Group News
2026
Congratulations to Dr. Sui Yang on receiving the 2026 NSF CAREER Award for pioneering a new class of optical materials that control light at the molecular level, moving beyond the limits of silicon-based technologies.(https://news.engineering.asu.edu/2026/04/what-comes-after-silicon/)
Congratulations to Our Student Abhishek Saji Kumar on Receiving the Spring 2026 GRSP Award for His Research Project ($2,000).
Congratulations to Our Student, Blake Povilus on Receiving Graduate College 2025-26 Travel Award.
2025
Congratulations to our group member Shuai Feng on receiving both the ASU GSG Travel Award (2025-2026) and the MSE Graduate Student Travel Award (2025).
Our group members have been honored with several awards. Congratulations!
Shuai Feng: ASU Graduate College Travel Award (2024-2025), ASU GSG Travel Award (2024-2025) and ASU Graduate College Student Research Grant (2024-2025).
Blake Povilus: ARCS fellowship award (2025).
Anudeep Sai Gottapu: TSMC fellowship.
2024
Professor Sui Yang received 2024 ABRC New Investigator Award to build innovative health care tools for Arizonans’ well-being, Congratulations! (https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/new-technology-developments-to-help-surgeons-save-lives/).
Professor Sui Yang received IMECE Faculty Travel Grant by NSF
Professor Sui Yang received USDA New Investigator Award to build nanophotonic-CRISPR chip for Rapid and Sensitive Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Detection
2023
Our group member Krushitha Reddy Thumukuntla present her work on ”Perovskite-Based Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Synthesis and Characterization” on Fulton Forge Student Research Expo (https://fullcircle.asu.edu/graduate/katrina-santos/), Congratulations!
Professor Sui Yang in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, was selected as one of 10 recipients of the 2023 Non-Tenured Faculty Award from 3M, Congratulations!
ASU engineering ties 3 generations together (Our group member Blake Povilus) https://news.asu.edu/20230711-asu-engineering-ties-3-generations-together.
2022
Our collaborative paper with Prof. Zhaowei Liu at UCSD regarding layered metamaterials nanoscopy has been published in Nano Letters.
Our collaborative with Berkeley has been published in Nature Materials, created an all optical spin manipulation method.
Christabel Wireko Arthur received the MORE fellowship, Congratulations!
Our group member, Katrina Santos, was recently awarded as the Outstanding Graduate – Materials Science and Engineering and Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (https://fullcircle.asu.edu/graduate/katrina-santos/)– Materials Science and Engineering, Congratulations!
Blake Povilus was awarded as Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant – Materials Science and Engineering and Blake’s research work has been awarded as Outstanding Honors Thesis, Congratulations!
2021
Our collaborative paper “ Externally driven broadband transmission in strongly disordered materials“ has been published in Applied Physics Letters.
Our collaborative paper “ A non-unitary metasurface enables continuous control of quantum photon–photon interactions from bosonic to fermionic” has been published in Nature Photonics.
Our paper with Prof. Tongay about organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Our paper with Prof. Xiang Zhang about atomic ion transistor has been published in Science.
Our collaborative paper with UCSD has been selected as front cover story in Advanced Science regarding hyperbolic assisted illumination nanoscopy.
Our paper creating subwavelength lasing perovskite has been published in Matter.