Faculty Profiles
Jiafang Li
Title： Distinguished Professor
Tel： 010-81383363
Department： Department of Optical Physics
E-mail： jiafangli@bit.edu.cn
Address： Room B-210, Science Building, Liangxiang Campus of BIT, Fangshan District, Beijing
Education
2005/08 - 2009/02, PhD in Micro-Photonics, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Supervisor: Prof. Min Gu
2002/09 - 2005/07, M.Sc. in Optics, Institute of Physics, Nankai University, China; Supervisor: Prof. Kecheng Lv
1998/09 - 2002/07, B.Sc. in Applied Optics, Institute of Physics, Nankai University, China
Professional experience
2018/12 - present, Professor (tenure), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
2017/09 - 2017/12, Visiting Scholar, Nanophotonics and 3D Nanomanufacturing Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Collaborator: Prof. Nicholas X. Fang
2012/08 - 2018/12, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2009/07 - 2012/08, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2009/03 - 2009/06, Research Assistant, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Research Interests
3D micro-/nano-fabrications and applications
1）3D micro-/nano-fabrication technology and optoelectronic device with Nano-kirigami
2）Development and application of 3D direct laser writing technology
Plasmonic nanostructures: optical physics and device applications
1）Surface plasmon amplification with optical gain media
2）Emission control based on gold nanorods and its applications
3）Engineering and enhancing nonlinearities from metallic nanostructures
Physics and applications of photonic crystals
1）The fabrication of 3D photonic crystals and its application on emission control of quantum dots
2）Photonic crystal based detectors for NIR
Publications
Selected Publications
1.Yingying Chen#, Yongyue Zhang#, Meihua Niu#, Chongrui Li#, Haozhe Sun#, Qinghua Liang#, Ruhao Pan#, Xinyue Kong, Mingyue Gao, Huikai Xie, Junjie Li, Xiaorong Hong*, and Jiafang Li*, “Programmable optical megapixel nano-kirigami matrix”, Advanced Materials 38, e73647 (2026).
2.Yixi Zhou, Zhiwei Guo, Aitana Tarazaga Martin-Luengo, Christian Lanza, Gonzalo Alvarez-Perez, Chengguang Yu, Chongrui Li, Weixiang Xia, Jose Alvarez Cuervo, Xiaoyang Duan, Yang Wang, Javier Martin-Sanchez, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Yugui Yao, Jiafang Li*, Pablo Alonso-Gonzalez*, and Jiahua Duan*, "Fundamental optical phenomena of strongly anisotropic polaritons at the nanoscale", Nature Nanotechnology 21, 23-38 (2026).
3.Chang-Yin Ji, Chong Wang, Jiafang Li*, and Yugui Yao*, "Maximal Axion Optical Chirality Enabled by Degenerate Quasibound States in the Continuum", Physical Review Letters, 137, 076901 (2026).
4.Haozhe Sun, Xiaorong Hong, Jijie Tang, Weikang Dong, Qinghua Liang, Yongyue Zhang, Yanzhong Wang, Chongrui Li, Yingying Chen, Meihua Niu, Yang Wang, Jiahua Duan, Xiaoyang Duan, Feng Li, and Jiafang Li*, "Machine Learning-Assisted Ultraelastic and Vibration-Resolvable Microwebs", Advanced Materials 38, e19941 (2026).
5.Yang Xu, Xiaoqiang Su, Fusheng Deng, Yuqian Wang, Yaping Yang, Pablo Alonso-Gonzalez, Hong Chen, Jiafang Li, Jiahua Duan & Zhiwei Guo, "Programmable polariton canalization in reconfigurable metasurfaces", Science Advances 12, eaea0072 (2026).
6.Haobing Liu, Rongxin Fu, Fan Nan, Zongliang Guo, Menglei Zhao, Yifan Zhang, Shutong Guo, Hang Li, Kangfu Chen, Bing Chu, Kai Lou, H. P. Zhang, Huikai Xie, Zhugen Yang, Jiafang Li, Jonathan M. Cooper, and Shuailong Zhang, “Dielectric levitation optical tweezers for powerful mesoscale biomanipulation”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123, e2533103123 (2026).
