People

Staff Members

Dr. Tan Chong Wei (Senior Research Fellow) : chongwei@ntu.edu.sg

2005: BEng in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Major in Electronics )
2007: MEng in School of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering (Major in Precision Engineering)
2015: PhD in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Carbon Based Materials)

Research Interests and Experiences:

  • Carbon Based Hybrid Materials for MEMS and Nano-Electronics applications
  • Thermal Management in electronic devices
  • Advanced 3D Interconnect TSV
  • Diamond as substrate for high power devices
  • Carbon Nanotubes for Field Emission and RF applications

Dr. Liang Kun (Research Fellow) : liangkun@ntu.edu.sg
  • Raman spectroscopy testing and analysis for multi-carbon films fabricated from FCVA

August 2008 to September 2014: Ph.D. study under Prof. Tay

  • Synthesis of TiO2 Nanostructure Based Delivery System for BMP Delivery
  • TiO2 nano particle attach on vertical aligned CNT arrays

Currently as Research Fellow in EEE, NTU


Dr. Wang Xingli (Senior Research Fellow) : wangxingli@ntu.edu.sg

August 2011 – August 2015, Ph.D. student under Prof. Tay,

Research Interest:

  • Growth and Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: From Monolayers to Heterostructures

Mr Zhao Guangchao (Research Associate)

2020 – present: Research Associate in CINTRA NTU

Research interest:

  • 2D material based transistors for ternary logic devices

Dr Fu Qundong (Research Fellow)

2015-2019: PhD Nanyang Technological University

Research interest:

  • Synthesis of high quality and large area 2D mateirals by CVD and their electronic application

Dr Zhao Xinghai (Research Fellow)

Nov 2022- present: Research Fellow (Wallenberg-NTU RF)

Research interest:

  • Novel sub-THz / THz devices

Dr. Zou Jianping (Senior Research Fellow)

Research Interest:

  • Carbon nanotube film synthesis and assembly
  • Carbon nanotube-based electronic devices and logic circuits

Dr Hu Yi (Research Fellow)

Research Interest:

  • 2D materials, CVD, Heterostructure, Piezo/ferroelectrics

Postgraduate Students

Yip Weng Hou (PhD Student)

Aug 2020 – Present: PhD student

Research project: Thermoelectric Materials


Jiang Rongtao (PhD Student)

Aug 2021 – present: PhD student
Research project: CNT transfer and Nanoantenna


Zhao Shengfu Zhao Shengfu (PhD Student)
  • Research interest: Cathode Arc Plasma
  • 2022- present: PhD student
  • 2017- present: Senior Manager — Nanofilm

Gong Yue (PhD Student)

Jan 2023 until now – PhD student,
Research Topic: Memristors and transistors for neuromorphic functions based on 2D materials


Lim Seoung Bum (PhD Student)

Jan 2023 – present: PhD student
Research Topic: Tunnel devices based on 2D materials
Past research experience : Perovskite TFT , Modeling solar cell (TCAD) and Spin-dependent recombination in III-V ternary alloys


Alumni

Dr Lucas Lum Yu Xiang

2019 – 2023: PhD student

Research Project: electromagnetic compatibility design and solution for IR pyroelectric sensors


Dr Siah Chun Fei

August 2017 – August 2022 PhD student
Currently: Research Fellow @ NUS
Research Interest: Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Materials


Dr Guo Rui

2021 – 2023: Senior Research Fellow
Research Interest: Ferroelectric thin films, memories


Dr Zhang Tongtong

2023: Research Fellow

Research Interest: mutual coupling compensation in smart antenna array, signal processing in body sensor network, spike neural network


Dr Wang Jianxiong

2007-2009 Research Fellow, School of Applied physics, City university of Hongkong.
2009-2016 Research Fellow, school of EEE, NTU
2017-2020 Research Fellow, CINTRA, NTU

Currently working in Nanofilm


Dr Lim Yu Dian

2014-2018: PhD student under Prof Tay
Research interest: Development and Applications of Embedded Nanoclusters


Dr Huang Mingqiang

2009-2013 Bachelor, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
2013-2018 PhD, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
2018-2019 Research Fellow in CINTRA, NTU
Currently in Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests:
– Wafer scale MoS2 devices and circuits,
– Multi value logic device,
– Novel 2D materials, Electronics and Optoelectronics,
– Heterostructure and semiconductor physics,


Dr Shiau Li Lynn

August 2015 – 2019: PhD student
currently Research Scientist in Thales Singapore

Research Interest: design and fabrication of 2D material-based IR detector


Dr Ange Maurice 

2014 – 2019 : Ph.D. study under prof Tay

Novel materials using Y-bend filtered cathodic vacuum arc system


Dr  Julia Gusakova

2014- 2018: PhD Student

M. Sc.: from BSUIR, thesis “Fundamental electronic and transport properties of Silicon nanowires”

Research Interest: Quantum chemical simulations to predict electronic structure for different nanoscale systems such as 1D and 2D materials.


Dr  Mathieu Cometto

May 2013 – September 2013: Intern under prof. Tay
2014 – 2018: PhD Student under prof. Tay

Research interest
Carbon nanotubes based radio-frequency devices, specifically passive devices and antennas.


