Professor Lu obtained his B.Eng. degree in 1984 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan in 1988 and 1991, respectively. Upon graduation from Osaka University, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore where he served various positions. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in September 2002.

He has an extensive research background in the areas of laser-based microscale and nanoscale material processing. Professor Lu has over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and over 160 presentations in international conferences. He also received a number of national and international awards, including National Technology Award (Singapore, 1998), Asean Engineering Achievement Award (Asean Engineering Association, 1999), and Laser International Award (Germany, 2000). He has led the research group that pioneered laser removal of nanoparticles from solid surfaces (commonly known as laser cleaning) and nanoscale patterning by optical resonance in microparticles. He was among the first researchers to theoretically propose a model to explain the behaviors of nanoparticles on solid surface under laser irradiation, and experimentally obtained the sub-wavelength nanostructures using laser-induced optical resonance in nanospheres. His work encompasses a few important topics including laser writing of sub-wavelength structures, applications of laser removal of nanoparticles, behaviors of nanoparticles under laser irradiation, theoretical modeling, influence of laser wavelength, and particle removal with assistance of thin liquid films. He has also closely worked with industries and developed a few commercial products for laser etching, laser cleaning, laser cutting and laser surface texturing.

• Ph.D., 1991, Osaka University, Japan
  
• M.Eng., 1988, Osaka University, Japan
  
• B.Eng., 1984, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Nanoscale laser material processing and characterization
• Laser-assisted nanoimprinting
• Laser-assisted scanning tunneling microscope
• Nanoparticle formation and thin film deposition
• Surface cleaning and drying
• Light interactions with nanostructures

• International Laser Award Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis, Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, Germany, 2000.
• National Technology Award, National Science and Technology Board, Singapore 1998.

• Y.F. Lu, M. Takai, S. Komuro, T. Shiokawa, and Y. Aoyagi, "Surface Cleaning of Metals by Pulsed Laser Irradiations in Air," Appl. Phys., A59, 281-288(1994).
• Y.F. Lu, W.D. Song, M.H. Hong, T.C. Chong, B.S. Teo, and T.S. Low, "Laser removal of particles from head sliders," J. Appl. Phys., 80, 499-504(1996).
• Y.F. Lu, Z.M. Ren, W.D. Song, T.S. Low, K. Gamani, G. Chen and K. Li, "Studies on Carbon Nitride Thin Film Synthesized by KrF Excimer Laser Ablation of Graphite in Nitrogen Atmosphere," J. Appl. Phys., 84, 2909-2912(1998).
• Y.F. Lu, Y. Aoyagi, M. Takai, and S. Namba, "Laser Surface Cleaning in Air-Mechanisms and Applications," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Part 1, 33, 7138-7148(1994).
• Y.F. Lu, Y.W. Zheng and W.D. Song, "An Energy Approach to the Modeling of Particle Removal by Pulsed Laser Irradiation," Appl. Phys., A68, 569-572(1999).
• Y.F. Lu, Y.W. Zheng and W.D. Song, "Laser Induced Removal of Spherical Particles from Silicon wafers," J. Appl. Phys, 87(3), 1534-1539(2000).
• Y. F. Lu, L. Zhang, W. D. Song, Y. W. Zheng, B. S. Luk'yanchuk, and T.C. Chong, "Laser Writing of Sub-wavelength Structure on Silicon (100) Surfaces with Particle Enhanced Optical Irradiation", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (JETP) Letters 72, 658-662(2000).
• Y.F. Lu, Invited talk, "Laser Nano-Engineering with the Assistance of Scanning Probe Microscope and Optical Resonance in Microparticles", The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001, 15-19 July 2001, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan) Technical Digest, Vol 1, I30-I31.
• I. Miyamoto, Y.F. Lu, K. Sugioka and J. Dubowski, (ed.), Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication SPIE, Vol. 4426, 2001.
• Y.F. Lu, Laser Microprocessing and Applications in Microelectronics in International Trends in Applied Optics (ed. by Arthur H. Guenther, President, International Commission for Optics) SPIE, 2002