7.Qinghua Liang#, Zhiguang Liu#,Yu Han#, Shang Chen, Haozhe Sun, Yingying Chen, Yongyue Zhang, Meihua Niu, Chongrui Li, Yang Wang, Ke Jin, Yongtian Wang, Yugui Yao1, Juan Liu and Jiafang Li*, “Silicon nano-kirigami with controlled plastic, elastic and hysteretic deformations”, Nat. Commun. 16, 5512 (2025).
8.Xiaorong Hong#, Haozhe Sun#, Fei Meng#, Meihua Niu, Yongyue Zhang, Xiaochen Zhang, Chongrui Li, Yingying Chen, Qingliang Jiao, Qinghua Liang, Weikang Dong, Yang Wang, Han Lin, Xiaodong Huang*, Baohua Jia*, Jiafang Li*, “Synthetic nano-kirigami with high deformability for reconfigurable information displays”, Nat. Commun. 16, 7843 (2025).
9.Sufan Li#, Yiheng Zhang#, Yang Wang*, Guiyuan Cao, Qinghua Liang, Xiaochen Zhang, Haozhe Sun, Yongyue Zhang, Zhiyu Wang, Xing Liu, Peng Chen*, Han Lin*, Baohua Jia, Yan-Qing Lu, and Jiafang Li*, “Dynamic optical chirality based on liquid-crystal-embedded nano-cilia photonic structures”, Nat. Commun., 16, 6569 (2025).
10.Xiaochen Zhang, Haozhe Sun, Yuan Li, Jianhua Hao, Qinghua Liang, Yongyue Zhang,Yang Wang, Xiaowei Li, Xinping Zhang, He Ma*, Jiafang Li*, “Tunable structural colors based on grayscale lithography and conformal coating of VO2”, Nanophotonics 18, 1123-1133 (2025).
11.Gong Li, Bingrui Xu, Xiaopu Wang, Jiangfan Yu, Yifan Zhang, Rongxin Fu, Fan Yang, Hongcheng Gu, Yuchen Huang, Yujie Chen, Yanfeng Zhang, Zhuoran Wang, Guozhen Shen, Yeliang Wang, Huikai Xie, Aaron R. Wheeler, Jiafang Li*, and Shuailong Zhang*, “Crossing the Dimensional Divide with Optoelectronic Tweezers: Multicomponent Light-Driven Micromachines with Motion Transfer in Three Dimensions”, Advanced Materials 37, 2417742 (2025).
12.Xiaorong Hong#, Bingrui Xu#, Gong Li, Fan Nan, Xian Wang, Qinghua Liang, Wenbo Dong, Weikang Dong, Haozhe Sun, Yongyue Zhang, Chongrui Li, Rongxin Fu, Zhuoran Wang, Guozhen Shen, Yeliang Wang, Yugui Yao, Shuailong Zhang*, and Jiafang Li*, “Optoelectronically navigated nano-kirigami microrotors”, Science Advances 10, adn7582 (2024).
13.Chang-Yin Ji, Shibo Xu, Qinghua Liang, Xiaochen Zhang, Xiaorong Hong, Yang Wang, Xiaowei Li, Lan Jiang, Yeliang Wang, Jincheng Ni, Dong Wu, Jiafang Li*, “Observation of magnetic quadrupole endowed helical dichroism in artificial propeller meta-molecules”, Adv. Opt. Mater. 12, 2302795 (2024).
14.Yinghao Zhao, Qinghua Liang, Sufan Li, Yingying Chen, Xing Liu, Haozhe Sun, Chong Wang, Chang-Yin Ji, Jiafang Li*, Yang Wang*, “Thermal emission manipulation enabled by nano-kirigami structures”, Small 24, 2305171 (2024).
15.Chang-Yin Ji#; Wenze Lan#; Peng Fu; Gang Wang; Changzhi Gu; Jiafang Li*; Yugui Yao*; Baoli Liu*; Probing Phase Transition of Band Topology via Radiation Topology, Photonics Research 12(2), 218 (2024).
16.Xiaorong Hong, Qinghua Liang, Xing Liu, Chang-Yin Ji*, Jiafang Li*, “Manipulation of fractal nano-kirigami by capillary and electrostatic forces”, Adv. Opt. Mater. 11, 2202150 (2023).
