Dr. Baohua Jia APD, Senior Research Fellow

Areas:: Physics
Office:: 6L210
Phone:: +61 3 9214 4819
Fax:: +61 3 9214 5435
E-Mail:: bjia@swin.edu.au
Campus:: Hawthorn

Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences (H74)
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Educational Background

Bachelor of Science (Applied Optics) and Bachelor of Economics in Management, Nankai University , China
Master of Science (Optoelectronics), Nankai University , China
Doctor of Philosophy (Optics), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

PhD Thesis

A study on the complex evanescent focal region of a high numerical aperture objective and its applications Swinburne Research

Current Research Projects

Fabrication of novel photonic crystals using photo-polymer materials and investigation of super-prism and nonlinear effects inside 3D photonic crystals;
Active photonic devices facilitated with quantum dots infiltration into photonic crystals;
Development of novel photonic crystals using high index materials;
Plasmonic effect in hybrid and metallic nanostructures;
Scanning near-field optical microscopy.

Membership of Professional Organisations

OSA
ARCNN
ARNAM
FABLES
Member of the Australia Research Council Nanotechnology Network (ARCNN)
Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member of the Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM)
Member of the Fluorescence Applications Network (FABLES)

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Hong Kang	PhD	CMP	2008	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne

Md Muntasir Hossain	PhD	CMP	2008	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne

Zongsong Gan	PhD	CMP	2009	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne

Han Lin	PhD	CMP	2009	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne

Zhengguang He	MSc	CMP	2010	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Thomas Farrington	PhD	CMP	2010	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Bo Yuan Cai	PhD	CMP	2010	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Shouyi Xie	PhD	CMP	2010	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne

Yinan Zhang	PhD	CMP	2010	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Media

Australian innovators in solar world first

In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world's most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells.

Latest Publications

Newest to oldest

Use of radially polarized beams in three-dimensional photonic crystal fabrication with the two-photon polymerization method
Baohua Jia, Hong Kang, Jiafang Li and Min Gu
Opt. Lett. 34 (13), 1918-1920 (2009); doi: 10.1364/OL.34.001918
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Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in quantum-dot-based materials
Min Gu, Baohua Jia, Jiafang Li and Michael James Ventura
Laser Photonics Rev. 2009 IN PRESS; doi: 10.1002/lpor.200910008
Journal Link | Swinburne Research
Near-field visualization of focal depth modulation by step corrugated plasmonic slits
Baohua Jia, Haofei Shi, Jiafang Li, Yongqi Fu, Chunlei Du and Min Gu
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 (15), 151912 (2009); doi: 10.1063/1.3120542
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Engineering stop gaps of inorganic-organic polymeric 3D woodpile photonic crystals with post-thermal treatment
Jiafang Li, Baohua Jia and Min Gu
Opt. Express 16 (24), 20073-20080 (2008); doi: 10.1364/OE.16.020073
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Observation of multiple higher-order stopgaps from three-dimensional chalcogenide glass photonic crystals
Elisa Nicoletti, Guangyong Zhou, Baohua Jia, Michael James Ventura, Douglas Bulla, Barry Luther-Davies and Min Gu
Opt. Lett. 33 (20), 2311-2313 (2008); doi: 10.1364/OL.33.002311
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Strong tangential force within a small trapping volume under near-field Laguerre-Gaussian beam illumination
Baohua Jia, Xiaosong Gan and Min Gu
Opt. Express 16 (19), 15191-15197 (2008); doi: 10.1364/OE.16.015191
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Local observation of modes from three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystals with near-field microspectroscopy under supercontinuum illumination
Baohua Jia, Andrew H. Norton, Jiafang Li, Adel Rahmani, Ara A. Asatryan, Lindsay C. Botten and Min Gu
Opt. Lett. 33 (10), 1093-1095 (2008); doi: 10.1364/OL.33.001093
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Direction-dependent spontaneous emission from near-infrared quantum dots at the angular band edges of a three-dimensional photonic crystal
Jiafang Li, Baohua Jia, Guangyong Zhou and Min Gu
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 (25), 254101 (2007); doi: 10.1063/1.2824388
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Near-infrared high refractive-index three-dimensional inverse woodpile photonic crystals generated by a sol-gel process
Baohua Jia, Shuhui Wu, Jiafang Li and Min Gu
J. Appl. Phys. 102 (9), 096102 (2007); doi: 10.1063/1.2803714
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Spectral Redistribution in Spontaneous Emission from Quantum-Dot-Infiltrated 3D Woodpile Photonic Crystals for Telecommunications
Jiafang Li, Baohua Jia, Guangyong Zhou, Craig Bullen, Jesper Serbin and Min Gu
Adv. Mater. 19 (20), 3276-3280 (2007); doi: 10.1002/adma.200602054
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Use of two-photon polymerization for continuous gray-level-encoding of diffractive optical elements
B. Jia, J. Serbin, H. Kim, B. Lee, J. Li and M. Gu
Applied Physics Letters, 90, 073503 (2007).
Two-photon polymerisation for three-dimensional photonic devices in polymer and nanocomposites
B. Jia, J. Li and M. Gu
(invited) Australian Journal of Chemistry. 60, 484-495 (2007).
Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals in a quantum dot composite material
J. Li, B. Jia, G. Zhou and Min Gu
Optics Express 14, 10740-10745 (2006).
Laser tweezers using focused evanescent illumination
S. Kuriakose, B. Jia, J.W.M. Chon, X. Gan and Min Gu
(Invited) Asian Journal of Physics 15, 295-300 (2006).
Anomalous phenomenon of a focused evanescent Laguerre-Gaussian beam
B. Jia, X. Gan, and M. Gu.
Optics Express, Vol. 13, 10360–10366 (2005).
Direct measurement of a radially polarized focused evanescent field facilitated by a single LCD
B. Jia, X. Gan, and M. Gu.
Optics Express, Vol. 13, 6821–6827 (2005).
Direct observation of a pure focused evanescent field of a high numerical aperture objective lens by scanning near-field optical microscopy
B. Jia, X. Gan, and M. Gu.
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86,131110 (2005).
Height/width aspect ratio controllable two-dimensional sub-micron arrays fabricated with two-photon photopolymerization
B. Jia, X. Gan, and M. Gu.
Optik, Vol. 115, 358–362 (2004).