Dr  Tan Dunlin

2009 ~ 2012: Research Staff

January 2012 – January 2016: PhD student under Prof Tay
Currently at Thales Solutions Asia


Dr  Kong Qinyu

August 2013- August 2017: PhD Student

Research Interest: Develop diamond films towards thermal management applications


Dr  Loïc Loisel

January 2012- January 2016: Ph.D. study under Prof. Tay
Nanostructured carbon for thermal interface applications


Dr  Chow Wai Leong

August 2010 – August 2015: PhD student
Thesis:Development of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

August 2009 – August 2010: Final year student under Prof. Tay


Dr  Liu Wenwen

2013 – 2015 Research Fellow
Novel energy storage materials applied in supercapacitor and battery


Dr  Lu Congxiang

August 2010 – August 2014, Ph.D Student under Prof. Tay,

  • CNT network for nanopackaging.

Dr  Majid Kabiri Samani

Aug 2010 – Dec 2014: Ph.D student under Prof. Tay.

  • investigate thermal conductivity of different kinds of hard/superhard PVD coatings thermal characterization of carbon structure materials.

Feb 2008 – Aug 2009: RA under Prof Chen and Prof. Tay,

  • thermal characterization of Single Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube by using pulsed photothermal reflectance (PPR) technique.
  • developing 3-omega setup to measure in-plane and cross-plane thermal conductivity of nanoscale materials.
  • developing transient thermal grating (TTG) setup to measure in-plane thermal conductivity.

Dr Li Hong

Dec 2010 – Mar 2012: Research fellow under Prof. Tay.
Currently: Assoc Prof at MAE, NTU


Dr Xu Naiyun

Aug 2009 – Aug 2013: PhD student under Prof. Tay

  • Studying on electrical properties of laser annealed a-C film
  • Developing new type of filtered cathodic vacuum arc system, to grown different kind of carbon metal composite film, and control of metal cluster size by changing the deposition parameters
  • Studying the effect of thermal and laser treatment on carbon metal composite, and the thermal, mechanical and electrical properties of the carbon metal composite film before and after treatment.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2009: Final year project under Prof. Tay


Dr Yap Chin Chong, Ray

Aug 2009 – Aug 2013: PhD student under Prof Tay

  • Manipulating of different kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNT) for RF applications
  • CNT are self-growth in our lab using PECVD system and are realized on lithography patterned catalyst substrate
  • RF studies of CNT involved the fabrication of tampered coplanar lines to study the S-parameters characteristics of CNT.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2009 : Final Year Project under Prof Tay

  • Study the morphology on dewetting phenomenon of polymer thin fil

Dr Maziar Shakerzadeh

Aug 2010 – Sep 2011: Research staff under Prof Tay
Aug 2006 – Aug 2010: PhD student under Prof Tay

Research interests:

  • amorphous carbon (a-C) and graphitization of a-C films,
  • Structural dependency of carbon based materials properties,
  • Stability of carbon based nanostructures,
  • Carbon-Carbon hybrid systems.
  • TEM and quantitative microscopy (such as EELS and EDAX)
  • X-ray Diffraction studies of materials

Dr Li Xiaocheng

2008 – Mar 2012: Research Fellow under Prof Tay

  • Fabrication of periodically aligned CNT arrays by using the nickel nanodot arrays as catalyst and their application in field emission –Fabrication of periodically aligned silicon nanowire arrays and their application in solar cells.
  • Thermal conductivity of silicon nanowire arrays.
  • Chemically derived graphene for surface-enhanced Raman scattering investigation.
  • CNT-graphene 3D hybrid material for nanopacking applications

Dr Loh Guan Chee Jarvis

2013 Research fellow under Prof Tay
2012 Project Officer under Prof Tay
Jan 2008-Jan 2012: PhD student under Prof Tay

  • Title: On Thermal Properties of Graphene Nanostructue
    1. Flux-Mediated Diffuse Mismatch Model
    2. Thermal Transport Around Graphene Tears

Jan 2007-Jan 2008 ~ Final Year Project (with Prof. Tay and DSI-AStar)


Dr Teo Hang Tong, Edwin

Currently, Assoc Prof Teo Hang Tong Edwin at NTU
Previous PhD student under Prof Tay

  • Hybrid carbon system fabrication and characterization

Dr  Han Zhaojun

Previous Ph.D. student from Prof. Tay’s group (2005-2009)
Currently he is a OCE Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia.
His research topic is on the Synthesis, Modeling and Applications of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.


Dr  Yang Yi 

Previous Ph.D. student from Prof. Tay’s group (2004-2008)


Dr  Sze Jia Yin 

Ph.D. student from Prof. Tay’s group (2002-2007)


Dr  Zhang Ping 

Previous Ph.D. student from Prof. Tay’s group (2000-2004)

  • Fabrication and Characterisation of Composite Diamond-like Carbon films

Dr Zhao Zhiwei

Previous Ph.D. student from Prof. Tay’s group (2001-2004)

  • Growth and characterization of metal oxide thin films by filtered cathodic vacuum arc

Currently she is an academic staff (professor) and working at Southeast University (Nanjing, China)


Dr Yan Xingbin

Previous Singapore Millennium Foundation Fellow under Prof.Tay’s group (8/2005-2006)
Currently working in Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS (2009-present)


Dr Cheong Jhun Yew 

Aug 2006-2012: Ph.D. study under Prof. Tay

  • Nanocomposite CrAlSiN hard coatings
  • Oxidation resistance and thermal stability of nanocomposite hard coatings
  • Joint project with SIMTech

Dr Tsang Siu Hon

2011 – 2012, Research fellow under Prof. Tay

  • Fabrication of carbon based nano antenna array -Development of Y-bend Filtered Catholic Vacuum Arc technique for nanocluster deposition

Dr Wu Yuming

Feb., 2011 until Feb., 2013: Research Fellow under Prof. Wang Hong and Prof. Tay Beng Kang

  • Antenna theory, analysis and design
  • characterization and modeling of nanoantennaselectromagnetic theory, techniques, measurements and applications