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2024/10  Congratulations to Hongyun and Qian for publication of "Correlated topological flat bands in rhombohedral graphite" in PNAS!

2024/06  Qian was awarded "Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖). Runfa was awarded "Zhigong Ren Prize"(任之恭奖). Congratulations!

2024/06  Congratulations to Zhou group for being awarded "2023 Top Ten Social Impact Events in China's Optics (Light10) Nomination Award"!

2024/05  Congratulations to Tianyun for publication of "Ultrafast Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in a Nodal-Line Semimetal PtSn4" in Nano Lett.!

2024/05  Congratulations to Hongyun and Qian for publication of "Observation of dichotomic field-tunable electronic structure in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene" in Nat. Commun.! (See also news from Department of physics, Tsinghua University.)

2024/05  Congratulations to Haoyuan for publication of "HHG light source with polarization selectivity and sub-100-μm beam size for TrARPES" in Ultrafast Sci.!

2024/04  Congratulations to Qian and Hongyun for publication of "Evolution of the flat band and the role of lattice relaxations in twisted bilayer graphene" in Nat. Mater.! (See also news from Tsinghua University and Department of physics.)

2024/04  Congratulations to Haoyuan for publication of "Hidden charge density wave induced shadow bands and ultrafast dynamics of CuTe investigated using time-resolved ARPES" in Phys. Rev. B!

2023/09  Hongyun and Changhua was awarded Best Poster Award in the 10th International Workshop on Strong Correlations and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy. Congratulations!

2023/09  Congratulations to Shaohua and Changhua for publication of "Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus upon Below-Gap Pumping" in Phys. Rev. Lett. as Editor's suggestion!

2023/07  Congratulations to Changhua for the 2023 Awards of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation for his Ph.D. work "Electronic band structure engineering and ultrafast dynamics of Dirac semimetals". The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards scientific prizes for outstanding Ph.D. work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural sciences in Europe, North America and Asia.

2023/08  Xuanxi was awarded Excellent Poster Award in the 2023 Chinese Physical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulations!

2023/08  Congratulations to Fei for publication of "Ionic liquid gating induced self-intercalation of transition metal chalcogenides" in Nat. Commun.!

2023/08  Congratulations to Runfa for publication of "Selective Control of Phases and Electronic Structures of Monolayer TaTe2" in Adv. Mater.!

2023/08  Changhua was awarded Best Poster Award in Conference of condensed matter physics 2023. Congratulations!

2023/06  Changhua was awarded 2022 Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award of Chinese Vacuum Society(2022年度中国真空学会优秀博士学位论文奖). Congratulations!

2023/06  Shaohua was awarded "Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖). Congratulations!

2023/05  Congratulations to Haoyuan and Hongyun for publication of "Revealing the two-dimensional electronic structure and anisotropic superconductivity in a natural van der Waals superlattice (PbSe)1.14NbSe2" in Phys. Rev. Materials!

2023/03  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Distinguishing and controlling Mottness in 1T−TaS2 by ultrafast light" in Phys. Rev. B!

2023/02  Congratulations to Shaohua and Changhua for publication of "Pseudospin-selective Floquet band engineering in black phosphorus" in Nature!

2022/11  Congratulations to Haoyuan and Changhua for publication of "A newly designed femtosecond KBe2BO3F2 device with pulse duration down to 55 fs for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy" in Rev. Sci. Instrum.!

2022/10  Congratulations to Haoxiong for publication of "Tailored Ising superconductivity in intercalated bulk NbSe2" in Nat. Phys.!

2022/09  Congratulations to Haoxiong for publication of "Enhanced superconductivity with interlayer spacing dependent Tc in intercalated Weyl semimetal MoTe2" in 2D Mater.!

2022/08  Congratulations to Prof. Zhou for the Women in Ultrafast Science Award!

2022/07  Congratulations to Hongyun for publication of "Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy" in Nature Reviews Methods Primers! From: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-022-00146-2

2022/07  Congratulations to Changhua for being select as Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar (水木学者)

2022/06  Changhua was awarded "Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖). Haoxiong was awarded "Zhigong Ren Prize"(任之恭奖). Yuan was awarded "Nomination for Zhigong Ren Prize"(任之恭奖提名). Congratulations!

2022/04  Congratulations to Changhua and Hongyun for publication of "Coexistence of extended flat band and Kekulé order in Li-intercalated graphene" in Phys. Rev. B as Editors' suggestion!

2022/01  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Population Inversion and Dirac Fermion Cooling in 3D Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2" in Nano Lett. !

2022/01  Congratulations to Hongyun for being select as Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar (水木学者)

2022/01  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Ultrafast time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with widely tunable probe photon energy of 5.3–7.0 eV for investigating dynamics of three-dimensional materials" in Review of Scientific Instruments!

2021/12  Congratulations to Changhua for receiving the "Special Scholarship of Tsinghua University"(清华大学特等奖学金)!

