chun Pan, Munseong Bae, Hongtao Wang +5

Investigating chiral light-matter interactions is essential for advancing applications in sensing, imaging, and pharmaceutical development. However, the chiroptical response in nat…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Arbitrary Engineering of Spatial Caustics with 3D-printed Metasurfaces

Xiaoyan Zhou, Hongtao Wang, Shuxi Liu +6

Caustics occur in diverse physical systems, spanning the nano-scale in electron microscopy to astronomical-scale in gravitational lensing. As envelopes of rays, optical caustics re…

physics.optics2023★ 3 cited

3D Printed Multilayer Structures for High Numerical Aperture Achromatic Metalenses

Cheng-Feng Pan, Hao Wang, Hongtao Wang +8

Flat optics consisting of nanostructures of high-refractive-index materials produce lenses with thin form factors that tend to operate only at specific wavelengths. Recent attempts…

physics.optics2022

Colorful Optical Vortices with White Light Illumination

Hongtao Wang, Hao Wang, Qifeng Ruan +8

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However…

physics.optics2022

Tri-Functional Metasurface for Phase, Amplitude, and Luminescence Control

Soroosh Daqiqeh Rezaei, Zhaogang Dong, Hao Wang +7

In optical anti-counterfeiting, several distinct optically variable devices (OVDs) are often concurrently employed to compensate for the insufficient security level of constituent…

physics.optics2022★ 51 cited

Full Geometric Control of Hidden Color Information in Diffraction Gratings under Angled White Light Illumination

John You En Chan, Qifeng Ruan, Hongtao Wang +5

Under white light illumination, gratings produce an angular distribution of wavelengths dependent on the diffraction order and geometric parameters. However, previous studies of gr…

physics.app-ph2022

Overcoming Van der Waals Forces in reconfigurable nanostructures

Wang Zhang, Hao Wang, Alvin T. L. Tan +11

Reconfigurable metamaterials require constituent nanostructures to demonstrate switching of shapes with external stimuli. For generality, such nanostructures would touch and stick…

physics.optics2022

High-order Photonic Cavity Modes Enabled 3D Structural Color

Hailong Liu, Hongtao Wang, Hao Wang +8

It remains a challenge to directly print three-dimensional arbitrary shapes that exhibit structural colors at the micrometer scale. Woodpile photonic crystals (WPCs) fabricated via…

physics.optics2021

Reconfiguring colours of single relief structures by directional stretching

Qifeng Ruan, Wang Zhang, Hao Wang +7

Colour changes can be achieved by straining photonic crystals or gratings embedded in stretchable materials. However, the multiple repeat units and the need for a volumetric assemb…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Tunable Mie Resonances in the Visible Spectrum

Li Lu, Zhaogang Dong, Febiana Tijiptoharsono +7

Dielectric optical nanoantennas play an important role in color displays, metasurface holograms, and wavefront shaping applications. They usually exploit Mie resonances as supporte…

physics.optics2021★ 3 cited

Photonic Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Observed with an Electron Nanoprobe

Zhaogang Dong, Zackaria Mahfoud, Ramón Paniagua-Domínguez +8

Bound-states-in-the-continuum (BIC)is a wave-mechanical concept that generates resonances with vanishing spectral linewidths. It has many practical applications in Optics, such as…

physics.optics2020★ 67 cited

High-resolution light field prints by nanoscale 3D printing

John You En Chan, Qifeng Ruan, Menghua Jiang +5

A light field print (LFP) displays three-dimensional (3D) information to the naked-eye observer under ambient white light illumination. Changing perspectives of a 3D image are seen…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

Painting with Hue, Saturation, and Brightness Control by Nanoscale 3D Printing

Hao Wang, Qifeng Ruan, Hongtao Wang +7

Varying only the in-plane or out-of-plane dimensions of nanostructures produces a wide range of colourful elements in metasurfaces and thin films. However, achieving shades of grey…

physics.app-ph2020★ 204 cited

Structural Multi-Colour Invisible Inks with Submicron 4D Printing of Shape Memory Polymers

Wang Zhang, Hao Wang, Hongtao Wang +9

Four-dimensional (4D) printing of shape memory polymer (SMP) imparts time responsive properties to 3D structures. Here, we explore 4D printing of a SMP in the submicron length scal…