Welcome to the news board of the Chuanhong Jin Research Group. Here, we celebrate the latest scientific breakthroughs, academic milestones, and activities of our team members and collaborators.
2026
2026.04.10: Chuanhong's contributed work, "Atomic-scale capture the kinetics of oxygen precipitates in crystalline silicon" was published on Small Structures. This work was coordinated by Degong, a Ph.D from our group. So proud to be involved in this work. Congratulations to Degong!
2026.03.09: Zixuan's work, "Suppression of Secondary Recoil Cascade Damage in High-Z/Low-Z Heterostructures: A mechanism-driven FIB Strategy" was accepted by Ultramicroscopy. This work was done in collaboration with Chongqing Institute of Carbon-based Integrated Circuits (CiCiC), PKU. Congratulations!
2026.01.21: Degong's contributed work, "Single-site-directed unidirectional epitaxy of large-area 2D materials," has been accepted by Advanced Materials. This collaborative effort was coordinated by Prof. Hu Xu at SUSTech. Congratulations!
2026.01.16: Bo's contributed manuscript, "Melting-Assisted Assembly of Twisted Graphene/h-BN Superlattices with Ultra-Clean Interfaces," has been accepted by Nature Synthesis. This work was coordinated by Prof. Tianru Wu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Excellent work!
2026.01.08: Xiaoxiao and Boxiang's paper, "Contrast reversal in electron beam-induced current imaging of carbon nanotube devices governed by secondary electron emission," has been accepted by Nanotechnology. Congratulations!
2025
2025.12.17: Congratulations to Zebin and Boxiang, whose contributed work, "van Hove source for ultralow power FETs," was published in ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Dr. Jia Si at Peking University.
2025.10.21: Xiaoming's manuscript, "Elucidating the growth and shape evolution mechanisms of gold decahedral nanocrystals by in situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy," was accepted by ACS Nano. This may be our group's final paper focusing on LCTEM. Congratulations to Xiaoming!
2025.09.19: Haozhe's manuscript, "Correction to 'Unveiling metal–CNT interfacial wetting and coverage in aligned carbon nanotube array-based field effect transistors,'" was accepted by Nano Letters. Special thanks to Yuanhao for his careful and critical reading to identify the calculation error, and to the esteemed Editor of Nano Letters for allowing us to correct this timely.
2025.09.11: Haozhe's contributed work, "Aligned carbon nanotube FETs with high transconductance and low subthreshold swing," was accepted by IEEE Electron Device Letters (IEDL). This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Dr. Yingjun Yang at Peking University.
2025.09.08: Fenfa's manuscript, "Atomic-Scale Visualization of Spontaneous Bilayer MoS2 Nanoribbon Scrolling via Coupled Rotation-Bending within Carbon Nanotubes," was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Weili Li and Prof. Yanning Zhang at UESTC. An excellent start to the new fall semester!
2025.08.27: Fenfa's contributed work, "Terahertz metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors based on arrayed CNTs," was accepted by Nature Electronics. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Prof. Li Ding's group at Peking University. Outstanding achievement!
2025.08.26: Qian and Sujuan's work, "Foundations of Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2 on Carbon Nanotubes: From Process Window Verification to A Comparative Study on Networked and Aligned Architectures," was accepted by Applied Surface Science. This work was primarily based on Qian's master's thesis at Xiangtan University and further optimized by Sujuan. Congratulations!
2025.08.15: Zixuan's contributed work, "Dimensionality and correlation effects in coupled carbon nanotube arrays," was accepted by Reports on Progress in Physics. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group at Peking University.
2025.06.25: Boxiang's paper, "Influence of Beam Size, Landing Energy, and Charging Effects on the Apparent Diameter of Substrate-Supported Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging," was accepted by Microscopy and Microanalysis. Today also marks Boxiang's onboarding day at CIQTEK. What a fantastic gift!
2025.06.12: Xiang's paper, "Transmission electron microscopy study on the laser-cutting induced microdefects in silicon heterojunction solar cells," was accepted by Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. This work was coordinated by Prof. Deren Yang and Prof. Xuegong Yu.
