• Mo's new paper on the reactive backaction is published in PRL

    Posted 11/28/2009

  • Scientific American features our work in an article on otpically actuated nanodevices.

    Posted 11/15/2009

  • Hong wins the 2009 Packard fellowship.

    Posted 10/15/2009,

    Packard Foundation
    Packard foundation news release. link
    Yale news release. link
    New Haven register: Yale prof among 16 honored for work

  • Tang group welcomes Daniel Garcia Sanchez to join force as a postdoctoral scholar

    Posted 10/13/2009

  • Hong speaks to Scientific American about our CEE program.

    Posted 10/12/2009

  • Tang group welcomes Daniel Ramos Vega to join force as a postdoctoral scholar

    Posted 10/01/2009

  • Hong features an article in IEEE Spectrum Magazine

    Posted 10/01/2009,

    IEEE Spectrum Cover
    "Photonics breakthrough for silicon chips", Oct 01, 2009

  • Want to learn about the mechanical Kerr effect?

    Check here. Posted 09/23/2009

  • Featured on the cover of Nature Photonics

    Posted 7/31/2009,

    Nature Photonics Cover
    "Repulsive forces revealed", July 31, 2009
    Also on back cover: "On-chip push-pull effect", by Rachel Won, July 31, 2009

  • Our bipolar optical force paper appears in Nature Photonics

    Posted 7/13/2009,

    Yale News Release
    "Scientists discover light force with "push" power", Yale news release, July 13, 2009
    "Light repels light", Technology Revew, by Anne-Marie Corley, July 20, 2009

  • Nature Nanotechnology features our work.

    Posted 06/06/2009,

    Mo nature Nanotech
    "Nanophotonics: Gradient force shows its potential", Nature Nanotechnology News and Views, Vol. 4, June 2009, by Mark Freeman and Wayne Hiebert

  • New paper accepted in Nature Photonics.

    We have measured in-plane light force between waveguide. It is bipolar, and phase tunable! The manuscript can be viewed here. Posted 05/29/2009

  • Ring cavity coupled nanomechanics

    New paper accepted in Optics Express - Optomechanical coupling in photonic crystal supported nanomechanical waveguides. Posted 05/20/2009,

  • Media coverage on optical nanocantilevers

    Posted 04/26/2009,

    Mo nature Nanotech
    "Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics", Yale News Release, 04/26/2009
    "The simplest nanocantilever is also the most sensitive", featured headline, R&D magazine, 04/27/2009
    "Nanocantilevers elimnate electrical transducers", United Press International, 04/27/2009
    "Optics all the way", Nature Photonics research highlights, June 2009

  • Our paper on photonic cantilever array is published in Nature Nanotechnology

    Posted 04/26/2009,

    Congratulations to Mo, another milestone made: "non-inteferometric motion readout".

  • Tang group welcome Mahmood Bagehri to join force as a postdoctoral scholar

    Posted 04/01/2009

  • New publication in Nature

    Posted 02/12/2009,

    Amorphous metals for nanoimprinting"Yale news release"

  • Hong receives NSF career award.

    Posted 01/28/2009,

    The era of silicon optomechanics.details

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