News

2025

 May

  • Konnor’s paper on phonon polaritons in SrTiO₃ membranes has been published in Advanced Functional Materials (link). Congratulations to Konnor! Read more about our work in the NCSU news report (link to the report).

April

  • Dr. Liu visited the MSE program in University of Florida and gave a seminar talk on the phonon polaritons in oxide membranes. Thanks Prof. Honggyu Kim for the kind invitation!
  • Konnor Koons has received the Goodnight Doctoral Fellowship, a prestigious award awarded to PhD students at NCSU. Congratulations to Konnor!
  • Our collaborative paper titled “Room-temperature multiferroicity in sliding van der Waals semiconductors with sub-0.3 V switching” has been published in Nature Communications. (link)

February

  • Our paper on the anomalous thermal transport in Eshelby twisted van der Waals nanowires has been published in Nature Materials.  Congratulations!(link)

January

  • Guanyue Chen joined Liu group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

2024

November

  • Prof. Liu delivered a talk at the Applied Physics Seminar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thanks Prof. Jinsong Huang for the kind invitation!

September

  • Konnor presented his work at the MSE Department Celebration of Excellence in Graduate Research seminar
  • Our research on phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes was featured by the Advanced Light Source! (Link to the highlight )

June

  • Our paper titled “Highly Confined Epsilon-Near-Zero and Surface Phonon Polaritons in SrTiO3 Membranes” has been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations! (link)
  • Peter Wilson will work in Liu lab for data REU research in the summer of 2024. Peter will develop Python Package for the calculation of reflection of multilayer stacks based on the transfer matrix method. Welcome!

February

  • Prof. Liu Wins NSF CAREER Award for Research in optical metasurface. Congratulations!(link)

January

  • Dr. Van Tu Vu joined Liu group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2023

October

  • A review paper contributed by Dr. Liu and other collaborators has been accepted for publication in Chemical Reviews. Congratulations!

September

  • Ben Sheldon joined Liu group as a REU student, Welcome!

June

  • Our STEM cathodoluminescence system has been installed on Titan TEM in AIF!
  • Congrats Dr. Liu and his collaborators on the publication of “Controlling valley-specific light emission from monolayer MoS2 with achiral dielectric metasurfaces” in Nano Letters!
  • We are awarded the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) grant from NC State!
  • Konnor Koons joined Liu’s group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

January

  • Zisu Meng joined Liu group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2022

October

  • Dean Peabody and Eli Howell joined Liu group as REU students. Welcome!
  • Claire Carlin, Alan Dai, Briley Bourgeois, and Lin Yuan from Prof. Jennifer Dionne’s lab at Stanford visited Liu lab.

August

  • Yueyin Wang joined Liu group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

July

  • Dr. Liu formally joined NC State!
  • Dr. Liu’s collaborative work on epitaxial growth of helical helical van der Waals has been published in Nano Letters and selected as a journal cover!