Sep. 22, 2022, Qiming Shao was granted The ECE Faculty Teaching Excellence Appreciation Awards 2021~22! Many thanks for the departmental recognition!

Jun. 30, 2022, Qiming Shao was awarded General Research Fund from HK Research Grants Council. Many thanks to RGC!

Jun. 28, 2022, Zihan's Final Year Thesis "Compact model of spintronic devices for circuit design" has been awarded the Champion of ELEC Best Final Year Project/Thesis Awards 2021-22.  Congratulations to Zihan!

May 15, 2022, in collaboration with Prof. Kang Wang's team at UCLA, our work titled "Efficient Spin-Orbit Torque Switching of Perpendicular Magnetization using Topological Insulators with High Thermal Tolerance" has been published on Advanced Electronic Materials! Congratulations to Quanjun and Yuting!

Apr. 29, 2022, Zehan CHEN has won the Championship of the 2022 Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award! This award is only awarded to one student every year for the entire university! Super congratulations to Zehan! 

Apr. 29, 2022, Zehan CHEN has won the best poster award for the 2022 Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award! Big congratulations to Zehan! 

Apr. 29, 2022, Zihan TONG has been selected as one of the finalists for the 2022 Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award! Big congratulations to Zihan! 

Apr. 2022, Ferris Prima Nugraha and Zihan Tong have been selected for the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. Big congratulations to them!

Feb. 17, 2022, in collaboration with Prof. Zhongrui WANG and Prof. Joshua Yang, our News & Views article has been published on Nature Electronics

Jan. 12, 2022, Prof. Shao awarded the 2022 IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award! Many thanks to IEEE MagSoC Committee, nominator and my advisor, and all my friends, colleagues, and collaborators who have helped me!

Jan. 10, 2022, Zehan's paper titled "Skyrmion Dynamics in the Presence of Deformation" has been published on Physical Review Applied as a letter

Jan. 9, 2022, Isaac and Ruizi's paper titled "Survey of temperature dependence of the damping parameter in the ferrimagnet Gd₃Fe₅O₁₂" has been published on IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (early access)

Dec. 24, 2021, Congratulations to our UG student Zihan TONG for winning the best student paper award at the IEEE Student Symposium of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits 2021

Nov. 18, 2021, Congratulations to our UG student Zehan CHEN for winning the 2021 Paul Ching Wu Chu Scholarship

Nov. 2021, our group were granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme 2021/2022. Many thanks to NSFC and RGC!

Sep., 2021, Ruizi LIU and Zhihua XIAO have joined SQML as PhD students; Jonathan CHEUNG upgraded from UG helper to MPhil student

Jul. 2021, Xiuzhu WANG has joined SQML as PhD student (co-supervised with Prof. Yanguang ZHOU). 

Jun. 30, 2021, Qiming Shao was awarded General Research Fund from HK Research Grants Council. Many thanks to RGC!

May 1, 2021, Zheyu REN's paper titled "Strongly heat-assisted spin–orbit torque switching of a ferrimagnetic insulator" has been published on APL Materials

Apr. 8-11, 2021, Yuchen CAI's paper titled "Efficient High Frequency Spin Wave Excitation with Undulating Ferromagnetic Film" has been accepted by the IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) conference 2021

Mar. 19, 2021, Prof. Mario Lanza gave an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer Talk about "Wafer-scale integration of two-dimensional materials in high-density memristive crossbar arrays for artificial neural networks" - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Mar. 16, 2021, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Flexible Inorganic Thin-film Devices and Their Application in Bioelectronics - Prof. Yuan LIN (UESTC)

Jan. 22, 2021, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Bio-inspired Computing with Memristors - Prof. Zhongrui WANG (University of Hong Kong) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Jan. 14, 2021, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Defect tolerant in-memory analog computing with CMOS-integrated nanoscale crossbars - Prof. Can LI (University of Hong Kong) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Nov. 20, 2020, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Accurate computing-in-Flash design for general neural networks inference - Dr. Shaodi WANG (Founder/CEO of WITINMEM, Beijing, China)

Nov. 13, 2020, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Spintronics: From Memory to Computing in Memory - Prof. Wang KANG (Beihang University)

