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Welcome to QESI Lab!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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The goal of our lab, at the University of Florida in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is to design and develop new functional materials and devices for advanced electronic, spintronic & quantum application, mainly using experiments & simulations. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Quantum Devices Towards Ultralow-Power, Ultrafast and Scalable electronics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\ud83d\udc4fDesigner quantum devices, e.g. interface engineering between a ferromagnetic thin film and a transition metal dichalcogenide with strong spin orbit coupling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc4fLarge-scale exfoliation (mm-cm), Sputtering, nanofabrication and characterizations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc4fHigh-quality device assembly inside glove box; Circuit and architecture level fabrication and micromagnetic simulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc4fElectric\/spin transport and capacitance measurements, high-resolution ultrafast optical measurements (Kerr effect)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc4fExtreme conditions: high magnetic fields and ultralow temperatures + Magnetic imaging includes Magnetic force microscopy, Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy, Neutron Diffraction, NV Sensing… Through collaborations with National Laboratory & Universities…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udc49 Haowen Yang, our undergraduate student, led a skyrmion quantum diode work and published in npj Spintronics! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udc49January 2026, Dr. Wu was awarded Malachowsky\u202fFamily Rising Star\u202fEndowed Professor<\/strong>! more info: https:\/\/news.ece.ufl.edu\/2026\/01\/23\/three-ece-faculty-members-awarded-new-malachowsky-professorships\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udc49Wu Works to Make Computers More Brain-Like<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

more info: https:\/\/news.<\/a>ece.ufl.edu\/2025\/03\/14\/wu-works-to-make-computers-more-brain-like\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"\ud83d\udc49Wu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create New Quantum Devices<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
more info: https:\/\/news.ece.ufl.edu\/2024\/12\/23\/wu-receives-nsf-career-award-to-create-new-quantum-devices\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49April 2025, two papers published in Materials for Quantum Technology and Progress in Quantum Electronics! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 December 2024, our undergraduate researcher Douglas Plummer was elected the President of student organization the “ECE Ambassadors” (ECEA)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 Dr. Wu joined Editorial Board of Nanotechnology! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49November 2024, our first machine learning paper combined with materials characterization published in Scientific Reports! A all undergraduates lead project. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 September 2024, our News & Views article titled “Magnetic whirlpools creep and flow in response to emergent electrodynamics” has been published in Nature<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 August 2024, our Co-authored paper on SC diodes was awarded 2023 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper by IBM Research.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 August 2024, we have received 2024 Research Opportunity Seed Fund! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49 Summer 2024, we have three papers online at arXiv, one review paper and two experiment papers, refer to publications! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc49May 2024, our invited review paper on 2D magnetic heterostructure: spintronics and quantum future is published in npj Spintronics, DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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