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Lei Kang

Assistant Research Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Electrical Engineering

301 Electrical Engineering East

814-865-2776

 
 

 

Education

  • PhD, Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2010

Publications

Books

  • Douglas Werner, Sawyer Campbell and Lei Kang, 2020, Nanoantennas and Plasmonics: Modelling, Design and Fabrication, IET

Journal Articles

  • Huanshu Zhang, Lei Kang, Sawyer D. Campbell and Douglas H. Werner, 2025, "Chat to chip: large language model based design of arbitrarily shaped metasurfaces", Nanophotonics, 14, pp. 3625-3633
  • Huanshu Zhang, Lei Kang, Sawyer D. Campbell and Douglas H. Werner, 2025, "Data driven approaches in nanophotonics: A review of AI-enabled metadevices", Nanoscale, 17, pp. 23788-23803
  • Galestan Mackertich-Sengerdy, Lei Kang, Sawyer D. Campbell and Douglas H. Werner, 2025, "Reconfigurable Metamirrors Based on Compliant Mechanisms", Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 10
  • Wei Wang, Shuai Sun, Wenjie Chen, Liangyu Zhang, Irfan Muhammad, Fang Xu, Wei Zhang, Yang Jiao, Lei Kang, Lei Kang, Douglas H. Werner, Zeren Li and Jia Li, 2025, "Polarization-Sensitive Photodetectors Enabled by Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated Organic Photodiodes", ACS Photonics, 12, pp. 2727-2735
  • Kang Du, Lei Kang, Chengyun Li, Wei Zhu, Mingfei Cheng, Yiyang Cai, Bohan Zhang, Douglas H. Werner and Shengxiang Wang, 2025, "3D Dielectric Chiral Metamaterials Achieving Nondispersive Near-Zero Ellipticity", 19, pp. 11
  • Xin Yu Wu, Hong Yuan Feng, Fengshuo Wan, Meng Wei, Chong Guo, Longzhu Cai, Fan Wu, Zhi Hao Jiang, Lei Kang, Wei Hong and Douglas Werner, 2024, "An Ultrathin, Fast-Response, Large-Scale Liquid-Crystal-Facilitated Multi-Functional Reconfigurable Metasurface for Comprehensive Wavefront Modulation", Advanced Materials, 36, pp. 2402170
  • Lei Kang, Yuhao Wu and Douglas Werner, 2023, "Nonlinear Chiral Metasurfaces Based on the Optical Kerr Effect", Advanced Optical Materials, 11, pp. 2202658
  • Eric B Whiting, Michael D Goldflam, Lei Kang, Michael B Sinclair, Katherine M Musick, Sawyer Campbell, D Bruce Burckel and Douglas Werner, 2022, "Broadband Asymmetric Transmission of Linearly Polarized Mid-Infrared Light Based on Quasi-3D Metamaterials", Advanced Functional Materials, 32, pp. 2109659
  • Yuhao Wu, Lei Kang and Douglas Werner, 2022, "Generalized P T Symmetry in Non-Hermitian Wireless Power Transfer Systems", Physical review letters, 129, pp. 200201
  • Peng Wang, Rui Hu, Xiaotian Huang, Teng Wang, Shulin Hu, Min Hu, Huanhuan Xu, Xiaoyu Li, Keshuai Liu, Shengxiang Wang, Lei Kang and Douglas Werner, 2022, "Terahertz Chiral Metamaterials Enabled by Textile Manufacturing", Advanced Materials, 34, pp. 2110590
  • Yuhao Wu, Sarah N Chowdhury, Lei Kang, Soham S Saha, Alexandra Boltasseva, Alexander V Kildishev and Douglas Werner, 2022, "Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Hybrid Metasurfaces Exhibiting Broadly Tunable Topological Properties", Nanophotonics, 11, pp. 3933-3942
  • Lei Kang, Yuhao Wu, Xuezhi Ma, Shoufeng Lan and Douglas Werner, 2021, "High-Harmonic Optical Vortex Generation from Photonic Bound States in the Continuum", Advanced Optical Materials, 10, pp. 2101497
  • Zehua Li, Lei Kang, Robert W Lord, Kyoungweon Park, Andrew Gillman, Richard A Vaia, Raymond Schaak, Douglas Werner and Kenneth Knappenberger, 2021, "Plasmon-Mediated Chiroptical Second Harmonic Generation from Seemingly Achiral Gold Nanorods", ACS Nanoscience Au, 2, pp. 32-39
