Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices was founded in October 2003 mainly based on the Institute of Physical Electronics and several key members from College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering. The laboratory successfully passed the laboratory evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education in 2007 and 2012 respectively, and received excellent ratings. The core mission of the laboratory is to study exotic physical and chemical phenomena of nanoscale devices, and explores nanoscale materials and processes. To advance the development of smaller, faster, and more powerful integrated chips based on new operating principles.

Research in the Laboratory is directed towards understanding the fundamental physics and chemistry, and solving the key issues of nanodevices. Major research areas include:

(1) Development of nanofabrication technology possibly integrated with microelectronic process.

(2) Exploring new nanoelectronic materials.

(3) Working principle of new nanoelectronic devices and quantum regulation methods.

(4) Investigation of possible integration methods of new nanoelectronic devices and the corresponding methods for the extraction and processing of signals.

(5) Enhance the functionality of nano-components. Developing nano-devices that integrate electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functions.

(6) Developing nano characterization and measurement methods.

The lab has published 70-80 SCI papers per year in the last two years. The papers are cited with an annual increase of more than 200 citations per year, reaching about 2,650 by the end of 2014. In particular, the quality of journal articles has increased over the years, with members of the lab publishing in Nature research journals every year for the past several years.

Currently, the Laboratory has 29 faculty members including 11 professors, 3 distinguished researchers, 12 associated professors/associate researchers. Among them, there are 3 Distinguished Professors of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, 1 recipient of National Thousand Talents Plan, 2 of “National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Program”, 4 Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Science Fund, 2 scholars of Young Thousand Talents Program, 1 National "Ten Thousand People Plan" Young Top Talent, 1 Excellent Young Scholars of the National Science Fund, 6 supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Chinese Ministry of Education, 2 recipient of “Peking University Hundred Plan”. The faculties received numerous awards, especially, three State National Science Awards (2nd Prize) in 2008, 2010 and 2016, respectively. The Laboratory members hold positions in more than 20 major academic institutions. With a total contract fund of about 130 million RMB, the Laboratory is engaged in more than 46 national and provincial research projects. The total number of postdoctoral, doctoral, and master's students enrolled is 7, 70, and 40, respectively.

Please refer to the website for more information: https://nano.pku.edu.cn