2025.06.11: Haozhe and Bo's contributed work, "Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated circuits based aligned carbon nanotube arrays," was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group at Peking University.
2025.06.09: Huimin's paper, "Mechanism of Polymer Removal from Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via Rapid Thermal Processing: Insights from In-situ Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy," was published in Nanoscale. This collaborative work was conducted with Prof. Xin Chen at ECUST, Shanghai.
2025.06.04: Haozhe's paper, "Unveiling Metal–CNT Interfacial Wetting and Coverage in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array-Based Field Effect Transistors," was accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations!
2026.02.16: Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing everyone a healthy, enjoyable, and fruitful Year of the Horse!
2026.01.03: Lv Xiang departed for her new position in Shenzhen. We wish her a shining future and a fruitful life in South China.
2025.12.08: Congratulations to Xiang, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Microscopic analysis of passivation degradation mechanisms in high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells," coordinated largely by Prof. Deren Yang and Prof. Xuegong Yu. This represents our final involved Ph.D. thesis in silicon photovoltaics. We extend our greatest thanks to Profs. Yang and Yu for the wonderful collaborative journey.
2025.11.15: Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoxiao Guan, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Study of Electrical Transport Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes based on Scanning Electron Microscopy." We wish you all the best in the future!
2025.09.22: Mengqi Zhang from the MSE School at Jiangsu University received direct admission to our Master's program at ZJU and will join us next fall. We look forward to your arrival!
2025.09.17: Renzhao successfully defended his master's thesis. Congratulations!
2025.09.05: Huimin and Haozhe successfully defended their Ph.D. theses. Congratulations! I am incredibly proud of you both, as well as Bo, Boxiang, and the others who have graduated recently. Your passion, determination, and persistence in diving into CNT-based nanoelectronics—especially during the challenging early days of the COVID-19 pandemic without essential equipment—have been inspiring. Thank you for your hard work, and best wishes for your future careers!
2025.08.24: Dr. Jin had the opportunity for a quick visit with Haofei at the National University of Singapore (NUS). We are very glad to see him thriving in his research and life there.
2025.06.15: Congratulations to Haozhe, who won the Poster Award at the NT25 conference for his presentation: "Microscopic understanding of metal contacts to aligned carbon nanotube arrays: wetting and coverage."
2025.06.12: Yichen successfully defended her master's thesis, "Construction and characterization of end contacts for CNT FETs." Congratulations, and best wishes for a bright future in Guangzhou!
2025.05.24: Boxiang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "SEM imaging mechanism of arrayed carbon nanotubes on insulating substrate." Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
2025.05.17: Xiangtao successfully defended his master's thesis focusing on optimized TEM sample preparation for A-CNT FET analysis. This marks the beginning of the largest and most fruitful graduation season for our group since 2011, with up to 11 members (2 postdocs, 6 Ph.D. students, and 3 master's/visiting students) moving on to their next chapters. It has been incredibly enjoyable working with you all!
2025.09.17 - 09.19: Our group attended the Nature Conference on Low-Dimensional Electronics, organized by the School of Electronics at Peking University. It was an excellent opportunity to catch up on state-of-the-art developments in 2D electronics.
2025.06.14: Sujuan, Huimin, Haozhe, Bing, and Yuanfang traveled to Kyoto, Japan, to attend the NT25 conference.
2025.05.28 - 05.30: Dr. Jin attended the International Symposia for Semiconductor Technology and Characterization alongside the Korean Microscopy Society Spring Meeting at Yonsei University in Seoul. It was wonderful to reunite with old friends and catch up on the progress of former visiting students.
2025.05.24: Prof. Jianwen Zhao from SINANO, CAS, visited our group and delivered an insightful talk on the development and application of CNT-based inks and printed electronics.
2025.05.22 - 05.24: We hosted a mini-workshop focused on "Challenges of A-CNTs based CMOS: State of the Art and Future." It was exciting to reunite with our longtime colleague, Prof. Gang Zhang, who has recently relocated to Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
2025.05.09 - 05.12: We attended the 1st National Conference on Surface and Interfaces Science of the Chinese Chemical Society in Chengdu, Sichuan. Ming, Bo, and Dr. Jin participated in the Electron Microscopy Division's lunch seminar on 4D STEM, alongside the Carbon Nanoelectronics sessions.
