Education Stanford University Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, September 2008 Nanjing University, China M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, July 2001 Appointments & Work Experience 01/2016 – present Co-founder, Center for Experiments on Quantum Materials, University of Colorado Boulder 02/2014 – present Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder 09/2013 – present Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder 10/2010 – 08/2013 Research Manager and Senior Scientist, NSF NSEC Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM); Assistant Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 10/2008 – 01/2013 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,Stanford University 10/2008 – 10/2010 Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of California, Berkeley 09/2002 – 09/2008 Research Assistant, Stanford Photonic Research Center, Stanford University

Nanomaterials and Metamaterials, Synthetic Materials with Optic, Mechanic and Electronic Properties Not Found in Nature Xiaobo Yin’s research focuses on natural and artificial nanoscale materials with unique optical, optoelectronic properties and their potential applications. Areas of study include understanding the electronic and optical characteristics of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their localized defects; designing and characterizing metallic metamaterials with novel optical behavior, and engineering nanophotonic materials and structures for scalable applications.

Y. Zhai, Y. G. Ma, S. N. David, D. L. Zhao, R. N. Lou, G. Tan, R. G. Yang, X. B. Yin,“Scalable-manufactured Randomized Glass-Polymer Hybrid Metamaterial for Day-time Radiative Cooling”, (Science, in press, 2017) X. B. Yin, Z. L. Ye, D. A. Chenet, Y. Ye, K. O’Brien, J. C. Hone, and X. Zhang, “Edge Nonlinear Optics on a MoS2 Atomic Monolayer”, Science 344, 488 (2014); Z. L. Ye, T. Cao, K. O’Brien, H. Y. Zhu, X. B. Yin, Y. Wang, S. G. Louie, and X. Zhang,“Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide”, Nature 513, 214 (2014). X. B. Yin, Z. L. Ye, J. Rho, Y. Wang, and X. Zhang, “Photonic Spin-Hall Effect at Metasurfaces”, Science 339, 1405 (2013); H. Suchowski, K. O'Brien, Z. J. Wong, A. Salandrino, X. B. Yin, and X. Zhang, “Phase Mismatch-Free Nonlinear Propagation in Optical Zero-Index Materials”, Science 342, 1223 (2013); M. Liu*, X. B. Yin*, E. Ulin-Avila1, B. S. Geng, T. Zentgraf, L. Ju, F. Wang, and X. Zhang,“A graphene-based broadband optical modulator”, Nature 474, 64 (2011); C. Hu, A. Labno, C. Lu, X. B. Yin, M. Liu, C. Gladden, Y. M. Liu, X. Zhang, “Probing the electromagnetic field of a 15nm sized hotspot by single molecule imaging”, Nature 469, 385 (2011);