Biography

Dr. Wei Wen Wong is currently a Research Fellow at the Research School of Physics, Australian National University (ANU), and a Research Program Manager at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS). He received his Bachelor’s degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2016, and completed his PhD at ANU in 2023. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Product and Failure Analysis Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor.

Dr. Wong’s research focuses on the epitaxy of low-dimensional compound semiconductor structures, as well as the design and fabrication of novel photonic, optoelectronic, and metasurface optical devices. He has co-authored over fifteen papers in high-impact journals, including Science Advances, Nano Letters, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and ACS Nano. He was a recipient of the Jim Williams Award at the ANU for excellence in research and teaching, and was selected as an ANU representative at the 2024 Global Young Scientists Summit.

Publication highlights

[Invited] Wong, W.W., Adhikari, S., Tomioka, K., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2025. Crystal phase engineering of semiconductor nanostructures. MRS Bulletin, 50.

Wong, W.W., Huang, X., Lem, O.L.C., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2025. Near-unity spontaneous emission factor InP surface-emitting lasers based on quasi-bound states in the continuum. Science Advances, 11, eadx6527.

[Invited] Haggren, T. and Wong, W.W., 2024. Light-emitting metasurfaces based on direct bandgap semiconductors. Semiconductors and Semimetals: Semiconductor Metasurfaces-Part 2.

Wong, W.W., Zhang, J., Garg, G., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2024. Mode management in Bottom-Up, Parity-Time-Symmetric Micro-Cavity Lasers. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 18(12), p.2400222.

Huang, X., Horder, J., Wong, W.W., Wang, N., Bian, Y., Yamamura, K., Aharonovich, I., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2024. Scalable bright and pure single photon sources by droplet epitaxy on InP nanowire arrays. ACS nano, 18(7), pp.5581-5589.

Wong, W.W., Wang, N., Esser, B.D., Church, S.A., Li, L., Lockrey, M., Aharonovich, I., Parkinson, P., Etheridge, J., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2023. Bottom-up, chip-scale engineering of low threshold, multi-quantum-well microring lasers. ACS nano, 17(15), pp.15065-15076.

Wong, W.W., Wang, N., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2023. Directional Lasing in Coupled InP Microring/Nanowire Systems. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 17(3), p.2200658.

[Invited] Wong, W.W., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2022. III–V semiconductor whispering-gallery mode micro-cavity lasers: advances and prospects. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 58(4), pp.1-18.

Wong, W.W., Su, Z., Wang, N., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2021. Epitaxially grown InP micro-ring lasers. Nano Letters, 21(13), pp.5681-5688.

Wang, N., Wong, W.W., Yuan, X., Li, L., Jagadish, C. and Tan, H.H., 2021. Understanding shape evolution and phase transition in InP nanostructures grown by selective area epitaxy. Small, 17(21), p.2100263.

Teaching

PHYS3104 - Physics Advanced Laboratory

SDU-ANU Joint Science College (Physics) - co-convener for third-year optics lab course