  • Mikhail Y Shalaginov, Sawyer Campbell, Sensong An, Yifei Zhang, Rios Carlos, Eric B Whiting, Yuhao Wu, Lei Kang, Bowen Zheng, Clayton Fowler and others, 2020, "Design for Quality: Reconfigurable Flat Optics Based on Active Metasurfaces", Nanophotonics, 9, pp. 3505-3534
  • Yuhao Wu, Lei Kang, Huaguang Bao and Douglas Werner, 2020, "Exploiting Topological Properties of Mie-Resonance-Based Hybrid Metasurfaces for Ultrafast Switching of Light Polarization", ACS Photonics, 7, pp. 2362-2373
  • Lingfei Li, Junzhuan Wang, Lei Kang, Wei Liu, Li Yu, Binjie Zheng, Mark L Brongersma, Douglas Werner, Shoufeng Lan, Yi Shi and others, 2020, "Monolithic Full-Stokes Near-Infrared Polarimetry with Chiral Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated Graphene-Silicon Photodetector", ACS Nano, 14, pp. 16634-16642
  • Lei Kang, Cheng-Yu Wang, Xuexue Guo, Xingjie Ni, Zhiwen Liu and Douglas Werner, 2020, "Nonlinear Chiral Meta-mirrors: Enabling Technology for Ultrafast Switching of Light Polarization", Nano Letters, 20, pp. 2047-2055
  • Zhi Hao Jiang, Lei Kang, Taiwei Yue, He-Xiu Xu, Yuanjie Yang, Zhongwei Jin, Changyuan Yu, Wei Hong, Douglas Werner and Cheng-Wei Qiu, 2019, "A Single Noninterleaved Metasurface for High-Capacity and Flexible Mode Multiplexing of Higher-Order Poincare Sphere Beams", Advanced Materials, 32, pp. 1903983
  • Lei Kang, Huaguang Bao and Douglas Werner, 2019, "Interference-Enhanced Optical Magnetism in Surface High-Index Resonators: A Pathway Toward High-Performance Ultracompact Linear and Nonlinear Meta-Optics", Photonics Research, 7, pp. 1296-1305
  • Lei Kang, Ronald Jenkins and Douglas Werner, 2019, "Recent Progress in Active Optical Metasurfaces", Advanced Optical Materials, 7, pp. 1801813
  • Yusheng Bian, Qiang Ren, Lei Kang, Taiwei Yue, Pingjuan L Werner and Douglas Werner, 2018, "Deep-subwavelength Light Transmission in Hybrid Nanowire-Loaded Silicon Nano-Rib Waveguides", Photonics Research, 6, pp. 37-45
  • Zhi Hao Jiang, Lei Kang, Wei Hong and Douglas Werner, 2018, "Highly Efficient Broadband Multiplexed Millimeter-wave Vortices from Metasurface-enabled Transmit-arrays of Subwavelength Thickness", Physical Review Applied, 9, pp. 064009
  • Lei Kang, Sean P Rodrigues, Mohammad Taghinejad, Shoufeng Lan, Kyu-Tae Lee, Yongmin Liu, Douglas Werner, Augustine Urbas and Wenshan Cai, 2017, "Preserving Spin States upon Reflection: Linear and Nonlinear Responses of a Chiral Meta-Mirror", Nano Letters, 17, pp. 7102-7109
  • Zhihao Jiang, Lei Kang and Douglas Werner, 2017, "Conformal Metasurface-coated Dielectric Waveguides for Highly Confined Broadband Optical Activity with Simultaneous Low-Visibility And Reduced Crosstalk", Nature Communications, 8, pp. 356
  • Lei Kang, Qiang Ren and Douglas Werner, 2017, "Leveraging Superchiral Light for Manipulation of Optical Chirality in the Near-Field of Plasmonic Metamaterials", ACS Photonics, 4, pp. 1298-1305
  • Sean Rodrigues, Shoufeng Lan, Lei Kang, Yonghao Cui, Patrick Panuski, Shengxiang Wang, Augustine Urbas and Wenshan Cai, 2017, "Intensity-Dependent Modulation of Optically Active Signals in A Chiral Metamaterial", Nature Communications, 8, pp. 14602
  • Sarah J Boehm, Lei Kang, Douglas Werner and Christine D Keating, 2016, "Field-Switchable Broadband Polarizer Based on Reconfigurable Nanowire Assemblies", Advanced Functional Materials, 27, pp. 160470
  • Liu Liu, Lei Kang, Mayer Theresa and Douglas Werner, 2016, "Hybrid Metamaterials for Electrically Triggered Multifunctional Control", Nature Communications, 7, pp. 13236

Research Projects

  • June 2023 - June 2025, "Shaping Light Using 2D Polar Metal Metasurfaces," (Sponsor: NSF).

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We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.

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