2026.0
2026.02.16, Happy Chinese New Year! Wish you a healthy, enjoyful, and fruitful Horse Year!
2026.01.26, Zixuan's contributed work entitled "Collective quantum coherence and subband redistribution in artificially assembled nanotube arrays" was accepted by National Science Review. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ School of Electronics, PKU. Congratulations!
2026.01.21, Degong's contributed work entitled "Single-site-directed unidirectional epitaxy of large-area 2D materials" was accepted by Adv. Mater. This work was coordinated by Prof. Hu Xu@ SUSTECH, congratulations!
2026.01.16, Bo's contributes manuscript entitled "Melting-Assisted Assembly of Twisted Graphene/h-BN Superlattices with Ultra-Clean Interfaces" was accepted by Nature Synthesis. This work was coordinated by Prof. Tianru Wu @Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. Congratulations.
2026.01.08 Xiaoxiao and Boxiang's paper entitled "Contrast reversal in electron beam-induced current imaging of carbon nanotube devices governed by secondary electron emission " was accepted by Nanotechnology. Congratulations.
2026.01.03 Lv Xiang left for her job in Shenzhen. Wish you a shining future and fruitful life in South China.
2026.01.01 Happy New Year!
2025.12.17, Congratulations to Zebin and Boxiang, whose contributed work entitled van Hove source for ultralow power FETs was published on ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Dr. Jia Si @ School of Electronics, PKU.
2025.12.08, Congratulation to Xiang who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Microscopic analysis of passivation degradation mechanisms in high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells ”, as mainly coordinated by Prof. Deren Yang and Xuegong Yu. So glad to take this oppotunity to learn those exciting progress in silicon. Wish you all the best in the future. Also probably our last invovled Ph.D thesis in silicon PV. Great thanks to Profs. Yang and Yu for giving such great opportunity to collaborate with you. It is really enjoyful and pleasant journey.
2025.11.15, Congratulation to Xiaoxiao, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled, Study of Electrical Transport Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes based on Scanning Electron Microscopy. Wish you all the best in the future, Dr. Guan.
2025.11.10, Fall semester, i.e. my busy teaching season starts.
Book recommendation: Beyond Light, The Industrial Beginnings and Early Evolution of Electron Microscopy in Germany, by Falk Muller, Springer. For the first time, I came to know the complex history includign the conflicts involved the early stage development of electron microscopy in Germany.
2025.10.21, Xiaoming's manuscript entitled Elucidating the growth and shape evolution mechanisms of gold decahedral nanocrystals by in situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy was accepted by ACS Nano. This might be our last paper on LCTEM. Congratulation to Xiaoming.
2025.09.22, Mengqi Zhang from MSE School from Jiangsu University got the direct admission to a master program of ZJU, who will join us next fall. Look forward to your coming.
2025.09.19, Haozhe's manuscript ""Correction to "Unveiling metal–CNT interfacial wetting and coverage in aligned carbon nanotube array-based field effect transistors" was accepted by Nano Letters. Special thanks to Yuanhao for his careful and critical reading to figure out this calculation error, and the esteemed Editor of Nano Letters for allowing us correct this error timely.
2025.09.17-09.19, We attended Nature conference on Low-dimensional Electronics, organized by School of Electronics, Peking University. It was a wonderful meeting, and also an excellent chance to catch up with the state-of-the-art in 2D electronics.
20250917, Renzhao successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations.
2025.09.11, Haozhe's contributed work entitled "Aligned carbon nanotube FETs with high transconductance and low subthreshold swing" was accepted by IEDL. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Dr. Yingjun Yang @ School of Electronics, Peking University.
2025.09.08, Fenfa's manuscript entitled Atomic-Scale Visualization of Spontaneous Bilayer MoS2 Nanoribbon Scrolling via Coupled Rotation-Bending within Carbon Nanotubes was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Weili Li and Prof. Yanning Zhang @ UESTC, congratulations. This is also an excellent gift for the start of new fall semester.
