Research Overview


We are working on nanoscale science and technology, with various applications in areas ranging from nano-manufacturing, nano-electro-mechanical system (NEMS), energy harvesting to biomedical sensing. The research interfaces with electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, applied physics, materials science, chemistry and biomedical sciences. Specifically, we focus on the following topics: (1) high-throughput nano-manufacturing technology, (2) NEMS based novel biomedical devices, (3) nonlinearity engineering for NEMS, (4) high-efficiency nano-structured thin-film solar cells, (5) NEMS with novel two dimensional nano-materials. For detailed information, please visit our Research and Publications pages.

Lab News!

  • March 2023, Dr Lu was awarded Pawsey Medal from Australian Academy of Science. [Link] [Film]
  • October 2022, Dr Lu’s team published a paper in Nature - Discovery of exciton pairs could enable next-gen technology. [Link1] [Link2] [Link3]
  • October 2021, Dr Lu was granted with a Linkage Project from Australian Research Council (ARC), in collaboration with industry partners Toshiba Corporation Japan, Global Power Generation Australia and Evoenergy - Hydrogen micro-bubbles join fight against climate change. [Link1] [Link2]
  • September 2021, Dr Lu was invited to be one of the two key speakers for a webinar organized by the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions (ICEDS), ANU. The event was very successful. It had 583 people join the event live, which is a fantastic number. [Link]
  • July 2020, a media report for Dr Lu’s work entitled “New organic material unlocks faster electronic devices” reached a cumulative audience of over 1.8 million in Australia within 24 hours. [link] The work was published in top-tier journal Nature Light: Science & Applications.
  • November 2018, Dr Lu was named as one of the recipients of the Heart Foundation's Future Leader Fellowships. Dr Lu's project was also recognised as one of the most innovative Future Leader Fellowship applications, which won him the Heart Foundation Paul Korner Innovation Award. [Link]
  • 15/08/2016 Dr Yuerui Lu was named ACT Young Tall Poppy for 2016. Congratulations! [Link]
  • 15/05/2016 PhD student Mr Jiong Yang was awarded the competitive "Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad". Jiong also received the cash prize of US$6,000. Congratulations!
  • 11/03/2016 Our recent paper “Atomically thin optical lenses and gratings” was published in Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16046; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.46, 2016. (Nature publishing group journal) [Link] [PDF] We domenstrated the world's thinnest lens. Press Coverage: Nature publishing group Media, ANU media, ABC News, Xinhua News, SBS Mandarin Radio, PhysOrg, Tech Times, etc. [Link1] [Link2] Congratulations!
  • 10/03/2016 Warmly welcome our new members, Dan (Kiho) Cho, Ahmed Raza, Dr Bo Wen, and Boqing Liu.
  • 01/03/2016  Congratulations to Mr Renjing Xu! He has received a few PhD scholarship offers from top universities in the US, including Harvard University etc. Renjing had been working in NEMS lab for ~2 years, as an undergraduate student. Congratulations again!
  • 11/18/2015 Our journal paper, entitled "Producing Air-stable Monolayers of Phosphorene and their Defect Engineering" was accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Jiajie and others.
  • 11/17/2015 Congratulations to Dr Yuerui Lu, for his Media and Outreach Award, Australian National University.
  • 10/2015 Congratulations to Dr Yuerui Lu, for his promotion to Senior Lecturer at the ANU.
  • 18/10/2015 Our journal paper, entitled "Atomically thin optical lenses and gratings" was accepted in NPG jornal Light: Science and Applications. We demonstrated the thinnest micro-lens around the world. This work is in collaboration with Professor Zongfu Yu's team at University of Wisconsin Madsion. Congratulations to Jiong and others.
  • 10/15/2015 Our journal paper, entitled "Exciton and Trion Dyanmics in Bilayer MoS2" is accepted in Small. Congratulations to Jiajie, Renjing, Jiong and others.
  • 10/09/2015 Our journal paper, entitled “Layer-dependent surface potential of phosphorene and anisotropic/layer-dependent charge transfer in phosphorene-gold hybrid system”, is accepted in Nanoscale as a Back Cover. Congratulations to Renjing, and others for their great contributions to this work.
  • 19/07/2015 Farewell BBQ party for Mr Renjing Xu. Thank you, Renjing, for your contributions to our team!
  • 17/07/2015 Our recent phosphorene work is reported by lots of media, including Nature publishing group Media, ANU media, ABC News, Xinhua News, SBS Mandarin Radio, IFLScience, PhysOrg, Global Times, etc.[Link] Youtube: [Link]
