Max Yan

Interested in wave phenomena (light, also mechanical) in complex material, and their applications. Courses: Physics, FEM, control theory, Python. Current research: hollow optical fiber for telecom.

Research qualifications: Docent

0000-0002-3368-9786

Contact

max.yan@umu.se

+46 90 786 98 36

Works at

Associate professor at Department of Applied Physics and Electronics

X, Håken Gullessons väg 20, Teknikhuset, TEK.D.413 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Position available: PhD on hollow-core optical fiber for next-generation communication network. (Starting date: early 2025).

Short CV:

2024 Feb.-: Umeå University (UMU), assoc. prof.
2009-2024: Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH), asst. prof./researcher
2008-2009: Technical Univ. of Denmark (DTU), postdoc/asst. prof.
2006-2008: Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH), postdoc
1998-2006: Nanyang Technological Univ. (NTU), undergrad./phd

Google Scholar profile; ORCiD: 0000-0002-3368-9786

Commission of trust:

Opponent/committee/reviewer for PhD disputations in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Project reviewer for ERC Starting Grant, Dutch Research Council, Estonian Research Council.
Expert panel member: Research assessment of School of Information Technology, Halmstad Unversity, 2024
"Optics and Photonics" master-program track responsible at KTH 2021-2023. (both "Engineering Physics" and "Electromagnetics, Fusion and Space Engineering" master programs)
Sub-committee member, CLEO Europe ("Micro and Nano Photonics", "Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization"); Committee member, Optics & Photonics in Sweden & IEEE NMDC.

Hemicellulose content affects the properties of cellulose nanofibrils produced from softwood pulp fibres by LPMO

Green Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry 2022, Vol. 24, (18) : 7137-7147

Koskela, Salla; Zha, Li; Wang, Shennan; et al.

A highly-efficiency nir plasmonic long-wavelength cut-off filter based on stepped impedance resonators

Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021

Ebadi, Seyed Morteza; Örtegren, Jonas; Yan, Max

Biomimetic photonic multiform composite for high‐performance radiative cooling

Advanced Optical Materials, Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft 2021, Vol. 9, (22)

Liu, Xianghui; Xiao, Chengyu; Wang, Pan; et al.

Highly stable measurement for nanoparticle extinction cross section by analyzing aperture-edge blurriness

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2021, Vol. 29, (11) : 16323-16323

Ying, Qianwen; Zhang, Jiahao; Zhang, Hongliang; et al.

Refractive index of delignified wood for transparent biocomposites

RSC Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry 2020, Vol. 10, (67) : 40719-40724

Chen, Hui; Montanari, Céline; Yan, Max; et al.

Scalable spectrally selective mid-infrared meta-absorbers for advanced radiative thermal engineering

Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Royal Society of Chemistry 2020, Vol. 22, (25) : 13965-13974

Liu, Xianghui; Chang, Qi; Yan, Max; et al.

On-chip reconfigurable mode converter based on cross-connected subwavelength Y-junctions

Photonics Research, Optical Society of America 2020, Vol. 9, (1) : 43-48

Lu, Longhui; Liu, Deming; Yan, Max; et al.

Biologically inspired flexible photonic films for efficient passive radiative cooling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2020, Vol. 117, (26) : 14657-14666

Zhang, Haiwen; Ly, Kally C. S.; Liu, Xianghui; et al.

Thickness dependence of optical transmittance of transparent wood: chemical modification effects

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2019, Vol. 11, (38) : 35451-35457

Chen, Hui; Baitenov, Adil; Li, Yuanyuan; et al.

Subwavelength adiabatic multimode Y-junctions

Optics Letters, Optical Society of America 2019, Vol. 44, (19) : 4729-4732

Lu, Longhui; Liu, Deming; Yan, Max; et al.

Nanostructure and properties of nacre-inspired clay/cellulose nanocomposites—synchrotron X-ray scattering analysis

Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2019, Vol. 52, (8) : 3131-3140

Medina, Lilian; Nishiyama, Yoshiharu; Daicho, Kazuho; et al.

Transparent wood for thermal energy storage and reversible optical transmittance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2019, Vol. 11, (22) : 20465-20472

Montanari, Céline; Li, Yuanyuan; Chen, Hui; et al.