2025.09.05, Huimin and Haozhe successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations. I am incredibly proud of you both, as well as Bo and Boxiang , and the others who have graduated or will be graduating soon. I am particularly proud of your passion, power, determination, and persistence in diving into the field of CNT-based nanoelectronics without hesitation. You started under such challenging condition, knowing almost nothing in this field and lacking essential equipment like SEM, FIB, and TEM, particularly during the covid-19 pandemic. Through your continued persistence and hard work, we finally made it (a smooth transition of group research direction). The fact that we could thrive under such harsh conditions give us the courage to face any challenge ahead. It has been a pleasure to work with you on this short but significant journey in your lives. Thank you so much, and best wishes for your future.
2025.08.27, Fenfa's contributed work entitled Terahertz metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors based on arrayed CNTs was accepted by Nature Electronics. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang and Prof. Li Ding's group@ School of Electronics, PKU. Congratulations.
2025.08.26, Qian and Sujuan's work entitled Foundations of Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2 on Carbon Nanotubes: From Process Window Verification to A Comparative Study on Networked and Aligned Architectures was accepted by App. Surf. Sci. This work was done mainly based on Qian's master thesis at Xiangtan, and then further optimized by Sujuan. Congratulations.
2025.08.24, I got a chance for a quick visit to Haofei's place @ NUS. So glad to know everything goes perfectly well with him, his thesis and life there.
2025.08.15, Zixuan' contributed work entitled Dimensionality and correlation effects in coupled carbon nanotube arrays was accepted by Rep. Prog. Phys. Congratulations. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group @ School of Electronics, PKU.
2025.06.25, Boxiang's paper entitled Influence of Beam Size, Landing Energy, and Charging Effects on the Apparent Diameter of Substrate-Supported Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging was accepted by M&M. Today is also Boxiang's onboarding day at CIQTEK. What a gift for him. Congratulations.
2025.06.15, Congratulations to Haozhe, who just won the NT25 Poster Award (poster title: Microscopic understanding of metal contacts to aligned carbon nanotube arrays: wetting and coverage).
20250614, Sujuan, Huimin, Haozhe, Bing, and Yuanfang went to Kyoto, Japan to attend the NT25 conference.
2025.0612, Xiang's paper entitled Transmission electron microscopy study on the laser-cutting induced microdefects in silicon heterojunction solar cells was accepted by Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. This work was coordinated by Prof. Deren Yang, and collaborated by Prof. Xuegong Yu, Congratulations.
2025.06.12, Yichen successfully defended her master thesis entitled "Construction and characterization of end contacts for CNT FETs". Congratulation to you and wish you a shining future at Guangzhou.
2025.06.11, Haozhe and Bo's contributed work entitled Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated circuits based aligned carbon nanotube arrays was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group @ School of Electronics, PKU. Congratulations.
2025.06.09, Huimin's paper entitled Mechanism of Polymer Removal from Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via Rapid Thermal Processing: Insights from In-situ Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy was published on Nanoscale. This paper was done in collaboration with Prof. Xin Chen@ECUST, Shanghai. Congratulations.
2025.06.04, Haozhe's paper entitled Unveiling Metal–CNT Interfacial Wetting and Coverage in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array-Based Field Effect Transistors was accepted by Nano Letters, Congratulations.
2025.06.01, Xujing, together with his husband visited us on such a special holiday. So glad to see her again and best wishes!
2025.05.31, Haozhe's paper entitled Self-Aligned Protective Shield for Preparing Beam-Sensitive MEMS-Based Chip Samples Using Focused Ion Beam was published online by Micron. Congratulations to Haozhe! Such a special gift to the Dragon Boat Festival.
2025.05.30, Yuanfang's work entitled Encapsulation and Electronic Modulation of Mo1-xWxS2 Nanoribbons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes was accepted by Carbon. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Yaning Zhang from UESTC, Dr. Junqiu Zhang at HKU, and Prof. Xin Chen @ ECUST. Congratulations.
