Berkeley & MIT
Reconfigurable Photonics Lab
Tang lab is actively hiring and conducting research at UC Berkeley EECS.
We will officially move to MIT MechE in the summer of 2026.
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Our Research Focus
The Tang lab conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of nanophotonics, optical instrumentation, and device engineering, with a focus on metamaterials, quantum materials, and MEMS-enabled platforms. We develop innovative approaches to in situ tuning of mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of metamaterials and thin films, enabling hyper-reconfigurable light sources, strong light–matter interactions, and meta-optic sensors and modulators. Our work combines nonlinear and quantum optics, integrated photonics, and nanofabrication to advance next-generation photonic technologies.
NEWS
05/05/2025
We are hosting a Special Symposia - Twistopics for Light-Matter Interactions in CLEO 2025 Long Beach. Check and join us! ​
04/03/2025
Our Nature Photonics Paper, 'An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging,' is now online and has been featured in a Harvard News Story!​​​​​​
02/14/2025
Our paper 'A Van der Waals Moiré Bilayer Photonic Crystal Cavity' is on ArXiv now.
01/31/2025
Our paper 'Control of chirality and directionality of nonlinear metasurface light source via moiré engineering' is online at Physical Review Letters. Congrats Huanyu!
11/04/2024
Dr. Haoning Tang received the Rising Stars of Light Award from Springer Nature, Light Sci. Appl., and iCANX Association. Congratulations!
11/04/2024
Our Nature paper, 'On-chip multi-degree-of-freedom control of two-dimensional materials' is now online and has been featured in the Harvard Gazette.
07/12/2024
Our paper, 'Free-Space Beam Steering with Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystal Slabs,' which was co-authored with Shanhui Fan's group at Stanford, is now online in ACS Photonics.
16/02/2024
Our paper 'Three-Dimensional Reconfigurable Optical Singularities in Bilayer Photonic Crystals' is available now on Physical Review Letters. Congrats Xueqi!
Selected ​Press Coverage
Harvard News:Twisted crystals open door to smaller, more powerful optical devices
Researchers develop first-of-its-kind optical sensor that can simultaneously measure wavelength, polarization