  • 11/06/2015 Our journal paper, entitled “Robust Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoTe2”, was published in ACS Nano. Congratulations to Jiong, and others for their great contributions to this work. [Link]
  • 25/03/2015 Congratulations to our successful MEC grant bid “Single-photon infra-red detection facility for next generation quantum devices”, led by A/Prof. Andrey Sukhorukov.
  • 25/02/2015 Our journal paper, entitled “Optical Tuning of Exciton and Trion Emissions in Monolayer Phosphorene Phosphorene”, is to be published in a Nature publishing group journal -- Light: Science and Applications, whose impact factor in 2013 is 8.476 and that in 2014 is expected to be greater than 12. Congratulations to Jiong, Renjing, Jiajie and others for their great contributions to this work. Congratulations again!
  • 10/01/2015 We are excited to announce that ANU undergraduate students Salman Mokhtar, Timothy Heaney, Christopher Zhang, Han Yan, and master student Yi Zhu have joined our team. Welcome!
  • 20/12/2014 Group activity: BBQ in Acton Park, Canberra. NEMS lab members celebrate Christmas and the BE thesis submission and graduation of Shannon, Byung and Mohammad! Congratulations!
  • 10/12/2014 Congratulations to Mr Ankur Sharma for receiving the ANU IPRS PhD scholarship! He will join us in 2015.
  • 01/12/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Xinghua Wang has joined our team as a visiting PhD student, supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Xinghua is from National University of Defense Technology, China. Welcome Xinghua!
  • 20/11/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Juntao Sun has joined our team as a Summer school undergraduate student, supported by ANU summer school scholarship. Welcome Juntao!
  • 20/09/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Jiajie Pei has joined our team as a visiting PhD student, supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Jiajie is from Beijing Institute of Technology. Welcome Jiajie!
  • 20/09/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Jiajie Pei has joined our team as a visiting PhD student, supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Jiajie is from Beijing Institute of Technology. Welcome Jiajie!
  • 20/09/2014 Our collaborative journal paper, entitled “Giant Plasmene Nanosheets, Nanoribbons, and Origami”, has been accepted in ACS Nano, 8, 11086-11093 (2014)! Congratulations! [link]
  • 04/09/2014 Our first journal paper, entitled “Extraordinary Photoluminescence and Strong Temperature/Angle-Dependent Raman Responses in Few-Layer Phosphorene”, has been accepted in ACS Nano! Congratulations to Shuang, Jiong, Renjing and others for their great contributions to this work. Congratulations again! [link]
  • 23/08/2014 Group activity: BBQ in Black Mountain Peninsula, Canberra. NEMS lab members celebrate its first anniversary!
  • 18/08/2014 Farewell party for Ankur and Utkarshaa. Ankur and Utkarshaa have shown excellent performance in their summer research projects. We really appreciate their wonderful contributions to NEMS lab! We wish them all the best and have a wonderful future career!
  • 24/07/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Ye Win Myint has joined our team as an honour undergraduate student. Welcome, Ye!
  • 18/06/2014 We are excited to announce that Mr Ankur Sharma and Miss Utkarshaa Varshney have joined our team as summer visiting students. Both Ankur and Utkarshaa are rising fourth-year undergraduate students from Aligarh Muslim University, India. Welcome, Ankur and Utkarshaa!
  • 02/04/2014 We are excited to announce that Dr Mazher-Iqbal Mohammed has joined our team as a visiting scholar. Dr Mohammed received his PhD from Strathclyde University, Scotland. He will work on bio-medical sensors and microfluidics. Welcome, Mazher!
  • 05/03/2014 Congratulations to Dr Yuerui Lu on receiving the ANU Major Equipment Committee grant as the lead CI!
  • 17/02/2014 We are excited to announce that ANU undergraduate students Byung Lim, Thomas McMenamin, Mohamad Mohamed Kaberi, and Qing Loh have joined our team.
  • 10/01/2014 Two papers were accepted as oral presentations in ICONN2014/ ACMM 23 international conference, which will be held 2-6 February 2014 in Adelaide south Australia.
  • 15/12/2013 ANU PhD student Shuang Zhang is joining us. Welcome, Shuang Zhang!
  • 20/11/2013 Congratulations to Dr Yuerui Lu, on receiving a competitive Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
  • 10/11/2013 ANU undergraduate student Renjing Xu is joining us. Welcome, Renjing Xu!
  • 05/10/2013 ANU PhD student, Jin Tao is joining us. Welcome, Jin Tao!
  • 20/09/2013 A big welcome to Jiong Yang and Muhammad Ghufran, the first graduate students of our lab!
  • 01/09/2013 NEMS Laboratory was born in Canberra, Australia! Congratulations!

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