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Our research group mainly focuses on light-matter interaction in low dimensional structures, especially exploring novel optical properties of emergent semiconductor and plasmonic materials, and further developing high performance optoelectronic devices, such as lasers, sensors, optical detectors, etc.

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2023

Aug. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "A High-Rigidity Organic–Inorganic Metal Halide Hybrid Enabling Reversible and Enhanced Self-Trapped Exciton Emission under High Pressure" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Aug. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Large-Scale Perovskite Single Crystal Growth and Surface Patterning Technologies" was just accepted by Small Science.
Aug. 2023: Congratulations! Yin Liang won the BEST POSTER AWARD in THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, CHINA 2023.
May. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Giant Out-of-Plane Exciton Emission Enhancement in Two-Dimensional Indium Selenide via a Plasmonic Nanocavity" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
May. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Giant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation of Indium Selenide on Planar Au" was just accepted by Nanoscale.
Apr. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Water-Assisted Growth of Twisted 3R-Stacked MoSe2 Spirals and Its Dramatically Enhanced Second Harmonic Generations" was just accepted by Small.
Apr. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Continuous-wave pumped perovskite lasers with device area below 1 μm2" was just accepted by Adv. Mater..
Apr. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Strong Exciton–Exciton Scattering of Exfoliated van der Waals InSe toward Efficient Continuous-Wave Near-Infrared P-Band Emission" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Apr. 2023: Our new paper entitled as "Probing Anisotropic Deformation and Near-Infrared Emission Tuning in Thin-Layered InSe Crystal under High Pressure" was just accepted by Nano Lett..

2022

Oct. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Two-Dimensional Wedge-Shaped Magnetic EuS: Insight into the Substrate Step-Guided Epitaxial Synthesis on Sapphire" was just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc..
Oct. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Solution-Processed Selective Area Homoepitaxial Growth of Suspended MAPbX3 (X = Cl, Br) Perovskite Micro-Arrays" was just accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater..
Sep. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Suppression of Phase Transitions in Perovskite Thin Films through Cryogenic Electron Beam Irradiation" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Aug. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Giant Enhancement and Directional Second Harmonic Emission from Monolayer WS2 on Silicon Substrate via Fabry-Pérot Micro-Cavity" was just accepted by ACS Nano.
Aug. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "An on-Si directional second harmonic generation amplifier for MoS2/WS2 heterostructure" was just accepted by Nano Res..
Jul. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "High ambipolar mobility in cubic boron arsenide revealed by transient reflectivity microscopy" was just accepted by Science.
Jul. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Ultrafast Internal Exciton Dissociation through Edge States in MoS2 Nanosheets with Diffusion Blocking" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Jun. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Influence of intrinsic or extrinsic doping on charge state of carbon and its interaction with hydrogen in GaN" was just accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett..
May. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Atomic structure and electrical/ionic activity of antiphase boundary in CH3NH3PbI3" was just accepted by Acta Materialia.
May. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "All Optical Switching through Anistropic Gain of CsPbBr3 Single Crystal Microplatelet" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
May. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Engineering Near-Infrared Light Emission in Mechanically Exfoliated InSe Platelets through Hydrostatic Pressure for Multicolor Microlasing" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Apr. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Ultrafast Antisolvent Growth of Single-Crystalline CsPbCl3 Microcavity for Low-Threshold Room Temperature Blue Lasing" was just accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Mar. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Pattern-Selective Molecular Epitaxial Growth of Single-Crystalline Perovskite Arrays toward Ultrasensitive and Ultrafast Photodetector" was just accepted by Nano Lett..
Feb. 2022: Our new paper entitled as "Vapor-Phase Living Assembly of π-Conjugated Organic Semiconductors" was just accepted by ACS Nano.

