Looking for postdoc in MEMS as well as Optical Engineering

Posted on February 19, 2025 by caoyuan9642

Cao Lab is actively looking for motivated recent and prospective Ph.D. graduates that are interested in a postdoctoral researcher position at UC Berkeley. We are specifically looking for postdocs with prior MEMS and/or optical engineering/optoelectronics experience, preferably with extensive nanofabrication experience. But if you have related research in 2D materials or low-temperature quantum transport, you’re welcome to reach out to us too!

DARPA funding

Posted on February 19, 2025 by caoyuan9642

Together with Prof. Nguyen, we just won a $1M contract with DARPA NIMBUS program! Congrats!

NSF CAREER Award

Posted on February 17, 2025 by caoyuan9642

Yuan has gotten a $0.81M NSF CAREER award, for studying unconventional superconductivity using reconfigurable graphene superlattices!

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2441893&HistoricalAwards=false

Congratulations to the group!

World’s first micromachine twists 2D materials at will

Posted on August 22, 2024 by caoyuan9642

In our recent paper published in Nature, we demonstrated the world’s first micromachine that can twist 2D materials at will.

The fingernail-sized, on-chip platform, called MEGA2D, uses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to conduct voltage-controlled manipulation of 2D materials—which are only nanometers thick—with unprecedented flexibility and precision.

Congrats to the team that did the hard works and make this dream come true!

Let us know what you think of this work!