Professor Feng Miao is the vice dean of School of Physics and the director of Institue of Brain-inspired Intelligence (IBI), Nanjing University. He joined Nanjing University as a full Professor of Physics and a Principal Investigator at Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures in July 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California, Riverside, United States, in 2009. Then he worked with HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, as a research associate for three years. He is a NSFC (National Science Fund of China) Distinguished Young Scholar, and the Chief Scientist of a National Key Basic Research Program. He has published over 150 technical papers (with over 30000 citations, Web of Science; over 41000 citations, Google scholar) and is the inventor of over 40 granted/pending China/US patents. His awards include:

      Xplorer Prize (2024)       

      CPS Huangkun Award (Chinese Physical Society) (2021) 

      IAAM Medal (International Association of Advanced Materials) (2021)   

      Clarivate Analytics "Highly Cited Researchers" (2018)    

      China "Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators" (2018)

      "Jiangsu Youth Stars of Science and Technology" (2018)

      Jiangsu Young Investigator Award (2014)

      Poe Memorial Award (2009)

      Group website:  https://nano.nju.edu.cn/eng_index.html 

      ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-5424     

      Research ID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1149880

      Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OTR7sbEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Semiconductor Physics and Device

Low-dimensional Condensed Matter Physics

Physics English Essays

Light of Science

His research is currently focused on electronic properties of two-dimensional materials, and their applications for nanoelectronics, including future computing, emerging memory and advanced optoelectronic devices.

Selected publications (for full publication list, please refer to https://nano.nju.edu.cn/eng_paper.html):

1) “Tunable quantum criticalities in an isospin extended Hubbard model simulator”

Q. Li, B. Cheng*, M. Chen, B. Xie, Y. Xie, P. Wang, F. Chen, Z. Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S.-J. Liang, D. Wang, C. Wang, Q.-H. Wang, J. Liu, F. Miao*,

Nature 609, 479 (2022)

2) “Selective and quasi-continuous switching of ferroelectric Chern insulator devices for neuromorphic computing”
M. Chen^#, Y. Xie^#, B. Cheng*, Z. Yang, X. Li, F. Chen, Q. Li, J. Xie, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, W. He, M. Wu, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Nanotechnology 19, 962 (2024)

3) “On-device phase engineering”

X. Liu^#, J. Shan^#, T. Cao^#, L. Zhu^#, J. Ma^#, G. Wang, Z. Shi, Q. Yang, M. Ma, Z. Liu, S. Yan, L. Wang, Y. Dai, J. Xiong, F. Chen, B. Wang, C. Pan, Z. Wang, B. Cheng, Y. He, X. Luo*, J. Lin*, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Materials 23, 1363 (2024)

4) “In-sensor Dynamic Computing for Intelligent Machine Vision”

Y. Yang^#, C. Pan^#, Y. Li^#, X.-J. Yangdong, P. Wang, Z. Li, S. Wang, W. Yu, G. Liu, B. Cheng, Z. Di, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Electronics 7, 225 (2024)

5) “Parallel in-memory wireless computing”

C. Wang^#, G. Ruan^#, Z. Yang, X.-J. Yangdong, Y. Li*, L. Wu, Y. Ge, Y. Zhao, C. Pan, W. Wei, L. Wang, B. Cheng, Z. Zhang, C. Zhang, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Electronics 6, 381 (2023)

6) “Lego-like reconfigurable AI chips”
S. -J Liang, F. Miao*
Nature Electronics 5, 327–328 (2022)

7) “Broadband convolutional processing using band-alignment-tunable heterostructures”

L. Pi, P. Wang, S.-J. Liang, P. Luo, H. Wang, D. Li, Z. Li, P. Chen, X. Zhou*, F. Miao*, T. Zhai*,

Nature Electronics 5, 248 (2022)

8) "Scalable massively parallel computing using continuous-time data representation in nanoscale crossbar array"
C. Wang, S.-J Liang, C.-Y. Wang, Z. Yang, Y. Ge, C. Chen, X. Shen, W. Wei, Y. Zhao, Z. Zhang, B. Cheng, C. Zhang, F. Miao*,
Nature Nanotechnology 16, 1079 (2021)

9) "Reconfigurable logic and neuromorphic circuits based on electrically tuneable two-dimensional homojunctions"

C. Pan, C. Wang, S. Liang*, Y. Wang, T. Cao, P. Wang, C. Wang, S. Wang, B. Cheng, A. Gao, E. Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Miao*

Nature Electronics 3, 383 (2020) Link:https://rdcu.be/b5iRF

10) "Observation of ballistic avalanche phenomena in nanoscale vertical Inse/BP heterostructures"

