Publications

Lastest Update: Mar. 2026, check full list on [Google Scholar]
Over 500 citations by 2026, total journal impact factor over 100 (Published, first and co-first).

Selected first/Co-first authored papers

• Zhou, Z., Lu, H., Nandhakumar, N., Alkhazragi, O., Ou, X., Lin, H., Ng, T.K., Ooi, B.S. and Wan, Y. Chaos-based scalable optoelectronic physical unclonable functions with AI-driven dynamic authentication, Accepted, Nature Electronics. Preprint version available (Ph.D. main project 1#).
  
  
• Zhou, Z., Ou, X., Fang, Y., Alkhazraji, E., Xu, R., Wan, Y. and Bowers, J.E., 2023. Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers. elight, 3(1), pp.1-25. (Cover paper, ESI highly cited paper, 2024 IF = 32.1)
  
  
• Zhou, Z., He, W., Wu, X., Wang, X., Ou, X., Liao, H., Xie, Y., Shi, Y., Wang, D., Shamim, A., Huang, D., Rong, H., Bowers, E.J., and Wan, Y., “Integrated Quantum Dot Laser for Photonic Driven Parallelized Edge Computing”, Advanced Photonics, 2026, 8, 026017.(Ph.D. main project 2#).
  
  
• Zhou, Z., Liao, H., He, W., Ou, X., Yang, Q., Wu, X., Shi Y., Shamim A., Wang X., Yang Y. and Wan Y., “Multi-User Wireless Health Monitoring System Using an Integrated Photonic Tensor Core”, In preparation (Ph.D. main project 3#).
  
  
• Lu, H.†, Zhou, Z.†, Mosquera, M.J., Lin, H., Alkhazraji, O., Wan, Y., and Ooi, S.B., “Optical Multi-Key Authentication Leveraging VCSEL Far-Field Patterns and Deep Learning”, Submitted, Light: Science & Applications.
  
  
• Zhang, X.†, Ou, X.†, Zhou, Z.†, Xiao, H., Huang, Y., Liu, C., Zhai, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, X. and Wan, Y., “Integrated van der Waals Waveguides for All-Optical Nonlinear Photonic Circuits”, Accepted, Nature Commnunications.
  
  
• Zhou, Z., Yang, F., Wang, S., Wang, L., Wang, X., Wang, C., Xie, Y. and Liu, Q., 2022. Emerging of two-dimensional materials in novel memristor. Frontiers of Physics, 17, pp.1-14. (IF 2024 = 5.3, JCR / Q1)
  
  
• Wang, S., Zhou, Z.†, Yang, F., Chen, S., Zhang, Q., Xiong, W., Qu, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, C. and Liu, Q., 2023. All-atomristor logic gates. Nano Research, 16(1), pp.1688-1694. (IF 2023 = 9.0, JCR / Q1)
  
  
• Wang, S., Zhou, Z.†, Li, B., Wang, C. and Liu, Q., 2021. Progresses on new generation laser direct writing technique. Materials Today Nano, 16, p.100142. (IF 2023 = 10.3, JCR / Q1)
  

Oral talks in conference

• CLEO 2024, “On-Chip Quantum Dot Lasers Driven High-Speed Optical Neural Networks”, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
  
  
• IPC 2024, “On-chip Quantum Dot Lasers for Photonic Processing Unit on Silicon-Based Heterogeneous Platform”, Rome, Roma provincial, Italy.
  
  
• CLEO 2025, “Deep Learning-Enhanced Dynamic Security System Based on Photonic Physical Unclonable Functions”, Long Beach, California, USA.
  
  
• ASP-DAC 2026, “ENLighten: Lighten the Transformer, Enable Efficient Optical Acceleration”, Hong Kong.
  

Graduation Thesis

• Master thesis: Research on logic computing of single-atomic-layer MoS2 memristor devices (Chinese). Completed in 2022, kindly download the full-text [here].
  
  
• Bachelor thesis: Research on laser processing gray-scale mask and mechanism (Chinese). Completed in 2019, kindly download the full-text [here].