Personal Introduction:
Dr.Dan WU Deputy Dean of the Light Sources and Illumination Department, Associate Professor (tenured) at SZTU. She was selected as the Young Top-notch Talent of the 8th Guangdong Special Support Program (Major Talent Program of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province), the Overseas High-caliber Personnel (Level C) in Shenzhen, the High-Level Talents in Shenzhen, and the Runyuan Young PI of Shenzhen Technology University, among others. Targeting the national strategic emerging field of advanced photonic integration, her research fields include high brightness electroluminescent light sources with ultra-compact form for on-chip integration. Specifically, her research directions include high brightness circularly polarized quantum dots light-emitting diodes, in-situ growth of low defects density single crystal thin film (SCTF) on heterogeneous substrate,long-lifetime and high-integration-density colloidal quantum dot laser array,and high-efficiency photon coupling and light-extraction engineering in optoelectronic devices.She is the Principle Investigators (PIs) of two national level projects (National Nature Science Foundation General Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholars); three provincial-level projects (two General Programs of the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation and one Characteristic Innovation Project of Colleges and Universities of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province); two city level projects (Shenzhen Basic Research General Program and Shenzhen Stable Support General Program). She has authored and coauthored97 journal articles on international high level academic journals by SCI collectionincludingNature,Advanced Materials,Light: Science & Applications, Advanced Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy & Environmental Materials, Nano Research, Advanced Optical Materials, and others.Among them, 50 papers are asthefirst or corresponding author; 31 papers are in therank of Q1 SCI (accounting for 32% of all publications), and 7 papers were selected as front- or back-cover articles.The total citation is 3,042 times, with an H-index of 30. She filed 26 Chinese Invention and 11 Utility Model Patents.She is currently the reviewer ofLight: Science & Applications, Advanced Materials, Chinese Laser, Acta Optica Sinica, etc..
Education Background (in reverse order):
2013.08-2018.01 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ph.D.
2009.09-2011.06 Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Optical Engineering, Master
2005.09-2009.06 Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Astronautics, Electronic Science and Technology, Bachelor
Work Experience (in reverse order):
2020.12-present
Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU), Shenzhen, China
Associate Professor in SZTU College of New Materials and New Energies
2018.07-2020.11
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China
Research Assistant Professor in SUSTech Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Major Honors (in reverse order):
Young Top-notch Talentof the 8th Guangdong Special Support Program, Major Talent Program of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province
Overseas High-caliber Personnel (Level C) in Shenzhen
High-Level Talents, Nanshan District of Shenzhen
Runyuan Young PI Talent Program,SZTU
China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Outstanding Publication Award,First Prize of the Book Award,Freeform Optics for LED Packages and Applications,2021
Young Scientist Award, 7th International Conference on Electronics Technology, Chengdu, China (Individual award, award rate0.6%, 2/300), 2024
Scientific Exploration Award, 3rd Forum on DevelopmentofNano-Optoelectronic Materials and Semiconductor Devices (Individual award,award rate2.1%, 5/232), 2024
Outstanding Contribution Award, 3rd International Conference on Optics, Displays and New Energy (Individual award, award rate2.8%, 5/176), 2024
Runyuan Outstanding Teacher Award,SZTU, 2025
Second Prize in the“Talk about Majors” Competition,SZTU (award rate 4/38), 2025
Distinguished Scientistsin SZTU, (award rate0.5%, 6/1172, the only Female winner), 2022
Advanced Devices & Instrumentation Excellent Manuscript Honor, 2025
Research Interests:
² Advanced light sources in optoelectronic integrated chips (long-lifetime and high-integration-density colloidal quantum dot laser arrays, room-temperature magnet-free circularly polarized electroluminescent devices, etc.)
² Micro-nano structured light field modulation and inverse nanophotonics intelligent optimization algorithms for advanced display technologies (photon efficient coupling and output technologies of electroluminescent devices, electro-optical coupling modeling and simulation)
² Novel light field detection technologies for applications such as lidar and optical communications
Research Projects:
Hosted projects
[1] Principal Investigator, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
[2] Principal Investigator, Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
[3] Project Leader, Key Special Project of the National Key R&D Program, 2019
[4] Principal Investigator, Characteristic Innovation Project of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province
[5] Principal Investigator, General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
[6] Principal Investigator, General Program of Basic Research of Shenzhen Municipality
[7] Principal Investigator, Stable Support General Program of Shenzhen Municipality
Journal Articles
2025
[1] Y. Tan, Y. Huang,D. Wu*, Y. Wang, X. W. Sun*, H. W. Choi*, and K. Wang*, "Low-threshold surface-emitting colloidal quantum-dot circular Bragg laser array,"Light: Science & Applications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 36, 2025.