17.Xing Liu, Qinghua Liang, Xiaochen Zhang, Chang-Yin Ji, Jiafang Li*, “Nano-kirigami enabled chiral nano-cilia with enhanced circular dichroism at visible wavelengths”, Nanophotonics 12, 1459-1468 (2023).
18.Yinghao Zhao, Yuhan Yang, Changyin Ji, Qinghua Liang, Hanyu Fu, Xing Liu, Lin Zhou*, Jiafang Li*, Yang Wang*, “Thermosensitive Plasmonic Color Enabled by Sodium Metasurface”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2214492 (2023).
19.Yinghao Zhao, Qinghua Liang, Sufan Li, Yingying Chen, Xing Liu, Haozhe Sun, Chong Wang, Chang-Yin Ji, Jiafang Li*, Yang Wang*, “Thermal Emission Manipulation Enabled by Nano-Kirigami Structures”, Small 24, 2305171 (2023).
20.Shanshan Chen, Chang-Yin Ji, Yu Han, Xing Liu, Yongtian Wang, Juan Liu, and Jiafang Li*, “Plasmonic diastereoisomer arrays with reversed circular dichroism simply controlled by deformation height”, APL Photonics 7, 056102 (2022).
21.Shanshan Chen#, Zhiguang Liu#, Huifeng Du#, Chengchun Tang#, Chang-Yin Ji, Baogang Quan, Ruhao Pan, Lechen Yang, Xinhao Li, Changzhi Gu, Xiangdong Zhang, Yugui Yao, Junjie Li*, Nicholas X. Fang*, and Jiafang Li*, “Electromechanically reconfigurable optical nano-kirigami”, Nature Communications 12, 1299 (2021).
22.Chang-Yin Ji, Shanshan Chen, Yu Han, Xing Liu, Juan Liu, Jiafang Li*, and Yugui Yao*, “Artificial Propeller Chirality and Counterintuitive Reversal of Circular Dichroism in Twisted Meta-molecules”, Nano Letters 21, 6828-6834 (2021).
23.Xia Li# Chang-Yin Ji#,* Shanshan Chen, Yu Han, Juan Liu, and Jiafang Li*, “Phase enabled circular dichroism reversal in twisted bi-chiral propeller metamolecule arrays”, Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2101191 (2021).
24.Yu Han, Shanshan Chen, Changyin Ji, Xing Liu, Yongtian Wang, Juan Liu, and Jiafang Li*, "Reprogrammable optical metasurfaces by electromechanical reconfiguration”, Opt. Express 29, 30751-30760 (2021)
25.Z. G. Liu, Y. Xu, C. Y. Ji, S. S. Chen, X. P. Li, X. D. Zhang, Y. G. Yao, and J. Li*, "Fano-Enhanced Circular Dichroism in Deformable Stereo Metasurfaces”, Advanced Materials 32, 1907077 (2020).
26.S. Chen, J. Chen, X. Zhang, Z.-Y. Li, and J. Li*, "Kirigami/origami: unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D microfabrication/nanofabrication with “folding”“, Light: Science & Applications 9, 75 (2020).
27.Y. Tang, Z. Liu, J. Deng, K. Li, J. Li*, and G. Li, "Nano-Kirigami Metasurface with Giant Nonlinear Optical Circular Dichroism”, Laser & Photonics Reviews 14, 2000085 (2020).
28.S. Chen, W. Wei, Z. Liu, X. Liu, S. Feng, H. Guo, and J. Li*, "Reconfigurable nano-kirigami metasurfaces by pneumatic pressure”, Photonics Research 8, 1177-1182 (2020).
29.Yu Han, Zhiguang Liu, Shanshan Chen, Juan Liu, Yongtian Wang, and Jiafang Li*, "Cascaded multilayer nano-kirigami for extensible 3D nanofabrication and visible light manipulation”, Photonics Research 8, 1506-1511 (2020).
30.X. Gao, L. Yang, H. Lin, L. Zhang, J. Li, F. Bo, Z. Wang, and L. Lu, "Dirac-vortex topological cavities”, Nature Nanotechnology 15, 1012-1018 (2020).
