Atomic dance gives rise to a magnet

Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is pivotal for materials’ optical, magnetic, topological, and transport properties. Chiral phonons, characterized by atoms rotating unidirectionally around their equilibrium positions,...

Rui received 2023-2024 Brotzen-Whitmire Graduate Fellowship

Our student, Rui Xu has won the 2023-24 Brotzen Whitmire Graduate Fellowship for his “excellence in academics and research”. The fellowship will award Rui a $5000 stipend...

Ultrafast THz field concentrators enabled by phonon polariton in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3

Mature optical technologies from the microwave frequencies to the X-ray frequencies have dramatically changed our life in the modern society, but there is a...

EQUAL members attend international academic conferences with support from Rice Engineering Alumni

Recently our lab members have been actively participating international academic conferences to present their wonder works with the support of Rice Engineering Alumni Travel...

Topological phonon-magnon coupling in atomically thin antiferromagnet

Check out our new results on Nano Letters! We have observed coherent hybridization of magnons and phonons first ever in monolayer antiferromagnet FePSe3 by...

Rice team looks into macroscopic quantum entanglement

Hanyu and collaborators received $2.5M support from the Keck foundation and Rice University to search for exotic quantum states formed by all the spins...

Hanyu receives the prestigious NSF CAREER award

Congratulations to Hanyu for receiving a 5-year support through the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program! The project entitled “Probing Quantum Materials Modified...

Piezoelectricity created at the 1D boundary of 2D lateral homojunctions

Phase boundaries can exhibit new properties that neither of the two sides possess. In ultrathin 2D crystals of MoTe2, both the 2H and 1T’...

Hanyu talked about materials and quantum science in Engineering Research Symposium for Teachers

Only a small fraction of students know the existence of Materials Science as a discipline before they enter college. Meanwhile, materials science nowadays is...

Jiaming presented his work in APS March Meeting, 2022 in Chicago

Excellent work Jiaming! Hope the presentation will gain more attention for your work. Special thanks to Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) for generously providing the...