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Education：
- Ph.D. in Physics, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) (2013)
Experience：
- Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences 中研院應科中心 副研究員/副教授 (2022/11~)
- Assistant Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences 中研院應科中心 助研究員/助理教授 (2017/4~2022/10)
- Joint Appointment Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, National Taiwan University 台大物理合聘助理教授 (2018/2~present)
- Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA 美國加州理工訪問學者 (May 2017 ~present)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 國立清華大學博士後研究員 (Oct 2013 – April 2015)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA 美國加州理工博士後研究員 (May 2015 – April 2017)
- Associate Editor of Advanced Photonics 國際期刊副編輯 (SPIE; 2021- present)
- Associate Editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology 國際期刊副編輯 (IEEE; 2022- present)
- Associate Editor of Optics Continuum 國際期刊副編輯 (Optica; 2021- present)
- Board members of Taiwan Information Storage Association (TISA), Taiwan 台灣資訊儲存技術協會_理事 (2020-present)
- 2019 MRS Fall, Boston, MA, USA (Symposium Chair)(2019,2021,2022)美國材料學會秋季會議主席
- 2019 Global Nanophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan (2019/12) (Conference Chair) 國際奈米光學研討會會議主席
- Meta 2020 (2020) Symposium Chair 國際超穎材料研討會會議主席
- SPIE O+P Symposium Chair (San Diego, 2021 ~present) 國際光電工程學會O+P研討會會議主席
- OSA Advanced Photonics Congress,SSDM, iSPN (Conference Committee)(2020)會議委員
- 2021 SPIE Women in Optics Planner 國際光電工程學會(2021)
- Youth Photonics Award, Taiwan Photonics Society 中華民國光電學會青年光電工程獎(2020)
- "Career Development Award, Academia Sinica" 中央研究院前瞻計畫 (2018)
- "56th Ten Outstanding Young Persons" 第56屆中華民國十大傑出青年 (2018)
- “Postdoctoral Research Abroad Fellowship” Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology 科技部補助博士後赴國外研究獎學金 (2014)
- Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science—Chui-Chu Mon Fellowship 台灣傑出女科學家孟粹珠獎學金(2013)
- “Chien-Shiung Wu Fellowship” Physical Society of the Republic of China 中華民國物理學會吳健雄獎學金(2013)
- The President's Scholarship of NTHU. 國立清華大學校長獎學金(2010)
- The Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China. 斐陶斐榮譽學會會員(2010)
Research Fields：
- Plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metamaterials
- Solar energy harvesting systems
- Plasmonic transition metal nitride materials
- Atom-scale light-matter interaction
- Ultrafast charge-carrier dynamics
Recent Publications：
- Chintam Hanmandlu, Rohan Paste, Hsinhan Tsai, Shyam Narayan SinghYadav, Kuan-Wen Lai, Yen-Yu Wang, Chandra Shekar Gantepogu, Chen-Hung Hou, Jing-Jong Shyue,Yu-Jung Lu, Tushar Sanjay Jadhav, Jian-Ming Liao, Hsien-Hsin Chou, Hui Qi Wong, Ta-Jen Yen, Chao-Sung Lai, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Sergei Tretiak, Hung-Ju Yen*, and Chih-Wei Chu*. 3D nanographene precursor suppress interfacial recombination in PEDOT: PSS based perovskite solar cells. Nano Energy 107, 108136 (2023)
- Mriganka Singh#, I-Hung Ho#, Anupriya Singh, Ching-Wen Chan, Jing-Wei Yang, Tzung-Fang Guo, Hyeyoung Ahn, Vincent Tung, Chih Wei Chu, and Yu-Jung Lu*. Unveiling Ultrafast Carrier Extraction in Highly Efficient 2D/3D Bilayer Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Photonics 9, 3584–3591(2022)
- Chih-Li Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin, Li-Yu Ting, Chin-Hsuan Shih, Shih-Yuan Chen, Tse-Fu Huang, Hiroyuki Tateno, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Wen-Yang Jao, Chen-Wei Tai, Che-Yi Chu, Chin-Wen Chen, Chi-Hua Yu, Yu-Jung Lu, Chi-Chang Hu, Ahmed M. Elewa, Takehisa Mochizuki, and Ho-Hsiu Chou*. Main-chain engineering of polymer photocatalysts with hydrophilic non-conjugated segments for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications 13, 5460 (2022).
