Haonan Ling is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He recently earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California in Los Angeles. He also earned his bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 2017. His research focuses include newly emergent material systems, the interactions of light and matter at the nanoscale, and device research and engineering.

• Haonan Ling, Milad Nourbakhsh, Vincent R. Whiteside, Joseph G. Tischler, Artur R. Davoyan. “Near-Unity Light–Matter Interaction in Mid-Infrared van der Waals Metasurfaces.” Nano Letters, 24(11): 3315-3322 (2024).


• Haonan Ling, Arnab Manna, Jialiang Shen, Ho-Ting Tung, David Sharp, Johannes Fröch, Siyuan Dai, Arka Majumdar, Artur R. Davoyan. “Deeply subwavelength integrated excitonic van der Waals nanophotonics.” Optica, 10(10): 1345-1352 (2023).


• Haonan Ling, Jacob B. Khurgin, Artur R. Davoyan. “Atomic-void van der Waals channel waveguides.” Nano Letters, 22(15): 6254-6261 (2022).


• Pawan Kumar, Jason Lynch, Baokun Song, Haonan Ling, Francisco Barrera, Kim Kisslinger, Huiqin Zhang, Surendra B. Anantharaman, Jagrit Digani, Haoyue Zhu, Tanushree H. Choudhury, Clifford McAleese, Xiaochen Wang, Ben R. Conran, Oliver Whear, Michael J. Motala, Michael Snure, Christopher Muratore, Joan M. Redwing, Nicholas R. Glavin, Eric A. Stach, Artur R. Davoyan, Deep Jariwala. “Light–matter coupling in large-area van der Waals superlattices.” Nature Nanotechnology, 17(2): 182-189 (2022).


• Haonan Ling, Renjie Li, Artur R. Davoyan. “All van der Waals integrated nanophotonics with bulk transition metal dichalcogenides.” ACS Photonics, 8(3): 721-730 (2021).