2005-2009         Northwest University, China             BA,Theoretical Physics

2009-2012         Nankai University, China                   MA,Condensed Matter Physics

2012-2015         Institute of Physics, China                  PhD,Condensed Matter Physics

2016.1-2020.6    Research assistant   Wuhan University,Wuhan, China

2016.6-2020.12   Postdoc        ICFO-Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain

2021.1-present   Research fellow     East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Prof. Deng Pan obtained his PhD degree in condensed matter physics at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. After a postdoctoral position at The Institute of Photonics Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona (Spain), he joined the faculty at East China Normal University in 2021. He is currently an Outstanding Zijiang Professor at East China Normal University. His primary research areas include micro and nanophotonics, with specific focuses on plasmonics, graphene optics, Casimir effect, nanoscale heat transfer, and optical excitations in electron beams. His research achievements have been recognized with the China Optical Important Achievement Award in 2016. Currently, he is leading several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Military Science Commission. He has been selected as a National Outstanding Youth, Overseas High-level Talent in Shanghai, and Shanghai Reserved Talent.

• Research interests

·       Plasmonics and metamaterials.

·       Nonreciprocal photonics and topological photonics.

·       Casimir effect, quantum friction, optical forces and radiative heat transfer.

·       Quantum theory of optical excitations. 

• Publication

1. Deng Pan^# and Hongxing Xu^#, “Polarizing free electrons in optical near fields”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 186901 (2023)

2. Bei Yang, Deng Pan, Xiangdong Guo, Hai Hu, Qing Daiu^#, “Substrate effects on the near-field radiative heat transfer between bi-planar graphene/hBN heterostructures”, Int. J. Therm. Sci. 176, 107493 (2022)

3. Deng Pan^#, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo, “Emergence of material momentum in optical media”, arXiv:1907.04947

4. Deng Pan^#, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo^#, “Rotational Doppler cooling and heating”, Sci. Adv. 7, eabd6705 (2021)

5. Deng Pan^#, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo^#, “Anomalous Thermodiffusion of Electrons in Graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176802 (2020)

6. Jiawei Sun, Huatian Hu, Deng Pan, Shunping Zhang^#, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Selectively depopulating valley-polarized excitons in monolayer MoS2 by local chirality in single plasmonic nanocavity”, Nano. Lett. 20, 4953 (2020)

7. Quanbing Guo, Tong Fu, Jibo Tang, Deng Pan, Shunping Zhang^#, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Routing a chiral Raman signal based on spin-orbit interaction of light”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183903 (2019)

8. Deng Pan^#, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo^#, “Circular dichroism in rotating particles”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066803 (2019)

9. Deng Pan, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo^#, “Magnetically activated thermal vacuum torque”, Phys. Rev. A 99, 062509 (2019)

10. Pan Li, Deng Pan, Longkun Yang, Hong Wei, Shuli He, Hongxing Xu, and Zhipeng Li^#, “Silver nano-needles: focused optical field induced solution synthesis and application in remote-excitation nanofocusing SERS, Nanoscale 11, 2153 (2019)

11. Qiang Li, Deng Pan, Hong Wei^#, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Plasmon-assisted selective and super-resolving excitation of individual quantum emitters on a metal nanowire, Nano Lett. 18, 3 (2018)

12. Hong Wei, Deng Pan, Shunping Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Qiang Li, Ning Liu, Wenhui Wang, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Plasmon waveguiding in nanowires”, Chem. Rev. 118, 6 (2018)

13. Deng Pan, Rui Yu, Hongxing Xu^#, and F. Javier García de Abajo^#, “Topologically protected Dirac plasmons in a graphene superlattice”, Nat. Commun. 8, 1243 (2017)

14. Deng Pan and Hongxing Xu^#, “Gravitational field around black hole induces photonic spin–orbit interaction that twists light”, Front. Phys. 12, 128102 (2017)

15. Deng Pan, Hong Wei, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Strong spin-orbit interaction of light in plasmonic nanostructures and nanocircuits”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166803 (2016)
    

16. Cui Yang, Deng Pan, Lianming Tong^#, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Guided transport of nanoparticles by plasmonic nanowires”, Nanoscale 8, 19195 (2016)

17. ZhiliJia, Hongwei^#, Deng Pan, and HongxingXu^#, “Direction-resolved radiation from polarization-controlled surface plasmon modes on silver nanowire antennas”, Nanoscale 8, 20118 (2016)

18. Hong Wei^#,Deng Pan, and HongxingXu^#, “Routing of surface plasmons in silver nanowire networks controlled by polarization and coating”, Nanoscale 7, 19053 (2015)

19. Hong Wei^#, Xiaorui Tian, Deng Pan, Li Chen, Zhili Jia, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Directionally-controlled periodic collimated beams of surface plasmon polaritons on metal film in Ag nanowire/Al2O3/Ag film composite structure”, Nano Lett. 15, 560 (2015)

20. Hongyan Liang, Hong Wei, Deng Pan, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Chemically synthesized noble metal nanostructures for plasmonics”, Nanotechnol. Rev. 4, 289 (2015)

21. Zhuoxian Wang, Hong Wei^#, Deng Pan, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Controlling the radiation direction of propagating surface plasmons on silver nanowires”, Laser Photon. Rev. 8, 596 (2014)

22. Deng Pan, Hong Wei^#, Zhili Jia, and Hongxing Xu^#, “Mode conversion of propagating surface plasmons in nanophotonic networks induced by structural symmetry breaking”, Sci. Rep. 4, 4993 (2014)

23. Deng Pan, Hong Wei, and Hongxing Xu^#, Optical interferometric logic gates based on metal slot waveguide network realizing whole fundamental logic operations, Opt. Exp. 21, 9556-9562 (2013)

24. Deng Pan, Hong wei, and Hongxing Xu^#, Metallic nanowires for subwavelength waveguiding and nanophotonic devices, Chin. Phys. B 22, 097305 (2013)

25. Zongqiang Chen, Jing Chen, Yudong Li, Deng Pan, Wenqiang Lu, Zhiqiang Hao, Jingjun Xu, and Qian Sun^#, Simulation of nanoscale multifunctional interferometric logic gates based on coupled metal gap waveguides, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 24, 1366 (2012)

• Conference

1. Deng Pan, Invited talk,  AES2021, Marrakech, Morocco, November 2022

2. Deng Pan, Invited talk, Metamaterials SPIE Photonics Europe, Prague, Czech (held online) April 2021

3. Deng Pan, Invited talk, “Circular dichroism and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in rotational particles”, Meta 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019

4. Deng Pan, Invited talk, “Resolution of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy by quantum theory”, Workshop for Frontiers of Plasmonics, Shenzhen, China, May 2019

5. Deng Pan, Oral presentation, “Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in rotational nanoparticle”, Nanometa, Seefeld, Austria, January 2019

6. Deng Pan, Invited talk, “Thermodynamics in nanophotonics”, Forum for Frontiers of Plasmonics, Wuhan, China, October 2018

7. Deng Pan, Invited talk, “Nonreciprocal nanophotonics from topologically protected Plasmons to Thermal Vacuum Torque”, Meta 2017, Seoul, Korea, July 2017

8.  Deng Pan, Oral presentation, “Exotic thermal vacuum torque of a nanosphere under magnetic field”, SPP8, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2017

9. Deng Pan,Oral presentation, “Topologically protected graphene plasmons”, Nanometa, Seefield, Austria, January 2017

10. Deng Pan, Best poster, “Mode-conversion and spin-sontrol of surface plasmons in plasmonic nanocircuits”, SPP7, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2015