- Li-Yu Ting, Yves Ira A. Reyes, Bing-Heng Li, Mohamed Hammad Elsayed, J. Ching-Wen Chan, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Chih-Li Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin, Yu-Jung Lu, Carmine Coluccini, Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen*, and Ho-Hsiu Chou*.Mechanistic Understanding of Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution on Pt Sites in Organic Nanohybrids Enhanced with Hydroxyl Additives. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 5, 7950–7955 (2022)
- Philipp Karl*, Sandra Mennle, Monika Ubl, Mario Hentschel, Philipp Flad,Jing Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Yu-Jung Lu, and Harald Giessen. Tunable infrared high absorbing polarization independent niobium nitride plasmonic perfect absorber nanowire photodetectors.Optical Materials Express 12, 2453-2461 (2022)
- Zong-Yi Chiao, Yu-Chia Chen, Jia-Wern Chen, Yu-Cheng Chu, Jing-Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Wei-Ren Syong, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Shi-Wei Chu, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Full-Color Generation Enabled by Refractory Plasmonic Crystals. Nanophotonics 11, 2891-2899 (2022)
- Sheng-Zong Chen, Jing-Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Yu-Cheng Chu, Ching-Chen Yeh, I-Fan Hu, Swapnil Mhatre, Yu-Jung Lu*, and Chi-Te Liang*, Disorder-Induced 2D Superconductivity in a NbTiN Film Grown on Si by Ultrahigh-Vacuum Magneton Sputtering. Superconductor Science and Technology 35, 064003 (2022)
- Pao-Wen Shao, Meng-Chin Lin, Qian Zhuang, Jiawei Huang, Shi Liu, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Hsiang-Lin Liu, Yu-Jung Lu, Yung-Jung Hsu, Jyh-Ming Wu, Yi-Chun Chen, and Ying-Hao Chu*, Flexo-phototronic Effect in Centro-symmetric BiVO4 Epitaxial Films. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 312, 121367 (2022)
- I Hong Ho, Ching-Wen Chang, Yen-Lin Chen, Wan-Yu Chang, Ting-Jui Kuo, Yu-Jung Lu, Shangjr Gwo*, and Hyeyoung Ahn*, Ultrathin TiN Epitaxial films as Transparent Conductive Electrodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 16839–16845 (2022)
- Le Thi Quynh, Chang-Wei Cheng, Chiao-Tzu Huang, Soniya Suganthi Raja, Ragini Mishra, Meng-Ju Yu, Yu-Jung Lu, and Shangjr Gwo*, Flexible Plasmonics Using Aluminum and Copper Epitaxial Films on Mica. ACS Nano 16, 5975–5983 (2022)
- Anisha Mohapatra, Hao-Wen Cheng, MohanLal Meena, Chih-Ang Lin, Kung-Hwa Wei, Yu-Jung Lu, Chih-Hao Lee, Shawn D. Lin, and Chih Wei Chu*, Sequential stacking of a thin BHJ layer acting as a morphology regulator for efficiency enhancement in non-fullerene ternary solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal 433, 134337 (2022)
- Yen-Hsiang Chen, Yu-Jung Lu, Jui-Yung Chang, and Yu-Bin Chen*, Impacts of Both Temperature and Condensation on the Band Gap of Photonic Crystals around the Freezing Point. Optical Materials 121, 111596 (2021)
- Meng-Ju Yu, Chih-Li Chang, Hao-Yu Lan, Zong-Yi Chiao, Yu-Chia Chen, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Yia-Chung Chang, Shu-Wei Chang, Takuo Tanaka, Vincent Tung, Ho-Hsiu Chou*, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Plasmon-Enhanced Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Titanium Nitride Metasurface Broadband Absorbers. ACS Photonics 8, 3125–3132 (2021).
- Pei-Lun Hsieh, Gautam Kumar, Yen-Yu Wang, Yu-Jung Lu, Lih-Juann Chen*, and Michael H. Huang*, Facet-Dependent Electrical Conductivity Properties of GaN Wafers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9, 15354–15358 (2021).
- Konthoujam James Singh, Xiaotong Fan, Annada Sadhu, Chun-ho Lin, Fang-Jyun Liou, Tingzhu Wu*, Yu-Jung Lu, Jr-Hau He, Zhong Chen, Tom Wu, and Hao-chung Kuo*, CsPbBr3 Perovskite Quantum-dot Paper Exhibiting Highest 3-dB Bandwidth and Realizing Flexible White-light System for Visible-light Communication. Photonics Research 9, 2341–2350 (2021).