2021

Dec. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Room-temperature Near-infrared Excitonic Lasing from Mechanically Exfoliated InSe Microflake" was just accepted by ACS Nano.
Oct. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Hyperbranched Microwire Networks of Organic Cocrystals with Optical Waveguiding and Light-Harvesting Abilities" was just accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Nov. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Full-color enhanced second harmonic generation using rainbow trapping in ultrathin hyperbolic metamaterials" was just accepted by Nature Communications.
Sep. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Atomic-scale imaging of CH3NH3PbI3 structure and its decomposition pathway" was just accepted by Nature Communications.
Aug. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Solvent Recrystallization-Enabled Green Amplified Spontaneous Emissions with an Ultra-Low Threshold from Pinhole-Free Perovskite Films" was just accepted by Advanced Functional Materials.
Jun. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Advances of Nonlinear Photonics in Low-Dimensional Halide Perovskites" was just accepted by Small.
May. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Perovskite semiconductors for room-temperature exciton-polaritonics" was just accepted by Nature Materials.
May. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Millimeter-scale growth of highly ordered CsPbBr3 single-crystalline microplatelets on SiO2/Si substrate by chemical vapor deposition" was just accepted by Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Apr. 2021: Congratulations! Prof. Qing Zhang won 2021 Nano Research Young Innovator Awards.
Apr. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Zone-Folded Longitudinal Acoustic Phonons Driving Self-Trapped State Emission in Colloidal CdSe Nanoplatelet Superlattices" was just accepted by Nano Letters.
Mar. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "High Optical Gain of Solution-Processed Mixed-Cation CsPbBr3 Thin Films towards Enhanced Amplified Spontaneous Emission" was just accepted by Advanced Functional Materials.
Jan. 2021: Our new paper entitled as "Halide Perovskite Semiconductor Lasers: Materials, Cavity Design, and Low Threshold" was just accepted by Nano Letters.

2020

Dec. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Inch-Scale Ball-in-Bowl Plasmonic Nanostructure Arrays for Polarization-Independent Second Generation" was just accepted by ACS NANO.
Oct. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Large-scale Thin CsPbBr3 Single Crystal Film Grown on Sapphire via Chemical Vapor Deposition: Towards Laser Array Application" was just accepted by ACS NANO.
Oct. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Plasmonic Nanolasers in On-Chip Light Sources: Prospects and Challenges" was just accepted by ACS NANO.
Aug. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Strong exciton-photon interaction and lasing of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides towards coherent light sources" was just accepted by Nano Research.
Aug. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Role of the Exciton-Polariton in a Continuous-Wave Optically Pumped CsPbBr3 Perovskite Laser" was just accepted by Nano Letters.
Aug. 2020: An editoral entitled as "Advanced optical gain materials keep on goning" was just accepted by Science China Materials.
Jul. 2020: The Special Issue in 中国激光 that Prof. Zhang was invited as Guest Editor was published .
Jul. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Graphoepitaxy of Large Scale, Highly Ordered CsPbBr3 Nanowire Array on Muscovite Mica (001) Driven by Surface Reconstructed Grooves" was just accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
Jun. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Direct evidence of hydrogen interaction with carbon: C–H complex in semi-insulating GaN" was just accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. .
Jan. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Enhanced Optical Absorption and Slowed Light of Reduced-Dimensional CsPbBr3 Nanowire Crystal by Exciton–Polariton" was just accepted by Nano Letters.
Jan. 2020: Our new paper entitled as "Trapped Exciton-Polariton Condensate by Spatial Confinement in Perovskite Microcavity" was just accepted by ACS Photonics.