Nov. 7, 2020, Congratulations to our UG student Isaac NG for winning the best student paper award at the IEEE Student Symposium of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits 2020

Nov. 6, 2020, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Design and Optimization of RRAM based Computation-in-Memory Chips - Prof. Bin GAO (Tsinghua University) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Oct. 30, 2020, Joint HKUST-ACE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Cross-Layer Design for Search in Memory using Ferroelectric-Field Effect Transistors - Prof. Xunzhao YIN (Zhejiang University) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Oct. 25, 2020, IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits will host the student symposium (s-EDSSC 2020)!

Oct. 18, 2020, Kun QIAN has officially arrived at SQML after quarantine. She was the recipient of the HKUST RedBird Scholarship.

Aug. 27, 2020, new HKUST SQML website was launched

Jul. 31, 2020, in collaboration with Prof. Kang Wang at UCLA, our work "Néel-type skyrmion in WTe₂/Fe₃GeTe₂ van der Waals heterostructure" has been published on Nature Communications

Jul. 21, 2020, our review paper "Two-Dimensional Materials for Energy-Efficient Spin–Orbit Torque Devices" has been published on ACS Nano

Jul. 09, 2020, Prof. Tianling Ren gave an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer Talk about "Flexible electronic devices for physiological signal monitoring"

Jun. 30, 2020, Qiming Shao was awarded Early Career Scheme from HK Research Grants Council. Many thanks to RGC!

Jun. 22, 2020, Prof. Qiming Shao gave an invited seminar for IEEE HK Magnetics Society Online Technical Seminar Series - Two-dimensional materials for energy-efficient spin-orbit torque devices - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Jun. 16, 2020, Prof. Qiming Shao gave an invited seminar for Online Spintronics Seminar Series - Spin-Orbit Torque and Topological Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Insulator-Based Heterostructures - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

May 22, 2020, Joint ECE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Long-distance spin transmission in an antiferromagnetic insulator with easy-plane anisotropy - Jiahao HAN (MIT)

May 14, 2020, Joint ECE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - A Bottom-Up Approach towards Intelligent Magnetic Memory: from Materials Design and Devices Property to Application Performance - Dr. Xiang LI (Stanford University) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Apr. 23, 2020, Yuchen CAI was selected by the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

Apr. 22, 2020, Yuchen CAI and Zhengkun QI were selected to elite internship program at Tencent (腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才培养计划) for designing quantum control systems and fabricating quantum circuits

Apr. 16, 2020, Joint ECE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Technology Trend and Market Opportunity of 5G Industry in China - Dr. Yong-Hui Fan (Innovation Center of Advanced Devices for Future Communications, Shenzhen) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Apr. 9, 2020, Joint ECE and HK ED/SSC Chapter Online Seminar Series - Propagation and Manipulation of the Spin Waves in Micro-Structured Yttrium Iron Garnet - Dr. Zhizhi Zhang (UESTC) - the recordings are available on Bilibili and Youtube

Mar. 2020, Yuchen CAI has joined SQML doing final year project. She will become a RPG student in the coming Fall.

Feb. 2020, in collaboration with Prof. Kang L. Wang at UCLA, our work "Strongly Surface State Carrier‐Dependent Spin–Orbit Torque in Magnetic Topological Insulators" has been published on Advanced Materials

Jan. 2020, in collaboration with Prof. Yan Zhou and Dr. Xichao Zhang at CUHK (SZ), our work "Dynamics of an elliptical ferromagnetic skyrmion driven by the spin–orbit torque" has been published on Applied Physics Letters

Jan. 2020, Prof. Shao's news and views article "Skyrmions get pushed beyond the limit" has been published on Nature Electronics

Oct. 2019, in collaboration with Prof. Feng Xiong at Pitt, our work "(Bi0.2Sb0.8)2Te3 based dynamic synapses with programmable spatio-temporal dynamics" has been published on APL Materials

Oct. 2019, Dr. Yuting LIU has joined SQML as a postdoc researcher

Sept. 2019, Zheyu REN has joined SQML as a RPG student

Sept. 2019, lab website launched