2021/11  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Light-induced emerging phenomena in two-dimensional materials and topological materials" in Nat. Rev. Phys.! (See news from Tsinghua University and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University)

2021/10  Congratulations to Prof. Zhou for receiving the "Kun Huang Physics Award"(黄昆物理奖) from Chinese Physical Society!

2021/10  Congratulations to Haoyuan for receiving National Scholarship for Master Students(硕士生国家奖学金) !

2021/10  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Spatially-resolved electronic structure of stripe domains in IrTe2 through electronic structure microscopy" in Commun. Phys. !

2021/10  Congratulations to Hongyun for publication of "Experimental evidence of plasmarons and effective fine structure constant in electron-doped graphene/h-BN heterostructure" in npj Quant. Mater. !

2021/09  Congratulations to Hongyun and Changhua for publication of "Self-energy dynamics and mode-specific phonon threshold effect in a Kekulé-ordered graphene" in Natl. Sci. Rev. !

2021/07  Congratulations to Haoyuan for publication of "Light-tunable surface state and hybridization gap in a magnetic topological insulator MnBi8Te13" in Nano Lett. !

2021/06  Hongyun was awarded "Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖). Changhua was awarded "Zhigong Ren Prize"(任之恭奖). Congratulations!

2021/05  Congratulations to Changhua and Hongyun for publication of Experimental Evidence of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Kekulé-Ordered Graphene" in Phys. Rev. Lett as Featured in Physics and Editors' suggestion with the viewpoint "Shining a Light on Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Graphene" in Physics!

2021/04  Prof. Zhou gave a talk as the representative of young professors at the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University.

2021/03  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of "Full diagnostics and optimization of time resolution for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy" in Review of Scientific Instruments!

2020/12  Congratulations to Ababakri for publication of "Induced anisotropic superconductivity in ionic liquid cation intercalated 1T-SnSe2" in 2D Materials!

2020/06  Congratulations to Kenan for publication of "Growth of large scale PtTe, PtTe2 and PtSe2 films on a wide range of substrates" in Nano Research!

2020/06  Congratulations to Kenan for the Tsinghua University Outstanding Thesis Award!

2020/03  Congratulations to Haoxiong for publication of "Enhancement of superconductivity in organic-inorganic hybrid topological materials" as the cover article in Sci. Bull.!

2020/02  Congratulations to Changhua for publication of News & Views "Black phosphorous for pseudospintronics" in Nature Materials !

2020/01  Congratulations to Kenan for receiving the Outstanding Graduate of Beijing!

2019/12  Congratulations to Yuan and Junhai for publication of "The CDW state of monolayer VTe2 films" in Phys. Rev. B!

2019/11  Congratulations to Haoxiong for receiving the Best Poster Prize at the Nature conference, 2D materials:Visions of Future Research and Applications!

2019/10  Congratulations to Xue for publication of "The electronic structure of molecular beam epitaxy grown 1T'-MoTe2 film" in Chin. Phys. B!

2019/10  Congratulations to Changhua for reciving the Young Scientist Prize at the 11th Recent Progress in Graphene and 2D Materials Research (RPGR)!

2019/09 Congratulations to Ke for publication of "Crossover from 2D metal to 3D Dirac semimetal in metallic PtTe2 films" in Sci. Bull.!

2019/07  Wei and Kenan was awarded "Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖). Ke was awarded "Nomination for Youxun Wu Prize"(吴有训奖提名) and "Zhigong Ren Prize"(任之恭奖).Congratulations!

2019/06  Congratulations to Wei Yao for for the Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate Award(清华大学优秀博士毕业生)!

2019/05  Congratulations to Prof. Zhou for receiving the Chinese Youth Medal!

2018/11  Congratulations to Kenan for publication of "The electronic structure of charge density wave material CuTe" in Physical Review Letters!

2018/08  Congratulations to Eryin for the 2018 Awards of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation for his Ph.D. work "Angle-resolved Photoemission spectroscopy Studies of 2D Material Heterostructures". The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards scientific prizes for outstanding Ph.D. work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural sciences in Europe, North America and Asia.

2018/08  Congratulations to Wei for publication of "Quasicrystalline 30 degree twisted bilayer graphene" in PNAS!

2017/10  Prof. Zhou is appointed as commission member on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C10) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) for 2018-2020.

2017/10  Prof. Zhou received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

2017/09/29  Prof. Zhou gave a talk on Tsinghua University Tenured Professor Forum.

2017/09/09  Prof. Zhou attended the first appointment ceremony of tenured professor of Tsinghua University. Congratulations!

2017/08  Our paper on the first experimental realization of type-II Dirac fermions has been published in Nat. Commun.. Congratulations to Mingzhe and Kenan!

2017/06  Prof. Zhou was selected as a Youth Science and Technology Innovation Leader (中青年科技创新领军人才)by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Congratulations!

2017/06/03  Eryin Wang successfully defended his PH.D. thesis. The first PHD from Zhou group. Congratulations!

2017/05/26  Eryin Wang was awarded "Academic rising star nomination award of Tsinghua University" (清华大学学术新秀提名). Congradulations to Eryin!