2019

Dec. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Controlled Growth and Thickness‐Dependent Conduction‐Type Transition of 2D Ferrimagnetic Cr2S3 Semiconductors" was just accepted by Advanced Materials.
Dec. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Atomically Dispersed Co–P3 on CdS Nanorods with Electron‐Rich Feature Boosts Photocatalysis" was just accepted by Advanced Materials.
Dec. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Lasing from reduced dimensional perovskite microplatelets: Fabry-Pérot or whispering-gallery-mode?" was just accepted by J. Chem. Phys.
Dec. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Perovskite quantum dot lasers" was just accepted by Infomat.
Dec. 2019: Congratulations! Prof. Qing Zhang was awarded "Teacher Award of Bank of Beijing, Peking University" .
Nov. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Twisted-Angle-Dependent Optical Behaviors of Intralayer Excitons and Trions in WS2/WSe2 Heterostructure" was just accepted by ACS Photonics.
Oct. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Semiconductor nanowire plasmonic lasers" was just accepted by Nanophotonics.
Sep. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Scalable Production of Two-Dimensional Metallic Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheet Powders Using NaCl Templates toward Electrocatalytic Applications" was just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. .
Sep. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Anisotropic Growth and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Identification of Ultrathin Even‐Layered PdSe2 Ribbons" was just accepted by Small .
Aug. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "AVapor-phase incommensurate heteroepitaxy of oriented single-crystal CsPbBr3 on GaN: Towards integrated optoelectronic applications" was just accepted by ACS Nano .
Jul. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Analysis of photoluminescence behavior of high-quality single-layer MoS2" was just accepted by Nano Research .
Jul. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Probing Far-Infrared Surface Phonon Polaritons in Semiconductor Nanostructures at Nanoscale" was just accepted by Nano Letters .
Jul. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Lasing from Mechanically Exfoliated 2D Homologous Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Engineered by Inorganic Layer Thickness" was just accepted by Advanced Materials .
May. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Room Temperature Continuous-wave Excited Biexciton Emission in Perovskite Nanoplatelets via Plasmonic Nonlinear Fano Resonance" was just accepted by Communications Physics .
May. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Surface Plasmon Assisted Metal Halide Perovskite Small Lasers" was just accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
May. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "ChargeTransfer Induced Photoluminescence Properties of WSe2 Monolayer-Bilayer Homojunction" was just accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces .
May. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Continuous-Wave Pumped Perovskite Lasers" was just accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
May. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Photoluminescence Properties of Ultrathin CsPbCl3 Nanowires on Mica Substrate" was just accepted by Journal of Semiconductors.
Feb. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence and Lasing Properities of CsPbBr3 Nanowires" was just accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett..
Feb. 2019: Our new paper entitled as "Unveiling Lasing Mechanism in CsPbBr3 Microsphere Cavities" was just accepted by Nanoscale.

2018

Dec. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Epitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional Metal–Semiconductor Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Vertical Stacks (VSe2/MX2) and Their Band Alignments" was just accepted by ACS Nano.
Otc. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Unambiguous Identification of Carbon Location on the N Site in Semi-insulating GaN" was just accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett..
Sep. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "All‐Inorganic CsPbBr3 Nanowire Based Plasmonic Lasersr" was just accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
Sep. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Wafer‐Scale 2D Tantalum Diselenide with Robust Charge‐Density‐Wave Order" was just accepted by Advanced Materials.
Sep. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Space-confined growth of monolayer ReSe2 under a graphene layer on Au foils" was just accepted by Nano Research.
Sep. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Identifying the Non-Identical Outermost Selenium Atoms and Invariable Band Gaps across the Grain Boundary of Anisotropic Rhenium Diselenide" was just accepted by ACS Nano.
Aug. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "High-Temperature Continuous-Wave Pumped Lasing from Large-Area Monolayer Semiconductors Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition" was just accepted by ACS Nano.
July 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Low Threshold Fabry–Pérot Mode Lasing from Lead Iodide Trapezoidal Nanoplatelets" was accepted by Small.
June 2018: Congratulation! Chun Li graduates from Peking University as a Bachelor.
May 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Ultrathin CsPbX3 Nanowire Arrays with Strong Emission Anisotropy" was accepted by Advanced Materials.
May 2018: Congratulations! Prof. Qing Zhang was awarded "New talents of nanochemistry committee of Chinese Chemistry Society" on the 31st Chinese Chemistry Society Congress.
May 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Surface Plasmon Enhanced Strong Exciton−Photon Coupling in Hybrid Inorganic−Organic Perovskite Nanowires" was accepted by Nano Letters.
Mar. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Fabry-Pérot Oscillation and Room Temperature Lasing in Perovskite Cube-Corner Pyramid Cavities" was highlighted by Materials&Views China, Wiley .
Mar. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Exciton-Polaritons in Hybrid Inorganic-organic Perovskite Fabry-Pérot Microcavity" was highlighted by Materials&Views China, Wiley.
Mar. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling and lasing behavior in All-Inorganic CsPbBr3 Micro/nanowire Fabry-Perot cavity" was accepted by ACS Photonics.
Mar. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Perovskite Nanowire/2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Heterostructures" was accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Feb. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Batch production of 6-inch uniform monolayer molybdenum disulfide catalyzed by sodium in glass" was accepted by Nature Communications.
Feb. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy studies of the interface coupling effect of monolayer ReSe2 single crystals on Au foils" was accepted by Nanotechnology.
Jan. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Direct synthesis and in situ characterization of monolayer parallelogrammic rhenium diselenide on gold foil" was accepted by Communications Chemistry.
Jan. 2018: Our new paper entitled as "Vertical 1T-TaS2 Synthesis on Nanoporous Gold for High-Performance Electrocatalytic Applications" was accepted by Advanced Materials.

