News

3/27/2026 - Congratualtions to our undergraduate research alumni John Bannon (2025 PCCM REU) and Ram Narayanan (2024 Princeton ReMatch+) for winning the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship!!

12/15/2025 - We introduce the concept of "van der Waals Nanoreactors" for creating new quantum materials (2D & beyond 2D)! Congrulations to Joy and Haosen on initiating this exciting new direciton! see it on arXiv.

6/10/2025 - Summer is ongoing! Welcome our five Undergrad Researchers: Mayank Sengupta, Matthew Benton, John Bannon (PCCM REU), Derek Saucedo (PCCM REU) and Parth Jain! Exciting explorations in the quantum world!

12/20/2024 - Yanyu's work on creating superconducting junctions in twisted MoTe2 and observation of anomalies in our first series of junctions is accepted to Science Advances! Congratulations!

11/21/2024 - Yanyu has succussfully defended his PhD! Excellent Job, Dr Jia! Congratulations!

11/13/2024 - Our reivew and views on charge neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators is published in Nature as an perspective article! Many exciting possibilities to explore!  Read it.

Oct, 2024 - Welcome Lihan Shi, a first year graduate student!

9/16/2024 - Congratulations to Dr. Guo Yu for her successful thesis defense!! Great job!

7/10/2024 - Welcome new group member: Ipsita Das, who is a PCCM fellow!! 

Summer 2024 - We are excited to host 3 talented undergraduate researchers: Sarah Zhang (Princeton Physics), Ram Narayanan (Princeton ReMatch+ program) and Alisa Yurevich (PCCM REU Program)!!

2/5/2024 - Congratulations to Tiancheng, who won the 2024 Lee Osheroff Richardson Prize!

1/10/2024 - Congratulations to Guo, who received the Harvard HQI prize postdoctoral fellowship!

1/19/2023 - News article about our discovery of an unconventional quantum critical point in WTe2 appeared on Princeton University homepage! Click the Link

10/16/2023 - Congratulations: Tiancheng's paper reporting our finding of an unconventional quantum critical pint in monolayer WTe2  is now accepted to Nature Physics!

9/23/2023 - Our paper on the development of far-infrared spectroscopy at millikelvin temperatures is now accepted to Review of Scientific Instruments. Congratulations!

8/29/2023 - Haosen Guan joins our group at a new graduate student. Welcome, Haosen!

7/14/2023 - Yanyu's paper on a "liquid-like" transport of 2D metal film on monolayer crystals well below the melting point and the 2D chemistry  is now accepted in principle to Nature Synthesis! Congratulations!

6/15/2023 - We thank Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for supporting us creating an instrument for exploring optics at ultralow temperatures! Our idea was selected via a dual-anonymous review process.

3/19/2023 - Joy Zheng joins our group as a new graduate student! Welcome Joy!

2/15/2023 - Prof. Wu wins the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. Congratulations!

12/14/2022 - Prof. Wu receives the 2023 AFOSR YIP award! Congratulations! The award will support Wu lab to conduct research on two dimensional superconductivity.

6/28/2022 - Wu lab is collaborating with the Weichman Lab on a PCI project!

6/6/2022 - Welcome Amir Ibrahim, who will be working with us for a summer REU project!

4/4/2022 - Congratulations to Yanyu Jia for receiving the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship (2022-23)!! This prestigious honorific fellowship for Princeton graduate students recognizes Yanyu's outstanding scholarship! Well Deserved, Yanyu!

12/23/2021 - Our paper on the Monolayer Excitonic Insulator is now published in Nature Physics. Congratulations to Yanyu & Pengjie! This is a result of our collaboration within the PCCM IRG-A team! 

9/10/2021 - Welcome to our new member, Dr. Tiancheng Song!  Tiancheng is a Dicke Fellow at Princeton physics and will explore interesting quantum phases in 2D!

8/2-8/6/2021 - Guo and Pengjie's trip to Maglab to search for a novel state of matter!

1/12/2021 - News about Pengjie, Guo and Yanyu's work is on Princeton University's homepage!

10/1/2020 - Welcome to our new group members - Dr. Ayelet July Uzan and incoming graduate student Yue Tang! 

02/11/2020 - Wu Lab is in the Spotlight of our inaugural Physics departmental newsletter!  

01/15/2020 - Congratulations: Wu Lab received NSF CAREER award! 

11/28/2019 - Our four fridges are all set! Check it out.

07/26/19 - Our first Group Trip! Check it out.

06/07/19 - Our Quantum Kitchen Is All Set!

05/1/2019 - Pengjie and Yanyu are working in Maglab, Florida! Click here to see some photos!

01/15/2019 - What is in the lab now? Click here. 

10/25/2018 - our paper on WTe2 monolayer superconductivity is published in Science via First Release

10/22/2018 - This lab website is born! Hello World!

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