Special Issue on the 120th Anniversary of Shandong University

Prof. Yicheng Wu

Prof. Yicheng Wu, born in Guangxi Province in 1946, is an expert in functional crystal materials. He received his M.S. degree in 1981 and PhD degree in 1986 from University of Science and Technology of China. From 2000 to 2017, he worked in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry CAS, and was elected as Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005. In 2017, he joined Tianjin University of Technology, working as a full professor in Institute of Functional Crystals, and he joined Shandong University as a partly professor from 2019. Prof. WU has been engaged in the research of nonlinear optical materials for a long time, and has made great achievements in the field of new nonlinear optical materials exploration, crystal growth, nonlinear optical characterizations, and the relationship between crystal structure and nonlinear optical properties. He invented nonlinear optical crystals of LBO, CBO, LCB, etc. together with collaborators, in which LBO crystals have been widely used in the field of laser technology and internationally recognized as the most suitable second-/ third-frequency crystals for high average power all-solid-state lasers. In 1989, LBO was once rated as one of the top ten best laser high-tech products in the world, and won the first prize of National Invention in 1991. In 2017, Prof. WU was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from Asian Association of Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology.

Prof. Haohai Yu

Prof. Haohai Yu specializes in the growth and further laser and nonlinear optical applications based on the multifunctional crystals. He is the international committee member of the Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) of Optical Society of America, International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT) and Photonics West 2021 of Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Prof. Yu is invited to serve as a working committee member of the Advanced Materials Consortium of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the deputy secretary general of the Youth Working Committee in China Silicate Society, the member of the Crystal Growth and Materials Branch of Silicate Society, and also a member of the youth editorial board of Chinese Journal of Lasers. In 2011, he was selected as a "Humboldt Scholar" and worked in Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy in Germany. He is currently a full professor and executive deputy director of State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials in Shandong University.

Prof. Zhanggui Hu

Prof. Zhanggui Hu, born in Anhui Province in 1964, currently is the director of Institute of Functional Crystals, Tianjin University of Technology. He received his M.S. degree in 1993 from University of Science and Technology of China and his doctorate degree in 2001 from Osaka University. He is now served as the chairman of Crystal Growth and Materials Sub-Committee of Chinese Ceramic Society and the standing director of Chinese Crystallographic Society. Prof. HU has been conducting research in nonlinear optical crystals and their properties. He was the inventor of new nonlinear optical crystals of K2Al2B2O7 and BaAlBO3F2. his research team grew the LBO single crystal with world’s largest size and weight, and the collaborators achieved the first highest power output of OPCPA laser in the world based on the LBO crystal in 2016. He has also held and completed a number of scientific research projects from NSFC, Ministry of Science and Technology, and CAS, etc., and he is the author or co-author of more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 10 patents.

Prof. Jiyang Wang

Prof. Jiyang Wang has made great achievements in deep ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals, laser self-doubling crystals and new electro-optical crystals. He has successfully grown more than 20 different kinds of crystals and has published more than 200 research papers in Shandong University. Prof. Wang is serving as the Executive Councilor of the Chinese Association of Crystallography, Councilor of the International Organization of Crystal Growth (IOCG), Exclusive Member and Secretary-in-Chief of the Asian Society of Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology, Secretary-in-Chief of the Chinese Association of Crystal Growth (CACG), and Standing Member of the editorial boards of the Chinese Journal of Ceramic Society, Journal of Synthetic Crystals, and Chinese Journal of Rare Earth Metals.

Prof. Xiangang Xu

Prof. Xiangang Xu, born in Shandong Province in 1965, received the PhD Degree in condensed matter on semiconductor materials from Shandong University in 1992. He is mainly engaged in semiconductor materialsand device, focusing on the growth and device applications of SiC, Diamond and MOCVD compound semiconductor thin film materials. He has made great achievements in research and industrialization of SiC substrate which have been widely used in the field of power electronics and RF. He has been the Distinguished Professor of Ministry of Education of Changjiang Scholars, and a chief scientist of 973 Program. Prof. Xu has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt fellow in 1995, the Electronics Letters Premium by IEE, UK in 1998, the Outstanding Paper Award of 21st IEEE GaAs IC Symposium, USA in 1999, the winner of National Science Funds for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2000, the first prize of Scientific and Technological progress in Shandong Province and Returned overseas students Entrepreneurship Award in Shandong Province in 2003, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Shandong Province in 2005, the government special allowance award in 2007, the First Prize of Technological Invention in Shandong Province in 2014. He is a member of the State Council’s degree committee and an expert on the overall group of semiconductor lighting projects of the National 863 Program. He has published more than 150 papers and conference presentations.