研究方向：太赫兹光子学，液晶光学，超材料与超表面，石墨烯等。 主持国家重点研发计划子课题1项，国家自然科学基金青年项目1项，省自然科学基金面上项目1项，省自然科学基金青年项目1项，省高校自然科学研究项目1项，江苏省光通信工程研究中心开放课题1项，智能光感知与调控技术教育部重点实验室开放课题1项，固体微结构物理国家重点实验室开放课题1项，毫米波国家重点实验室开放课题1项，中国博士后科学基金项目2项等；参与国家级、省级自然科学基金重点项目、重大项目子课题等多项课题。发表多篇SCI论文，一区1篇，被国内THz领域权威网站—中国太赫兹研发网详细报道；另1篇二区文章被世界著名的光学、光电子行业杂志Laser Focus World作为Newsbreaks Top One 特别报道。与南京煜宸激光科技有限公司合作，结合3D打印技术，进一步拓展在太赫兹领域的研究，已取得初步成效。授权发明专利6项，另3项发明专利已受理。

代表作：

1. Lei Wang, Hongsong Qiu, Ping Jin, Shijun Ge, ZX Shen, Wei Hu, Makoto Nakajima, Biao-Bing Jin, and Yanqing Lu. THz generation by optical rectification of femtosecond laser pulses in liquid crystal. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39(3), A89-A93 (2022).

2. Lei Wang, Xiao-wen Lin, Xiao Liang, Jing-bo Wu, Wei Hu, Zhi-gang Zheng, Biao-bing Jin, Yi-qiang Qin, and Yan-qing Lu. Large birefringence liquid crystal material in terahertz range. Opt. Mater. Express 2, 1314-1319 (2012). Web of Science查询：被引用112次（2024.3.9）

3. Lei Wang, Xiao-Wen Lin, Wei Hu, Guang-Hao Shao, Peng Chen, Lan-Ju Liang, Biao-Bing Jin, Pei-Heng Wu, Hao Qian, Yi-Nong Lu, Xiao Liang, Zhi-Gang Zheng and Yan-Qing Lu. Broadband tunable liquid crystal terahertz waveplates driven with porous graphene electrodes. Light Sci. Appl. 4, e253 (2015). Web of Science查询：被引用163次（2024.3.9）

4. Lei Wang, et al. Bridging the terahertz near-field and far-field in liquid crystal based metamaterial absorbers. Chin. Phys. B 25(9), 094222 (2016).

5. Lei Wang, Shijun Ge, Wei Hu, Makoto Nakajima and Yan-Qing Lu. Graphene-assisted high-efficiency liquid crystal tunable terahertz metamaterial absorber. Opt. Express 25, 23873 (2017). Web of Science查询：被引用97次（2024.3.9）

6. Lei Wang, Shijun Ge, Wei Hu, Makoto Nakajima and Yan-Qing Lu. Tunable reflective liquid crystal terahertz waveplates. Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 2023 (2017). Web of Science查询：被引用61次（2024.3.9）

7. Haoyan Jiang, Yaoyi Tang, Xiaohan Zeng, Ruiwen Xiao, Peng Lü, Lei Wang（通信作者）, Yanqing Lu. Visual measurement of the microscopic temperature of porous graphene based on cholesteric liquid crystal microcapsules. Chinese Optics Letters 18, 31201 (2020). （被选为Cover Paper）

8. Lei Wang, Hongsong Qiu, Thanh Nhat Khoa Phan, Kosaku Kato, Boyoung Kang, Keisuke Takano, Yanqing Lu, Lujian Chen, Peng Lv, Kehan Yu, Wei Wei, Biaobing Jin and Makoto Nakajima. Visible Measurement of Terahertz Power Based on Capsulized Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Film. Appl. Sci. 8, 2580 (2018). 受邀约稿。

9. 王磊,肖芮文,葛士军,沈志雄,吕鹏,胡伟,陆延青. 太赫兹液晶材料与器件研究进展. 物理学报 68, 084205 (2019).

10. Hongsong Qiu, Lei Wang, Zhixiong Shen, Kosaku Kato, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Masashi Yoshimura, Wei Hu, Yanqing Lu, and Makoto Nakajima. Magnetically and electrically polarization-tunable THz emitter with integrated ferromagnetic heterostructure and large-birefringence liquid crystal. Appl. Phys. Express 11, 092101 (2018).

11. Tao Yang, Lei Wang, et al. Compact terahertz spectrometer based on sequential modulation of disordered rough surfaces. Opt. Lett. 44(24), 6061-6064 (2019).

12. Zhixiong Shen, Shenghang Zhou, Shijun Ge, Wei Duan, Peng Chen, Lei Wang, Wei Hu and Yan-Qing Lu. Liquid-crystal-integrated metadevice: towards active multifunctional terahertz wave manipulations. Opt. Lett. 43, 4695 (2018).

13. Lei Wang, Ruiwen Xiao, Shengxin Yang, Hongsong Qiu, Zhixiong Shen, Peng Lv, Caihong Zhang, Wei Hu, Makoto Nakajima, Biaobing Jin, AND Yanqing Lu. 3D porous graphene-assisted capsulized cholesteric liquid crystals for terahertz power visualization. Opt. Lett. 45, 5892 (2020). 被引用23次（2024.3.9）

14. 王磊，吴双悦，宗顾卫，金萍，张绪，宋瑞琦，李炳祥，胡伟，陆延青，液晶太赫兹光子学研究进展. 液晶与显示，38，420-431 (2023). （被选为Cover Paper）

15. Junyu Xiao, Ruiwen Xiao, Rongxuan Zhang, Zhixiong Shen, Wei Hu, Lei Wang（通信作者）, and Yanqing Lu.  Tunable terahertz absorber based on transparent and flexible metamaterial. Chinese Optics Letters, 18(9), 092403 (2020) 被引用33次（2024.3.9）

16. Rongxuan Zhang, Guwei Zong, Shuangyue Wu, Ruiqi Song, Xu Zhang, Shijun Ge, Wei Hu, Lei Wang（通信作者）, and Yanqing Lu. Ultrathin flexible terahertz metamaterial bandstop filter based on laser-induced graphene. Journal of Optical Society of America B, 39, 1229-1232 (2022).

17. Lan Jingxuan, Zhang Rongxuan, Bai Hao,  Hao Bai, Caidie Zhang, Xu Zhang, Wei Hu, Lei Wang（通信作者）, and Yanqing Lu. Tunable broadband terahertz absorber based on laser-induced graphene. Chinese Optics Letters, 20(7): 073701 (2022).

18. Xia Meng, Ping Jin, Shijun Ge, Jiao Liu, Bingxiang Li, Lei Wang（通信作者）, and Yanqing Lu. Microstructured fluorescence in liquid crystals with femtosecond laser excitation. Chinese Optics Letters, 22(3): 33801, (2024).

会议特邀报告：

1. Lei Wang, Cholesteric Liquid Crystals for Terahertz Detection, PIERS, Rome, 2019.6.17-2019.6.20

2. Lei Wang, Terahertz wave manipulation and detection based on liquid crystals SPIE Photonics West 2019, San Francisco, 2019.2.2-2019.2.7

3. Lei Wang, Liquid Crystal Based Devices for THz Applications,日本光子学会议(OPIC-ALPS2018)，横滨，2018.4.24-2018.4.27

4. 王磊，液晶在太赫兹领域的应用，第四届全国太赫兹科学技术学术年会 成都电子科技大学, 2018.7.13-2018.7.15