FENG WANG
Physics Department
University of California, Berkeley
366 LeConte #7300
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-486-6054
Fax: 510-643-8923
E-mail: fengwang76@berkeley.edu
EDUCATION
BS (Physics)
Fudan University, Shanghai, China May 1999
MA (Physics)
Columbia University, New York May 2001
PhD (Physics) Columbia University, New York Oct. 2004
Thesis: Optical Spectroscopy of Nano-structures with femtosecond laser pulses.
Adviser: Tony Heinz
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Miller Research Fellow
University of California, Berkeley Aug. 2005 – Jul. 2007
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
HONORS
1995: T. D. Lee Scholarship, Fudan University
2004: Charles Townes Fellowship, Columbia University
2005: Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
2008: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Jul. 2007 - Present
PUBLICATION LIST
1. F. Wang and R. B. Tao, “Schwinger-Boson Approach to the Two-Dimensional
Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model beyond the Mean-Field Approximation,”
Phys. Rev. B. 61, 3508 (2000).
2. J. Shan, F. Wang, E. Knoesel, M. Bonn, and T.F. Heinz, “Measurement of the
Frequency-Dependent Conductivity in Sapphire,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 247401
(2003).
3. J. Shan, F. Wang, E. Knoesel, M. Bonn, M. Wolf, and T. F. Heinz, “Transient
Conductivity in Single-Crystal Al2O3 Probed by THz Time-Domain
Spectroscopy,” in Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, ed. by D. R. Miller et al.
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003), p. 262.
4. F. Wang, G. Dukovic, L. E. Brus, and T. F. Heinz, “Time-Resolved
Fluorescence in Carbon Nanotubes and Its Implication for Radiative
Lifetimes,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 177401 (2004).
5. E. Hendry, F. Wang, J. Shan, T. F. Heinz, and M. Bonn, “Electron Transport in
TiO2 Probed by THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. B 69, 081101
(2004).
6. M. Bonn, F. Wang, J. Shan, T.F. Heinz, and E. Hendry, “Ultrafast Scattering of
Electrons in TiO2”, in Femtochemistry and Femtobiology: Ultrafast Events in
Molecular Science, edited by M. Martin and J.T. Hynes, (Elsevier Science,
Amsterdam, 2004), p. 517.
7. E. Knoesel, M. Bonn, J. Shan, F. Wang, and T. F. Heinz, “Transient
Conductivity of Solvated Electrons in Hexane Investigated with Time-Domain
THz Spectroscopy,” J. Chem. Phys. 121, 394 (2004).
8. L. Bartels, F. Wang, D. Moeller, E. Knoesel, and T.F. Heinz, “Real-Space
Observation of Molecular Motion Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses,”
Science 305,648 (2004).
9. F. Wang, J. Shan, E. Knoesel, M. Bonn, and T.F. Heinz, “Electronic Charge
Transport in Sapphire Studied by Optical-Pump/THz-Probe Spectroscopy,”
Proceedings of the SPIE, 5352, 216 (2004).
10. F. Wang, G. Dukovic, E. Knoesel, L. E. Brus, and T. F. Heinz, “Observation of
Rapid Auger Recombination in Excited Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes,”
Phys. Rev. B, 70, 241403 (2004).
11. G. Dukovic, B.E. White, Z.Y. Zhou, F. Wang, S. Jockusch, M.L. Steigerwald,
T.F. Heinz, R.A. Friesner, N.J. Turro, and L.E. Brus, “Reversible surface
oxidation and efficient luminescence quenching in semiconductor single-wall
carbon nanotubes”, JACS, 126, 15269 (2004).
12. M.Y. Sfeir *, F. Wang *, L. Huang, C.C. Chuang, J. Hone, S.P. O'Brien, T.F.
Heinz, and L.E. Brus, “Probing Electronic Transitions in Individual Carbon
Nanotubes by Rayleigh Scattering,” Science, 306, 1540 (2004).
