Biography

• Yinan grew up in Beijing, China. He received his B.Sc. with honors and the award for the best senior thesis in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering department at Harvard, where his PhD work is supervised by Prof. Lončar. Besides being fascinated by the beauty of light, he is also intrested in various interdisciplinary activities that explore the relationship between science and everything else in the world.

Publications

• Yinan Zhang and Marko Lončar, "Sub-micron diameter micropillar cavities with high Quality factors and ultra-small mode volumes," Optics Letters, Vol. 34, 902 (2009) [Selected for the April 27, 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (vjnano.org)]
• Yinan Zhang and Marko Lončar, "Ultra-high quality factor optical resonators based on semiconductor nanowires," Optics Express, Vol. 16, 17400 (2008).