1) Material physics and chemistry

2) Optoelectronic material preparation and characterization

3) Design and fabrication of photonics devices.

4) Defect structures of solid state materials and their photonics applications

1) Kaifang Gao, Xiong Zhang, Zhitao Zan, Zuoxuan Gao, E. R. Mugisha, Lihong Shi, Yingkun Ma, Feifei Li, Chao Liang, Manyi Ren, Hongjian Chen, and Wenbo Yan*, “Visible-light- assisted condensation of ultrasonically atomized water vapor on LiNbO3:Fe crystals”, Optics Express, 27, 37680 (2019)

2) Feifei Li, Xiong Zhang, Kaifang Gao, Lihong Shi, Zhitao Zan, Zuoxuan Gao, Chao Liang, E. R. Mugisha, Hongjian Chen, Wenbo Yan*, “All-optical splitting of dielectric micro- droplets by using a y-cut-LN-based anti-symmetrical sandwich structure”, Optics Express, 27, 25767 (2019)

3) Shaobei Li, Chao Liang, Feifei Li, Lihong Shi, Chengwei Du, Bolin Fan, Xuliang Wang, Zhitao Zan, Hongjian Chen, and Wenbo Yan*, “Direct laser writing combined with a phase- delay probe”, Optics Letters 43, 322 (2018)

4) Bolin Fan, Feifei Li, Lipin Chen, Lihong Shi, Wenbo Yan*, Yuqing Zhang, Shaobei Li, Xuliang Wang, Xun Wang, and Hongjian Chen, “Photovoltaic manipulation of water micro- droplets on a hydrophobic LiNbO3”, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 064010 (2017)

5) Lipin Chen, Bolin Fan, Wenbo Yan*, Shaobei Li, Lihong Shi, and Hongjian Chen, “Photo-assisted splitting of dielectric microdroplets in a LN-based sandwich structure”, Optics Letters 41, 4558 (2016)