2017

Nov. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Fabry-Pérot Oscillation and Room Temperature Lasing in Perovskite Cube-Corner Pyramid Cavities" was accepted by Small.
Nov. 2017: Prof. Carole Diederichs from University Pierre & Marie Curie was invited to gave an academic report named "Generation of Highly Indistinguishable Photons With CW Resonantly Driven Quantum Dots".
Nov. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Exciton-Polaritons in Hybrid Inorganic-organic Perovskite Fabry-Pérot Microcavity" was accepted by Advanced Optical Materials.
Sep. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Wavelength tunable plasmonic lasers based on intrinsic self-absorption of gain material" was accepted by ACS Photonics.
Aug. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Surface States Mediated Interlayer Exciton in Two Dimensional Nonlayered-Layered Semiconductor Heterojunction" was accepted by Advanced Electronic Materials.
Aug. 2017: Qi Wei joins our group, welcome!
Aug. 2017: Zhang presented an invited symposium talk of "Semiconductor Nanowire Photonic and Plasmonic Lasers” in “China Nano 2017", Beijing.
Aug. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Unveiling Structure Engineered Carrier Dynamics in Hybrid Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskites Thin Film Towards Controllable Emission" was accepted by Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Aug. 2017: Our collaborator paper entitled as "Extra high electrocatalytic performance in two-dimensional metallic tantalum disulfide" was accepted by Nature Communications .
Aug. 2017: Prof. Zhang presented an invited symposium talk of "Semiconductor Nanowire Small Lasers" in "The Chinese Optical Society Meeting 2017", Chang Chun.
Jul. 2017: Zhen Liu joins our group, welcome!
Jul. 2017:Our new paper entitled as "Tuning Excitonic Properties of Monolayer MoS2 with Microsphere Cavity by High-throughput Chemical Vapor Deposition Method" was accepted by Small.
Jul. 2017: Our new paper entitled as "Advances in Perovskite-Based Small Lasers" was accepted by Small Methods as invited review article and highlighted by Materials&Views China, Wiley.
Jul. 2017: Prof. Zhang presented an invited symposium talk of "High Performance Small Perovskite Lasers” present in “Light Conference 2017", Changchun.
Jul. 2017: Yan Gao joins our group, welcome!
Jun. 2017:Zhang presented an invited symposium talk of "High Performance Small Perovskite Lasers" in "The 3rd international symposium of flexible and stretchable electronics", Wuhan.
Jun. 2017:Our new paper entitled as " Controlled Gas Molecules Doping of Monolayer MoS2 via Atomic-Layer-Deposited Al2O3 Films" was accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Jun. 2017: Prof. Dehui Li, Huazhong University of Technology and Sciences visited our group, welcome!
Jun. 2017:Prof. Zhang was invited to present in low dimensional materials and physics workshorp in Nantional University of Defense Technology, Changsha
Apr. 2017:Our new paper entitled as "3R MoS2 with Broken Inversion Symmetry: A Promising Ultra-thin Nonlinear Optical Device" was accepted by Advanced Materials.
Mar. 2017:Our new paper entitled as " Chemical Reduction of Intrinsic Defects in Thicker Heterojunction Planar Perovskite Solar Cells" was accepted by Advanced Materials.
Mar. 2017: Yangguang Zhong joins our group, welcome!

2016

Nov. 2016: Prof. Zhang was invited to present in Low dimensional Semiconductor Nanostructure and Nanotechnology Workshop, Hunan University, Hunan
Sep. 2016: Liyun Zhao joins our group, welcome!
Sep. 2016: Prof. Zhang was invited to attend the conference of CPS Fall Meeting!
Aug. 2016:Our new paper entitled as "High-Quality Whispering-Gallery-Mode Lasing from Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets" published online in Advanced Functional Materials and highlighted by Materials&Views China, Wiley!
Aug. 2016:Prof. Zhang was invited to attend the confercence of Frontiers Zhang was invited to attend the confercence of Frontiers in Nanolasers and Metamaterials!
Jul. 2016:Yunuan Wang joins our group, welcome!
Jun. 2016:Prof. Zhang was invited to School of Physics,Peking University by professor Hu!
May. 2016:Prof. Zhang was invited to Visit Shandong Normal University!
May. 2016:Prof. Zhang was invited to attend The Light Conference 2016!
Apr. 2016:Our group Started!