A. Gao, J. Lai, Y. Wang, Z. Zhu, J. Zeng, G. Yu, N. Wang, W. Chen, T. Cao, W. Hu, D. Sun, X. Chen, F. Miao*, Y. Shi*, X.-M. Wang*

Nature Nanotechnology 14, 217 (2019)

11) "Robust memristors based on layered two-dimensional materials"

M. Wang, S. Cai, C. Pan, C. Wang, X. Lian, Y. Zhuo, K. Xu, T. Cao, X. Pan, B. Wang, S. Liang, J. Yang*, P. Wang*, F. Miao*

Nature Electronics 1, 130 (2018)

12) "Electrical switching of Ising-superconducting nonreciprocity for quantum neuronal transistor"
J. Xiong^#, J. Xie^#, B. Cheng*, Y. Dai, X. Cui, L. Wang, Z. Liu, J. Zhou, N. Wang, X. Xu, X. Chen, S. Cheong, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Communications 15, 4953 (2024)

13) "Interfacial magnetic spin Hall effect in van der Waals Fe3GeTe2/MoTe2 heterostructure"
Y. Dai^#, J. Xiong^#, Y. Ge^#, B. Cheng*, L. Wang, P. Wang, Z. Liu, S. Yan, C. Zhang, X. Xu, Y. Shi, S. Cheong, C. Xiao*, S. A. Yang, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Nature Communications 15, 1129 (2024)

14) "Parallel perception of visual motion using light-tunable memory matrix"
X. Pan^#, J. Shi^#, P. Wang, S. Wang, C. Pan, W. Yu, B. Cheng, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Science Advances 9, eadi4083 (2023)

15) "Cascadable in-memory computing based on symmetric writing and readout"
L. Wang^#, J. Xiong^#, B. Cheng*, Y. Dai, F. Wang, C. Pan, T. Cao, X. Liu, P. Wang, M. Chen, S. Yan, Z. Liu, J. Xiao, X. Xu, Z. Wang, Y. Shi, S. Cheong, H. Zhang, S.-J Liang*, F. Miao*
Science Advances 8, eabq6833 (2022)

16) “Gate-tunable van der Waals heterostructure for reconfigurable neural network vision sensor”

C. Wang^#, S. -J Liang^#, S. Wang, P. Wang, Z. Li, Z. Wang, A. Gao, C. Pan, C. Liu, J. Liu, H. Yang, X. Liu, W. Song, C. Wang, B. Cheng, X. Wang, K. Chen, Z. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Yang*, F. Miao*

Science Advances 6, eaba6173 (2020)

17) “Room-temperature high detectivity mid-infrared photodetectors based on black arsenic phosphorus”

M. Long^#, A. Gao^#, P. Wang, H. Xia, Claudia Ott, C. Pan, Y. Fu, E. Liu, X. Chen, W. Lu, Tom Nilges, J. Xu, X. Wang*, W. Hu*, F. Miao*

Science Advances 3, e1700589 (2017)

18) "Gate-tunable negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in the predicted type-II Weyl semimetal WTe₂"

Y. Wang, E. Liu, H. Liu, Y. Pan, L. Zhang, J. Zeng, Y. Fu, M. Wang, K. Xu, Z. Huang, Z. Wang, H. Lu, D. Xing, B. Wang*, X. Wan*, F. Miao*

Nature Communications 7, 13142 (2016)

19) "The positive piezoconductive effect in graphene"

K. Xu^#, K. Wang^#, W. Zhao^#, W. Bao, E. Liu, Y. Ren, M. Wang, Y. Fu, J. Zeng, Z. Li, W. Zhou, F. Song, X. Wang, Y. Shi, X. Wan, M. S. Fuhrer, B. Wang*, Z. Qiao*, F. Miao*, D. Xing

Nature Communications 6, 8119 (2015)

20) "Integrated digital inverters based on two-dimensional anisotropic ReS₂ field-effect transistors"
E. Liu^#, Y. Fu^#, Y. Wang, Y. Feng, H. Liu, X. Wan, W. Zhou, B. Wang*, L. Shao, C. Ho, Y. Huang, Z. Cao, L. Wang, A. Li, J. Zeng, F. Song, X. Wang, Y. Shi, H. Yuan*, H. Y. Hwang, Y. Cui, F. Miao*, D. Xing

Nature Communications 6, 6991 (2015)

21) "Phase-coherent transport in graphene quantum billiards"
F. Miao, S.Wijeratne, Y. Zhang, U. C. Coskun, W. Bao, and C. N. Lau

Science 317, 1530 (2007)

22) "Quantum conductance oscillations in metal/molecule/metal switches at room temperature"

F. Miao, D. Ohlberg, D. R. Stewart, R. S. Williams, C. N. Lau

Physical Review Letters 101, 016802 (2008)