2025.05.28-30, Dr. Jin attended the International Symposia for Semiconductor Technology and Characterization, Korean Microscopy Society Spring Meeting, Yongsei University, Soul. It was a great opportunity to reunion with many old friends. I also met with Prof. Yimo for the first time, who is the Ph.D supervisor of Chuqiao, who used to stay with us as an undergraduate research assistant, and a visiting Ph.D. student during the hard time. So glad to know Chunqiao is doing so well from Yimo's talk.
2025.05.24, Boxiang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled SEM imaging mechanism of arrayed carbon nanotubes on insulating substrate. Congratulation. Dr. Zhang!
2025.05.24, Prof. Jianwen Zhao from SINANO, CAS visited us, and gave a talk about the development and application of CNT based inks and printing electronics.
2025.05.22-24, We organized a mini-workshop focusing on "Challenges of A-CNTs based CMOS: state of the art and future". It was so excited to re-meet with our old friend, Prof. Gang Zhang, who recently has been re-located in Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
2025.05.17，Xiangtao successfully defended his master thesis regarding the optimized TEM sample preparation for A-CNT FET analysis. Congratulation to Xiangtao, and best wishes for your future. The start of the largest/most fruitful graduation season in my group since 2011. There will be up to 11 persons (2 postdoc, 6 Ph.D. students, and 3 master students (including visiting students) who are going to leave us. Wish you guys all the best, wish you all promising and shining features! So enjoyful to working with you during your stay with us.
2025.05.09-12, We attended the 1st National Conference on Surface and Interfaces Science of the Chinese Chemical Society, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was my (Chuanhong) first time to attend such big conference after the COVID, and somehow felt embarrassed to stay comfortably among such a huge group of people. Ming, Bo, and I took chances to attend the lunch seminar in Electron Microscopy Division (though we mainly stayed at Carbon Nanoelectronics Session) focusing on 4D STEM. So glad to see many old friends therein.
2025.05.09, Huimin's work entitled Charge Detection of Perovskite Nanowires Filled Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes for CMOS ICs was accepted by Small Methods. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Maguang Zhu@NJU, Dr. Jiang Cao@ETH, Prof. Zhihai Cheng@RUC, and Prof. Zhiyong Zhang@PKU. Congratulations.
2025.03.31, Xiaoxiao's contributed work entitled Localized Charge Doping in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors via Metal Subnanocluster Absorption was published online by Nano Letters. This work was coordinated by Prof. Yanning Zhang @ UESTC.
2025.03.31, Xiaoxiao's work entitled Influence of Electron Beam Irradiation on Network Carbon Nanotube Films based Field Effect Transistors was accepted by Adv. Electron. Mater. Congratulations.
2025.03.18, Xiangtao's work entitled Optimized Single-Beam Modulation Argon Ion Milling for TEM Cross-Sectional Specimens of Nanostructured Interfaces was accepted by Journal of Microscopy. Congratulation.
2025.03.13 Bo's contributed work entitled Homochiral carbon nanotube van der Waals crystals was published on Science. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiwen Shi @ Shanghai Jiaotong University. Congratulations.
2025.02.14, Fenfa's contributed work entitled Growth of atomically thin metastable beta-tungsten in SWCNTs for stable 1D ferromagnets was published by JACS. This work was coordinated by Prof. Feng Yang @SUSTech. Congratulations.
2025.02, Dr. Jin visited Prof. Jani Kotakoski's group at Dep. Phys. Vienna University, Austria.
2025.01.16 Xibiao's contributed work entitled Combining machine learning algorithms with traditional methods for resolving the atomic-scale dynamic structures of monolayer MoS2 in HRTEM was published on Chinese Physics B. This work was coordinated by Prof. Fang Lin. Congratulations.
2025.01.15, Degong and Daliang's contributed work entitled Single-layer MoSeN-a synthetic Janus 2D transition-metal compound grown by plasma-assisted MBE was published on 2D Materials. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie @ HKU. Congratulations.
2025.01.12, The annual year-ending meeting for the EM Center was held. Huimin, Sujuan, and Yuanhao were awarded for scholarships with different titles. Congratulations to them!
2025.01.01, Wish you all a Heathy and Fruitful Happy New Year of 2025.
