News and Events

2026/08 - Led by Professors Uwe Kortshagen and Suo Yang, our group will participate the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Genesis Mission to advance semiconductor technology with AI! Read more about the project here.

2026/07 - Junghyun and Chengyu passed the PWE in the summer! 

2026/07 - Weideng's work on anormalous vortex Hall effect in ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructure is published on APL. Congratulations!

2026/04 - Junghyun's work on SrSnO3 MOSFET is accepted at the 2026 Device Research Conference. Congratulations!

2026/03 - Chengyu made his debut at the APS Global Physics Summit, presenting his work on delafossites!

2026/02

Together with Prof. Hagyoul Bae (Jeonbuk National University), Prof. Bharat Jalan, and others, our team has been selected for Phase II of the US-Korea Material Global Young Connect Program! Sponsored by this program, a workshop on UWB semiconductors is organized at UMN.

2025/10

Our paper on ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor CaSnO3 MOSFET, led by Weideng, has been published on Advanced Electronic Materials: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202500459 . This marks the first research paper led by our group!

2025/09

PI Qiu received the prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)! The project will explore a novel electron hydrodynamic refrigerator to provide on-demand cooling power for quantum technologies.

2025/05

PI Qiu is appointed to the graduate faculty in the School of Physics and Astronomy!

2025/01

Milestone achieved: First publication as a proud Gopher! Our review paper on the unconventional quantum Hall effect is coming online at Applied Physics Letters, and highlighted at the Editor's Pick: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0245526. Congratulations Weideng! 

2025/01 - Junghyun Koo joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome on board!

2024/08 -  Chengyu Zhu joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome on board!

2024/07 -  Our Quantum Design Dynacool cryostat with the dilution fridge unit is commissioned! We are able to measure our very first device!

2024/06 - Our recent paper on chiral molecule intercalated 2D superconductors, in collaboration with the UCLA teams, is published in Nature! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01176-2

2024/06 - Welcome Weideng Sun, joining the group as a postdoctoral researcher! 

2024/05 - Welcome Soren Villafane and Caleb Armstrong, joining the group as undergraduate student researchers! 

2023/09 - Welcome to the Quantum Electronics Laboratory at the University of Minnesota! Prof. Gang Qiu will start his lab in Jan 2024. Excited to embark on a new journey!