Overview

Electronic, Photonic, and Integrated Quantum Systems (EPIQS) research at UW ECE includes quantum electronics, nanoscale optics, novel photon sources, and optical metamaterials, with applications in quantum science, imaging, biomedical sensing, and other areas. Our faculty work closely with colleagues in the Department of Physics and several faculty hold joint and secondary appointments in Physics. Many UW ECE faculty are members of the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems (NanoES), a NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) node that hosts the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) to support academic institutions and companies throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond in designing and fabricating nanoscale materials, structures, devices and systems.

Topics

Nanoscale Materials and Structure

Modeling and fabrication of novel nanoscale materials and nanoscale structures and the design and fabrication of novel devices

Faculty: M.P. Anantram, Scott T. Dunham, Kai-Mei Fu, Lih Lin, Arka Majumdar, Mo Li

Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics

Design and fabrication of integrated photonic, optoelectronic, and quantum devices for applications in computation, communication, sensing, and quantum information

Faculty: Kai-Mei Fu, Arka Majumdar, Lih Lin, Scott T. Dunham, Mo Li, Sajjad Moazeni

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Micro-machining, lithography, x-ray and diamond patterning

Faculty: Karl F. Böhringer, Lih Lin, Alex Mamishev

Sensors and Sensor Systems

Faculty: Alex Mamishev, Matt Reynolds, Joshua Smith, Denise M. Wilson, Akshay Gadre

Quantum Technologies

Quantum Optics, Quantum devices with Color centers, trapped ions and 2D materials

Faculty: Kai-Mei Fu, Mo Li, Sara Mouradian

Integrated CMOS Quantum Control Electronics

Faculty: Chris Rudell

Latest News

The Integrator 2025–2026

Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s flagship annual magazine highlighting the Department’s extraordinary faculty and student research, achievements, alumni stories, special events and more from this past year!

UW ECE Entrepreneurial Fellows Program helps turn research advances into real-world products

This new program supports transfer of research into commercial products through prototyping, customer discovery, and market analysis. Learn how UW ECE-EFP fellows are translating their ideas into impact.

Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers at UW ECE and Princeton University have shown that a camera containing a large aperture, ultra-flat optic can record high-quality color images and video comparable to what can be captured with a conventional camera lens.

Hossein Naghavi — developing high frequency electronics for imaging, sensing, and communication

UW ECE Assistant Professor Hossein Naghavi directs the Terahertz Integrated MicroElectronics Lab at the UW, where he designs microchips that use high frequency terahertz electronics built using integrated circuit design and electromagnetics techniques.

Bingzhao Li receives Activate Fellowship to commercialize compact, affordable LiDAR technology

UW ECE alumnus Bingzhao Li (Ph.D. ‘22) has received an Activate Fellowship to commercialize compact, affordable LiDAR technology he helped to develop in the UW Laboratory of Photonic Systems, which is directed by UW ECE and Physics Professor Mo Li.

Professor Kai-Mei Fu elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

UW ECE and Physics Professor Kai-Mei Fu has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Fu received this honor for contributions to fundamental and applied research on the optical and spin properties of quantum point defects in crystals, and for quantum community leadership.

Electronic, Photonic, and Integrated Quantum Systems (EPIQS)