Prof Yuerui Lu

Yuerui (Larry) Lu received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 2012. He holds a B.S. degree from department of Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China. In 2013, he joined the Australian National University as a research fellow and lecturer under the Future Engineering Research Leadership Fellowship. He is now a full professor at the ANU. He is a chief investigator and program manager at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T). His research interests include 2D quantum materials and optoelectronic devices, MEMS sensors and actuators, biomedical and energy devices, etc. He has published 2 books (as editor), 7 book chapters, and more than 100 papers in high-impact journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, etc. He is currently an associate editor of Optica.  

Awards

• 2023, Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science - the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year in 2023, Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
• 2023, Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science.
• 2022, NHMRC Investigator Award, National Health and Medical Research Council.
• 2021, Young Innovator Award, Nano Research, Springer Publishing Group.
• 2019, Paul Korner Innovation Award, National Heart Foundation of Australia.
• 2018, Future Leader Fellow, National Heart Foundation of Australia.
• 2018, Supervisor Award for 3MT (3 minutes thesis) Competition, ANU.
• 2016, Westpac Research Fellow Finalists, Westpac Bicentennial Foundation.
• 2016, Winner of ACT Young Tall Poppy of the Year, Australian Institute of Policy and Science. 
• 2015, Media and Outreach Award, ANU.
• 2014, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), ARC.
• 2013, Future Engineering Research Leadership Fellow, ANU.
• 2012, MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver Medal), Materials Research Society.
• 2012, Best Poster Award, Cornell NanoScale Facility Annual Meeting.
• 2012, Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship, Cornell University.
• 2003, Guo Moruo Presidential Award, USTC (The highest honor for undergraduate)

Awards for PhD Students Supervised as Primary Supervisor

• Mr Yi Zhu (2017-2020) received Dean’s Award for Excellent PhD Thesis at ANU in 2020, and Winner of 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT), EME, ANU in 2018. Dr Yi Zhu joined University of Cambridge as a Postdoc Fellow in 2021.
• Mr Ankur Sharma (2015-2018) received ANU Winner of 3MT (3 minutes thesis) competition at ANU in 2018, and First Prize in business pitch at the Australian Nanotechnology Network Entrepreneurship Workshop in 2017. After his PhD, Dr Ankur Sharma got a lecturer position in the School of Engineering at the ANU. Ankur is a Principal R&D Engineer in Boeing Australia, and an Honorary Lecturer in School of Engineering at ANU.
• Mr Jiong Yang (2013-2017) received Chinese Government Award for outstanding PhD (<1%) in 2017.

Awards for Honours Students Supervised as Primary Supervisor

• Mr Renjing Xu (2014-2015) was Awarded First Class Honours at ANU. He received PhD Full Scholarship from many top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Caltech, etc. He chose Harvard to continue his PhD study in 2016.
• Mr Han Yan (2018-2019) was Awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal. He got PhD Full Scholarship from many worlds’ top universities. He chose University of Cambridge to continue his PhD study.
• Ms Betty Xiong (2019-2020) was Awarded First Class Honours at ANU and was recommended for the University Medal. She was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, which allows her to study postgraduate at Stanford University in the USA. Betty’s Honours Project was focused on wearable devices, in collaboration with our industry partner WearOptimo.

Ph.D.

• Micro-/Nano-electro-mechanical System (MEMS/NEMS);
• 2D quantum materials and integration;
• Optoelectronic, optomechanical and photonic devices;
• Nano-scale sensors and actuators;
• Energy harvesting devices for flexible electronics and systems;
• Novel biomedical devices;

Publication Highlights (selected)

1. Xueqian Sun^†, Yi Zhu^†, Hao Qin, Boqing Liu, Yilin Tang, Tieyu Lu, Sharidya Rahman, Tanju Yildirim, and Yuerui Lu*, “Enhanced interactions of interlayer excitons in free-standing heterobilayers”, Nature, 610 (7932), 478-484, 2022. Press Coverage: [Link1] [Link2] [Link3]

2. Xueqian Sun, Manuka Suriyage, Ahmed Khan, Mingyuan Gao, Jie Zhao, Boqing Liu, Mehedi Hasan, Sharidya Rahman, Ruosi Chen, Ping Koy Lam and Yuerui Lu*; “Twisted van der Waals Quantum Materials: Fundamentals, Tunability and Applications”. Chemical Reviews, 124 (4), 1992-2079, 2024.

3. Xueqian Sun, Ermin Malic and Yuerui Lu*; “Dipolar many-body complexes and their interactions in stacked 2D hetero-bilayers”, Nature Reviews Physics, 1-16, 2024.

4. Yilin Tang#, Kabilan Sripathy#, Hao Qin1#, Zhuoyuan Lu, Giovanni Guccione, Jiri Janousek, Yi Zhu, Md Mehedi Hasan, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Ping Koy Lam* and Yuerui Lu*, “Quasi-Phase-Matching Enabled by van der Waals Stacking”, Nature Communications, 2024. (in press).

5. Maximilian A. Weissflog, Anna Fedotova, Yilin Tang, Elkin A. Santos, Benjamin Laudert, Saniya Shinde, Fatemeh Abtahi, Mina Afsharnia, Inmaculada Pérez Pérez, Sebastian Ritter, Hao Qin, Jiri Janousek, Sai Shradha, Isabelle Staude, Sina Saravi, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, Yuerui Lu*, and Falk Eilenberger*. “A tunable transition metal dichalcogenide entangled photon-pair source”. Nature Communications, 15 (1), 7600,

6. Boqing Liu^†, Tanju Yildirim^†, Tieyu Lü, Elena Blundo, Li Wang, Lixue Jiang, Hongshuai Zou, Lijun Zhang, Huijun Zhao, Zongyou Yin, Fang-Bao Tian, Antonio Polimeni* and Yuerui Lu*, “Variation of Plateau’s Law in Atomically Thin Dome Networks”, Nature Communications, 14 (1), 1050, 2023.

