Faculty
I-Te Lu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Materials Science (Minor in Physics) | California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
Office
Science Building III , SC 505
Tel.
03-5712121 #31638
Lab.
Computational Light-Matter Laboratory
Science Building III, SC 435 Ext. (繁體中文) 56192
Biography
Experience
Expertise
Interest
Publications
2014 - 2020
Ph.D. in Materials Science (Minor in Physics) | California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
2010 - 2012
M.S. in Graduate Program for Science & Technology of Accelerator Light Source, Division of Materials Science & Engineering | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) & National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
2007 - 2010
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering | National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
08/2026 -
Assistant Professor | Department of Electrophysics | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
07/2021 - 07/2026
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Germany
07/2020 - 06/2021
Postdoctoral Scholar | California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
  • Condensed matter physics and computational materials physics
  • Ab initio light-matter interaction
  • Quantum electrodynamical density functional theory code development and applications
  • Ab initio electronic structure methods & code development
  • Electronic transport in solid-state materials

 

  • Strong light-matter couplings
  • cavity materials engieering
  • Electron-phonon-photon couplings in solid-state materials
  • First principles theory development and applications for solid-state materials
  • Ab initio nonequilibrium and open quantum systems

 

  1. R. Baykusheva, D. P. Carmichael, C. S. Weber, I-Te Lu, F. Glerean, T. Meng, P. B. M. de Oliveira, C. C. Homes, I. A. Zaliznyak, G. D. Gu, M. P. M. Dean, A. Rubio, D. M. Kennes, M. Claassen, & M. Mitrano (2026). Quantum control of Hubbard excitons. Nature Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6
  2. Caruso, M. A. Sentef, C. Attaccalite, M. Bonitz, C. Draxl, U. De Giovannini, M. Eckstein, R. Ernstorfer, M. Fechner, M. Grüning, H. Hübener, J.-P. Joost, D. M. Juraschek, C. Karrasch, D. M. Kennes, S. Latini, I-Te Lu, O. Neufeld, E. Perfetto, … & P. Werner. The 2025 Roadmap to ultrafast dynamics: Frontiers of theoretical and computational modeling, Journal of Physics: Materials, 2025. doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae1165
  3. Liu, S. Latini, I-Te Lu, D. Shin, & A. Rubio. Modifying electronic and structural properties of 2D van der Waals materials via cavity quantum vacuum fluctuations, Optical Materials Express, 15(9), 2105-2118, 2025. doi.org/10.1364/OME.568454
  4. I-Te Lu*, D. Shin, M. Kamper Svendsen, S. Latini, H. Hübener, M. Ruggenthaler, & A. Rubio. Cavity engineering of solid-state materials without external driving, Advances in Optics and Photonics, 17(2), 441-525, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.544138
  5. I-Te Lu*, D. Shin, M. K. Svendsen, H. Hübener, U. De Giovannini, S. Latini, M. Ruggenthaler, & A. Rubio*. Cavity-enhanced superconductivity in MgB₂ from first-principles quantum electrodynamics (QEDFT), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(50), e2415061121, 2024. org/10.1073/pnas.2415061121
  6. Zhang, O. Neufeld, N. Tancogne-Dejean, I-Te Lu, H. Hübener, U. De Giovannini, & A. Rubio*. Enhanced high harmonic efficiency through phonon-assisted photodoping effect, npj Computational Materials, 10(1), 17, 2024. doi.org/10.1038/s41524-024-01399-z
  7. I-Te Lu*, M. Ruggenthaler, N. Tancogne-Dejean, S. Latini, M. Penz, & A. Rubio. Electron-photon exchange-correlation approximation for quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory, Physical Review A, 109(5), 052823, 2024. org/10.1103/physreva.109.052823
  8. I-Te Lu, D. Shin, U. De Giovannini, H. Hübener, J. Zhang, S. Latini, & A. Rubio. Time-based Chern number in periodically driven systems in the adiabatic limit, Physical Review Research, 5, 013081, 2023. org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013081
  9. I-Te Lu, J.-J. Zhou, J. Park, & M. Bernardi. First-principles ionized-impurity scattering and charge transport in doped materials, Physical Review Materials, 6, L010801, 2022. org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.L010801
  10. K. Truttmann, J.-J. Zhou, I-Te Lu, A. K. Rajapitamahuni, F. Liu, T. E. Mates, M. Bernardi*, & B. Jalan*. Combined experimental–theoretical study of electron mobility-limiting mechanisms in SrSnO₃, Communications Physics, 4(1), 241, 2021. doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00742-w
  11. -J. Zhou, J. Park, I-Te Lu, I. Maliyov, X. Tong, & M. Bernardi. Perturbo: A software package for ab initio electron-phonon interactions, charge transport and ultrafast dynamics, Computer Physics Communications, 264, 107970, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.107970
  12. I-Te Lu, J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, & M. Bernardi. Ab initio electron-defect interactions using wannier functions, npj Computational Materials, 6(1), 17, 2020. org/10.1038/s41524-020-0284-y
  13. I-Te Lu, J.-J. Zhou, & M. Bernardi. Efficient ab initio calculations of electron-defect scattering and defect-limited carrier mobility, Physical Review Materials, 3(3), 033804, 2019. org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.033804
  14. Martinolich, C.-W. Lee, I-Te Lu, S. C. Bevilacqua, M. B. Preefer, M. Bernardi, A. Schleife, & K. A. See. Solid-state divalent ion conduction in ZnPS₃, Chemistry of Materials, 31(10), 3652-3661, 2019. doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00207
  15. I-Te Lu & M. Bernardi. Using defects to store energy in materials—a computational study, Scientific Reports, 7(1), 18, 2017. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01434-8