The School of Electronics supports two research directions of "Electronic Science and Technology" and "Information and Communication Engineering", and six specialties, namely "Physical Electronics (National Key Discipline)", "Circuits and Systems", "Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology", " Quantum Electronics", "Communication and Information System (National Key Discipline)", and "Signal and Information Processing".

The Department of Radio Electronics of Peking University was founded in 1958 and renamed to "Department of Electronics of Peking University" in 1996. On November 12, 2021, it was officially established as the "School of Electronics".The School consists of 115 faculty members: 48 professors/researchers, 40 associate professors/associate researchers and 1 lecturer, including 5 Academicians/Joint Academicians, 6 Distinguished Professors of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, 8 Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Science Fund, 8 Excellent Young Scholars of the National Science Fund, 2 IEEE Fellows, 7 Chief Scientists of the National 973 Program/ National Key Research and Development Program, 3 National-Level Scientists of the New Century “National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Program”, and 2 winners of Beijing University Teaching Master Award. There are approximately 500 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled. The School of Electronics has strong teaching and research capabilities. It undertakes the construction of several national level or provincial level teaching and research platforms, such as "State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks", "Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices", "Beijing Key Laboratory of Solid-State Quantum Devices", "Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Mobile Digital Hospital System", "SAPPRFT Engineering Technology Research Center for Broadband Coaxial Network". The university-level research institution, Carbon-based Electronics Research Center, affiliated with the School of Electronics. The Center engaged in various general programs and key programs supported by National Programs for Science and Technology Development, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program), National High-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), and National “Climbing” Program.

In the past sixty years of development, the School of Electronics has gradually formed the characteristics of organic combination of science and engineering, and has won the National Science Congress Award, National Natural Science Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award, Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Education Commission, Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Space, Science and Technology Progress Award of the General Staff Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Science and Technology Progress Award of the China Shipbuilding Corporation, National Industrial New Product Award, Major Improvement Achievement Award of the National Defense Industry Office It has created many international and domestic firsts, such as the Science and Technology Achievement Progress Award of the National Defense Industry Office, the Science and Technology Progress Award of the National Defense Industry Office, etc. China's first "TDM/CDMA VSAT satellite communication network" and the world's first "simultaneous co-channel full-duplex communication technology" were completed by the Satellite and Wireless Communication Laboratory; the related achievements won the First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress, the First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology, and the First Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education. The related achievements have won the First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress, the First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology, the First Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the First Prize of Technical Invention of the Chinese Society of Communication, and the Special Prize of Science and Technology of Electronic Technology of China. China's first "wavelength division multiplexing fiber optic communication system", the first "all-optical communication trial experimental network", China's first "broadband access ITU-T international standard" by the regional The rubidium atomic clock and optical pumping cesium atomic clock of the Institute of Fiber Optic Communication Network and New Optical Communication System reached the international leading level, and in 2008, the world's first dual-way quantum key distribution system source monitoring experiment was realized, and the world's fastest physical true random number generator was successfully developed in 2009. The world's first "5nm gate length high performance carbon nanotube transistor" was prepared by the Institute of Physics and Electronics, and the related research results were selected as the first article of the top ten news of basic science research in China in 2000, the top ten scientific and technological advances in Chinese universities in 2000 and 2017, the top ten advances in science in China in 2011, 2016 and 2017, and the top ten advances in science in China in 2010 and 2017. Top Ten Advances in Chinese Science, and won the Second Prize of National Natural Science twice in 2010 and 2016. The School of Electronics has trained many national excellent doctoral thesis winners, Beijing excellent doctoral thesis winners, excellent doctoral thesis winners from the Chinese Society of Electronics, the Chinese Society of Communication, the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, the Chinese Society of Electronics Education and other associations in recent years, and the scientific research work is leading in many aspects in China and advanced internationally, and has been continuously published in Nature and Science published excellent results in recent years (7 papers published as first author institutions).

The doctoral and master's graduates from the School of Electronics have consistently been well received by the public, and most of them have several well-known acceptance units upon graduation. Doctoral graduates who choose to engage in scientific research are welcomed by well-known research institutions at home and abroad. Some of the PhD graduates have grown into outstanding talents in related fields and become professors or researchers in famous universities at home and abroad, and many of them have been selected as Changjiang scholars, Jieqing, Yuqing, top talents of the Ministry of Organization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Young Thousand Talents Program, the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hundred Talents Program of Peking University. Some of the master's students chose to further their studies and were accepted by top universities such as Harvard, Stanford and MIT. The graduates who choose to work in the industry are employed in various famous electronic companies in the world, such as Intel, Bell Labs, Cisco, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Huawei, etc.

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