- Hsin Yu Kuo, Sunil Vyas, Cheng Hung Chu, Mu Ku Chen, Xu Shi, Hiroaki Misawa, Yu-Jung Lu, Yuan Luo*, and Din Ping Tsai*, Cubic-Phase Metasurface for Three-Dimensional Optical Manipulation. Nanomaterials 11, 1730 (2021)
- Khant Minn, Aleksei Anopchenko, Ching-Wen Chang, Ragini Mishra, Jinmin Kim, Zhenrong Zhang, Yu-Jung Lu, Shangjr Gwo, and Ho Wai Howard Lee*, Enhanced Spontaneous Emission of Monolayer MoS2 on Epitaxially Grown Titanium Nitride Epsilon-Near-Zero Thin Films. Nano Letters, 21, 4928–4936 (2021).
- Ragini Mishra, Ching-Wen Chang, Abhishek Dubey, Zong-Yi Chiao, Ta-Jen Yen, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Yu-Jung Lu, and Shangjr Gwo*, Optimized Titanium Nitride Epitaxial Film for Refractory Plasmonics and Solar Energy Harvesting. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 125, 13658–13665 (2021).
- Pao-Wen Shao, Yi-Syuan Siao, Yu-Hong Lai, Ping-Yen Hsieh, Chun-Wen Tsao, Yu-Jung Lu, Yi-Chun Chen, Yung-Jung Hsu, and Ying-Hao Chu*, Flexible BiVO4/WO3/ITO/Muscovite Heterostructure for Visible-Light Photoelectrochemical Photoelectrode. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 21186–21193 (2021)
- Anupriya Singh, Po-Ting Lai, Anisha Mohapatra, Chien-Yu Chen, Hao-Wu Lin, Yu-Jung Lu, and Chih Wei Chu*, Panchromatic heterojunction solar cells for Pb-free all-inorganic antimony based perovskite. Chemical Engineering Journal 419, 129424 (2021).
- Hao-Yu Lan, Yu-Hung Hsieh, Zong-Yi Chiao, Deep Jariwala, Min-Hsiung Shih, Ta-Jen Yen, Ortwin Hess, and Yu-Jung Lu*, Gate-Tunable Plasmon-Enhanced Photodetection in a Monolayer MoS2 Phototransistor with Ultrahigh Photoresponsivity. Nano Letters 21, 3083–3091 (2021)
- Philipp Karl*, Sandra Mennle, Monika Ubl, Philipp Flad, Jing-Wei Yang, Tzu-Yu Peng, Yu-Jung Lu, and Harald Giessen,Niobium Nitride Plasmonic Perfect Absorbers for Tunable Infrared Superconducting Nanowire Photodetection.Optics Express 29, 17087-17096 (2021)
- Tse-An Chen, Meng-Ju Yu, Yu-Jung Lu, and Ta-Jen Yen*,Ultra-broadband, Lithography-free, Omnidirectional, and Polarization-insensitive Perfect Absorber.Scientific Reports 11, 5173 (2021)
- Anupriya Singh, Po-Ting Lai, Anisha Mohapatra, Chien-Yu Chen, Hao-Wu Lin, Yu-Jung Lu, and Chih Wei Chu*, Panchromatic heterojunction solar cells for Pb-free all-inorganic antimony based perovskite. Chemical Engineering Journal 419, 129424 (2021)
- Tse-An Chen, Ieng-Wai Un, Chih-Chung Wei, Yu-Jung Lu, Din Ping Tsai, and Ta-Jen Yen*, Alternating Nanolayers of Dielectric MgF2 and Metallic Ag as Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Probing Surface States and Optical Topological Phase Transition and Implications for Sensing Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials 4, 2211–2217 (2021)
- Anisha Mohapatra, Neha Singh, Anupriya Singh, Chun-Yen Lee, Yu-Jung Lu, Yu-Tai Tao, Chih-Hao Lee, and Chih Wei Chu*, Solution Processed Perovskite/Perovskite Heterostructure via Grafting-Assisted Transfer Technique.ACS Applied Energy Materials 4, 1962–1971 (2021)
- Yu-Jung Lu*, Teng Lam Shen, Kang-Ning Peng, Pi-Ju Cheng, Shu-Wei Chang, Ming-Yen Lu, Chih Wei Chu, Tzung-Fang Guo, Harry Atwater*, Upconversion Plasmonic Lasing from an Organolead Trihalide Perovskite Nanocrystal with Low Threshold. ACS Photonics 8,335-342 (2021)
- Mriganka Singh, Rei-Ting Yang, Da-Wei Weng, Hanlin Hu, Anupriya Singh, Anisha Mohapatra, Yu-Ting Chen, Yu-Jung Lu, Tzung-Fang Guo, Gang Li, Hong-Cheu Lin*, Chih Wei Chu*.Low-temperature Processed Bipolar Metal Oxide Charge Transporting Layers for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 221, 110870 (2020)
- Philipp Karl,* Monika Ubl, Mario Hentschel, Philipp Flad, Zong-Yi Chiao, Jing-Wei Yang, Yu-Jung Lu, and Harald Giessen, "Optical Properties of Niobium Nitride Plasmonic Nanoantennas for the Near- and Mid-Infrared Spectral Range" Optical Materials Express 10, 2597-2606 (2020).
