Stephen Wu

Strain Engineering 2D MoS2 with Thin Film Stress Capping Layers Check out our latest results from Tara Peña and others in our group  on straining 2D materials with process induced stress…

Stephen has won the NSF CAREER award to study strain engineered 2D materials! https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942815

Our group receives funding from the NSF to study the control of topological 2D materials with strain engineering to create gate-controllable topological qubits! https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936250

Check out our new paper on strain-driven phase transitions on in 2D materials! Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0466-2 Related Press: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0491-1 https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/2d-materials-transistor-scale-device-platform-385812/ https://www.materialstoday.com/nanomaterials/news/strain-new-transistor-from-2d-materials/ https://physicsworld.com/a/strain-switches-2d-phase-change-transistor/  

Congratulations to Tara Peña and Carla Watson for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the year of 2019! https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/rochester-students-alumni-offered-nsf-fellowships-379792/

Check out our latest Viewpoint article in Physics on measuring the coherence of magnons inspired by the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/49

Welcome to the Wu Laboratory at the University of Rochester. Join us in our exploration of new emerging quantum electronic device technologies. Find out more information from the above website…