Name: Peinan Ni
Title: Professor
Email: nipeinan@zzu.edu.cn
Office: Bldg. 23, ZZU South Campus, 75 Daxue N. Rd., Zhengzhou, China
Openings: young faculty, postdocs, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. Enquiries welcome.
I. Personal Profile
Peinan Ni is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, and a recipient of the National Overseas High-Level Young Talent Program. He received his B.Sc. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2009 and Ph.D. from CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2014. He later worked on semiconductor micro/nano-optoelectronics at Nanyang Technological University, CNRS, Baylor University, Tampere University, and Chalmers University of Technology. A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, he has published over 40 papers in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Opto-Electronic Advances, and other journals.
II. Research Interests
1. Diamond micro/nanofabrication and diamond optical components;
2. Semiconductor micro- and nano-optoelectronic devices;
3. Optical metasurfaces;
III. Education and Professional Experience:
2005-2009 B.Sc., Optical Information Science & Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
2009-2014 Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014-2016 Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2016-2019 Researcher, CNRS-CRHEA, France
2020 Research Associate, Baylor University, USA
2021-2022 Senior Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland
2022 Researcher, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2023-Present Professor, Zhengzhou University
IV. Talent Programs and Fellowships
1. National Overseas High-Level Young Talent Program
2. EU Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF)
V. Academic Service
Young Editorial Board Member of CPL, CPB, Acta Physica Sinica, and Physics
VI. Research Projects
1. NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), Principal Investigator
2. NSFC General Program, Principal Investigator
3. Henan Provincial Natural Science Foundation Key Program, Principal Investigator
VII. Selected Recent Publications (# co-first author; * corresponding author)
1.Jing-Yuan Zhu, Ke-Xue Li,Pei-Nan Ni*, Shang-Heng Li, Si-Rui Wang, Wen-Jie Dou, Yong-Yang Zhu, Zhi-Peng Wei*, Chong-Xin Shan*. Diamond Metasurface-Based Optical Tweezers With Enhanced Robustness. Advanced Science, 0:e24086,2026.
2.Liu Li, Arttu Nieminen, Wen-Jie Dou, Yong-Yang Zhu, Humeyra Caglayan*,Pei-Nan Ni*, and Chong-Xin Shan*. Diamond Metalens Enabled Robust Imaging Across Broad Temperature Range. Lasers & Photonics Reviews, 0:e71033,2026.
3.Wen-Hao Sun, Ke-Xue Li, Wen-jie Dou, Yong-Yang Zhu, Shang-Heng Li, Zhi-Peng Wei*,Pei-Nan Ni*,and Chong-Xin Shan*, Diamond-Enhanced Nanoimprint Lithography for Fabrication of Micro/Nano-Optical Elements, ACS Photonics, 13,311-319,2026.
4.W. J. Dou#, X. Yang#,C. L. Zheng,P. N. Ni*, Y. Y. Xie*, P. P. Chen, and C. X. Shan*, “Solar-blind Ultraviolet Imaging With Diamond Metalens”, Photonics Research, 13,1452, 2025.
5.X. Z. Pei, L. Bao, Q. H. Wang, B. Wu, P. Fu, H. J. Zhou, J. Deng,P. N. Ni*, Q. Kan*, P. P. Chen*, and Y. Y. Xie*, “On-chip Integration of Metasurface-Based Beam Splitter with Variable Split Ratio”, Lasers & Photonics Reviews,2500140, 2025.
6.C. L. Zheng,P. N. Ni*, Y. Y. Xie*and P. Genevet*; “On-chip light control of semiconductor optoelectronic devices using integrated metasurfaces”; Opto-Electronic Advances, 8, 240159, 2025.
7.X. Yang, B. Wu, P. P. Chen, Y. Y. Xie*, C. N. Lin, Z. F. Zhang, W. J. Dou,P. N. Ni*, C. X. Shan*, “Diamond Based Optical Metasurfaces for Broadband Wavefront Shaping in Harsh Environment”, Lasers & Photonics Reviews,18, 2400007, 2024.
8.Pan Fu#,Pei-Nan Ni#,*, Bo Wu, Xian-Zhi Pei, Qiu-Hua Wang, Pei-Pei Chen, Chen Xu, Qiang Kan*, Wei-Guo Chu*, Yi-Yang Xie*, “Metasurface Enabled On-Chip Generation and Manipulation of Vector Beams from Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers”, Advanced Materials, 35, 2204286, 2023.