[2] Y. Tan, Z. Song, G. Mei, Y. Wang,D. Wu*, X. W. Sun*, H. W. Choi*, K. Wang*, "High-performance colloidal quantum-dot VCSEL with quality factor above 2000,"Laser & Photonics Reviews, vol.19, no.12, pp. 2401316, 2025.
[3] M. Liao#, Z. Wang#, C. Shan#, D. Luo, Z. Guan, Q. Wang, H. Zhu, Z. Song,D. Wu*,A. K. K. Kyaw*, K. Wang*,"An ionic liquid assisted in-situ growth of large-area and high-crystal-quality perovskite single-crystal thin films,"Nano Research, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 94907046, 2025.
[4] D. Wu#*, G. Xu#, J. Tan, X. Wang, Y. Zhang, L. Ma*, W. Chen*, and K. Wang, "Nanophotonic structures energized short-wave infrared quantum dot photodetectors and their advancements in imaging and large-scale fabrication techniques,"Nanoscale,vol. 7, no.14, pp. 8239-8269,2025.(封面文章)
[5] T. Ye, D. Tian,D. Wu*, X. W. Sun, and K. Wang*, "Submicron quantum dot light-emitting diodes enabled by pixelated topological meta-mirror,"Nanophotonics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 241-251, 2025. (封面文章)
[6] Y. Wang, F. Lu, M. Liao, W. Liu,D. Wu*, andK. Wang*, "Recentadvances in Spin-LEDsbased onchiralnanomaterials:bridgingfundamentalphysics,materials, anddevicesperformance,"Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 13, no. 35, pp. e02273, 2025.
[7] T. Ye,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "High efficiency and large angle polarization independent beam deflection metagrating by Bayesian optimization,"Optics Express, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 2759-2771, 2025.
[8] Y. Zhang#, W. Wang#, F. Zheng#, J. Zhu, G. Mei, Y. Ye, J. Tan, H. Zhang, Q. Jing, B. He*, K. Wang*, andD. Wu*, "Waveguide coupled full-color quantum dot light-emitting diodes modulated by microcavities,"Photonics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 427, 2025.
[9] L. Zhou#, Y. Tan#, D. Tian#, T. Ye, F. Zheng, F. Qiu, H. Zhang, N. Zhang, M. Li, X. W. Sun, H. W. Choi,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Integrated colloidal quantum dot devices for on-chip light sources,"Chip,vol.4, no.4, pp. 100152, 2025.
[10] F. Zheng, F. Zhao, D. Li, J. Ma,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Monolithic integration of indirect electrically pumped colloidal quantum dot light source on silicon nitride waveguide,"IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1373-1376, 2025.
[11] J.Zhu, Y. Ye, F. Zheng, Y. Zhang, Z. Lu, H. Zhang, S. Chen, J. Fang, Y. Yi*, K. Wang*, andD. Wu*, "High coupling efficiency silicon-based colloidal quantum dot electroluminescent devices with Ag reflectors,"Journal of Optics and Photonics Research, vol.00, no.00, pp.1-12, 2025.
2024
[12] D. Wu#*, H. Zhang#, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang, G. Zhang*, K. Wang, and C. Z. Ning*, "Advances inperovskite single crystal thin films: synthesis methods and applications in photodetection,"Advanced Optical Materials, vol.12,no. 28,pp. 2401131, 2024.
[13] G. Zhang#, C. Zhao#, L. Zhu#, L. Wang, W. Xiong, H. Hu, Q. Bai, Y. Wang, C. Xie, P. You, H. Yan,D. Wu*, T. Yang*, M. Qiu*, S. Li*, and G. Zhang*, "Tolueneprocessedall-polymersolarcells with 18%efficiency andenhancedstabilityenabled bysolidadditive:comparisonbetweensequential-processing andblend-casting,"Energy & Environmental Materials, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. e12683, 2024.
