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	(November 18, 2024) Likun Wang passes the Overseas Young Scientists program of the NSFC in China! He plans to join Zhejiang University next year. Congratulations! (October 30, 2024) Wilson Ho gives two invited talks in Japan! He presented on "Probing Quantum Dynamics in Space-Time with THz-Radiation Coupled STM" and "The Realization and Applications of STM-IETS." Check out more about these talks ISSP International Workshop and ISSS-10! (September 12, 2024) Dan Bai advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (October 20, 2024) Wilson Ho wins the Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal for the devolopment of STM-IETS, along with Franz J. Giessibl! He will give a invited talk at the 10th International Symposium on Surface Science at Japan! (September 11, 2024) Jiawei Zeng advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (September 5, 2024) Yunpeng Xia defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (April 9, 2024) In UCSD, Wilson is nominated as the Kent Wilson Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, and invited to give a talk on probing matter in space-time with the quantum superposition microscope! (February 16, 2024) Yunpeng Xia and Likun Wang publish in Physical Review Letters! Check their work to understand the working principle of Quantum Superposition Microscopy where the THz pulses coupled into STM junction behave as quantized photon and classical field simultaneously. (February 5, 2024) Likun Wang wins the 2023 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA)! (January 31, 2024) Jiang Yao, Youngwook Park, Wenlu Shi and Siyu Chen publish in Science Advances! Check their work to see how the thermal instability of STM junction induced by incident laser can be compensated by external electrical modulation. (November 13, 2023) Yunpeng Xia, Likun Wang and Dan Bai publish in ACS Nano! Check their work to see how hydrogen molecules interact with each other in the nanocavity detected by THz-STM. (June 29, 2023) Likun Wang wins the Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students!! (March 31, 2023) Siyu Chen and Wenlu Shi publish in Nano Letters! See their work on Continuous-Wave THz Spectroscopy here. (February 28, 2023) Likun Wang, Dan Bai and Yunpeng Xia publish in Physical Review Letters! Check their work to see how a molecular two-level system can be tuned by electrical field. (September 26, 2022) Jiang Yao, Peter Wagner, Yunpeng Xia and Gregory Czap publish in Nano Letters! See their work on Atomic-Scale Rectification Spectromicroscopy here. (August 26, 2022) Jiang Yao defends his Ph.D. Thesis! He will join University of Washington at Seattle as a Postdoc! Congratulations Dr. Yao!!! (August 25, 2022) Likun Wang defends his Ph.D. Thesis! He will join Institute of Photonic Sciences at Barcelona as a Postdoc! Congratulations Dr. Wang!!! (May 27, 2022) Siyu Chen defends her Ph.D. Thesis! She will join Onto Innovation at Portland as a senior system engineer! Congratulations Dr. Chen!!! (April 29, 2022) Shaowei Li, Gregory Czap and Arthur Yu publish in JACS with a collaborative effort with Ruqian Wu's group! Their work on catalytic dissociation of hydrogen molecules has been featured on the front cover of the issue. See more details here. (April 22, 2022) Likun Wang and Yunpeng Xia publish in Science! Their work on quantum sensing through the coherence of a hydrogen molecule has been featured here. See more details here. (November 3, 2021) Likun Wang wins Nanoscale Science and Technology Division Graduate Competition for his work presented on the AVS 67 Virtual Symposium! Cheers!! (September 15, 2021) Wenlu Shi advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (August 31, 2021) Yunpeng Xia advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (August 25, 2021) Peter Wagner defends his Ph.D. Thesis! He will join Intel at Portland, we wish you every success in your new job! (June 7, 2021) Gregory Czap joins Christopher Lutz's group at IBM Almaden! Cheers! (April 28, 2020) Shaowei Li will start as an Assistant Professor at UCSD soon, we wish you the best of luck! (Nov. 5, 2019) Shaowei Li wins the 2018 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA). Congratulations!!! (Sept. 29, 2019) We were happy to hold Di Wu(Nankai University), Ruqi Shi(Nankai University), Xielin Wang(USTC), Dan Bai(USTC) and Zhongyuan Liu(USTC) as interns this summer. Thanks for their contribution to the lab! We enjoy their company and wish them a bright future!(Having BBQ at Wilson's house) (Sept. 6, 2019) Gregory Czap, Peter Wagner and Jiang Yao publish in Physics Review Letters! See their work on spin-vibration coupling in single molecule here. (May. 21, 2019) Dr. Czap's Science work is featured in Physics World, Chemistry World and C2W! Cheers! (May. 16, 2019) Gregory Czap, Peter Wagner and Jiang Yao publish in Science! See their work on visualization of spin interaction here. (Mar. 13, 2019) Gregory Czap, Zhumin Han and Peter Wagner publish in Physics Review Letters! See their work on anharmonic overtone vibrations here. (Feb. 22, 2019) Shaowei Li, Gregory Czap, Likun Wang, Siyu Chen, Arthur Yu publish in Physics Review Letters in a collaborative effort with Hui Wang and Ruqian Wu! See their work on bond selective photochemistry here. (Dec. 6, 2018) Likun Wang advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (Dec. 