7. J. Healey, S. C. Scholten, T. Yang, J. A. Scott, G. J. Abrahams, I. O. Robertson, X. F. Hou, Y. F. Guo, S. Rahman, Y. Lu, M. Kianinia, I. Aharonovich*, J.-P. Tetienne*, “Quantum microscopy with van der Waals heterostructures”, Nature Physics, 19 (1), 87-91, 2023.

8. Jack B Muir, Jesper Levinsen, Stuart K Earl, Mitchell A Conway, Jared H Cole, Matthias Wurdack, Rishabh Mishra, David J Ing, Eliezer Estrecho, Yuerui Lu, Dmitry K Efimkin, Jonathan O Tollerud, Elena A Ostrovskaya, Meera M Parish, Jeffrey A Davis. “Interactions between Fermi polarons in monolayer WS₂”. Nature Communications 13 (1), 6164, 2022.

9. Mudassar Nauman, Jingshi Yan, Domenico de Ceglia, Mohsen Rahmani, Khosro Zangeneh Kamali, Costantino De Angelis, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Yuerui Lu*, Dragomir N. Neshev*, “Tunable Unidirectional Nonlinear Emission from Transition-Metal-Dichalcogenide Metasurfaces”, Nature Communications, 12, 5597 (2021).

10. Fei Qin^†, Boqing Liu^†, Linwei Zhu, Wei Fang, Jian Lei, Dejiao Hu, Yi Zhu, Yuerui Lu* and Xiangping Li*, “π-phase modulated monolayer supercritical lens”, Nature Communications, 12 (1), 1-9, 2021.

11. Ankur Sharma, Linglong Zhang, Jonathan O. Tollerud, Miheng Dong, Yi Zhu, Robert Halbich, Tobias Vogl, Kun Liang, Hieu T. Nguyen, Fan Wang, Shilpa Sanwlani, Stuart K. Earl, Daniel Macdonald, Ping Koy Lam, Jeff A. Davis and Yuerui Lu*, “Super-transport of Excitons in Atomically Thin Organic Semiconductors at the 2D Quantum Limit”, Nature Light: Science & Applications, 9, 116, Press Coverage: A media report entitled “New organic material unlocks faster electronic devices” [link] reached a cumulative audience of over 1.8 million in Australia within 24 hours.

12. Tobias Vogl, Kabilan Sripathy, Ankur Sharma, Prithvi Reddy, James Sullivan, Joshua R Machacek, Linglong Zhang, Fouad Karouta, Ben C Buchler, Marcus W Doherty, Yuerui Lu, Ping Koy Lam*, “Radiation tolerance of two-dimensional material-based devices for space applications”, Nature Communications 10, 1202, 2019. - This work was chosen by the ARC to be a national highlight in the published “2020 Outcomes of ARC supported research”.

13. Chen, V. Corboliou, A. S. Solntsev, D.-Y. Choi, M. A. Vincenti, D. D. Ceglia, C. D. Angelis, Y. Lu, and D. N. Neshev*. “Enhanced second harmonic generation from two-dimensional MoSe₂ on a silicon waveguide”, Nature Light: Science & Applications, doi: 10.1038/lsa.2017.60, 2017.

14. J. Pei, X. Gai^*, J. Yang, X. Wang, Z. Yu, D.-Y. Choi, B. L.-Davies, and Y. Lu^*_. “Producing Air-stable Monolayers of Phosphorene and their Defect Engineering”, Nature Communications, 7, 10450, 2016.- Highly Cited Paper. This highly cited paper received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Physics based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.

15. Yang, Z. Wang, F. Wang, R. Xu, J. Tao, S. Zhang, Q. Qin, B. L.-Davies, C. Jagadish, Z. Yu*, Y. Lu*. “Atomically thin optical lenses and gratings”, Nature Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16046, 2016. - Press Coverage: 100+ mainstream media and web media outlets reported this story. [Link1] [Link2]; ABC Newsfilm [Youtube]; SCOPE film [Youtube].

16. Yang, R. Xu, J. Pei, Y. W. Myint, F. Wang, Z. Wang, S. Zhang, Z. Yu, and Y. Lu*. “Optical tuning of exciton and trion emissions in monolayer phosphorene” Nature Light: Science & Applications, 4, e312, 2015. - Highlighted as “Editor’s Selection” of the journal. - Press Coverage: Nature publishing group Media, ANU media, ABC News, Xinhua News, SBS Mandarin Radio, IFLScience, PhysOrg, Global Times, etc. [Link]; Film: [link]. - Highly Cited Paper. this highly cited paper received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of physics based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.

17. Y. Lu*, S. Peng, D. Luo, and A. Lal “Low-concentration mechanical biosensor based on a photonic crystal nanowire array”, Nature Communications, 2 (578), 1-6, 2011.

18. Zhang, P. Qi, X. Wang, Y. Lu, X. Li, R. Tu, S. Bangsaruntip, D. Mann, L. Zhang, and H. Dai “Selective etching of metallic carbon nanotubes by gas-phase reaction” Science, 314, 974-977, 2006.