Arizona State University μετα Thermal Radiation (ASU meta-TRad) Group

With surprise visits by former group members Dr. Jui-Yung Chang and Dr. Sydney Taylor this week, Wang group had a wonderful dinner gathering with former and current members as well as their families. Dr. Jui-Yung Chang graduated with PhD in 2017 and currently is an Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Dr….

Prof. Liping Wang is selected a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)!

Congrats to Sydney and all co-authors for their paper titled “Temperature-dependent Optical Characterization of VO2 Thin Film Prepared from Furnace Oxidation Method” selected for best paper award from ES Materials & Manufacturing! Support and recognition are greatly appreciated!

Big congratulations to Nicole Sluder, Jeremy Chao, Neal Boman, and William Mulkern for successfully defending their undergraduate thesis research projects. Great Job! Thanks ASU Barrett College and committee members for the great support!

Big Congrats to our lab alumnus Dr. Hassan Alshehri (now an Assistant Professor at King Saud University) and all coauthors for the Best Paper Award on our work about “High-Temperature Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Enhanced by Spectrally-Selective Metafilm Absorber under Concentrated Solar Irradiation”. Thanks the ES Publisher for the great support! DOI

After one year in the crate due to COVID, the high-vacuum Beetle STM/AFM from RHK is finally installed and operational! This will enable exciting research in experimentally exploring electronic/photonic/phononic energy transfer at extremely small vacuum gap scale from tens of nanometers down to sub-nanometers! Thanks for the great support from AFOSR DURIP Award and ASU…

Big congratulations to Ms. Sydney Taylor on successfully defending her PhD research and winning the prestigious ASU FSE Dean’s Dissertation Award! Best luck to your future endeavors at NASA JSC as a Thermal Engineer on space missions! Thanks NASA and all the committee members for the great support!

Big congratulations to Avinash Singh Nayal on successfully defending his MS thesis research on solar thermophotovoltaics!

Big congratulations to Joseph Niko Vlastos on successfully defending his MS thesis project on tunable optical force for space propulsion applications!

Nicole, Jeremy, Neal, Christian and Nicholas are presenting and sharing their research results at the FURI symposium. Congratulations and thanks for their hard work as well as the mentorship from PhD students and postdoc (Sydney, Payam, Linshuang) from the group! We greatly appreciate the support from ASU Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) program!! Everyone enjoyed…