Wang Xuchen, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, was selected into the National High-Level Talent Program in 2023.
He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, master’s degree from the Department of Optoelectronics, Zhejiang University, and doctoral degree from the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland, under the supervision of Prof. Sergei Tretyakov, a pioneer in international electromagnetic metamaterials.
In 2024, he returned to China full-time and joined the International Joint Research Center for Metamaterials and Nano-Optics, Harbin Engineering University. His main research interests include time-varying electromagnetic materials and their applications, electromagnetic stealth materials and technologies, characterization of electromagnetic properties of materials, and photonic time crystals.
As the first or corresponding author, he has published nearly 20 papers in top professional journals such as Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Photonics, Nanophotonics, Physical Review Applied, IEEE TMTT, and IEEE TAP. His research results have been selected as journal covers multiple times (PRL, Advanced Functional Materials).
Affiliation: School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
Gender: Male
Professional Title: ProfessorEmployment
Status: Employed
Department: School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
Discipline: Information and Communication Engineering
2016.4 ~ 2020.6 Aalto University, Radio Engineering, Doctoral Degree Graduated
2011.9 ~ 2014.3 Zhejiang University, Measurement Technology and Instruments, Master's Degree Graduated
2007.9 ~ 2011.7 Northwestern Polytechnical University, Optical Information Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree Graduated
2018.1 ~ Present Session Chair, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
2018.1 ~ Present Local Organizer, International Congress on Metamaterials
2023.1 ~ Present Session Chair, International Congress on Metamaterials
2024.1 ~ Present Session Organizer, International Conference on Photonics and Electromagnetics
Research interests mainly focus on electromagnetic metamaterials, including:
Electromagnetic metamaterials/metasurfaces,
novel wave phenomena and their applications,
time-varying electromagnetic materials (photonic time crystals, spatiotemporal crystals, time interfaces),
wireless power transfer,
new types of electromagnetic absorbers.
Toward intelligent metasurfaces: the progress from globally tunable metasurfaces to software-defined metasurfaces with an embedded network of controllers
Time-varying components for enhancing wireless transfer of power and information
Coherent Asymmetric Absorbers
Loss–gain compensated anti-Hermitian magnetodielectric medium to realize Tellegen nihility effects
Antenna bandwidth engineering through time-varying resistance
Simple Link-Budget Estimation Formulas for Channels Including Anomalous Reflectors
All-angle Scanning Perfect Anomalous Reflection by Using Passive Aperiodic Gratings
Molding of Reflection and Scattering from Uniform Walls Using Space-Periodic Metasurfaces
Discrete-Impedance Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications in D-Band
Angularly tunable perfect absorption in graphene-mushroom hybrid structure for all angles
Coherent control of wave beams via unidirectional evanescent modes excitation
A Novel Tunable Antenna at THz Frequencies Using Graphene-Based Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC)
Reconfigurable Terahertz Leaky-Wave Antenna Using Graphene-Based High-Impedance Surface
Theory and Design of Multifunctional Space-Time Metasurfaces
Independent Control of Multiple Channels in Metasurface Devices
Systematic Design of Printable Metasurfaces: Validation Through Reverse-offset Printed Millimeter-wave Absorbers
Toward Ultimate Control of Terahertz Wave Absorption in Graphene
An Accurate Method for Measuring the Sheet Impedance of Thin Conductive Films at Microwave and Millimeter-wave Frequencies
Fast and Robust Characterization of Dielectric Slabs Using Rectangular Waveguides
Space-Time Metasurfaces for Power Combining of Waves
Controlling surface waves with temporal discontinuities of metasurface
Extreme asymmetry in metasurfaces via evanescent fields engineering: Angular-asymmetric absorption
Nonreciprocity in Bianisotropic Systems with Uniform Time Modulation
Metasurface-based Realization of Photonic Time Crystals
Honors and Awards Received
2018 Doctoral Scholarship, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University
2018 Nokia Scholarship
2018 High-Quality Teaching Award, Aalto University (Course: Metamaterials and Nanophotonics)
2019 1st Prize, Student Paper Competition, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2019)
2020 National Excellent Self-financed Student Scholarship (Awarded by the Ministry of Education of China)
2020 Incentive Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates, Aalto University
2021 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (Top 10%), Aalto University
2021 Young Scientist Award, General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science (GASS 2021)
2021 Nokia Jorma Ollila Grant
