Principal investigatorMengkun began his physics education in Fudan University in 2002, where he studied electromagnetic theory with Prof. Zhifang Lin during his undergraduate thesis project (PRE, OE 2005). He left Fudan with a BA in physics in 2006 and began his PhD studies at Boston University where he had the pleasure to work with Prof. Richard D. Averitt. His thesis research (PhD 2012) demonstrated it is possible to use strong THz field to induced insulator to metal phase transitions in quantum materials (Nature 2012) (Prof. R. D. Averitt is now at UC San Diego). In fall 2012, Mengkun joined Prof. D. N. Basov's lab at UC San Diego where he obtained enormous experience on infrared and s-SNOM techniques (ROPP 2017) . (Prof. D. N. Basov is now at Columbia University.)
In 2015, Mengkun Liu has been appointed as an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since Oct.1 2019, Mengkun Liu has a joint appointment at NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
Graduate Students
Ziheng Yao
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Xinzhong's research interests include infrared near-field imaging and ultrafast characterization of novel materials.
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Ziheng Yao graduated with a B.S. from Fudan University. His research interests include infrared near-field spectroscopy of 2D materials and plasmonic nano-structures.
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Makoto is working on near-field optics at cryogenic temperatures.
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Visiting Scholar
Yujia Zhang
Undergraduate students
Ryan Mescall
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Muchun Yang
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Qiuze Sun
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High School Summer Interns
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From Left to right: Greg Dilimetin, William Zheng and Mengkun Liu. At physics department in Stony Brook.
Richard Ren (front), with Xinzhong and Jiawei (back)
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Group Alumni
Jiawei Zhang (now at Argonne National Lab)
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Zhijing Niu (now at Harvard)
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Yanxing Li (now at UT Austin)
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Yue Ni (now at UT Austin)
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Suheng Xu
Ran An (now at Tsinghua University)
Hanwei Liu
Jack Logan (now a Ph.D. student at BNL)
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Stephanie Gilbert Corder (now a staff scientist at ALS Berkeley)
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Thomas Ciavatti (now a Ph.D. student at Cornell University)
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Wenjie Wang (now at Ithatron)
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Aditya Cowsik (now at Princeton)
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