Wanzheng Hu recently received a supplemental funding to her five-year DOE Early Career Award, bringing the total funding amount to $929,769.

This project aims at ultrafast and bidirectional manipulation of ordered phases in quantum materials using laser excitation of optical phonons. The objectives include ferroelectrics and multiferroics, and light-induce synthetic states of matter in perovskite superlattices. The research involves table-top pump-probe experiment at Boston University, and experiment at X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities such as LCLS.