News

2024

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

  • Saud Alssaidy joined Liu group as a PhD student. Welcome!
  • Dr. Van Tu Vu joined Liu group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2023

October

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

September

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

June

  • Our STEM cathodoluminescence system has been installed on Titan TEM in AIF!
  • Congrats Yin 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 lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

January

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

2022

October

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

August

  • Ms. Yueyin Wang joined in Liu lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
  • Mr. Tarek joined the Liu lab 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!