April 2019] [Award]
Congrats to Vivian Zhou for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)! Her research proposal is focused on exploring new frontiers of quantum engineering.  Vivian is finishing her BS/MS study at CWRU in May and will start pursuing her Ph.D. study this Fall.

[April 2019] [Award]
Congrats to Jon McCandless for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)! His GRF research proposal is focused on bold ideas of growing phase-pure, single-crystal Ga2O3 in a new crystalline phase. Jon worked in the Feng group from 2014 to 2016, focusing on 2D materials and devices. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. at Cornell University.

[January 2019] [Journal Article] Congrats to Laura and Vivian for our team’s new journal article in Optical Materials Express, reporting on synergizing numerical modeling and experimental efforts to reveal the optical contrast signatures of h-BN on various substrates. The work offers a non-contact, rapid thickness estimation method for h-BN thin films on suspended device platforms, where conventional contact methods are incapable or cumbersome.

[January 2019] [Journal Article]
Congrats to Arnob and Anno for our team’s new journal article in Optical Materials Express, demonstrating the first polarization sensitive black phosphorus (P) nanomechanical resonators. The observed polarization responsivity of the resonance frequency can be utilized to realize polarimetric nanodevices to detect optical rotation of optically active substances. Further, from polarization sensitive resonance frequency shift, it is possible to identify two unknown in-plane crystal directions, armchair (AC) and zigzag (ZZ), of black P crystals.

[January 2019] [Journal Article]
A new invited article from our team is published in APL Materials, demonstrating the first dual-modality solar-blind UV light sensing β-Ga2O3 transducer enabled by multi-physics coupling across photo-electrical and photo-thermo-mechanical domains. Congrats to Xu-Qian and Yong!