31.T. Wu, W. Zhang, H. Zhang, S. Hou, G. Chen, R. Liu, C. Lu, J. Li, R. Wang, P. Duan, J. Li, B. Wang, L. Shi, J. Zi, and X. Zhang, "Vector Exceptional Points with Strong Superchiral Fields”, Physics Review Letters 124, 083901 (2020).
32.Y. Yang, L. Wu, Y. Liu, D. Xie, Z. Jin, J. Li, G. Hu, and C.-W. Qiu, "Deuterogenic Plasmonic Vortices”, Nano Letters 20, 6774-6779 (2020).
33.S. Wang, C. He, J. Tang, X. Lu, C. Shen, H. Yu, L. Du, J. Li, R. Yang, D. Shi, and G. Zhang, "New Floating Gate Memory with Excellent Retention Characteristics”, Advanced Electronic Materials 5, 1800726 (2019).
34.Zhiguang Liu#, Huifeng Du#, Jiafang Li#,* Ling Lu, Zhi-Yuan Li*, and Nicholas X. Fang*, "Nano-kirigami with giant optical chirality", Science Advances 4 , eaat4436 (2018).
35.Jiafang Li* and Zhiguang Liu, “Focused-ion-beam based nano-kirigami: from art to photonics”, Nanophotonics 7, 1637–1650 (2018).
36.Zhiguang Liu, Huifeng Du, Zhi-Yuan Li*, Nicholas X. Fang*, and Jiafang Li*, "Nano-kirigami metasurfaces by focused-ion-beam induced close-loop transformation", APL Photonics 3, 100803 (2018).
37.Ximin Tian, Zhiguang Liu, Han Lin, Baohua Jia, Zhi-Yuan Li* and Jiafang Li*, “Five-fold plasmonic Fano resonances with giant bisignate circular dichroism”, Nanoscale 10, 16630-16637 (2018).
38.Zhiguang Liu, Jiafang Li*, Zhe Liu, Wuxia Li, Junjie Li, Changzhi Gu and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Fano resonance Rabi splitting of surface plasmons”, Scientific Reports 7, 8010 (2017).
39.Jiafang Li,, Jing Liu, Ximin Tian and Z.-Y. Li*, “Plasmonic Particles with Unique Optical Interaction and Mechanical Motion Properties”, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization 34, 1600380 (2017).
40.Zhiguang Liu, Zhe Liu, Jiafang Li*, Wuxia Li, Junjie Li, Changzhi Gu and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "3D conductive coupling for efficient generation of prominent Fano resonances in metamaterials, Scientific Reports 6, 27817 (2016).
41.Yang Yang, Zhe Shi, Jiafang Li*, and Zhi-Yuan Li, "Optical forces exerted on a graphene-coated dielectric particle by a focused Gaussian beam", Photonics Research 4, 65-69 (2016).
42.Ajuan Cui,# Zhe Liu,# Jiafang Li,# Tiehan H. Shen, Xiaoxiang Xia, Zhiyuan Li, Zhijie Gong, Hongqiang Li, Benli Wang, Junjie Li, Haifang Yang, Wuxia Li, and Changzhi Gu, “Directly Patterned Substrate-free Plasmonic ‘Nanograter’ Structures with Unusual Fano Resonances”, Light: Science & Applications 4, e308 (2015).
43.Jiajia Mu, Zhiguang Liu, Jiafang Li*, Tingting Hao, Yujin Wang, Shengsheng Sun, Zhi-Yuan Li, Junjie Li, Wuxia Li* and Changzhi Gu, “Direct laser writing of pyramidal plasmonic structures with apertures and asymmetric gratings towards efficient subwavelength light focusing”, Optics Express 23, 22564-22571 (2015).
44.Jiafang Li*, Jiajia Mu, Benli Wang, Wei Ding, Ju Liu, Honglian Guo, Wuxia Li, Changzhi Gu and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Direct laser writing of symmetry-broken conical tapers for polarization-insensitive three-dimensional plasmonic focusing”, invited original paper, Laser & Photonics Review 8, 602-609 (2014).
45.Jiafang Li* and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Manipulation of plasmonic wavefront and light-matter interaction in metallic nanostructures：A brief review [invited]”, Chinese Physics B 23, 047305 (2014).
