Pei-Heng Wu

phwu@nju.edu.cn

Education

1956-1961 Undergraduate in physics, Nanjing University

Experience

2021-Present Emeritus Distinguished Researcher, Hefei National Laboratory

1985-Present Professor, Nanjing University

1982-1985 Associate Professor, Nanjing University

1978-1982 Lecturer, Nanjing University

1961-1978 Assistant, Nanjing University   

Overview of Academic Research

Prof. Wu Peiheng’s research interest is in superconducting electronic devices and their applications in quantum information science and technology.

His major activities include:

* Relevant physical processes in superconductors and their fundamental laws

* Novel electronic devices based on these laws (principle, design, and fabrication) ‌

* ‌Applications of superconducting electronic devices in quantum information science and technology, with recent effort mainly on superconducting nanometer single photon detectors and imagers and their applications in scientific research and deep space communication

Major Honors and Awards

Altogether 11 awards (1st, 2nd , and 3rd  grades) since 1978 at the national and provincial levels)Altogether 11 awards (1st, 2nd , and 3rd  grades) since 1978 at the national and provincial levels)

Representative Publications

1)Wenqu Xu, , et al，“Manipulations of a transmon qubit with a null-biased electro-optic fiber link”，Nature Communications，16，2629(2025)

2)Tianshi Zhou, et al,“Impedance matched Josephson parametric amplifier with a multisection /4 transmission line transformer”，Appl. Phys. Lett. 126, 104002 (2025)

3)Yanqiu Guan, et al, Photon-efficient camera with in-sensor computing, Nat. Commun., 16, 320114, 2025

4)XingYu Wei, et al, “Compact superconducting transmon qubit circuits made of ultrathin NbN”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 154005 (2023).

5)X. Wang, et al, Topotactic fabrication of transition metal dichalcogenide superconducting nanocircuits, Nat. Commun., 14, 4282,2023

6)L. Ma, et al, van der Waals Self-Epitaxial Growth of Inch-Sized Superconducting Niobium Diselenide Films, Nano Lett., 23, 6892, 2023

7)L. Kong,. et al, "Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization," Nat. Photonics 17(1), 65–72 (2023).

8）H. Wang, et al, "64-Pixel Mo80Si20 superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with a saturated internal quantum efficiency at 1.5 µm," Opt. Lett. 47, 3523-3526 (2022).

9）L. Kong, et al, "Probabilistic Energy-to-Amplitude Mapping in a Tapered Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector," Nano Lett. 22(4), 1587–1594 (2022).

10）L.-D. Kong, et al, "Single-Detector Spectrometer Using a Superconducting Nanowire," Nano Lett. 21(22), 9625-9632, (2022).

11） H. Hao, et al "Improved pulse discrimination for a superconducting series nanowire detector by applying a digital matched filter," Appl. Phys. Lett. 119(23), 232601 (2021)

12) Pan, et al, “Cavity-induced coherence phenomena in a Josephson parametric amplifier”, AIP Advances, 10, 025135 (2020).