Here is the most recent news on our innovation for quantum computing and quantum sensing: news article. (July 20, 2025)
UC Technology Transfer highlights our US patent (pending) for "Low-Loss Superconducting Components Fabricated Using Thin Metal Heterostructures" (2025)
Congratulations to Jason Tran on defending his Ph.D. and landing a job as a Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin (2025)!
Congratulations to Jason Tran on receiving the 2024-2025 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (DCFA).
Congratulations to Daniel Morales on receiving the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship.
Congratulations to Cliff Chen and Jason Tran on the co-first authorship paper published in Science Advances with News Release.
Congratulations to Varrick Suezaki on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
Congratulations to Jason Tran on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
Congratulations to Cliff Chen on defending his Ph.D. and landing a job as a Quantum Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Caltech Quantum Center!
Congratulations to Dr. Peng Wei for receiving the 2021 NSF CAREER award!
Congratulations to Cliff Chen! Cliff's paper "Strain controlled superconductivity in few-layer NbSe2" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c08804]
"First sighting of mysterious Majorana fermion on a common metal", MIT, UCR
Our group joined a team led by Prof. Marek Osinski from University of New Mexico in The Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) Conceptualization Grant (CG) program supported by NSF. The team works on "Scalable Integrated Platforms for Quantum Information Processing".
The demonstration of Majorana pair in gold - "Finding Majorana on an Island in a Sea of Gold" has been invited by Gordon Research Conference 2019.
News release on our work regarding a new quantum material (gold thin film heterostructures) for topological superconductor.
Dr. Wei delivered an invited talk in 2019 American Physical Society March Meeting on "Surface superconductivity in gold – a material platform for Majorana bound states"
Cliff Chen has demonstrated superconductor to insulator transition in the MBE grown wafer-scale NbSe2 with thicknesses down to a few mono-layers
Cliff Chen has been invited to attend the 2019 Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School, Congratulations!
Congratulations to Cliff Chen on receiving the 2018 Anne Kernan Award for Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Researcher
Rahul Baraiya, student from Martin Luther King High School, Riverside, will join our group summer 2018 for research internship program. Welcome!
Justin Kuo, 1st year undergraduate student, won the fellowship of UCR Science & Engineering (RISE) 2018 summer program. Congratulations!
Dr. Junxue Li will join us as a postdoc starting from Aug. 2018. Welcome!
Cliff Chen, 2nd year graduate student, delivered a talk at the American Physical Society Meeting 2018.
Dr. Wei delivered an invited talk at the 2017 MMM Conference.
Dr. Wei's work on the induced superconductivity in Au(111) is highlighted by AIE (Advances in Engineering). link