- Wei-Yun Liang, Fangzhou Liu, Yu-Jung Lu, Jasminka Popović, Aleksandra Djurišić, and Hyeyoung Ahn*, "High Optical Nonlinearity in Low-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Polycrystalline Films." Optics Express 28, 24919-24927 (2020).
[ DOI:10.1364/OE.394172 ]
- Yu-Hung Hsieh, Bo-Wei Hsu, Kang-Ning Peng, Kuan-Wei Lee, Chih Wei Chu, Shu-Wei Chang, Hao-Wu Lin*, Ta-Jen Yen*, and Yu-Jung Lu*, “Perovskite Quantum Dot Lasing in a Gap-Plasmon Nanocavity with Ultralow Threshold.” ACS Nano 14, 11670–11676 (2020)
[ DOI:10.1021/acsnano.0c04224 ]
- Anupriya Singh, Svetozar Najman, Anisha Mohapatra, Yu-Jung Lu, Chintam Hanmandlu, Chun-Wei Pao, Yang-Fang Chen, Chao-Sung Lai, and Chih Wei Chu*, "Modulating Performance and Stability of Inorganic Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells via Lewis-pair mediation." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 12, 32649-32657 (2020).
- Anupriya Singh, Hung-Cheng Chen, Yang-Fang Chen, Yu-Jung Lu, Ken-Tsung Wong, Chih-Wei Chu*, "Core‐twisted tetrachloroperylenediimides: low‐cost and efficient non‐fullerene organic electron‐transporting materials for inverted planar perovskite solar cells." ChemSusChem. 13, 1-11 (2020).
- Hsu-Sheng Tsai, Yung-Hung Huang, Po-Cheng Tsai, Zong-Yi Chiao, Yi-Jia Chen, Hyeyoung Ahn, Shih-Yen Lin, Yu-Jung Lu* Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Scalable Monolayer MoS2 Synthesized by Metal Sulfurization. ACS Omega 5, 10725-10730 (Selected issue cover)(2020)
- C.H. Lin, T.Y. Li, J. Zhang, Z.Y. Chiao, P.C. Wei, H.C. Fu, L. Hu, M.J. Yu, G.H. Ahmed, X.W. Guan, C.H. Ho, T. Wu, B.S. Ooi, O.F. Mohammed, Yu-Jung Lu, X.S. Fang,* J.H. He* “Designed Growth and Patterning of Perovskite Nanowires for Lasing and Wide Color Gamut Phosphors with Long-Term Stability,” Nano Energy 73, 104801 (2020)
[ DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104801 ]
- Anupriya Singh, Nan-Chieh Chiu, Karunakara Moorthy Boopathi, Yu-Jung Lu, Anisha Mohapatra, Gang Li, Yang-Fang Chen, Tzung-Fang Guo*, and Chih-Wei Chu*, Lead-Free Antimony-Based Light-Emitting Diodes through the Vapor−Anion-Exchange Method. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 35088 (2019)
- Anisha Mohapatra, Anupriya Singh, Syed Ali Abbas, Yu-Jung Lu, Karunakara Moorthy Boopathi, Chintam Hanmandlu, Nahid Kaisar, Chih-Hao Lee, Chih-Wei Chu* "Bilayer polymer solar cells prepared with transfer printing of active layers from controlled swelling/de-swelling of PDMS" Nano Energy 63, 103826 (2019).
[ DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.06.022 ]
- Yu-Jung Lu, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Wen-Hui Cheng, Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh, Artur Davoyan, Ragip A. Pala, Krishnan Thyagarajan, and Harry A. Atwater* "Dynamic Controlled Purcell Enhancement of Visible Spontaneous Emission in a Gated Plasmonic Heterostructure" Nat. Comm. 8, 1631 (2017)
- S. Gwo, Y-J Lu, H-W Lin, C-T Kuo, C-L Wu, M-Y Lu, L-J Chen,”Nitride Semiconductor Nanorod Heterostructures for Full-Color and White-Light Applications.” Semiconductors and Semimetals 96, 341-384 (2017)
- Chih-Shan Tan, Yu-Jung Lu, Chun-Chi Chen, Pei-Hsuan Liu, Shangjr Gwo, Guang-Yu Guo, Lih-Juann Chen. Magnetic MoS2 Interface Monolayer on CdS Nanowire by Cation Exchange. J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 23055–23060 (2016).