2024.12.10. Lv Xiang's paper entitled Interfacial characterization of non-metal precipitates at grain boundaries in cast multicrystalline silicon crystals was accepted for publication in Journal of Crystal Growth. This work was coordinated by Prof. Deren Yang. Congratulations to Xiang!
2024.11.26 Prof. Ute Kaiser from Ulm University visited us and delivered a talk regarding the low-voltage Cc-Cs corrected TEM, covering the instrumentation, image formation mechanism, and its application in 2D and hybrid materials.
2024.10.17-20, Sujuan attended the 2024 1st Asia-Pacific Atomic layer deposition Conference in Shanghai.
2024.10.02, Haozhe's contributed paper entitled Scaling of N-type FETs based on aligned carbon nanotube arrays was published on ACS AMI. Congratulations. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang@PKU. Stability of N-type A-CNT FETs seems to be challenging issue, due to ease-to-oxidize feature of the complied low-work function contact metal, i.e. scandium. This issue is even more serous at reduced contact/gate lengthfor advanced node A-CNT FETs.
2024.09.26, Sujuan's paper on revealing the nucleation and growth behaviors of ALD HfO2 on arrayed CNTs was accepted by Nano Letters. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Zhiyong Zhang@PKU.
2024.09.23. Borui (as the master student candidate), Tiankuang and Ziyang (Ph.D student candidate), are going to join us through the postgraduate recommendation program. Warmest welcom to all of you, and looking forward to working with you soon in ZJU.
2024.09.218, Zebin's paper on investigating the junction contact in network CNT films was accepted by ACS AMI. Congratulations. He is soon leaving us for his new position as a staff scientist in Huzhou. Best wishes to Zebin.
2024.08.31, Bo an Daliang successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! Bo will stay with us for his postdoc fellowship, while Daliang is going to join BYD. Best wishes to both of you.
2024.08.14, Huimin's contributed work entitled Achieving High-Performance Polymer-Wrapper-Free Aligned Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Through Degradable Polymer Wrapping and Efficient Removal Techniques was published on ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Profs. Xuelei Liang and Yu Cao @ PKU.
2024.08.07-10, We attended the Annual Summer School for Carbon Nanoelectronics organized by the Center of Carbon Nanoelectronics, PKU, Beijing.
2024.08.06, Bo and Huimin's contributed work entitled Carbon nanotube materials for future integrated circuit applications was published on Materials Today. This work, coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang@PKU, provides theoretical prediction for the electrical performance CNT-based ICs at various technology nodes, based on which criteria for ideal A-CNT materials are roughly established.
2024.07.27, Bo's work on reporting and summarizing the non-ideality related issues in arrayed CNT based FETs was accepted by ACS Nano. Congratulations to Bo. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group @ PKU.
2024.07.19, Dr Jin visited Prof. Ramus's group @ Heidelberg University.
2024.07.18, Dr. Jin attended the user seminar in CEOS, Heidelberg. It was a great opportunity to discuss with them about the possibility of Cc-Cs corrected SEMs for carbon nanoelectronics.
2024.07.09-13, Dr. Jin attended the Sino-German Bilateral Electron Microscopy Conference in Bad Hannef, German. It was a great opportunity to discuss with the colleagues.
2024.06.22. Sujuan and Bin's contributed work on revealing the interface states in gate stack of arrayed carbon nanotube FETs was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ PKU. Congratulations to Sujuan and Bin.
2024.06.11 We anticipated the Inter-center Badminton Match organized by the CEM, as an annual event. A lot of funs there.
2024.06.10, Congratulation to Huimin whose equally contributed first-author paper entitled Inner doping of carbon nanotubes with perovskites for ultralow power transistors was accepted by Advanced Materials. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ School of Electronics, PKU.
2024.06.05, Dr Jin delivered a keynote talk entitled "Challenges and Opportunities for Electron Microscopy as Raised by Emerging Aligned Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays Based CMOS" on the 2024 MSC-SMC Meeting, for celebrating the 50 Years Anniversary of the Microscopy Society of Canada.
2024.05.23 to 05.25, Bo and Dr. Jin visited our long-term collaborators and friends in HKU. So glad for the re-union and the exciting disucssions for further our collaborations.
