Dr. Junpeng Guo

Professor, ECE

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Optics Building
Room 400N
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.2898
junpeng.guo@uah.edu

Biography

Prof. Junpeng Guo received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Professor of Optical Science and Engineering at University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Before joining UAH, he worked as a member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a research scientist in Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Guo also held a research scholar appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. At Sandia National Laboratories, his team pioneered the development of the low-loss silicon-nitride optical waveguide and practical silicon-based lightwave circuits. His team first worked on silicon-nitride waveguide micro-ring resonators for ultra-high sensitivity biosensors. Prof. Guo is the inventor of the localized surface plasmon resonance spectrometer sensor, a new device combining the functions of sensing and spectral analysis together. He is also the inventor of the metal-dielectric low loss surface plasmon waveguide. Prof. Guo received the Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 2013, the ASEE- Naval Research Office Summer Faculty Fellowship, and the ASEE-Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He was the sole recipient of the University Distinguished Faculty Research Award in 2016, and one of two recipients of the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Research Award of his university in 2016. Prof. Guo served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanophotonics and Photonics Research. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Optics Express. Prof. Guo is a Fellow of SPIE-the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

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Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, SPIE-The International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017
  • University Outstanding Faculty Research Award of UAH, 2016
  • Outstanding Faculty Research Award of UAH College of Engineering, 2016
  • Alan Berman Research Publication Award at NRL, 2013
  • ONR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2011
  • AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2010
  • Senior Member of IEEE, 2020
  • College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2007

Recent Publications

  • W. Kim, B. S. Simpkins, H. Guo, J. R. Hendrickson, and J. Guo, “Hyperuniform disordered metal-insulator-metal gap plasmon metasurface near perfect light absorber,” Optical Materials Express 11 (12), 4083-4092 (2021).

  • C. You, M. Hong, N. Bhusal, J. Chen, M. A. Quiroz-Juárez, J. Fabre, F. Mostafavi, J. Guo, I. D. Leon, R. J. León-Montiel, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, “Observation of the modification of quantum statistics of plasmonic systems,” Nature Communications 12, 5161 (2021).

  • E. M. Smith, J. Chen, J. R. Hendrickson, J. W. Cleary, C. Dass, A. N. Reed, S. Vangala, and J. Guo, "Epsilon-near-zero thin-film metamaterials for wideband near-perfect light absorption," Opt. Mater. Express 10, 2439-2446 (2020).

  • C. K. Dass, H. Kwon, S. Vangala, E. M. Smith, J. W. Cleary, J. Guo, A. Alù, and J. R. Hendrickson, "Gap-plasmon-enhanced second-harmonic generation in epsilon-near-zero nanolayers," ACS Photonics 7(1), 174-179 (2020). 

  • C. K. Dass, H. Kwon, S. Vangala, E. M. Smith, J. W. Cleary, J. Guo, A. Alù, and J. R. Hendrickson, "Gap-plasmon-enhanced second-harmonic generation in epsilon-near-zero nanolayers," ACS Photonics 7(1), 174-179 (2020).

  • J. W. Cleary, E. M. Smith, E. D. Leedy, G. Grzybowski, and J. Guo, “Optical and electrical properties of ultra-thin indium tin oxide nanofilms on silicon for infrared photonics,” Optical Material Express 8(5), 1231-1245 (2018).

  • J. R. Hendrickson, S. Vangala, C. Dass, R. Gibson, J. Goldsmith, K. Leedy, D. E. Walker, J. W. Cleary, W. Kim, and J. Guo, “Coupling of epsilon-near-zero mode to gap plasmon mode for flat-top wideband perfect light absorption,” ACS Photonics 5 (3), 776-781 (2018).

  • J. S. Cetnar, S. Vangala, W. Zhang, C. Pfeiffer, E. R. Brown, and J. Guo, “High extinction ratio terahertz wire-grid polarizers with connecting bridges on quartz substrates,” Optics Letters 42 (5), 955-958 (2017).

  • J. S. Cetnar, S. Vangala, W. Zhang, C. Pfeiffer, E. R. Brown, and J. Guo, “High extinction ratio terahertz wire-grid polarizers with connecting bridges on quartz substrates,” Optics Letters 42 (5), 955-958 (2017).

  • J. Guo, Z. Li, and H. Guo, "Near perfect light trapping in a 2D gold nanotrench grating at oblique angles of incidence and its application for sensing," Optics Express 24 (15), 17259-17271 (2016).