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Wenshan Cai is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics in Photonic and Optical Devices, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications.

Wenshan Cai has contributed to a range of scholarly publications, including:

  • Deep learning for the design of photonic structures, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Electrically driven reprogrammable phase-change metasurface reaching 80% efficiency, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Stable, high-performance sodium-based plasmonic devices in the near infrared, 2020, Nature
  • Tackling Photonic Inverse Design with Machine Learning, 2021, Advanced Science
  • Dynamic Hybrid Metasurfaces, 2021, Nano Letters

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Advanced Science, ACS Nano, and Laser & Photonics Review.

Wenshan Cai has collaborated with numerous co-authors, notably Mohammad Taghinejad, Zhaocheng Liu, Dayu Zhu, Andrew S. Kim, and Kyu-Tae Lee.

Best Publications

  • Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation.

    Jon A. Schuller;Edward S. Barnard;Wenshan Cai;Young Chul Jun

  • Optical cloaking with metamaterials

    Wenshan Cai;Uday K. Chettiar;Alexander V. Kildishev;Vladimir M. Shalaev

  • Negative Index of Refraction in Optical Metamaterials

    Vladimir M. Shalaev;Wenshan Cai;Uday Chettiar;H.-K. Yuan

  • 3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

    Lin Zhou;Yingling Tan;Jingyang Wang;Weichao Xu

  • Self-limited plasmonic welding of silver nanowire junctions

    Erik C. Garnett;Wenshan Cai;Judy J. Cha;Fakhruddin Mahmood;Fakhruddin Mahmood

  • Generative Model for the Inverse Design of Metasurfaces.

    Zhaocheng Liu;Dayu Zhu;Sean P. Rodrigues;Kyu-Tae Lee

  • Deep learning for the design of photonic structures

    Wei Ma;Zhaocheng Liu;Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev;Alexandra Boltasseva

  • Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications

    Wenshan Cai;Vladimir M. Shalaev

  • Semiconductor Nanowire Optical Antenna Solar Absorbers

    Linyou Cao;Pengyu Fan;Alok P. Vasudev;Justin S. White

  • Phase-Coupled Plasmon-Induced Transparency

    Rohan D. Kekatpure;Edward S. Barnard;Wenshan Cai;Mark L. Brongersma

  • Compact, High-Speed and Power-Efficient Electrooptic Plasmonic Modulators

    Wenshan Cai;Justin S. White;Mark L. Brongersma

  • Nonmagnetic cloak with minimized scattering

    Wenshan Cai;Uday K. Chettiar;Alexander V. Kildishev;Vladimir M. Shalaev

  • Metamagnetics with rainbow colors.

    Wenshan Cai;Uday K. Chettiar;Hsiao-Kuan Yuan;Vashista C. de Silva

  • Circular dichroism metamirrors with near-perfect extinction

    Zuojia Wang;Hui Jia;Kan Yao;Wenshan Cai

  • The Ag dielectric function in plasmonic metamaterials

    Vladimir P. Drachev;Uday K. Chettiar;Alexander V. Kildishev;Hsiao-Kuan Yuan

  • Giant chiral optical response from a twisted-arc metamaterial.

    Yonghao Cui;Lei Kang;Shoufeng Lan;Sean Rodrigues

  • Electrically controlled nonlinear generation of light with plasmonics.

    Wenshan Cai;Alok P. Vasudev;Mark L. Brongersma

  • Plasmonic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    I-Kang Ding;Jia Zhu;Wenshan Cai;Soo-Jin Moon

  • A negative permeability material at red light

    Hsiao-Kuan Yuan;Uday K. Chettiar;Wenshan Cai;Alexander V. Kildishev

  • Dual-band negative index metamaterial: double negative at 813 nm and single negative at 772 nm.

    Uday K. Chettiar;Alexander V. Kildishev;Hsiao-Kuan Yuan;Wenshan Cai

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir M. Shalaev
Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University West Lafayette
Alexander V. Kildishev
Alexander V. Kildishev Purdue University West Lafayette
Mark L. Brongersma
Mark L. Brongersma Stanford University
Shumin Xiao
Shumin Xiao Harbin Institute of Technology
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Alexandra Boltasseva
Alexandra Boltasseva Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael D. McGehee
Michael D. McGehee University of Colorado Boulder
Ali Adibi
Ali Adibi Georgia Institute of Technology
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan Stanford University
Jia Zhu
Jia Zhu Nanjing University

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