Biography
Dr. Ning Liu received a B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University, China, in 1999 and a Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from University of California at Irvine in 2005. Prior to joining the University of Limerick，Ireland as a lecturer in 2013, she worked as postdoctoral research fellow in UK, Canada, China, and Ireland. She has specialties in scanning probe microscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy. Her current research interests focus on nanophotonics and plasmonics. She has published 43 journal articles, including papers in Nature nanotechnology, Nature chemistry, Nature Materials, Physical review letters, Nano Letters, ACS Photonics etc.For a full list of publications, please visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QgUds54AAAAJ&hl=en
Teaching Interests
- Quantum Mechanics (PH4061)
- Semiconductor I/Semiconductor Processing (PH4071/PH5098)
- Mechanics/Heat/Electricity & Magnetism (PH4131)
-Physics for Engineers 1 (PH4011)
- Wave/Light/Modern Physics (PH4102)
Research Collaborators
- Alberto Diaspro - Joint Publication - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT -Italy
- Greg Sun - Host Incoming Visitor - University of Massachusetts Boston -USA
- Hongxing Xu - Host Incoming Visitor - Chinese Academy of Sciences -China
- Paolo Bianchini - Joint Publication - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT -Italy
Publications
Conference Publication
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
Corbett B.;Loi R.;Quinn D.;O'Callaghan J.;Liu N.
DOI: 10.1364/IPRSN.2017.ITu2A.4
2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2017 - Proceedings
Khurgin J.;Wu P.;Tsai D.;Liu N.;Hsieh W.;Sun G.
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2017.FF1G.3
Do Low-loss Doped Semiconductor Nanoparticles Yield Stronger Field Enhancement?
Khurgin, JB,Wu, PC,Tsai, DP,Liu, N,Hsieh, W,Sun, G,
2014 Conference On Lasers And Electro-Optics (Cleo)
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
Khurgin J.;Wu P.;Tsai D.;Liu N.;Hsieh W.;Sun G.
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FF1G.3
Other Publication
Characterisation and manipulation of polarisation response in plasmonic and magneto-plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials
Khan P.;Brennan G.;Lillis J.;Tofail S.A.;Liu N.;Silien C.
Symmetry
DOI: 10.3390/SYM12081365
Plasmon Waveguiding in Nanowires
Wei, H,Pan, D,Zhang, SP,Li, ZP,Li, Q,Liu, N,Wang, WH,Xu, HX
Chemical Reviews
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00441
Peer Reviewed Journal
Spectral drifts in surface textured Fe<inf>3</inf>O<inf>4</inf>-Au, core-shell nanoparticles enhance spectra-selective photothermal heating and scatter imaging
Brennan G.;Thorat N.D.;Pescio M.;Bergamino S.;Bauer J.;Liu N.;Tofail S.A.M.;Silien C.
Nanoscale
DOI: 10.1039/d0nr01463j
Synthesis and Characterization of CuZnSe<inf>2</inf> Nanocrystals in Wurtzite, Zinc Blende, and Core-Shell Polytypes
Ren H.;Wang M.;Li Z.;Laffir F.;Brennan G.;Sun Y.;Stokes K.;Geaney H.;O'Reilly E.;Gao P.;Liu N.;McCarthy C.;Ryan K.
Chemistry Of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b03063
Comparative analysis of metals and alternative infrared plasmonic materials
Hsieh, WT;Wu, PC;Khurgin, JB;Tsai, DP;Liu, N;Sun, G
Acs Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01166
Plasmonic Amplification with Ultra-High Optical Gain at Room Temperature
Ning Liu, Hong Wei, Jing Li, Zhuoxian Wang, Xiaorui Tian, Anlian Pan, and Hongxing Xu
Scientific Reports
Propagating waves in quasi-one dimensional MoO3 ribbons investigated by Raman spectroscopy and scanning near-field optical microscope
Zhipeng Li, Ning Liu, Zhilin Yang and Bin Dong
Journal Of Applied Physics
Polarization dependent study on propagating surface plasmons in silver nanowires launched by a near field scanning optical fiber tip
Ning Liu, Zhipeng Li, and Hongxing Xu
Small
Nanoelectromechanical devices in a fluidic environment
O. Svitelskiy, V. Sauer, D. Vick, K-M. Cheng, N. Liu, M. R. Freeman, and W. K. Hiebert
Physical Review E
Dynamic Chiral Flipping within Strongly Chemisorbed Molecular Monolayers at Surfaces
Ning Liu, George R. Darling, and Rasmita Raval
Chemical Communications
Quantum dot-based local field imaging reveals plasmon-based interferometric logic in silver nanowire networks
Hong Wei, Zhipeng Li, Xiaorui Tian, Zhuoxian Wang, Fengchi Cong, Ning Liu, Shunping Zhang, Peter Nordlander, Naomi J. Halas, and Hongxing Xu
Nano Letters
Drastic symmetry breaking in supramolecular organization of enantiomerically unbalanced monolayers at surfaces
O. Svitelskiy, V. Sauer, N. Liu, K-M. Cheng, E. Finley, M. R. Freeman, and W. K. Hiebert
Physical Review Letters
Semiconducting polymer waveguides for end-fired ultra-fast optical amplifiers
N. Liu, A. Ruseckas, N. Montgomery, I. D. W. Samuel, and G. A. Turnbull
Optics Express
Drastic symmetry breaking in supramolecular organization of enantiomerically unbalanced monolayers at surfaces
S. Haq, N. Liu, Vincent Humblot, A. P. J. Jansen, and R. Raval
Nature Chemistry
Time Domain Control of Ultrahigh Frequency Nanomechanical Systems
N. Liu, F. Giesen, M. Belov, J. Losby, J. Moroz, A. E. Fraser, G. McKinnon, T. J. Clement, V. Sauer, W. K. Hiebert, and M. R. Freeman
Nature Nanotechnology
A simple cell for the analysis of nanoelectromechanical systems under gas pressure
O. Svitelskiy, N. Liu, V. Sauer, K-M. Cheng, E. Finley, M. Belov, M. R. Freeman, and W. K. Hiebert
Review Of Scientific Instruments
Direct visualization of enantiospecific substitution of chiral guest molecules into heterochiral molecular assemblies at surfaces
Ning Liu, Sam Haq, George R. Darling, and Rasmita Raval
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
Vibronic Spectroscopy of Single C60 Molecules and Monolayers with the STM
Nilay A. Pradhan, Ning Liu, and Wilson Ho
Journal Of Physical Chemistry B
Vibronic states in single molecules: C60 and C70 on ultrathin Al2O3 films
Ning Liu, Nilay A. Pradhan and Wilson Ho
Journal Of Chemical Physics