Effect of transparent wood on the polarization degree of light

Optics Letters, Optical Society of America 2019, Vol. 44, (12) : 2962-2965

Vasileva, Elena; Baitenov, Adil; Chen, Hui; et al.

Complex-k modes of plasmonic chain waveguides

Journal of Physics Communications, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2019, Vol. 3, (11)

Yan, M.

Transparent plywood as a load-bearing and luminescent biocomposite

Composites Science And Technology, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 164 : 296-303

Fu, Qiliang; Yan, Min; Jungstedt, Erik; et al.

Towards centimeter thick transparent wood through interface manipulation

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry 2018, Vol. 6, (3) : 1094-1101

Li, Yuanyuan; Yang, Xuan; Fu, Qiliang; et al.

Light scattering by structurally anisotropic media: a benchmark with transparent wood

Advanced Optical Materials, John Wiley & Sons 2018, Vol. 6, (23)

Vasileva, Elena; Chen, Hui; Li, Yuanyuan; et al.

Ultrabroadband super-Planckian radiative heat transfer with artificial continuum cavity states in patterned hyperbolic metamaterials

Physical Review B, American Physical Society 2017, Vol. 95, (24)

Dai, Jin; Ding, Fei; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.; et al.

Lignin‐retaining transparent wood

ChemSusChem, Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft 2017, Vol. 10, (17) : 3445-3451

Li, Yuanyuan; Fu, Qiliang; Rojas, Ramiro; et al.

Radiative heat transfer between two dielectric-filled metal gratings

Physical Review B, American Physical Society 2016, Vol. 93, (15)

Dai, J.; Dyakov, S. A.; Yan, M.

Near-field radiative heat transfer between metasurfaces: a full-wave study based on two-dimensional grooved metal plates

Physical Review B, American Physical Society 2016, Vol. 94, (12)

Dai, Jin; Dyakov, Sergey A.; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.; et al.

Photothermal switching based on silicon mach–zehnder interferometer integrated with light absorber

IEEE Photonics Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2016, Vol. 8, (2)

Gong, Hanmo; Chen, Xi; Qu, Yurui; et al.

Optically transparent wood from a nanoporous cellulosic template: combining functional and structural performance

Biomacromolecules, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2016, Vol. 17, (4) : 1358-1364

Li, Yuanyuan; Fu, Qiliang; Yu, Shun; et al.

Size Impact of Ordered P3HT Nanofibers on Optical Anisotropy

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft 2016, Vol. 217, (9) : 1089-1095

Lobov, Gleb S.; Zhao, Yichen; Marinins, Aleksandrs; et al.

Dynamic Manipulation of Optical Anisotropy of Suspended Poly‐3‐hexylthiophene Nanofibers

Advanced Optical Materials, Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft 2016, Vol. 4, (10) : 1651-1656

Lobov, Gleb S.; Zhao, Yichen; Marinins, Aleksandrs; et al.

Enhanced near-field radiative heat transfer between corrugated metal plates: role of spoof surface plasmon polaritons

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, American Physical Society 2015, Vol. 92, (3)

Dai, J.; Dyakov, S. A.; Yan, Max

Near field thermal memory based on radiative phase bistability of VO₂

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2015, Vol. 48, (30)

Dyakov, S. A.; Dai, J.; Yan, M.; et al.

Thermal self-oscillations in radiative heat exchange

Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2015, Vol. 106, (6)

Dyakov, S. A.; Dai, J.; Yan, M.; et al.

Electric field induced optical anisotropy of P3HT nanofibers in a liquid solution

Optical Materials Express, Optics Info Base, Optical Society of America 2015, Vol. 5, (11) : 2642-2647

Lobov, G. S.; Zhao, Y.; Marinins, A.; et al.

Near-infrared light absorption and scattering based on a mono-layer of gold nanoparticles

Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, EDP Sciences 2015, Vol. 10

Soltanmoradi, R.; Wang, Q.; Qiu, M.; et al.

Ordered Au nanocrystals on a substrate formed by light-induced rapid annealing

Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry 2014, Vol. 6, (3) : 1756-1762

Chen, Xi; Chen, Yiting; Dai, Jin; et al.

