Introduction:

Professor at the School of Physics, Nanjing University, Vice Director of the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures in Nanjing, Vice Dean of the School of Physics at Nanjing University, recipient of the National Distinguished Youth Science Fund, Executive Director of the National Electromagnetic Research Association, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Optics. Mainly engaged in research on nonlinear photonic crystals and nonlinear optical metamaterials. He has undertaken projects such as the Nanotechnology Special Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology and major projects of the Natural Fund, and has won awards such as the First Prize of the Chinese Optical Science and Technology Award, the Wang Daheng Optical Award of the Chinese Optical Society, the Jiangsu Province Optical Science and Technology Award, the Important Optical Achievements Award of China, the First Prize of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology, and the National Teaching Achievement Award.

Research Fields:

Liu Hui has been dedicated to research in the fields of optical superlattices and optical metamaterials. He proposed the research direction of magnetically resonant coupled metamaterials relatively early internationally, and put forward the theory model of magnetic resonance coupled Lagrange, chiral rotation of stereoscopic magnetic resonance metamaterials, subwavelength transmission of magnetic plasmons, near-field optical force of magnetic resonance microcavities, Fano resonance-induced nonlinear optical third harmonic on magnetic resonance metamaterial surfaces, control of thermal radiation induced by Fano resonance on magnetic resonance metamaterial surfaces, near-field polarization imaging of thermal radiation controlled by chip surfaces, and so on.

In addition, Liu Hui has made breakthrough achievements in the direction of transformative optical metamaterials. He first prepared photonic black holes in the high-frequency band on chips, achieving efficient capture of photons. This work was published in the top journal in the field of optics, Nature Photonics, and has had a certain impact internationally. Renowned optical expert Professor Leonhardt commented that this work is "the first precise simulation of Einstein's equations using optical materials, beautifully demonstrating some of the ideas of general relativity." Recently, Liu Hui has expanded transformative optics into the fields of nonlinear optics and quantum optics, achieving for the first time the integration of broadband nonlinear photon devices using conformal transformative optics methods. This work was published in the top journal in the field of optics, Nature Photonics (2024).

Liu Hui's research achievements, as first author or corresponding author, have been published in journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Phys. Rev. Lett., Light Science & Applications, etc. His work has attracted the attention of international peers in the fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. Currently, he has published 130 articles with over 4100 citations, with the highest single-article citation being over 600 times.