Supports for Postgraduate Students

PhD/MPhil students supported by the research centres

  • Li Ning (PhD, Sep 2015 – Aug 2018) set up our OPD characterization infrastructure and was responsible for OPD characterization and process and device optimizations. He had significantly contributed to rapid progress of our OPD activities. He left in April 2019 to join Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California San Diego (UCSD) as a postdoctoral Fellow. [J. Mater. Chem. C, 7 (2019) 9573-9580., J. Mater. Chem. C, 7 (2019) 4808-4816., J. Mater. Chem. C, 7 (2019) 3711-3729., Adv. Opt. Mater. 6 (2018) 1801084., Nanophotonics, 7 (2018) 1981–1988].

  • SYED Ali Asghar (PhD, Sep 2015 – Aug 2018) was involved in semiconductor material and process studies, developing the development of perovskite solar cells. He left in February 2019 to join School of Materials Science at Jiangsu University in China [J. Mater. Chem. C, 7 (2019) 5293-5298, J. Mater. Chem. C, 7 (2019) 5260-5266., J. Mater. Chem. C, 6 (2018) 2596-2603.]. 

  • Wang Yiwen (PhD, Sep 2016 – Aug 2019) focused on improving the understanding the stability of OSCs, she graduated her PhD study and continue working as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Physics at HKBU [Adv. Energy Mater. 9 (2019) 1900157, ACS Photonics, 5 (2018) 1144-1150, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 (2017) 5264-5271.].

  • Ho Ka Wai (PhD, Sept 2015-present) continues his research within our Centre to develop high performance OSCs for indoor application, also assists in the research in charge transport properties [J. Mater. Chem. A, 6, 8579 (2018).].

  • Zhang Chujun (PhD, Sept 2018-Aug 2021) continues his research within our Centre to develop high performance OSCs for indoor application, also assists in the research in charge transport properties [Adv. Electron. Mater. 2019, 1900497].

  • Chan Ka Hin, (MPhil, Sept 2014-Apr 2019) contributed research in understanding the effect of charge transfer and stratification in the polymer/nonfullerene bulk heterojunction on the stability of OSCs, and provided technical support to the materials group for device characterization and device design knowledge.

  • Cheung Sin Hang (MPhil, Sept 2016-May 2019) left for continuing his PhD studies at The University of British Columbia in Canada [J. Mater. Chem. C, 6, 9111-18 (2018), Mater. Chem. C 6, 7855-7863 (2018). J. Mater. Chem. A 34, 16347-16354 (2018).]

  • Chiu Ka Lok (MPhil, Sept 2018- Aug 2019) participated the research ternary OSCs [Adv. Electron. Mater. 2019, 1900497, Solar RRL 2, 1700239 (2018).]

  • Vicky Lau (PhD, Sept 2016- present) is focusing on solution-processable perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs). She has made a good headway in her research developing an approach for controlled growth of the perovskite for high performing PeLEDs. [Adv. Opt. Mater. 6 (2018) 1801084, Nanophotonics, 7 (2018) 1981–1988].

  • Lan Zhaojue (PhD, Sept 2016 – present) studied device physics of OPDs and developed a novel device structure for application in visible/NIR dual mode photodetectors. [two US patent applications have been filed].

  • Cai Linfeng (PhD, Sept 2018 – present) is currently working on the growth of perovskite semiconductors for application in optoelectronic devices, carrying out the studies of material formulation, device fabrication, and materials and device characterization.