Shanhui Fan

About

Shanhui Fan is the Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He holds the positions of Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Applied Physics (by courtesy), and Senior Fellow in the Precourt Institute for Energy. Additionally, he is a faculty member of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, where he served as Director from 2014 to 2021. His research focuses on fundamental studies of nanophotonic structures, particularly photonic crystals and meta-materials, and their applications in energy and information technology. Professor Fan has published over 700 refereed journal articles, delivered more than 400 plenary, keynote, and invited talks, and holds over 80 granted U.S. patents. His research achievements have been recognized with several awards, including the R. W. Wood Prize, the Simons Investigator in Physics, and the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of IEEE, APS, Optica, SPIE, and NAI. Professor Fan completed his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1988 to 1992 and earned his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Physics
• Optics
• Materials science
• Engineering
• Optoelectronics
• Electrical engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meteorology
• Computer Security

Selected publications

• Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics

  Nature · 2020 · 987 citations

  DOI

• Scalable and hierarchically designed polymer film as a selective thermal emitter for high-performance all-day radiative cooling

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2020 · 853 citations

  DOI

• Terrestrial radiative cooling: Using the cold universe as a renewable and sustainable energy source

  Science · 2020 · 810 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Photonic materials designed at wavelength scales have enabled a range of emerging energy technologies, from solid-state lighting to efficient photovoltaics that have transformed global energy landscapes. Daytime passive radiative cooling materials shed heat from the ground to the cold universe by taking advantage of the terrestrial thermal radiation that is as large as the renewable solar energy. Newly developed photonic materials permit subambient cooling under direct sunshine, and their applic…

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• Creating an Eco‐Friendly Building Coating with Smart Subambient Radiative Cooling

  Advanced Materials · 2020 · 472 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  . The results pave the way for practical large-scale applications of high-performance SDRC for human thermal comfort in buildings.

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• Axion-Field-Enabled Nonreciprocal Thermal Radiation in Weyl Semimetals

  Nano Letters · 2020 · 315 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Objects around us constantly emit and absorb thermal radiation. The emission and absorption processes are governed by two fundamental radiative properties: emissivity and absorptivity. For reciprocal systems, the emissivity and absorptivity are restricted to be equal by Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation. This restriction limits the degree of freedom to control thermal radiation and contributes to an intrinsic loss mechanism in photonic energy harvesting systems. Existing approaches to violate…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Designing Thermophotonic Materials for Passive Radiative Cooling

  NSF · $100k · 2017–2019

• Collaborative Research: CMOS Compatible On-Chip Optical Isolator

  NSF · $180k · 2012–2015

• Theory of Non-Reciprocal Photonic Crystals

  NSF · $270k · 2006–2009

Frequent coauthors

• Zongfu Yu

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  142 shared

• Cheng Guo

  Stanford University

  92 shared

• Peter B. Catrysse

  Stanford University

  86 shared

• Momchil Minkov

  Flex (United States)

  82 shared

• John D. Joannopoulos

  Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

  80 shared

• Avik Dutt

  University of Maryland, College Park

  66 shared

• Georgios Veronis

  Louisiana State University

  62 shared

• Luqi Yuan

  61 shared

Labs

• Fan Group at Stanford UniversityPI

  Not provided

Education

• Ph.D., Applied Physics

  Stanford University

  2003

• M.S., Applied Physics

  Stanford University

  1999

• B.S., Physics

  Tsinghua University

  1996

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