5, 2018) Siyu Chen advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (Dec. 4, 2018) Jiang Yao advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (Sept. 10, 2018) Gregory Czap defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (June 7, 2018) Yunpeng Xia wins the UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award !!! (April 16, 2018) Arthur Yu, Shaowei Li and Siyu Chen publish in Nano Letters in a collaborative effort with Hui Wang and Ruqian Wu! (March 9, 2018) Gregory Czap wins Second Prize in the Sigma Xi sponsored poster session for visiting prospective students! (Jan. 26, 2018) Gregory Czap wins First Prize in the Second Annual Poster Session of the Chemical and Materials Physics Program! (Jan. 21, 2018) Wilson Ho is featured in a World Journal article ! (Jan. 16, 2018) Shaowei Li wins the Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students!! (Jan. 09, 2018) Shaowei Li awarded the Heising-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship!! (Jan. 03, 2018) Shaowei Li wins the APS Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research!! (December 20, 2017) See an article about our research titled Delving into the atomic realm which has been featured on the Department of Energy website (October 26, 2017) Shaowei Li, Siyu Chen, Jie Li, and Ruqian Wu publish in Physical Review Letters (October 23, 2017) Wilson Ho wins the prestigious APS Joseph F. Keithley Award along with Joseph Stroscio and Andreas Heinrich for their contributions to measurement science! (October 13, 2017) Zhumin Han, Gregory Czap, Chi-lun Chiang, Chen Xu, Peter Wagner, Xinyuan Wei, Yanxing Zhang, and Ruqian Wu publish in Science !!! (August 22, 2017) Shaowei Li defends his Ph.D. Thesis! Congratulations Dr. Li !!! (August 21, 2017) Calvin Patel defends his Ph.D. Thesis! Congratulations Dr. Patel !!! (August 21, 2017) Peter Wagner advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (May 11, 2017) Christian Kim advances to Ph.D. candidacy! (January 19, 2017) "Probing Intermolecular Coupled Vibrations between Two Molecules" chosen for Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters Synopsis: Detecting a Molecular Duet (January 19, 2017) Zhumin Han, Gregory Czap, Chen Xu, Chi-lun Chiang, Dingwang Yuan and Ruqian Wu publish in Physical Review Letters (December 2, 2016) Zhumin Han, Xinyuan Wei, Chen Xu, Chi-lun Chiang, Yanxing Zhang and Ruqian Wu publish in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (November 1, 2016) T. Mitch Wallis and Niklas Nilius publish in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (August 16, 2016) Arthur Yu, Shaowei Li, and Gregory Czap publish in Nano Letters (August 16, 2016) Arthur Yu, Shaowei Li, and Gregory Czap publish in Nano Letters (August 7, 2016) Ho group research featured in a DOE Office of Science highlight! See the article here: Unmasking the Molecule (June 29, 2016) Arthur Yu, Shaowei Li, and Bharat Dhital publish in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C in a collaborative effort with H. Peter Lu's group! (May 27, 2016) Dingwang Yuan, Zhumin Han, Gregory Czap, Chi-lun Chiang, and Chen Xu publish in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in a collaborative effort with Ruqian Wu's group! See also: Ruqian Wu's group at UCI. (May 27, 2016) Arthur Yu defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (May 20, 2016) Zhumin Han defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (April 21, 2016) Chen Xu, Chi-lun Chiang, and Zhumin Han publish in Physical Review Letters ! (April 9, 2016) Zhumin Han wins First Place in the Student Platform Presentation in the Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis Full-Day Symposium! (February 12, 2016) Chen Xu defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (August 24, 2015) Weicai Cao defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (August 16, 2015) Hui Wang, Shaowei Li, Haiyan He, Arthur Yu, Freddy Toledo, and Zhumin Han publish in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in a collaborative effort with Ruqian Wu's group! See also: Ruqian Wu's group at UCI. (August 1, 2015) Congratulations to Chi-Lun Jiang for his new position at Intel! (July 27, 2015) Our helium recycling system is in the news! Chemical & Engineering News Article (June 1, 2015) Chi-Lun Jiang defends his Ph.D. Thesis! (May 19, 2015) Shaowei Li, Arthur Yu, and Gregory Czap publish in Physical Review Letters in a collaborative effort with Dingwang Yuan and Ruqian Wu! See also: Ruqian Wu's group at UCI. (March 5, 2015) Arthur Yu, Shaowei Li and Gregory Czap publish in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C! (July 4, 2014) Wilson Ho elected Academician of Academia Sinica, Republic of China! See the press release from Academia Sinica (May 23, 2014) Chi-Lun, Chen and Zhumin publish in Science! See the UCI press release (October 2013) Shaowei, Arthur, Freddy and Zhumin publish in Physical Review Letters in a collaborative effort with Hui Wang, H.Y. He, and Ruqian Wu. See also: Ruqian Wu's group at UCI. (August 2013) Congratulations to Freddy Toledo for his new position at Intel! (May 1, 2013) Wilson Ho elected to National Academy of Sciences! See the UCI press release (May 1, 2013) Freddy Toledo defends his Ph.D. Thesis. (Nov 5, 2012) Wilson Ho receives 2013 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics. See the APS press release