First Name
Ziliang
Last Name
Ye
Position
Associate Professor
Office Room
AMPEL 172
Tel (Office)
(604) 827-2984
Email
zlye@phas.ubc.ca

Students Wanted
actively recruiting


Bachelor's Degree
Fudan University, 2008

Doctoral Degree
University of California, Berkeley, 2013

Employment History

2014 - 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University

2015 - 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University

2017 - present Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia


Awards

2007 Tsung-Dao Lee Fellowship, Fudan University

2009 Power Award, UC Berkeley

2011 Anselmo John Macchi Fellowship, UC Berkeley

2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Student Aboard

2013 MRS Graduate Student Award Gold Medalist

2014 Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute Thesis Prize Award

2017 APS Division of Materials Physics Post-Doctoral Travel Award


Citizenship
Chinese

Research Area
Condensed Matter

Research Field
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Research Topics
2D Materials (Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide, etc.), Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy, Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy, Nanophotonic Devices (Silicon Photonics, Plasmonics, Metamaterials, etc.)

Research Title
Optical Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Two-dimensional Materials

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) material is the thinnest material humans have ever made. It has only one or a few atoms in thickness, one million times thinner than a piece of paper. The successful isolation and manipulation of atomically thin 2D materials have ushered in a new era of fundamental scientific research and technological innovation. Since the discovery of graphene, an ever-growing class of 2D materials has been identified to exhibit extraordinary properties distinctive from their bulk counterparts. For example, monolayers of materials such as those in the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) family exhibit direct band gaps, strong light-matter interactions, access to the valley degree of freedom, and largely reduced Coulomb screening, which has triggered a lot of interest in electronic and optoelectronic applications.

So far, optical spectroscopy has been an indispensable tool for characterizing 2D materials. For example, we have utilized ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopies to reveal the crystal and electronic structure of TMDCs. In the future, we are interested in developing novel scanning nearfield optical microscopy techniques to interrogate the material's intrinsic many-body response with subdiffractional resolution. Moreover, we plan to leverage the extreme thickness of 2D materials and the ultra-strong field within the laser light to coherently control the material's physical properties, such as the valley and topological degrees of freedom in the electronic bandstructure.

More details about my research interests can be found on this page.


Selected Publications

The selected and full publication lists can be found here.