Personal Information
Liu Hongfei, Institute of Materials
Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore
Education
9/1996-6/2001:
Ph.D. Institute of Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing,China
9/1992-7/1996:
Bachelor’s degree Department of
electrical engineering, Xi’an JiaoTong University, Xi’an,China
Professional Appointment and Membership
2014-current: Associate Editor, Journal of
Nanoscience Letters (Cognizure)
2013-current: Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on
2D materials: Fabrication, Character-ization, Properties and Applications,
Advances in Condensed Matter Phys-ics (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
2013-current: Editorial Board Member, Advances in
Materials (Science Publication Group)
2013-current: Editorial Board Member, World
Research Journal of Chemistry (Bioinfo Publications, ISO 9001:2008 Certified)
2011-current: Editorial Board Member,
International Journal of Optoelectronic Engineering (Scientific & Academic
Publishing)
2008-current: Editorial Board Member, The open
Applied Physics Journal (Bentham Science Publishers)
2005-current: Member of Materials Research
Society, Singapore (MRS-S)
Research Interests
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Graphene and non-graphene two-dimensional (2D)
materials
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Unconventional inorganic low-cost solar cell
materials
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Hybrid heterostructures based on ferromagnetic and
semiconducting thin films
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Molecular beam epitaxial (MBE), Metal-organic
chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), thermal vapor deposition (TVD) and
rf/dc-magnetron sputtering technologies
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Epitaxial growth of III-V (/N) and ZnO semiconductor
compounds, heterostructures and their related low-dimensional structures and
devices
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Nanoscale photonic structures and devices;
semiconductor nanostructures: design, pro-cessing, characterization and
potential applications
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Solid-state-lighting, e.g.GaN- and ZnO-based white
LEDs; thin film lift-off and bonding techniques; GaN-based high-power
electronic devices, e.g. HEMT
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Inorganic semiconductor solar cells: low-cost, environment friendly, and
sustainable
Publication
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Cobalt
sulfide nanoparticles decorated on TiO2 nanotubes via thermal vapor sulfuriza-tion of conformal TiO2-coated Co(CO3)0.5(OH)0.11H2O core-shell nanowires for energy
storage applications
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H. F. Liu*, Y. D. Wang, M. Lin, L.
T. Ong, S. Y. Tee, and D. Z. Chi, RSC Adv. 5, 48647 (2015)
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Comment
on “Determination of alloy composition and strain in multiple AlGaN buffer
layers in GaN/Si system” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 232113 (2014)] H. F. Liu*, S. B. Dolmanan, T. N. Bhat, S.
Tripathy, Appl.
Phys. Lett. 106, 176101
(2015)
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Atomic
layer deposition of crystalline Bi2O3 thin films
and their conversion into Bi2S3 by thermal vapor sulfurization H. F. Liu*, K. K. Ansah Antwi, Y. D. Wang, L.
T. Ong, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi, RSC Adv. 4, 58724 (2014)
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Epitaxial
synthesis, band offset, and photoelectrochemical properties of cubic Ga2S3 thin films on GaAs (111) substrates H. F. Liu*, K. K. Ansah Antwi, C. S. Chua, J.
Huang, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi ECS Solid State Lett. 3, P131 (2014). This Paper, published online on Sept. 9,
2014, is Amongst the Most-read Articles (6th in
the list) during the month of Sept. in 2014
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Towards
large area and continuous MoS2 atomic
layers via vapor-phase growth: Ther-mal vapor sulfurization
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H. F. Liu*, K. K. Ansah Antwi, J. F.
Ying, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi Nanotechnology, 25, 405702 (2014). This
Paper, published online on Sept. 19, 2014, is Amongst the Top Ten Most-read
Articles since the last 30 days as of Oct. 7, 2014
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Effects
of lift-off and strain relaxation on optical properties of InGaN/GaN blue LED
grown on 150 nm diameter Si (111) substrate H. F. Liu*, H. L. Seng, J. H. Teng, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi J. Cryst. Growth,
402, 155 (2014)
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Electron-beam-induced
carbon deposition on high-indium-content AlInN thin films grown on Si by
sputtering at elevated temperature H. F. Liu*, C. G. Li, K. K. Ansah Antwi, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi Mater. Lett. 128, 344 (2014)
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Post-growth
thermal oxidation of wurtzite InN thin films into body-center cubic In2O3 for chemical/gas sensing applications
H. F. Liu*, N. Yakovlev, D. Z. Chi, and W. Liu,
J. Solid
State Chem. 214, 91
(2014)
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Crystallographic
tilt in GaN-on-Si (111) heterostructures grown by metal-organic chem-ical vapor
deposition
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H. F. Liu*, K. K. Ansah Antwi, S. J.
Chua, and D. Z. Chi, Nanoscale, 6, 624
(2014). This Paper is Amongst the Top
Ten Most-read Articles in the Q1 of 2014
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Effects
of AlN thickness on structural and transport properties of In-rich
n-AlInN/AlN/p-Si heterostructures grown by magnetron-sputtering H. F. Liu*, S. B. Dolmanan, S. Tripathy, G. K.
Dalapati, C. C. Tan, and D. Z. Chi, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.46, 095106 (2013)
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Influence
of stress on structural properties of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility
transis-tor layers grown on 150 mm diameter Si (111) substrate H. F. Liu*, S. B. Dolmanan, L. Zhang, S. J.
Chua, D. Z. Chi, M. Heuken, and S. Tripa-thy, J. Appl. Phys.113, 023510 (2013)
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Magnetron-sputter
deposition of high-indium-content n-AlInN
thin films on p-Si(001)
substrates for photovoltaic applications H. F. Liu*, C. C. Tan, G. K. Dalapati, and D. Z. Chi, J. Appl. Phys.112, 063114 (2012)
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Layer-by-layer
oxidation of InN(0001) thin films into body-center cubic In2O3(111) by cycle rapid thermal
annealing H.
F. Liu*, D. Z. Chi, and
W. Liu, CrystEngComm,
14, 7140 (2012)
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Magnetron-sputter
epitaxy of β-FeSi2(220)/Si(111) and β-FeSi2(431)/Si(001) thin films at elevated
temperatures
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H. F. Liu*, C. C. Tan, and D. Z.
Chi, J. Vac.
Sci. Technol. A, 30,
041516 (2012)
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Effects
of doping and indium inclusions on structural and optical properties of InN
thin films grown by MOCVD
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H. F. Liu*, W. Liu, S. B. Dolmanan,
S. Tripathy, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 45, 195102 (2012)
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Magnetron-sputter
deposition of Fe3S4 thin films and their conversion into
pyrite (FeS2) by thermal sulfurization
for photovoltaic applications H. F. Liu* and D. Z. Chi, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 30, 04D102 (2012)
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Fabricating
high-quality GaN-based nanobelts by strain-controlled cracking of thin solid
films for application in piezotronics H. F. Liu*, W. Liu, S. J. Chua, and D. Z.
Chi, Nano
Energy 1, 316 (2012).
This work has been highlighted on Jan 10, 2012 by Compound Semiconductors Magazine as a piece of news in Lab. & Fab.
Talk, Vol. 18, No. 1, Page 235 (2012)
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Effects
of temperature and LT-ZnO template on structural and optical properties of
thermal-evaporation deposited ZnO submicron crystals H. F. Liu*, S. J. Chua, and D. Z. Chi, Mater. Lett. 72, 71 (2012)