Energy Saving Smart Windows Technologies Based on Thermochromic Materials and Liquid Crystals

Smart windows have great potential in saving energy as 40% of the energy consumption by buildings is for cooling and heating. A thermochromic material such as VO2 undergoes an Insulator-to-Metal transition at a certain temperature hence it can keep the house cool in the summer and warm in winter without the need for extra heating or cooling.

See how it is works here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t56j7BIElA53VSEMMVVZUarW4eHBFGxp/view

Liquid-Crystal Photonic Devices

Designing and fabricating fast and high-performance liquid crystal devices for various applications. Starting from design simulations, we are specializing in the entire fabrication and testing process of Liquid-Crystal devices, which later will be incorporated into various optical systems.

AI-Based Computational Spectral Imaging

By exploiting the tunable birefringence property of liquid crystal materials combine with powerful Machine-Learning algorithms, we can rapidly manipulate the spectral components of the incident light and capture many different spectral information in a smaller number of samples.

Solar Interfacial Heating Structures for Water Desalination

The ultrahigh optical field enhancement methodology we developed, and the broadband lossy wave can be harnessed for local interfacial heating from the sunlight to generate water vapor for water desalination purposes.

Plasmonic Biological and Chemical Sensors

Development of variety of plasmonic biosensing schemes with superior performance and applied to different biosensing applications for biomarkers detection, analytes detection and bacteria detection.

Single-Pixel Long Wave Low-Cost Camera

Infrared cameras are becoming more and more used for civil applications such as medical diagnosis.  In this project we are developing a single pixel device that can convert any standard visible range camera into infrared camera.

See how it is work here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7326620

Fast Optical Interference Microscopy for Medical Imaging, Materials Characterization, and Industrial Processes Inspection

Development of fast interference microscope, which also acts as a fast vibrometer, profiler, and dynamic focus tracker. Recently, we demonstrated sub-nm profiling or vibration measurement using this concept at a 500kHz rate limited by the speed of the detectors.