9.Kexue Li#, Xuanyu Zhang#,Peinan Ni#, Juncheng Liu, Fengyuan Lin, Xu Man, Wenfeng Cai, Jianxun Liu, Yanjun Liu, Rui Chen, and Zhipeng Wei*, “Directional emissions from perovskite nanocrystals thin film enabled by metasurface integration through one step spin-coating process”, Nano Research, 16, 7646–7653, 2023.
10.Pei-Nan Ni, Pan Fu, Pei-Pei Chen*, Chen Xu, Yi-Yang Xie*, Patrice Genevet*, “Spin-decoupling of vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers with complete phase modulation using on-chip integrated Jones matrix metasurfaces”, Nature Communications, 13,1-10, 2022.
11.Jingyi Yang, Sudip Gurung, Subhajit Bej,Peinan Niand Ho Wai Howard Lee*, “Active Optical Metasurfaces: Comprehensive Review on Physics, Mechanisms, and Prospective Applications”, Rep. Prog. Phys.85,0361012022.
12.Pan Fu#,Pei-Nan Ni#,*,Qiu-Hua Wang, Yu-Fei Liu, Bo Wu, Pei-Pei Chen*, Qiang Kan, Shuang-Peng Wang, Hong-Da Chen, Chen Xu, and Yi-Yang Xie*, “Multi-channel generations of orbital angular momentum modes with on-demand characteristics on a chip”, Advanced Optical Materials,2101308,2021.
13.Zhuangzhuang Zhao, Yiyang Xie*, Guanzhong Pan,Peinan Ni*, Qiuhua Wang, Yibo Dong, Liangchen Hu, Jie Sun, Hongda Chen, Chen Xu, and Patrice Genevet*, “Dynamic phase manipulation of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers via on-chip integration of microfluidic channels”, Optics Express, 2, 1481, 2021.
14.Qiuhua Wang#,Peinan Ni#,*, Yiyang Xie*, Qiang Kan, Pei-Pei Chen, Pan Fu, Jun Deng, Tai-Lai Jin, Hong-Da Chen, Ho Wai Howard Lee, Chen Xu*, and Patrice Genevet*,”On-chip Generation of Structured Light Based on Metasurface Optoelectronic Integration” Lasers & Photonics Reviews,2000385, 2020.
15.Yiyang Xie,Peinan Ni, Qiuhua Wang, Qiang Kan*, Gauthier Briere, Peipei Chen, Zhuangzhuang Zhao, Alexandre Delga, Haoran Ren, Hongda Chen, Chen Xu*, and Patrice Genevet*“Metasurface integrated Vertical Surface Emitting Lasers for programmable directional lasing emissions” Nature Nanotechnology, 15, 125-130 2020.
16.Qinghua Song, Arthur Baroni, Rajath Sawant,Peinan Ni,Virginie Brandli, Sébastien Chenot, Stéphane Vézian, Benjamin Damilano, Philippe de Mierry, Samira Khadir, Patrick Ferrand, and Patrice Genevet*, “Ptychography retrieval of fully polarized holograms from geometric-phase metasurfaces” Nature Communications,11, 2651 2020.
17.Peinan Ni#, Andrès De Luna Bugallo#,*, Blandine Alloing, and Patrice Genevet*,“Gate-voltage tunable light emission from hybrid MoS2-gap-mode metasurfaces” ACS Photonics,6,1594(2019).
18.Haoran Ren*, Gauthier Briere, Xinyuan Fang,Peinan Ni, Rajath Sawant, Sébastien Héron, Sébastien Chenot, Stéphane Vézian, Benjamin Damilano, Virginie Brandli, Stefan A. Maier, and Patrice Genevet*,“Metasurface Orbital Angular Momentum Holography” Nature Communications, 10 ,2986 (2019).
19.G. Briere,Peinan Ni,S. Heron, S. Chenot, S. Vezian, V. Brandli, B. Damilano, J.Y. Duboz, M. Iwanaga and P. Genevet*, “An Etching-free Approach Toward Large-scale Light-emitting Metasurfaces, Advanced Optical Materials, 7, 1801271 (2019)
20.Purva Bhumkar#, Rajath Sawant#, Alexander Zhu,Peinan Ni, Federico Capasso*and Patrice Genevet*, “Mitigating chromatic dispersion with hybrid optical metasurfaces”, Advanced Materials,31, 1805555, (2018).
