Personal Introduction:

Male, holds a Ph.D. in Science. He obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in 2010 and 2015, respectively, from the Department of Optics and Optical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center from 2015 to 2018 and at the National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, he joined the Department of Optical Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, where he is involved in teaching and research in the fields of optomechanics, optical manipulation/optical tweezers, micro-structured optics, and nanophotonics.

Research Interest：

Micro-structured optics, nanophotonics, structured light beams, optical manipulation.

Courses：

Undergraduate: "Electromagnetism," "Information Optics."

Graduate: "Nanophotonics," "Frontiers of the Discipline," "Scientific Paper Writing."

Research Projects:

1.  2023/01-2025/12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, principal investigator. 

Research Papers：

1. L.-M. Zhou, W. Sun, Z.-Q. Tao, N.-J. Xiong, C. Huang, X.-Y. Jiang, Y.-X. Ren, Y. Yang, Y.-Z. Shi, J.-G. Hu*, and Q. Zhan, "Subwavelength-scale off-axis optical nanomanipulation within Gaussian-beam traps," Nanophotonics 14(2): 219-228 (2025).

2. L.-M. Zhou, X. Zhu, Y. Zheng, L. Wang, C. Huang, X. Jiang, Y. Shi, F.-W. Sun, and J. Hu*, "Superfast and sub-wavelength orbital rotation of plasmonic particles in focused Gaussian beams," Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 031111 (2023).

3. L.-M. Zhou#, Y. Shi#, X. Zhu, G. Hu, G. Cao, J. Hu, and C.-W. Qiu*, "Recent Progress on Optical Micro/Nanomanipulations: Structured Forces, Structured Particles, and Synergetic Applications," ACS Nano 16(9), 13264-13278 (2022).

4. J. Hu, Y. Xiao, L. M. Zhou*, X. Jiang, W. Qiu, W. Fei, Y. Chen, and Q. Zhan, "Ultra-narrow-band circular dichroism by surface lattice resonances in an asymmetric dimer-on-mirror metasurface," Opt. Express 30(10), 16020 (2022).

5. Y. Qin#, L.M. Zhou#, L. Huang#, Y. Jin#, H. Shi, S. Shi, H. Guo, L. Xiao, Y. Yang, C. W. Qiu, and Y. Jiang, “Nonlinearity-induced nanoparticle circumgyration at sub-diffraction scale,” Nature Communications 12, 3722 (2021).

6. Lei-Ming Zhou, Yaqiang Qin, Yuanjie Yang, and Yuqiang Jiang, "Fine features of optical potential well induced by nonlinearity," Optics Letters, 2020, 45(22): 6266-6269.

7. Lei-Ming Zhou, Ke-Wen Xiao, Zhang-Qi Yin, Jun Chen, and Nan Zhao, "Sensitivity of displacement detection for a particle levitated in the doughnut beam," Optics Letters, 2018, 43, 4582-4585. 

8. Lei-Ming Zhou, Ke-Wen Xiao, Jun Chen, and Nan Zhao, "Optical levitation of nanodiamonds by doughnut beams in vacuum," Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2017, 11(2): 1600284.

9. Yu-Xuan Ren#, Xinglin Zeng#, Lei-Ming Zhou#, Cihang Kong, Huade Mao, Cheng-Wei Qiu*, Kevin K. Tsia*, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong*, "Photonic Nanojet Mediated Backaction of Dielectric Microparticles," ACS Photonics, 2020, 7(6): 1483–1490.

10. Yu Zheng, Lei-Ming Zhou, Yang Dong, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Xiang-Dong Chen, Guang-Can Guo, and Fang-Wen Sun, "Robust optical-levitation-based metrology of nanoparticle’s position and mass," Physical Review Letters, 2020, 124(22): 223603.

11. J. Ni#, C. Huang#, L.M. Zhou, M. Gu, Q. Song, Y. Kivshar, and C.-W. Qiu, "Multidimensional phase singularities in nanophotonics," Science 374, eabj0039 (2021).

Honors：
The graduate student he mentored won the 2023 National Scholarship for Graduate Students;

The graduate student he mentored was awarded the 2024 Excellent Graduate of Hefei University of Technology;

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