Professor Yuerui Lu

Contacts

Contact email: yuerui.lu@anu.edu.au
Program Manager and Chief Investigator
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology

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. In 2016, he was promoted to an associate professor at the ANU. His research interests include MEMS/NEMS sensors and actuators, nano-manufacturing technologies, renewable energy harvesting, biomedical novel devices, nano-materials, nano-electronics, etc. He was the recipient of several awards, including the competitive ACT Young Tall Poppy of 2016, Media and Outreach Award from Australian National University in 2015, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) from Australian Research Council (ARC) in 2014, Future Engineering Research Leadership Fellow from Australian National University in 2013, MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver) in 2012 from Materials Research Society, Best Poster Award in 2012 from Cornell NanoScale Facility Annual Meeting, Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship in 2012 from Cornell University, Chinese Government Award for outstanding Ph.D. students in 2010, Guo Moruo Presidential Award in 2003 from University of Science and Technology of China, etc. He is serving as a reviewer for several journals, including Nature Communications, Light: Science and Applications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Small, Applied Physics Letters, Nanotechnology, Optics Express, Optics Letters, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, etc. He is serving as an associate editor for the nature publishing group journal Scientific Reports. 

Research interests

  • 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.

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