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, plasmonics and light emitting diodes. She has published 49 journal articles, including papers in Nature nanotechnology, Nature chemistry, Nature Materials, Light:Science&Applications, Physical review letters, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, 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
Khurgin J.;Wu P.;Tsai D.;Liu N.;Hsieh W.;Sun G.
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2017.FF1G.3
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 Express
Pita I.;Hendaoui N.;Liu N.;Kumbham M.;Tofail S.;Peremans A.;Silien C.
Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025632
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
Precursor-Mediated Linear- And Branched-Polytypism Control in Cu<inf>α</inf>Zn<inf>β</inf>Sn<inf>γ</inf>Se<inf>δ</inf>Colloidal Nanocrystals Using a Dual-Injection Method
Ren H.;Li Z.;Sun Y.;Gao P.;McCarthy C.;Liu N.;Xu H.;Ryan K.M.
Chemistry Of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01663
Direct visualization of phase-matched efficient second harmonic and broadband sum frequency generation in hybrid plasmonic nanostructures.
Li Z;Corbett B;Gocalinska A;Pelucchi E;Chen W;Ryan KM;Khan P;Silien C;Xu H;Liu N;
Light-Science & Applications
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-020-00414-4
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
Quantitative Polarization-Resolved Second-Harmonic-Generation Microscopy of Glycine Microneedles.
Gleeson M;O'Dwyer K;Guerin S;Rice D;Thompson D;Tofail SAM;Silien C;Liu N;
Advanced Materials
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002873
Input coupling enhancement through antenna incorporation in thin Au-mica trench waveguides
Pita I.;Kumbham M.;Gleeson M.;Belochapkine S.;Ryan K.;Silien C.;Liu N.
Journal Of The Optical Society Of America B-Optical Physics
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.002954
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
Label-free multimodal coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering analysis of microparticles in unconstrained microfluidics
O'Dwyer, K;Mouras, R;Mani, AA;Rice, D;Gleeson, M;Liu, N;Tofail, SAM;Silien, C
Applied Optics
DOI: 10.1364/AO.57.000E32
Control of piezoelectricity in amino acids by supramolecular packing
Guerin, S,Stapleton, A,Chovan, D,Mouras, R,Gleeson, M,McKeown, C,Noor, MR,Silien, C,Rhen, FMF,Kholkin, AL,Liu, N,Soulimane, T,Tofail, SAM,Thompson, D
Nature materials
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT5045
Low loss photonic nanocavity via dark magnetic dipole resonant mode near metal
Liu, N;Silien, C;Sun, G;Corbett, B
Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35291-w
APTES Duality and Nanopore Seed Regulation in Homogeneous and Nanoscale-Controlled Reduction of Ag Shell on SiO2 Microparticle for Quantifiable Single Particle SERS
Rice, D;Mouras, R;Gleeson, M;Liu, N;Tofail, SAM;Soulimane, T;Silien, C
Acs Omega
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01247
Surface plasmon propagation enhancement via bowtie antenna incorporation in Au- mica block waveguides
Pita, IA;Kumbham, M;Schmidt, M;Gleeson, M;Ryan, KM;Silien, C;Liu, N
Applied Optics
DOI: 10.1364/AO.57.000E50
Spatial-domain filter enhanced subtraction microscopy and application to mid-IR imaging
Kumbham, M,Mouras, R,Mani, A,Daly, S,O'Dwyer, K,Toma, A,Bianchini, P,Diaspro, A,Liu, N,Tofail, SAM,Silien, C
Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.013145
A method to overcome the diffraction limit in infrared microscopy using standing waves in an attenuated total reflection configuration
Hendaoui, N,Mani, A,Liu, N,Tofail, SM,Silien, C,Peremans, A
Optics Communications
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2016.08.034
Assembling Ordered Nanorod Superstructures and Their Application as Microcavity Lasers
Liu, P,Singh, S,Guo, YN,Wang, JJ,Xu, HX,Silien, C,Liu, N,Ryan, KM
Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/srep43884
Lithographically Defined, Room Temperature Low Threshold Subwavelength Red-Emitting Hybrid Plasmonic Lasers
Liu, N,Gocalinska, A,Justice, J,Gity, F,Povey, I,McCarthy, B,Pemble, M,Pelucchi, E,Wei, H,Silien, C,Xu, HX,Corbett, B
Nano Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04017
Far-Field Subdiffraction Imaging of Semiconductors Using Nonlinear Transient Absorption Differential Microscopy
Liu, N,Kumbham, M,Pita, I,Guo, Y,Bianchin, P,Diaspro, A,Tofail, SAM,Peremans, A,Silien, C
Acs Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00716
Doubling the far-field resolution in mid-infrared microscopy
Kumbham, M,Daly, S,O'Dwyer, K,Mouras, R,Liu, N,Mani, A,Peremans, A,Tofail, SM,Silien, C
Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.024377
Heteroaggregation assisted wet synthesis of core-shell silver-silica-cadmium selenide nanowires
Pita, IA,Singh, S,Silien, C,Ryan, KM,Liu, N
Nanoscale
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr06615h
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
High resolution imaging with differential infrared absorption micro-spectroscopy
Pita, I,Hendaoui, N,Liu, N,Kumbham, M,Tofail, SAM,Peremans, A,Silien, C
Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025632
A framework for far-field infrared absorption microscopy beyond the diffraction limit
Silien, C,Liu, N,Hendaoui, N,Tofail, SAM,Peremans, A
Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029694
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
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
Dynamic Chiral Flipping within Strongly Chemisorbed Molecular Monolayers at Surfaces
Ning Liu, George R. Darling, and Rasmita Raval
Chemical Communications
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
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
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
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
Reversible Switching among Three Adsorbate Configurations in a Single [2.2]Paracyclophane-Based Molecule
Silien, C; Liu, N; Ho, W; Maddox, JB; Mukamel, S; Liu, B; Bazan, GC
Nano Letters
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
Chemical imaging of single 4,7,12,15-tetrakis[2.2]paracyclophane by spatially resolved vibrational spectroscopy
Liu, N; Silien, C; Ho, W; Maddox, JB; Mukamel, S; Liu, B; Bazan, GC
Journal Of Chemical Physics
Simulation of Single Molecule Inelastic Electron Tunneling Signals in Paraphenylene-Vinylene Oligomers and Distyrylbenzene[2.2]paracyclophanes
Maddox, JB; Harbola, U; Liu, N; Silien, C; Ho, W; Bazan, GC; Mukamel, S
Journal Of Physical Chemistry A
Vibronic Spectroscopy of Single C60 Molecules and Monolayers with the STM
Nilay A. Pradhan, Ning Liu, and Wilson Ho
Journal Of Physical Chemistry B
Tuning the bipolar conductance of an alkali-doped C60 layer sandwiched between two tunneling barriers
Pradhan, NA; Liu, N; Silien, C; Ho, W
Nano Letters
Atomic scale conductance induced by single impurity charging
Pradhan, NA; Liu, N; Silien, C; Ho, W
Physical Review Letters
Vibronic states in single molecules: C60 and C70 on ultrathin Al2O3 films
Ning Liu, Nilay A. Pradhan and Wilson Ho
Journal Of Chemical Physics