[14] H. Zhu#, Q. Wang#, W. Chen, K. Sun, H. Zhong, T. Ye, Z. Wang, W. Zhang, P. Müller-Buschbaum, X. W. Sun,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Chiral perovskite-CdSe/ZnS QDs composites with high circularly polarized luminescence performance achieved through additive-solvent engineering," Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 160, no. 23, pp. 234703, 2024.
[15] G. Xu#, H. Chen#, H. Lin, X. Liu, B. Li, W. Chen,D. Wu*, and L. Ma*, "Synthesis guidance of PbS colloidal quantum dots with neural network model for short wave infrared photodetector,"Optical Materials, vol. 157,no.2024, pp. 116069, 2024.
[16] Z. Song, T. Cao, X. Wang, Y. Tan, J. Wu, Z. Wang, H. Zhu, F. Fang,D. Wu*, W. Chen*, K. Wang*,"Reducingdarkcurrentdensity of PbSquantumdotshort-waveinfraredphotodetectors bypolymerbufferlayermodification,"IEEE Electron Device Letters,vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 2455-2458, 2024.
2023
[17] Q. Wang#, H. Zhu#, Y. Tan#, J. Hao, T. Ye, H. Tang, Z. Wang, J. Ma, J. Sun, T. Zhang, F. Zheng, W. Zhang, A. H. W. Choi, W. C. H. Choy,D. Wu*, X. W. Sun, and K. Wang*, "Spinquantum dot light-emitting diodes enabled by two-dimensional chiral perovskite with spin-dependent carrier transport,"Advanced Materials, vol.36, no. 5,pp. 2305604, 2023.
[18] Z. Li, R. Zhang, Z. Sun, J. Sun, Z. Wang,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Quantum dot optoelectronic synaptic devices with long memory time enabled by trap density regulation," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 70, no. 10,pp. 5169-5176,2023.
[19] T. Zhang, F. Zhao, P. Liu, Y. Tan, X. Xiao, Z. Wang, W. Wang,D. Wu, X. W. Sun, J. Hao, G. Xing*, and K. Wang*, "Understanding and hindering the electron leakage in green InP quantum dot light-emitting diodes,"Advanced Photonics Research, vol.4, no.11,pp. 2300146, 2023(被评选为Advanced Photonics Research 期刊2023年度阅读量最高的文章)
[20] Q. Wang#, H. Zhu#, W. Chen, J. Hao, Z. Wang, J. Tang, Y. Yang, X. W. Sun,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Strong circularly polarized luminescence from quantum dots/2D chiral perovskites composites,"Nano Research, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 7593-7599, 2023.
[21] Z. Wang, C. Shan, C. Liu, X. Tang, D. Luo, H. Tang, Z. Song, J. Wang, Z. Ren, J. Ma, H. Wang, J. Sun, N. Zhang, W. C. H. Choy, Y. Liu, A. K. K. Kyaw, X. W. Sun,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "In situ growth of perovskite single-crystal thin films with low trap density,"Cell Reports Physical Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 101363, 2023.
[22] D. Wu#, G. Du#, H. Liu, W. Chen, X. Li, Z. Wang, H. Tang, B. Liu, C. Liu, Y. Chen, Z. Song, W. Deng, H. Yuan*, K. Wang*, and X. Zhao*, "Flexible microcomb printed PbS quantum dot film enables scalable fabrication of near infrared photodetector,"Advanced Optical Materials, vol.11, no.23, pp. 2300945, 2023.
[23] D. Wu*#, Y. Zhang#, C. Liu, Z. Sun, Z. Wang, Z. Lin, M. Qiu, D. Fu, and K. Wang, "Recent progress of narrowband perovskite photodetectors: fundamental physics and strategies,"Advanced Devices & Instrumentation, vol. 4, no. n/a, pp.0006, 2023.
[24] Zhu#, Q. Wang#, K. Sun, W. Chen, J. Tang, J. Hao, Z. Wang, J. Sun, W. C. H. Choy, P. Müller-Buschbaum, X. W. Sun,D. Wu*, and K. Wang*, "Solvent modulation of chiral perovskite films enables high circularly polarized luminescence performance from chiral perovskite/quantum dot composites,"ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 9978-9986, 2023.
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Contact:
Email:wudan@sztu.edu.cn;