2017/02/28  Prof. Zhou was awarded "L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science China award"(青年女科学家奖). Congradulations to her!

2017/02/22  Our manuscript "Stacking-Dependent Electronic Structure of Trilayer Graphene Resolved by Nanospot Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy" has been published on Nano Letter . Congratulations to Changhua!

2016/12/05  Our manuscript "Direct observation of spin-layer locking by local Rashba effect in monolayer semiconducting PtSe2 film" has been accepted for publication by Nature Communications.Congratulations to Yaowei!

2016/10/24  Our manuscript "Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2" has been accepted for publication by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Kenan and Changhua!

2016/07/29  Our manuscript "Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2" has been accepted for publication by Nature physics. Congratulations to DengKe and Guoliang!

2016/07/12  Our manuscript "Second generation Dirac cones and inversion symmetry breaking induced gaps in graphene/h-BN" has been accepted for publication by Nature physics. Congratulation to Eryin!

2016/03  Xue Zhou from Lanzhou University and Haoxiong Zhang from Naikai University joined our group for their undergraduate thesis project and they will continue as Ph.D. students.

2015/08  Ke Deng received the Advanced Light Source (ALS) doctoral fellowship. Congratulations to Ke!

2015/06/11  First high harmonic generation (HHG) UV light from Zhou lab! Using Ar gas as the nonlinear medium, we have obtained 40nA of UV light covering 43.5 eV from the 800nm ultrashort laser pulse. Congratulations to Shijie.

2015/05/21  Our paper on monolayer PtSe2 - a new semiconducting transitional metal dichalcogenide (TMD) - has been published in Nano Letters.

2015/02  Our paper on “Robust gapless surface state and Rashba-splitting bands upon surface deposition of magnetic Cr on Bi2Se3” has been published on Nano Letter. Congratulations to Eryin!

2014/12  Wei attended the first Ph.D. joint forum from 5 Universities (PKU, Fudan, USTC, Nanjing and Tsinghua) and was awarded the best poster award for his research work on graphene.

2014/12  Installation of oscillator with tunable wavelength.

2014/11/26  First laser-ARPES spectrum on Au surface state with improved quality. It is an exciting day for Zhou lab.

2014/10  First laser-ARPES spectrum from the 6.2 eV laser source that Guoliang has been building.

2014/09  Eryin was awarded the “National Ph.D. graduate student Fellowship”. Congratulations to Eryin!

2014/09  Wei received the best poster award in Tsinghua Physics Department Ph.D. forum.

2014/09  Changhua joined our group for his undergraduate seminar.

2014/08  Hongyun from Tianjin University joined our group for her undergraduate thesis project and she will continue as a Ph.D. student.

2014/03  We have obtained the ultrashort 4th harmonic generation pulses (6.2 eV photons, with ~180 fs pulse duration) from our laser system.

2014/02  Our time-resolved resonant soft X-ray scattering studies of the glass-like recovery dynamics of antiferromagnetic spin ordering in a manganite across the photo-induced phase transition has been published in "Scientific Reports 4, 4050 (2014)".See News release.

2014/01  Wei received the Tsinghua University laboratory and instrumental construction award.

2013/09/28  Prof. Zhou was awarded 求是杰出青年学者奖.

2013/09/16  Our ARPES studies of superconducting proximity in Bi2Se3 films on a high tempeture superconductor BSCCO has been published in Nature Physics.

2013/09/12  First ARPES spectrum from our lab-based system in Tsinghua University.

2013/08/22  We received funding support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

2013/08  We welcome Guoliang Wan, Mingzhe Yan, Ke Deng to join our group as first year Ph.D. students.

2013/07/15 - 2013/07/18  Installation of ARPES manipulator.

2013/06/04 - 2013/06/13  Installation of ARPES system.

2013/05/05  We have a few openings for Ph.D. students in 2014. We provide outstanding opportunities for graduate students and we welcome highly motivated students to join us. If interested, please contact szhouTHU@gmail.com and register for the Summer Camp.

2013/05/03  Eryin Started ALS doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

2013/05/02  Group party.

2013/04/06  Eryin and Wei at Hiroshima synchrotron.

2013/03/14  Installation of our high harmonic generation setup.

2013/02/25  Installation of our Regen amplifier laser system.

2013/02/23  We welcome Guoliang Wan to our group. Guoliang is a senior student from Lanzhou University and he will join our group in fall 2013 as a Ph.D. student.

2013/02/08  Delivery of our ultrafast amplifier laser system right before the Chinese New Year. Best New Year's gift that one could image!

2013/01  Lab renovation completed.

2012/10/24  Eryin received the ALS doctoral fellowship from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

2012/08/23  We received funding support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

2012/08/14  We received funding support from Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program.

2012/08/13  Wei Yao (姚维 B.S. from Nanjing University) joined our group as a first year Ph.D. student.

2012/04  Eryin Wang (王二印 B.S. from Beihang University) joined our group as a first year Ph.D. student.