Yuxiang Liu

Yuxiang Liu is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Precision Machinery and Instrumentation from the University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.  His doctoral research focused on building novel optical fiber-based trapping systems with increased system flexibility, functionality, and trapping efficiency for micro- and nano-scale manipulation and force detection.  Yuxiang is working with Kartik Srinivasan and Vladimir Aksyuk to develop on-chip cavity optomechanical sensors for force and displacement metrology. 

• Optical manipulation and binding of microrods with multiple traps enabled in an inclined dual-fiber system, Y. Liu and M. Yu, Biomicrofluidics 4, 043010 (2010). 
• Multiple traps created with an inclined dual-fiber system, Y. Liu and M. Yu, Optics Express 17, 21680-21690 (2009).  
• Investigation of inclined dual-fiber optical tweezers for 3D manipulation and force sensing, Y. Liu and M. Yu, Optics Express 17, 13624-13638 (2009).