Yinan Zhang

  Position: Associate Professor

  E-mail: zhangyinan@jnu.edu.cn

  Research interests: Plasmonics color display
                                       Nonlinear plasmonics
                                       Nanophotonic solar cells

Academic Experience

2017.01- present: Associate Professor
                             Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
2014.06-2016.12: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                             Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
2010.12-2014.06: Ph. D. in Optics 
                             Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
2009.07-2010.09: Research Intern
                             R&D, SunTech Power, Wuxi, China
2005.09-2009.06: B. S. in Optical Information Science and Technology
                             School of Physics, Nankai University

Research grants

2017-2019 Young researcher funding from National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 61605065)

2018-2020 Guangzhou Science and Technology Program (Grant No. 201804010322)
2017-2019 Start-Up Funding from Jinan University

Book

Yinan Zhang, Plasmonic enhanced light absorption for silicon wafer solar cells, (Melbourne, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015)

Journal papers

1. Yinan Zhang, Yi Xu, Shiren Chen, Hua Lu, Kai Chen, Yaoyu Cao, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Min Gu,Xiangping Li, Ultra-Broadband Directional Scattering by Colloidally Lithographed High-Index Mie Resonant Oligomers and Their Energy-Harvesting Applications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, （2018 accepted）

2. Yinan Zhang, Nicholas Stokes, Baohua Jia, Shanhui Fan and Min Gu, Towards ultra-thin plasmonic silicon wafer solar cells with minimized efficiency loss, Sci. Rep. 4, 4939; DOI: 10.1038/srep04939 (2014). (IF=5.6, Citations:68)

3. Yinan Zhang, Zi Ouyang, Nicholas Stokes, Baohua Jia, Zhengrong Shi and Min Gu, Low cost and high performance Al nanoparticles for broadband light trapping in Si wafer solar cells, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 151101 (2012). (IF=3.6, Citations:94, selected in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)

4. Yinan Zhang, Baohua Jia and Min Gu, Biomimetic and plasmonic hybrid light trapping for highly efficient ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells, Opt. Express. 24(6), A506-A514 (2016) (IF= 3.488, Citations:9)

5. Yinan Zhang et al. Ultraviolet plasmonic aluminium nanoparticles for highly efficient light incoupling on silicon solar cells, Nanomaterials 6(6), 95 (2016).(IF= 3.176, Citations:6)

6. Yinan Zhang, Xi Chen, Zi Ouyang, Hongyan Lu, Baohua Jia, Zhengrong Shi and Min Gu, Improved multicrystalline Si solar cells by light trapping from Al nanoparticle enhanced antireflection coating, Opt. Mat. Express 3, 489-495 (2013). (IF=2.9, Citations:35, one of the most downloaded papers in the published month)

7. Yinan Zhang, Yanping Du, Clifford Shum, Boyuan Cai, Nam Le, Xi Chen, Glenn Bradbury,Benjamin Duck, Chris Fell, Yonggang Zhu and Min Gu, Efficiently cooled plasmonic amorphous silicon solar cells by a nano-coated heat-pipe plate, Sci. Rep. 6, 24972; DOI: 10.1038/srep24972 (2016). (IF=4.259, Citations:11)

8. Yinan Zhang, Baohua Jia, Zi Ouyang and Min Gu, Influence of rear located silver nanoparticle induced light losses on the light trapping of silicon wafer-based solar cells, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 124303 (2014) (IF=2.3, Citations:8)

9. Yinan Zhang and Min Gu, Plasmonic light trapping for wavelength-scale silicon solar absorbers, Front. Optoelectron. 9 (2), 277-282(2016).

10. Xi Chen, Baohua Jia, Yinan Zhang and Min Gu, Exceeding the limit of plasmonic light trapping in textured screen-printed solar cells using Al nanoparticles and wrinkle-like graphene sheets, Light Sci. Appl. 2, e92; doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.48 (2013).

11. Narges Fahim, Zi Ouyang, Baohua Jia, Yinan Zhang, Zhengrong Shi and Min Gu, Enhanced photocurrent in crystalline silicon solar cells by hybrid plasmonic antireflection coatings, Appl. Phys. Lett.101, 261102 (2012).

12. Narges Fahim, Zi Ouyang, Yinan Zhang, Baohua Jia, Zhengrong Shi and Min Gu, Efficiency enhancement of screen-printed multicrystalline silicon solar cells by integrating gold nanoparticles via a dip coating process, Opt. Mater. Express 2, 190-204 (2012).

13. Litty. V. Thekkekara, Baohua Jia, Yinan Zhang, Ling Qiu, Dan Li and Min Gu, On-Chip Energy Storage Integrated Solar Cells Using Laser Scribed Graphene Oxide, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 031105 (2015).

14. Yanping Du, Christopher Fell, Benjamin Duck, Dong Chen, Kurt Liffman, Yinan Zhang, Min Gu and Yonggang Zhu, Evaluation of photovoltaic panel temperature in realistic scenarios, Energy Conversion and Management, 108, 60-67(2016) (IF= 4.38)

15. Boyuan Cai, Xiangping Li, Yinan Zhang and Baohua Jia, Significant light absorption enhancement in silicon thin film tandem solar cells with metallic nanoparticles, Nanotechnology, 27, 195401 (2016). (IF= 4.38)

16. Youliang Jin, Baoan Song, Zhitai Jia, Yinan Zhang, Changgui Lin, Xunsi Wang, and Shixun Dai，Improvement of Swanepoel method for deriving the thickness and the optical properties of chalcogenide thin films, Optics Express, 25, 440-451 (2017).

17. Jie Zhang, Yinan Zhang, Tao Song, Xinlei Shen, Xuegong Yu, Shuit-Tong Lee, Baoquan Sun, and Baohua Jia,High Performance Ultrathin Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Silicon Solar Cells via Solution-Processed Interface Modification, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,9, 21723-21729 (2017).