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New - The latest coverage of microsphere nanoscope in Physics World feature article (may issue 2012) by Jon Cartwright (p33, pdf).
Welcome, I am Zengbo Wang (王增波), known as 'James' within colleagues, born in Zhejiang China, educated in Physics (BSc, MSc, Xiamen Univ, China) and engineering (PhD, NUS, Singapore). I am currently a faculty staff (Senior Lecturer) in the School of Electronic Engineering at Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom.
Research Fields: Optical nanoscopy, nanometrology; Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and photonics/electronics integration; Nano-fabrication/nanomanufacturing; Laser micro nano processing, Laser cleaning and applications.
Notably, my research on the 'world first 50-nm resolution white light nanoscope' using microsphere superlenses (published in Nature Communications in 2011 as the first and corresponding author, pdf) has attracted wide public interests and media coverage (BBC, New York Times, Daily Mail, Independent, Discovery News, Straight Times (Singapore), Xinhua (China), etc. You may Google 'microsphere nanoscope' (english) or '纳米级光学显微镜' (chinese) for news ).
This research had a root connection with my PhD work in Singapore, and the 'Basic Technology project: NANOSCOPE' in Southampton, where I was a research fellow in the project between 2008-09, developing super-resolution nano imaging through various (superoscillation) designs including periodic or quasi-crystal structures, such as a microsphere array (pdf). Following the recent career move from Manchester to the Bangor University, I am dedicated to further advance the nanoscope sytem, with new approaches and designs, for demostrating many exciting applications including living virus and biomolecules imaging.
Transmission mode setup of white light nanoscope
The white-light nanoscope work has been awarded a first prize in a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) poster (pdf) competition event in nano-engineering; invited as a feature article in Laser Focus World (link) and (pdf); and honored by the research councils UK (RCUK, p34) in 2011 as one of the '50 big ideas for the future' (pdf).