The Nano Opto-Electronics Laboratory (NOEL), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Lasers, at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) was established in 2015 when Prof. Zhaoyu ZHANG moved from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School to CUHKSZ. We are a group of people who are dedicated to the dream of improving the quality of lifes with our expertise in nano photonics. We built our labs from scatch, we create our culture from nothing, and we attract talented people from everywhere. Understanding that the impact our work may have been mainly from our persistence in the right way and the wisdom from the hardship, we commit to the dream, and we try to deliver more! 

 

Vision: To change people's lives through (photoelectric) wisdom. 

Mission: Optoelectronic science and technology that can be implemented in 5-10 years.

 

Focusing on the three levels of theoretical research-device research-application, conduct research in semiconductor optoelectronic material design and semiconductor laser fabrication and testing, forming a semiconductor laser research and development chain from materials to devices to samples. At the same time, it cultivates the optical chip talents needed by the industry.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) is a university approved by the Ministry of Education and established in accordance with the Regulations on Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools. It inherits the philosophy and academic system of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) has established the School of Management and Economics, School of Science and Engineering, School of Humanities and Social Science, School of Life and Health Sciences, School of Data Science, School of medicine and School of Music. At the same time, it has established the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for society (AIRS), and Shenzhen Finance Institute, as well as a number of Nobel Prize Laboratories, key laboratories and other innovation platforms. 

 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) has introduced more than 350 world-class talents, including 7 Nobel Prize/Turing Prize/Fields Medal winners and 16 domestic and foreign academicians. There are currently 5,000 undergraduates and 2,000 masters and doctors. The number of masters and doctors is not limited, and all students will be awarded degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), as a provincial and municipal post-doctoral innovation practice base, currently relies on the University of Science and Technology of China and other universities to jointly recruit post-doctoral fellows and is now looking for outstanding post-doctoral fellows/Ph.D. Students/M.phil. Students at home and abroad. 

 

 [PI Introduction]

Professor Zhaoyu Zhang, the director and principle investigator of the laboratory, graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and worked as a postdoc at the Lawrence National Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley. He achieved: 1. The smallest disk-shaped semiconductor laser at that time; 2. The first red photonic crystal laser; 3. The first microfluidic dye laser. Since returning to China in 2011, he has been conducting basic research and technological development on the design, fabrication and testing of lasers on different material systems, including: the first continuous light pumped GaAsBi disc laser, the first silicon-based three-five disc and photonics Crystal lasers, etc. 

 

[Lab Introduction] 

At present, the experimental room of the key laboratory exceeds 1,000 square meters, and the total amount of platform equipment exceeds 25 million. The current equipment includes a multifunctional IV liquid nitrogen variable temperature semiconductor parameter test platform, a high-precision InGaAs grating infrared detector, an ultra-low temperature multi-half power liquid helium closed-loop circulation cold stage, a Fourier transform infrared wide-band test spectrometer, an ultra-fine bonding chip level wire bonding machine, femtosecond laser, picosecond laser, pulse generator, nanosecond laser, streak camera, spectrometer of each band, semiconductor parameter analyzer, integrating sphere, ICP-RIE etching machine, thermal evaporation, lithography machine, gloves boxes and so on. 

 

And we are working mainly in the following 3 areas: 

1. Ultrasmall semiconductor laser devices (Inorganic group) 

2. Optimization of nanophotonic structures using artificial intelligence (AI group) 

3. Organic optoelectronic devices (Organic group)