Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University, Houston

02/2026
New article out in Nano Letters! We shows stacking faults in hBN can easily form during mechanical handling and they locally degrade dielectric strength of hBN. Rice News

09/2025
New article out in Nano Letters! We developed an approach to deterministically control optical emission and conductivity of vdW oxide by using electron-beam. Rice News

09/2025
Zeming and Meer joined group! Welcome!

07/2025
Hyunchul joined group as a RAMI Postdoctoral Fellow! Welcome!

06/2025
New article out in Nature Photonics! We demonstrate waveguide quantum electrodynamics in van der Waals heterostructures, using infrared nano photoluminescence to probe how emitters couple to highly confined
waveguide modes.

01/2025
New article out in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C! HaeYeon is corresponding author of the paper. We demonstrated p-type monolayer MoTe2 transistor by interfacial charge transfer doping.

12/2024
Aryan joined group! Welcome!

08/2024
Tian joined group! Welcome

06/2024
New article out in ACS Nano! We demonstrate in-situ via technique for improved contact with air-sensitive monolayers.

02/2024
Yifeng joined the group for his postdoctoral research!

01/2024
HaeYeon joined MSNE at Rice!

10/2023
HaeYeon will join Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice in January 2024.