Research

Research in photonic structures and wave control, spanning electromagnetic modeling, device design, and experimental characterization.

Microwave photonic crystals

Pseudospin-locked chiral edge states

Investigating pseudospin-selective chiral transport and photonic routing through full-wave modeling, sample design, and microwave experiments.

Modeling, design, experiments & manuscript preparation

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Microwave metasurfaces

Cavity-tunable Dirac phases & refraction

Studying how the cavity environment shapes photonic modes, with experimental measurements of Dirac phases and ongoing modeling of refraction.

Experimental measurements & refraction modeling

Manuscript in preparation; refraction study ongoingRead project

Terahertz photonic crystals

Terahertz chiral valley edge states

Modeling terahertz Chern–valley interfaces and assessing how magnetic bias, fabrication tolerances, and air layers affect the design.

Numerical modeling & design optimization · NTU

Simulation and design studyRead project

Synthetic gauge fields

Gauge-field photonic lattices

Exploring gauge-field-induced duality and Hofstadter-type spectra by connecting lattice models with electromagnetic simulations.

Tight-binding & full-wave modeling

Exploratory modelingRead project

Time-varying photonics

Photonic time crystals

Connecting Floquet band calculations with time-domain simulations using plane-wave expansion, temporal transfer matrices, and FDTD.

Numerical modeling

Ongoing research trainingRead project