46.Jiafang Li*, Honglian Guo, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Microscopic and macroscopic manipulation of gold nanorod and its hybrid nanostructures [Invited]”, Photonics Research 1, 28-41 (2013).
47.Siyun Liu, Jiafang Li*, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Macroscopic Polarized Emission from Aligned Hybrid Gold Nanorods Embedded in a Polyvinyl Alcohol Film", Advanced Optical Materials 1, 227-231 (2013).
48.S.-Y. Liu, L. Huang, Jiafang Li*, C. Wang, Q. Li, H.-X. Xu, H.-L. Guo, Z.-M. Meng, Z. Shi, and Z.-Y. Li*, "Simultaneous Excitation and Emission Enhancement of Fluorescence Assisted by Double Plasmon Modes of Gold Nanorods”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 10636-10642 (2013).
49.C. He, J. Li, X. Wu, P. Chen, J. Zhao, K. Yin, M. Cheng, W. Yang, G. Xie, D. Wang, D. Liu, R. Yang, D. Shi, Z. Li, L. Sun, and G. Zhang, "Tunable Electroluminescence in Planar Graphene/SiO2 Memristors”, Advanced Materials 25, 5593-5598 (2013).
50.Yu-Hui Chen, Jiafang Li*, Ming-Liang Ren, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Amplified spontaneous emission of surface plasmon polaritons with unusual angle-dependent response", Small 8, 1355-1359 (2012).
51.Yu-Hui Chen, Jiafang Li*, Ming-Liang Ren, Ben-Li Wang, Jin-Xin Fu, Si-Yun Liu and Zhi-Yuan Li*, “Direct observation of amplified spontaneous emission of surface plasmon polaritons at metal/dielectric interfaces”, Applied Physics Letters 98, 261912 (2011).
52.Si-Yun Liu, Jiafang Li*, Fei Zhou, Lin Gan, and Zhi-Yuan Li*, "Efficient surface plasmon amplification from gain-assisted gold nanorods”, Optics Letters 36, 1296-1298 (2011).
53.J. Li, S. Liu, Y. Liu, F. Zhou, Z.-Y. Li, Anisotropic and enhanced absorptive nonlinearities in a macroscopic film induced by aligned gold nanorods, Applied Physics Letters 96, 263103 (2010).
54.J. Li, M. Hossain, B. Jia, D. Buso, and M. Gu, “Three-dimensional hybrid photonic crystals merged with localized plasmon resonances”, Optics Express 18, 4491-4498 (2010).
55.J. Li, M. Hossain, B. Jia, and M. Gu, “Rectangular-cavity resonances enhanced absorption in metallic-nanoshelled 2D rod arrays and 3D photonic crystals”, New Journal of Physics 12, 043012(2010).
56.B. Jia, D. Buso, J. Embden, J. Li, and M. Gu, “Highly nonlinear quantum dot doped nanocomposites for functional three-dimensional structures generated by two-photon polymerization”, Advanced Materials 22, 2463-2467 (2010).
57.J. Li, B. Jia and M. Gu, “Engineering stop gaps of inorganic-organic polymeric 3D woodpile photonic crystals with post-thermal Treatment”, Optics Express 16, 20073-20080 (2008).
58.J. Li, B. Jia, G. Zhou, C. Bullen, J. Serbin and M. Gu, “Spectral redistribution in spontaneous emission from quantum-dot-infiltrated 3D woodpile photonic crystals for telecommunications”, Advanced Materials 19, 3276-3280 (2007).
59.J. Li, B. Jia, G. Zhou and M. Gu, “Direction-dependent spontaneous emission from near-infrared quantum dots at the angular band edges of a three-dimensional photonic crystal”, Applied Physics Letters 91, 254101 (2007).
60.J. Li, B. Jia, G. Zhou and M. Gu, “Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in a quantum dot composite material”, Optics Express 14, 10740-10745 (2006).
Positions
1) Open for 2~3 graduate students per year (Master student, PhD student, Joint PhD student, etc.), with background in optics or physics.
2) Open for 1-2 Post-doctoral positions, with experience in optics or nanofabrication experiences.
3) Open for short-term visit and any form of collaborations.