Education
• 2010 – 2015 Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid‑State Electronics Department of Microelectronics and Solid‑State Electronics, Peking University
• 2006 – 2010 B.Sc. in Microelectronics Department of Microelectronics, Sichuan University
Work Experience
• 2015 – 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher (Assistant Researcher) School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
• 2019 – Present Associate Researcher School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Professional Affiliations
• 2019 – Present Deputy Director & Secretary of the Academic Committee National Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramic Materials
• 2024 – Present Member, Functional Ceramics Subcommittee National Technical Committee for Standardization of Industrial Ceramics
• 2025 – Present Secretary‑General Division of New Concept Materials and Frontier Interdisciplinary Science Development, Chinese Materials Research Society
• 2024 – Present Supervisor Beijing Society for Interdisciplinary Science
• 2018 – Present Deputy Secretary‑General Metamaterials Subdivision, Chinese Materials Research Society
• 2023 – Present Council Member Intelligent Sensing Functional Materials and Devices Subdivision, Chinese Materials Research Society
• 2023 – Present Member, Youth Working Committee Chinese Society for Composite Materials
• 2021 – Present Member, Academic Committee Zhejiang–Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute
• 2025 – Present Associate Editor (Nanophotonics) Frontiers in Nanotechnology
• 2022 – Present Editorial Board Member / Young Editorial Board Member Microstructures; Materials Today Electronics; Rare Metals; etc.
Research Interests
The research primarily focuses on metamaterials, with a special emphasis on exploring their fundamental physical mechanisms, achieving extraordinary electromagnetic properties, and advancing their development and applications in terahertz, infrared, microwave, micro/nano systems, and related fields.
Research Overview
Research Projects Ongoing
2022 – Present Principal Investigator, National Key R&D Program of China
2024 – Present Principal Investigator, Key Project of Beijing Natural Science Foundation
2023 – Present Core Participant, National Key R&D Program of China Completed
Completed Research Projects
2021 – 2024 Project Leader, General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2022 – 2024 Project Leader, Major Research Plan (Cultivation) Project, NSFC
2018 – 2020 Project Leader, Youth Science Fund Project, NSFC
2019 – 2022 Principal Investigator, Key Project, Beijing Municipal Key Science and Technology Program
Awards & Honors
• 2024 National-Level Youth Talent Program Award
• 2025 Outstanding Worker Award, Tsinghua University
• 2023 Annual Academic Contribution Award, Chinese Materials Research Society
• 2020 China Association for Science and Technology Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program
• 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University
• 2015 Postdoctoral Support Fellowship, Tsinghua University
• 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Graduate, Beijing Municipal Government
• 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Graduate, Peking University
Academic Achievements
Representative Papers:
1. Chen Wang, Yongzheng Wen*, Yong Tan, Shiqiang Zhao, Kaixin Yu, Jingbo Sun, Ji Zhou*, On-Demand Generationand Control of Giant Terahertz Nonlinearity with Metasurfaces, Laser Photonics Rev. 2025, 19, 2401224.
2. Shiqiang Zhao, Yongzheng Wen*, Ji Zhou*, Smart reconfigurable metadevices made of shape memory alloy metamaterials. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2025: 240109-1-240109-9.
3. Shiqiang Zhao, Yongzheng Wen*, Chen Wang, Kaixin Yu, Feilou Wang, Weijia Luo, Peizheng Cao, Jingbo Sun, Ji Zhou*. Miniaturized metamaterial terahertz polarization detector. J. Appl. Phys. 137, 144503 (2025).
4. Kaixin Yu, Chen Wang, Yongzheng Wen*, Yong Tan, Shiqiang Zhao, Renfei Zhang, Jingbo Sun, Ji Zhou*. Large terahertz nonlinearity in two-dimensional electron gas metasurface. Materials Today Electronics 12 (2025) 100157.
5. Peijie Feng, Yong Tan, Mingzhe Chong, Lintao Li, Zongkun Zhang, Fubei Liu, Yongzheng Wen*, Yunhua Tan*. All-Optical Autoencoder Machine Learning Framework Using Linear Diffractive Processors. Laser Photonics Rev. 2025, 2401945.
6. Chen Wang, Yong Tan, Yongzheng Wen*, Shiqiang Zhao, Kaixin Yu, Jingbo Sun, Ji Zhou*. Nonperturbative Nonlinear Metasurfaces for Efficient Terahertz Harmonic Generation. ACS Photonics 2024, 11, 3, 1236-1243.
7. Shiqiang Zhao, Yongzheng Wen*, Chen Wang, Jingbo Sun, and Ji Zhou*. Metamaterial route to light-induced generation of a subwavelength static magnetic field. Phys. Rev. Applied 21, L021001.
8. XingCong Chen, WeiJia Luo, Run-Ni Zhao, YongZheng Wen*, Ji Zhou*. Ceramic-based meta-material absorber with hightemperature stability. Rare Met. (2024) 43(9): 4433-4440.
9. Hang Zhao, Yong Tan, Chen Wang, Ming Liu, Yongzheng Wen*, Yuejin Zhao*, Ji Zhou*. Extremely efficient terahertz second-harmonic generation from organic crystals. Advanced Photonics Nexus 3 (4), 046007-046007.
10. Yongzheng Wen and Ji Zhou. A universal route to efficient non-linear response via Thomson scattering in linear solids. National Science Review 10 (7), nwad136 (2023) .
11. Yongzheng Wen and Ji Zhou. Artificial Generation of High Harmonics via Nonrelativistic Thomson Scattering in Metamaterial. Research 2019. 8959285 (2019).
12. Yongzheng Wen and Ji Zhou. Metamaterial route to direct photoelectric conversion. Materials Today 23. 37-44 (2019).
13. Yongzheng Wen and Ji Zhou. Artificial nonlinearity generated from electromagnetic coupling metamolecule. Physical Review Letters 118.16 (2017).
14. Yongzheng Wen, Delin Jia, Wei Ma, Yun Feng, Ming Liu, Liquan Dong, Yuejin Zhao and Xiaomei Yu, Photomechanical meta-molecule array for real-time terahertz imaging, Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2017) 3, 17071.