Dr. Wan Kuang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University in 2005 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics) from the University of Southern California. His B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering are from the Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications in China. Dr. Kuang's current research interests are focused in the areas of nano-scale photonic devices, photonic bandgap material, and electrodynamic numerical simulations. In the Nanophotonics Laboratory, which he established and directs, optical and electrical properties of photonic and plasmonic nanostructures are being designed, fabricated, and characterized for engineering and biomolecular applications.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
Phase Matching for Surface Plasmon Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in a Gold Grating Slab (with Ngoc Luong, Cheng-Wen Cheng, and Min-Hsiung Shih), Applied Physics Letters (2012)
Surface plasmon enhanced second harmonic generation in gold grating slabs was investigated. The efficiency is...
DNA-Controlled Excitonic Switches (with Elton Graugnard, Donald L. Kellis, Hieu Bui, Stephanie Barnes, Jeunghoon Lee, William L. Hughes, William Knowlton, and Bernard Yurke), Nano Letters (2012)
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a promising means of enabling information processing in nanoscale...
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photon Induced Current in a Gold Grating (with Alex English, Cheng-Wen Cheng, Lloyd Lowe II, and Min-Hsiung Shih), Applied Physics Letters (2011)
The current induced by incident photons on an gold grating slab is investigated numerically and...
Cavity Resonant Mode in a Metal Film Perforated with Two-Dimensional Triangular Lattice Hole Arrays (with Alex English, William B. Knowlton, Jeunghoon Lee, William L. Hughes, and Bernard Yurke), Optics Communications (2010)
The transmission property of metallic films with two-dimensional hole arrays is studied experimentally and numerically....
Programmable Periodicity of Quantum Dot Arrays with DNA Origami Nanotubes (with Hieu Bui, Craig Onodera, Carson Kidwell, YerPeng Tan, Elton Graugnard, Jeunghoon Lee, William B. Knowlton, Bernard Yurke, and William L. Hughes), Nano Letters (2010)
To fabricate quantum dot arrays with programmable periodicity, functionalized DNA origami nanotubes were developed. Selected...
Contributions to Books
Photonic Crystal Lasers, Cavities, and Waveguides (with John O'Brien), Encyclopedia of Modern Optics (2005)
Photonic Crystal Lasers (with John O'Brien, P. T. Lee, J. R. Cao, W. Kim, and C. Kim), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2004)
Presentations