- Shan Huang, Chun-Yuan Wang, Hung-Ying Chen, Meng-Hsien Lin, Yu-Jung Lu and Shangjr Gwo*, “Dual-Band Planar Plasmonic Unidirectional Launching in a Semiannular Apertures Array.”ACS Photonics 3, 584(2016).
- Xiang Zhou, Ming-Yen Lu, Yu-Jung Lu, Eric J. Jones, Shangjr Gwo, and Silvija Gradecak, “Nanoscale Optical Properties of Indium Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride Nanodisk-in-Rod Heterostructures.” ACS Nano 9, 2868 (2015).
- Yu-Jung Lu, Chun-Yuan Wang, Jisun Kim, Hung-Ying Chen, Ming-Yen Lu, Yen-Chun Chen, Wen-Hao Chang, Lih-Juann Chen, Mark I. Stockman, Chih-Kang Shih,* and Shangjr Gwo*, “All-Color Plasmonic Nanolasers with Ultralow Thresholds: Auto-tuning Mechanism for Single-Mode Lasing.” Nano Lett. 14, 4381 (2014).
- Yin-Cheng Yen, Jing-Zhi Chen,Yu-Jung Lu, Shangjr Gwo and Kuan-Jiuh Lin, “Chain-network anatase/TiO2 (B) thin film with improved photocatalytic efficiency.” Nanotechnology, 25, 235602 (2014).
- Yu-Jung Lu, Ming-Yen Lu, Yu-Chen Yang, Hung-Ying Chen, Lih-Juann Chen, and Shangjr Gwo*, “Dynamic Visualization of Axial p–n Junctions in Single Gallium Nitride Nanorods under Electrical Bias.” ACS Nano ,7, 7640(2013).
- Xiang Zhou, Ming-Yen Lu,Yu-Jung Lu, Shangjr Gwo, and Silvija Gradečak, “Correlation of doping, structure, and carrier dynamics in a single GaN nanorod.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 253104 (2013).
- Yu-Jung Lu, Jisun Kim, Hung-Ying Chen, Chihhui Wu, Nima Dabidian, Charlotte E. Sanders, Chun-Yuan Wang, Ming-Yen Lu, Bo-Hong Li, Xianggang Qiu, Wen-Hao Chang, Lih-Juann Chen, Gennady Shvets, Chih-Kang Shih*, and Shangjr Gwo*, “Plasmonic Nanolaser Using Epitaxially Grown Silver Film.” Science 337, 450 (2012).
- Bo-Hong Li, Charlotte E. Sanders, James McIlhargey, Fei Cheng, Changzhi Gu, Guanhua Zhang, Kehui Wu, Jisun Kim, S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexander B. Khanikaev,Yu-Jung Lu, Shangjr Gwo, Gennady Shvets*, Chih-Kang Shih*, and Xianggang Qiu*, “Contrast between Surface Plasmon Polariton-Mediated Extraordinary Optical Transmission Behavior in Epitaxial and Polycrystalline Ag Films in the Mid- and Far-Infrared Regimes” Nano Lett.12, 6187 (2012).
- Yu-Jung Lu, Hon-Way Lin , Hung-Ying Chen ,Yu-Chen Yang , and Shangjr Gwo*. “Single InGaN nanodisk light emitting diodes as full-color subwavelength light source.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 233101 (2011). (Issue Cover)
Patents：
- Seunghoon HAN, Ruzan SOKHOYAN, Harry ATWATER, Ghazaleh KAFAIE, Ragip PALA, Yu-Jung LU, Ho Wai LEE, Yao-Wei HUANG, Krishnan THYAGARAJAN, OPTICAL MODULATING DEVICE HAVING GATE STRUCTURE, USA (Application) (2016)
- Shang-Jr Gwo, Hon-Way Lin, Yu-Jung Lu, III-Nitride light-emitting diode and method of producing the same, 8242523, USA (2012) (Grant)
- Shang-Jr Gwo, Hon-Way Lin, Yu-Jung Lu, Method of producing III-nitride light-emitting diode, 8669128, USA (2014) (Grant)
- Shang-Jr Gwo, Yu-Jung Lu Light-emitting diode display and method of producing the same ,8835903, USA, (2014) (Grant)
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