2024.05.22-23. Dr. Jin delivered an invited talk regarding the microscopic study of A-CNT based FETs via Electron Microscopy at the 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 2024 hosted by PolyU, Hong Kong. It was really an excellent conference. Thanks the local organizer for their great contributions.
2024.05.18, Binxian successfully defended her master thesis on revealing the early stage nucleation stage of ALD HfO2 on nanocarbon materials. Congratulations.
2024.04.07, Dr. Maguang Zhu from Nanjing University delivered a seminar about the radiation-hard carbon nanotube based electronics. Learned a lot from his excellent seminar.
2024.04.08, Zhoubin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on tailoring the atomic and electronic structures of 1D MTB defects in MBE grown 2D TMDC materials. Congratulations.
2024.03.23-25, We hosted a workshop on Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Materials.
Lu Ma from Hunan University is going to join us as a master student in the coming Fall semester. Look forward to your joining and a big Welcome, Lu.
Congratulation to Sujuan. Her contributed work on ferroelectricity controlled tunable magnetoelectric coupling in van der Waals multiferroics was accepted by Nature Communications. This work was coordinated by Prof. Yi Zheng @ Physics Department of ZJU.
20240309. Xiaowei and Zhangru re-visited us . So excited to see them after the long covid event. So glad to know both of them are doing excellent jobs on semiconductor related industry. Also a late and warmest wishes to Xiaowei and Biao's wedding. Wish you couple enjoy the life together for the rest of your lives.
2024.03.08-10 Dr. Andrew Rossall from Huddersfield University visited us. He delivered an excellent talk regarding the application of medium energy ion scattering analysis on thin films. We really enjoyed his seminar and wish to establish long-term collaboration on this subject.
Congratulations to Daliang again. His work on revealing a novel surface/edge reconstruction in 1T-TiSe2 was accepted by Nano Letters. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Wei Zhao @XTU, and Xiaodong Cui @ HKU.
Congratulations to Daliang. His work on unraveling the mechanism of V self-intercalation in 1T-VSe2 was published on 2D Materials. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Wei Zhao @XTU, and Xiaodong Cui @ HKU.
Congratulations to Sujuan. Her contributed work on revealing the interface and boarder traps in the gate stacks of network CNT based FETs with Y2O3 dielectrics was published on ACS AMI. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group @ PKU.
We hosted a joint workshop with Leica, China on TEM sample preparation and on-site training.
2024.01.06 Prof. Rong Yu and Prof. Fang Lin visited our group. Prof. Yu gave an excellent tutorial on Electron ptychography. We learned a lot from his seminar. Great thanks to Prof. Yu.
Congratulations to Zhoubin. His contributed work on Nb and Re doped MoSe2 by a joint STM/STS-STEM-EDS study was published on APL Mater. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie's group @ HKU.
This work was done in close collaboration with Prof. Maohai Xie@HKU, and Prof. H-P. Komsa @ Univ. Oulu. Congratulation to Zhoubin. His work on tuning atomic and electronic structures of MTBs in MBE grown MoSe2 via Re doping was published on 2D Materials.
Congratulations to Zixuan! She reported a method to use the device feature itself as the marker to the precise fabrication of TEM lamellae of CNT devices. This work was published on J. Microscopy.
Congratulations to Boxiang! His work on reporting a novel method for the image contrast separation and thus enabling HR-SEM imaging of aligned CNTs was published on Carbon.
Congratulations to Sujuan! Her contributed work on reporting the scaling of A-CNT FETs to sub-10 nm mode was published on Nature Electronics. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ PKU.
Xiaoming's contributed work on revealing the inorganic-organic hybrid 1D ionic chains inside carbon nanotubes were published on Chem, JPCL. Congratulations! This joint project is coordinated by Prof. Ruikang Tang at Chemistry Department of ZJU.
Congratulation to Qian Shang and Dafu Xiang, who successfully defended their master thesis. Qian went to Changsha, still working on ALD related work. Dafu went to Soochow, working on e-beam lithography related issues.
