Prof. Minye Yang's research directions have been dedicated to a multidisciplinary field including quantum theory, applied electromagnetics, radio-frequency, microwave circuits & systems, specifically focused on non-Hermitian physics. The theoretical research has also spawned versatile applications in the internet-of-things (IoTs), including biomedical sensing, self-health monitoring, secure wireless communications, and next-generation ultrasensitive sensors and systems. 

 

We are currently looking for self-motivated master's and Ph.D. students who are interested in quantum theory, applied electromagnetics, RF antennas & circuits, physically unclonable functions, wearable/soft electronics, biomedical sensing, and machine/deep learning-assisted metasurface. We appreciate your interest in our research and the activities of our group!

To be continued...

 

 

2023-12-22: Focusing on the recent progress on wearable electronics, we have published a review article regarding the wearable antennas and circuits for biomedical applications in terms of the materials, designs, and implementations. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-11-21: Our conference paper has now been extended as a full paper published in the IEEE Sensors Journal. We demonstrate the potential of using higher-order PT symmetry for simultaneously monitoring multiple bio-indexes of the human body. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-10-29: The 2023 IEEE Sensors is now organized in Vienna. We will present our work: a harmonic multimodal food quality control sensor. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-10-09: The 2023 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) is held in PORTUGAL. We have presented our work here on the topic of multimodal biomedical sensors using higher-order non-Hermitian exceptional points. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-09-20: The 2024 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) will be organized in Chengdu, China. Prof. Minye Yang will serve as the session chair of Non-Hermitian Optics and Photonics, and Exceptional Point.  Call for papers: https://cd2024.piers.org/featured-plans/allsessions.html

 

2023-09-08: Congratulations to our groundbreaking work published in Science Advances. We have proposed a new encryption protocol based on random manipulation of lightwave energy via metasurfaces.  Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-09-06: Dr. Minye Yang will officially start his academic career in the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University as an Assistant Professor. He has also been awarded as the Young Talented Scientist. 

 

2023-08-06: Congratulations Dr. Minye Yang. He now officially commences the Ph. D. degree! 

 

2023-05-23: Congratulations to Minye Yang, who has completed his Ph.D. defense. Appreciate the attendance of the defense committee, Prof. Pai-Yen Chen, Prof. Piergiorgio Uslenghi, Prof. Danilo Erricolo, Prof. Ahmet Enis Cetin, Prof. Besma Smida, and Prof. Jie Xu!  

 

2023-05-17: We have published a review article in the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-03-05: Regarding our great contribution to wearable electronics, we are invited to publish a review article in Micromachines, focusing on recent advances in nanomaterials used for wearable electronics. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2023-02-28: Congratulations on our newly published paper in Nature Communications. Non-Hermitian physics is sourced from quantum mechanics. It is the first time that the quantum theory has been implemented into secure identification and communication scenarios. This work may open a new avenue for studying the applied quantum theory in the classical world. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2022-12-13: Graphene has demonstrated great potential in electromagnetics due to its intrinsic sensing properties of susceptible Fermi level. We have proposed to utilize the GFET to construct an intermodulation sensor. When the perturbation is applied to the monolayer graphene, the GFET-based oscillator may have a different frequency output. Such unique frequency products may be intermodulated to a high-frequency wave for transmitting the sensing information. The paper has been published in the IEEE Sensors Journal. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2022-11-15: Due to our remarkable research work in the spectral singularity, CPAL points. We are invited to contribute a review article regarding the recent advances in CPAL points. The paper is now online in the Journal of Central South University. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2022-10-30: We have participated in the 2022 IEEE Sensors in Dallas. Our presented work relates to a wireless multimodal sensor, which leverages the non-Hermitian exceptional point. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2022-04-05: Our newly published paper in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems demonstrates a noninvasive, wireless, and robust intracranial pressure monitoring system. The paper was selected to present in a poster. Find more details here [web]. 

                                 

 

2022-03-17: Congratulations on our paper focusing on wearable electronics published in ACS Nano. In this work, we have developed a full soft radio-frequency sensor-based smart facemask without any rigid chips and circuits. It can be reusable, breathable, and batteryless to provide continuous and real-time monitoring of the correctness of mask-wearable and illness symptoms in terms of cough frequency. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2022-01-27: Recently, we have proposed to utilize the graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) as an intrinsic biosensor. The perturbation may vary the Dirac point of the GFET as the sensing mechanism. The paper is now online in the IEEE Sensors Journal. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-11-15: Following our previous work on optical CPAL sensors, we now provide a generalized and analytical expression of a higher-order CPAL system. By folding the single optical cavity layer by layer, a multimodal PT-symmetric system can be established via proper engineering of the metasurface's conductances. We anticipate that such a higher-order system can have multiple CPAL points and the sensitivity can be greatly enlarged by operating the system at higher-order CPAL points. The paper can be found in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-11-10: Our conference paper has now been extended to the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, which demonstrates a multiband wireless power transfer system using fewer pairs of coil antennas compared to traditional wireless power transfer protocols. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-10-31: We have been invited to give a talk at the 2021 IEEE Sensors due to our new findings of using non-Hermitian electronics to build robust wireless interrogation. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-08-24: Inspired by the notion of "symmetry", we have proposed a non-Hermitian near-field wireless interrogation system. Traditional wireless setups have a longstanding issue that the coil antenna's misalignments are highly detrimental to the accuracy of interrogation. Our proposed non-Hermitian system can have a pair of symmetric reflection dips in the frequency spectrum, by which the interrogation accuracy can be independent of the coil misalignments. Our paper has now been published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-06-01: We have been invited to give a talk at the 2021 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC). In this talk, we introduce a new wireless power transfer protocol, by which the efficiency of the wireless power transfer can be nearly 100%. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-04-16: Our invited paper "PTX-symmetric metasurfaces for sensing applications" is now published in Frontiers of Optoelectronics. We theoretically demonstrate that by adding a scaling factor to a standard PT-symmetric system, the sensitivity, compared to the standard CPAL sensor, can be even enhanced. We also made comparisons between the CPAL and EP sensors using the same systematic structure. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2021-01-04: Congratulations to our newly published paper in Physical Review Applied,  where the optical cavity structured PT-symmetric CPAL was successfully established in the radio-frequency range. This is the first time that the electronic CPAL phenomenon observed by such an optical cavity in electromagnetic equivalence. Additionally, we also demonstrate the great potential of this system for ultrasensitive sensors. Find more details here [web].

 

2021-01-01: Our paper demonstrating the optical humidity sensor has been published in the Radio Science Letters. The variation of humidity may lead to the variation of the permittivity of the optical cavity, which, in turn, alters the output energy level of the system by hundreds of dB. Find more details here [web]. 

 

2020-07-07: Our paper has been published in ACS Photonics, which demonstrates the coexistence of coherent perfect absorber and laser (CPAL) points that can be utilized for ultrasensitive optical sensors. Find more details here [web].