13. F. Wang *, G. Dukovic *, L.E. Brus, and T.F. Heinz “The optical resonances in
carbon nanotubes arise from excitons”, Science, 308, 838 (2005).
14. B.H. Hong, J.P. Small, M.S. Purewal, A. Mullokandov, M.Y. Sfeir, F. Wang,
J.Y. Lee, T.F. Heinz, L.E. Brus, P. Kim and K.S. Kim “Extracting
subnamometer single shells from ultralong multiwalled carbon nanotubes”,
PNAS, 102, 14155 (2005).
15. G. Dukovic, F. Wang, D.H. Song, M.Y. Sfeir, T.F. Heinz and L.E. Brus
“Structural dependence of excitonic optical transitions and band-gap energies
in carbon nanotubes”, Nano Lett. 5, 2314, (2005).
16 M.Y. Sfeir, T. Beetz, F. Wang, L.M. Huang, X.M.H. Huang, M.Y. Huang, J.
Hone, S. O’Brien, J.A. Misewich, T.F. Heinz, L.J. Wu, Y.M. Zhu and L.E. Brus,
“Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes of
Defined Chiral Structure”, Science, 312, 554 (2006).
17 F.Wang, M.Y. Sfeir, L.M. Huang, X.M.H. Huang, Y. Wu, J.H. Kim, J. Hone, S.
O’Brien, L.E. Brus and T.F. Heinz, “Interactions Between Individual Caron
Nanotubes Studied by Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. Lett.
96, 167401 (2006).
18. F. Wang, Y. Wu, M.S. Hybertsen and T.F. Heinz, “Auger Recombination of
Excitons in One-Dimensional Systems”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 245424 (2006).
19. E. Hendry, M. Koeberg, F. Wang, H. Zhang, C.D. Donega, D.
Vanmaekelbergh and M. Bonn, “Direct Oberservation of Electron-to-Hole
Energy Transfer in CdSe Quantumd Dots”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057408
(2006).
20. F. Wang, J. Shan, I.A. Mohammad, I.P. Herman, M. Bonn and T.F. Heinz,
“Exciton Polarizability in Semiconductor Nanocrystals”, Nature Materials, 5,
861 (2006).
21. F. Wang and Y.R. Shen, “General Properties of Local Plasmons in Metal
Nanostructures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206806 (2006)
22. F. Wang, W.T. Liu, Y. Wu, M.Y. Sfeir, L.M. Huang, J. Hone, S. O’Brien, L.E.
Brus, T.F. Heinz and Y.R. Shen, “Multiphonon Raman Scattering from
Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 98，047402
(2007).
23. F. Wang, D. Cho, B. Kessler, J. Deslippe, P.J. Schuck, S.G. Louie, A. Zettl,
T.F. Heinz, Y.R. Shen, “Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227401 (2007)
24. F. Wang, Y. Zhang, C.S. Tian, C. Girit, A. Zettl, M.F. Crommie, Y.R. Shen, “
Gate-Variable Optical Transitions in Graphene”, Science, 320,206 (2008)
25. D. Song, F. Wang, G. Dukovic, M. Zheng, E.D. Semke, L.E. Brus and T.F.
Heinz, “Direct Measurement of the Lifetime of Optical Phonons in
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 225503 (2008)
26. Y. Zhang, V.W. Brar F. Wang, C. Girit, Y. Yayon, M. Panlasigui, A. Zettl and
M.F. Crommie, “Giant Phonon-Induced Conductance in Scanning Tunnelling
Spectroscopy of Gate-Tunable Graphene”, Nature Physics, 4, 627 (2008)
26. E. Kim, F. Wang, W. Wu, Z. Yu and Y.R. Shen, “ Nonlinear Spectroscopy of
Photonic Metamaterials”, Phys. Rev. B., accepted (2008)
27. D.J. Cho, F. Wang, X. Zhang and Y.R. Shen, “ Contribution of Electric
Quadrupole Resonance in Metamaterials”, Phys. Rev. B Rapid
Communication, accepted (2008)