Photothermal Switching of SOI Waveguide-Based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with Integrated Plasmonic Nanoheater

Plasmonics, Springer 2014, Vol. 9, (5) : 1197-1205

Chen, Xi; Chen, Yiting; Shi, Yuechun; et al.

Photothermally tunable silicon-microring-based optical add-drop filter through integrated light absorber

Optics Express, Optica Publishing Group 2014, Vol. 22, (21) : 25233-25241

Chen, Xi; Shi, Yuechun; Lou, Fei; et al.

Metal-insulator-metal plasmonic absorbers: influence of lattice

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2014, Vol. 22, (25) : 30807-30814

Chen, Yiting; Dai, Jin; Yan, Min; et al.

Thermal radiation dynamics in two parallel plates: the role of near field

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, American Physical Society 2014, Vol. 90, (4)

Dyakov, S. A.; Dai, J.; Yan, Max; et al.

Gold nanoparticle transfer through photothermal effects in a metamaterial absorber by nanosecond laser

Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, (1)

Gong, Hanmo; Yang, Yuanqing; Chen, Xingxing; et al.

Whispering gallery mode nanodisk resonator based on layered metal-dielectric waveguide

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2014, Vol. 22, (7) : 8490-8502

Lou, Fei; Yan, Min; Thylen, Lars; et al.

All-optical switching of silicon disk resonator based on photothermal effect in metal–insulator–metal absorber

Optics Letters, Optica Publishing Group 2014, Vol. 39, (15) : 4431-4434

Shi, Yuechun; Chen, Xi; Lou, Fei; et al.

Multi-resonator structure based on continuous silver thin films for transparent conductors

Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014, Vol. 105, (6)

Soltanmoradi, R.; Dyakov, S. A.; Wang, Q.; et al.

Lithography-free broadband visible light absorber based on a mono-layer of gold nanoparticles

Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2014, Vol. 16, (2)

Yan, M.; Dai, J.; Qiu, M.

Ultra-narrow-band light dissipation by a stack of lamellar silver and alumina

Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014, Vol. 104, (22)

Zhao, Ding; Meng, Lijun; Gong, Hanmo; et al.

Honeycomb-lattice plasmonic absorbers at NIR: anomalous high-order resonance

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2013, Vol. 21, (18) : 20873-20879

Chen, Yiting; Dai, Jin; Yan, Min; et al.

Plasmonic analog of microstrip transmission line and effect of thermal annealing on its propagation loss

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2013, Vol. 21, (2) : 1639-1644

Chen, Yiting; Wang, Jing; Chen, Xi; et al.

Light absorber based on nano-spheres on a substrate reflector

Optics Express, Optical Society of America 2013, Vol. 21, (6) : 6697-6706

Dai, Jin; Ye, Fei; Chen, Yiting; et al.

Nanophotonics for low-power switches

Optical fiber telecommunications VIA: components and subsystems, Oxford: Academic Press 2013 : 205-241

Thylen, Lars; Holmström, Petter; Wosinski, Lech; et al.

Metal–insulator–metal light absorber: a continuous structure

Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2013, Vol. 15, (2)

Yan, M.

Nanosecond photothermal effects in plasmonic nanostructures

ACS Nano, American Chemical Society (ACS) 2012, Vol. 6, (3) : 2550-2557

Chen, Xi; Chen, Yiting; Yan, Min; et al.

Experimental demonstration of plasmon propagation, coupling, and splitting in silver nanowire at 1550-nm wavelength

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE 2011, Vol. 17, (4) : 1107-1111

Li, Qiang; Wang, Shanshan; Chen, Yiting; et al.

Efficient coupling between dielectric and hybrid plasmonic waveguides by multimode interference power splitter

Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2011, Vol. 13, (7)

Song, Yi; Wang, Jing; Yan, Min; et al.

Subwavelength hybrid plasmonic nanodisk with highQfactor and Purcell factor

Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2011, Vol. 13, (7)

Song, Yi; Wang, Jing; Yan, Min; et al.

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I teach various courses in applied physics at UMU. Previously at KTH I taught "Electromagnetism and Waves" at undergraduate level, and master courses in photonics including "Laser Physics", "Fundamentals of Photonics", and "Applied Photonics" etc.