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

  1. Graphene and non-graphene two-dimensional (2D) materials
  2. Unconventional inorganic low-cost solar cell materials
  3. Hybrid heterostructures based on ferromagnetic and semiconducting thin films
  4. Molecular beam epitaxial (MBE), Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), thermal vapor deposition (TVD) and rf/dc-magnetron sputtering technologies
  5. Epitaxial growth of III-V (/N) and ZnO semiconductor compounds, heterostructures and their related low-dimensional structures and devices
  6. Nanoscale photonic structures and devices; semiconductor nanostructures: design, pro-cessing, characterization and potential applications
  7. 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
  8. Inorganic semiconductor solar cells: low-cost, environment friendly, and sustainable

 

Publication

  1. 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
  2. H. F. Liu*, Y. D. Wang, M. Lin, L. T. Ong, S. Y. Tee, and D. Z. Chi, RSC Adv. 5, 48647 (2015)
  3. 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) 
  4. 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)
  5. 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
  6. Towards large area and continuous MoS2 atomic layers via vapor-phase growth: Ther-mal vapor sulfurization
  7. 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
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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) 
  11. Crystallographic tilt in GaN-on-Si (111) heterostructures grown by metal-organic chem-ical vapor deposition
  12. 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
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. Magnetron-sputter epitaxy of β-FeSi2(220)/Si(111) and β-FeSi2(431)/Si(001) thin films at elevated temperatures
  18. H. F. Liu*, C. C. Tan, and D. Z. Chi, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 30, 041516 (2012)
  19. Effects of doping and indium inclusions on structural and optical properties of InN thin films grown by MOCVD
  20. 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) 
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)