Title: Professor, doctoral supervisor, National high-level Young talent
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Department: Optical Physics
E-mail: duanjiahua@bit.edu.cn
Address: A-405-3, Liangxiang Campus, Beitech, Fangshan District, Beijing

Research interests: Nanophotonics, Angle photonics, near-field optics. He has been engaged in fundamental and applied research on novel optical phenomena and the regulation of interactions between light and matter at the nanoscale. The main research contents include: (1) Energy propagation regulation of deep subwavelength light field; (2) Observation of novel optical phenomena and revelation of microphysical mechanisms; (3) Design and application of functionalized nano-optical devices.

2014-09 to 2018-01 PhD, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sep. 2011-06 -- Jun. 2014 Master of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University
2007-09 to 2011-06 Bachelor of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University

2023-01 till now, Faculty of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Associate Professor (National high-level Young talent, Special Young Scholar) Doctoral Supervisor
2018-07-2022-12 Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Oviedo

Since 2011, he has been engaged in the study of the interaction between light and matter in low-dimensional quantum materials, proposing a series of new methods for the regulation of nano light sources and revealing a new mechanism of optical topological transformation. In 2020, together with three other research groups in the world, we realized the real space imaging of optical topology transformation on the nanoscale for the first time, and extended the concept of "magic Angle" from electronics to photonics (promoting the development of the new field of "Angle photonics"). The relevant achievements together with the "Nine chapters" quantum computer won the 2021 Falling Walls International Cross-border Innovative Scientific Breakthrough Award. Several academic papers were awarded the Most Valuable Paper of the Year award by the Royal Physical Society of Spain, selected papers by Nature Communications, and reported by the 90th anniversary Science issue of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A number of achievements have been reported by mainstream media such as Phys.org and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2022, it was interviewed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science and Technology Review for the design of a new nano optical cavity.
He has published more than 30 papers, including Nature Materials, Nature Communications (3 papers), Science Advances (3 papers), Advanced Materials (5 papers), Nano Letters, Related Reviews include Nature Reviews Physics, ACS photonics, Advances in Physics X, and more. A longtime Nature/Nature Materials/Nature Communications/Science Advances/Physical Review Letters/Nanoscale/Physical Review B Invited reviewers of international journals and project review experts of the Polish National Science Foundation. In 2022, he was selected into the National high-level Young Talents and the Special Young Scholars Program of Beijing Institute of Technology.

The main academic achievements are shown below:
Representative paper excerpts († for co-authors, * for corresponding authors) :
(For the full publication record, see ORCID: 0000-0002-3306-1542; Google Academic: Jiahua Duan
1. Y. Wu, J. Duan, W. Ma, Q. Ou, P. Li*, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*, J.D. Caldwell*, Q. Bao*. Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials. Nature Reviews Physics 2022, 4, 578. (Review of polarimetry)
2. G. Alvarez-Perez†, J. Duan†*, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, Q. Ou, E. Nikulina, S. Liu, J. H. Edgar, Q. Bao, V. Giannini, R. Hillenbrand, J. Martin-Sanchez, A.Y. Nikitin*, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Negative reflection of nanoscale-confined polaritons in a low-loss natural medium. Science Advances 2022, 8, eabp8486. (Highlighted report on Science Advances website, Interview with MIT Technology Review, Most Valuable Paper Award of the Royal Physical Society of Spain 2022)
3. J. Duan†*, F.J. Alfaro-Mozaz†, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, I. Dolado, G. Alvarez-Perez, E. Titova, A. Bylinkin, A.I.F. Tresguerres-Mata, J. Martin Sanchez, S. Liu, J.H. Edgar, D.A. Bandurin, P. Jarrillo-Herrero, R. Hillenbrand, A.Y. Nikitin*, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Active and passive tuning of ultranarrow resonances in polaritonic nanoantennas. Advanced Materials 2022, 34, 2104954.
4. J. Martin-Sanchez†*, J. Duan†, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, G. Alvarez-Perez, K.V. Voronin, I. Prieto, W. Ma, Q. Bao, V.S. Volkov, R. Hillenbrand, A.Y. Nikitin*, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Focusing in-plane anisotropic polaritons by tailored optical nanoantennas. Science advances 2021, 7, abj0127.
5. J. Duan†, G. Alvarez-Perez†, A.I.F. Tresguerres-Mata, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, K.V. Voronin, A. Bylinkin, B. Chang, S. Xiao, S. Liu, J.H. Edgar, J. Ignacio Martin, V.S. Volkov, R. Hillenbrand, J. Martin-Sanchez, A.Y. Nikitin*, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Planar refraction and lensing of highly confined polaritons in anisotropic media. Nature Communications 2021 12, 4325. (Selected Papers for 2021 Optics)
6. J. Duan†, G. Alvarez-Perez†, K.V. Voronin, I. Prieto, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, V.S. Volkov, J. Martin-Sanchez, A.Y. Nikitin, P. Alonso-Gonzalez. Enabling propagation of anisotropic polaritons along forbidden directions via a topological transition. Science Advances 2021, 7, eabf2690. (Royal Physical Society of Spain Most Valuable Paper Award 2021)
7. J. Taboada-Gutierrez, G. Alvarez-Perez, J. Duan, W. Ma, K. Crowley, I. Prieto, A. Bylinkin, M. Autore, H. Volkova, K. Kimura, T. Kimura, M.H. Berger, S. Li, Q. Bao, X. PA Gao, I. Errea, A.Y. Nikitin, R. Hillenbrand, J. Martin-Sanchez, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Broad spectral tuning of ultra-low-loss polaritons in a van der Waals crystal by intercalation. Nature Materials 2020, 19, 964. (highlighted by Phys.org, EurekAlert, Scitech Daily and other academic media)
8. J. Duan, N. Capote-Robayna, J. Taboada-Gutierrez, G. Alvarez-Perez, I. Prieto, J. Martin-Sanchez, A.Y. Nikitin, P. Alonso-Gonzalez*. Twisted nano-optics: manipulating light at the nanoscale with twisted phonon polaritonic slabs. Nano Letters 2020, 20, 5323. (First proposed the concept of "corner photonics", Nano Letters invites Professor Frank Koppens, winner of the Huigans Prize in Optics, to write a prospective review. 9. J. Duan, S. Xiao, J. Chen*. Anderson localized plasmon in graphene with random tensile-strain distribution. Advanced Science 2019, 6, 1801974.
10. J. Duan, Y. Li, Y. Zhou, Y. Cheng, J. Chen*. Near-field optics on flatland: from noble metals to van der Waals materials. Advances in Physics: X 2019, 4, 1593051. (Invited review)
11. Duan Jiahua, Chen Jianing. Advances in near field studies of two-dimensional polarimetry. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68,110701. (Invited review)
12. J. Duan, R. Chen, Y. Cheng, T. Yang, F. Zhai, Q. Dai, J. Chen. Optically unraveling the edge chirality-dependent band structure and plasmon damping in graphene edges. Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1800367.
13. J. Duan, R. Chen, J. Li, K. Jin, Z. Sun, J. Chen. Launching phonon polaritons by natural boron nitride wrinkles with modifiable dispersion by dielectric environments. Advanced Materials 2017, 29, 1702494.
14. J. Duan, D. He, W. Wang, Y. Liu, H. Wu, Y. Wang, M. Fu, S. Li. The fabrication of nanochain structure of gold nanoparticles and its application in ractopamine sensing. Talanta 2013, 115, 992.