Wei Zhou (Assoc)

Wei Zhou is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Photonics and Plasmonics Group and received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Zhou has been an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech since 2015. He conducts interdisciplinary research on the design, manufacturing and investigation of nano-enabled photonic and electronic materials, devices and systems, targeting applications in information technology, healthcare and energy. He received the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program award (2017), the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2012) and the Institute for Nanotechnology’s Outstanding Research Award (2011). Zhou is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Materials Research Society and the International Society for Optics and Photonics. At the CNST, he is working with Henri Lezec and Amit Agrawal on the development of active nanophotonics devices and systems for advanced optical metrology at nanoscale.

Selected Publications

• Three-dimensional Mapping and Regulation of Action Potential Propagation in Nanoelectronics Innervated Tissues, X. Dai,* W. Zhou,* T. Gao, J. Liu, and C.M. Lieber, Nature Nanotechnology, 11, 776–782 (2016) (*equal contribution)
• General Strategy for Biodetection in High Ionic Strength Solutions Using Transistor-based Nanoelectronic Sensors, N. Gao,* W. Zhou,* C. M. Lieber, Nano Lett. 15, 2143-2148 (2015) (*equal contribution)
• Three-dimensional macroporous nanoelectronic networks as minimally invasive brain probes, C. Xie,* J. Liu,* T.-M. Fu,* X. Dai, W. Zhou and C.M. Lieber, Nature Materials 14, 1286–1292 (2015) (*equal contribution)