Feng came back for her vacation and visited us in Hangzhou. It was so happy to see her again at the campus. Best wishes to Feng and her coming wedding. Congratulations
Congratulations to Degong. His contributed work on reporting the concentration phase segregation of substitutional 2D TMDC MLs was published on Small. This work was coordinated by Prof. Guanghui Yu @ SIM, CAS, Shanghai.
Yuanhao, Xiangtao, and Chenjian joined us! Welcome to the world of Carbon Nanoelectronics.
It has been pretty a while since my late update of HP, sorry for that.
Guoli took a short visit to us. It was really nice to see him again after the long covid season. So glad and honored to know he is doing so well in Apple AI. Best wishes to Guoli.
Congratulations to Haozhe! His contributed work on improving the performance of A-CNT FETs by substrate engineering was published on ACS AMI. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ PKU.
Congratulations to Degong! His equally contributed work on revealing the growth mechanism of large scale single-crystalline MoSe2 and WSe2 on Au (111) via MBE was published on Nature Sciences. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie @ HKU, Hong Kong.
Yuting visited us. She is going to take a position in semiconductor related Fabs in Shanghai. Congratulations.
Congratulations to Degong! His contributed work on revealing the edge reconstruction in MoS2 was published on ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Dr. Jichen Dong and Prof. Feng Ding.
Congratulations to Zhoubin. His work on revealing the formation mechanism of MTB in MBE grown MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterojunctions was published on 2D Materials. This work was done in close collaboration with Prof. Maohai Xie@HKU, and Prof. H-P. Komsa @ Univ. Oulu.
20220902, Congratulations to Degong, who just successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Investigating the microscopic growth mechanism of 2D TMD materials via advanced TEM". Dr. Ding is going to be a postdoc research associate in State Key Lab. of Silicon Materials, in collaboration with Prof. Xuegong Yu.
20220901, Sujuan and Yichen re-joined us respectively as a Ph.D and master student in the Fall semester, respectively. Both of them had been working with us for a while. Meanwhile, Boxiang also switched himself to a Ph.D candidate through the joint EE-MSE programm. Warmest welcome to all of you.
20220701, Dr. Zebin Liu from Tsinghua University joined us a postdoc fellow. Welcome to Hangzhou, Zebin!
20220622-0626, Dr. Yipu Xia from Prof. Maohai Xie's group at Department of Physics, Hong Kong University visited us.
20210901, Big welcome to Huimin and Bin who just joined us for their Ph.D. degrees.
20210715, Liu joined us as a new master student, Welcome.
2021.06.23, Congratulations to Degong, Wei and Haofei. Their work entitled "Self-feeding formation of atomically thin molybdenum nanoflakes on MoS2 monolayer" was published online by 2D Materials. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Yuhao Pan and Prof. Weiji @ Renmin University.
2021.06.04, Hangfei successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Li! Wish you a shining future in Shenzhen!
2021.06.03, Sujuan successfully defended her master thesis at Xiangtan Univ. Congratulations & so pround of you and your excellent work. Sujuan will stay with us in ZJU to pursue her Ph.D degree.
2021.05.28, Xiaowei successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! Wish you a shining future in Shanghai!
2021.05.16, Xiaoming successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at ECUST. Congratulations, Dr. Ma! He will continue to work with us with a postdoc fellowship at ZJU.
2021.05.14, Huimin successfully passer her Ph.D. entrance interview. Huimin will stay with us as a Ph.D. student in ZJU.
2021.05, Congratulations to Zhoubin whose contributed work entitled "Monolithic Integration of Vertical Thin-Film Transistors in Nanopores for Charge Sensing of Single Biomolecules" was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Yang Liu @ EE, ZJU.
2021.05.12, Fenfa passed his Ph.D thesis defense at Xiamen University. Congratulations, Dr. Yao! He will continue to work with us with a postdoc fellowship at ZJU.
2021.05, Qiuqin passed her master thesis defense at Zhejiang University of Technology, Congratulation! Wish you a great future in Ningbo!
2021.03, Congratulations to Hangfei, Xiaowei and Sujuan. Their papers on revealing the defects in DWS mono-crystalline silicon, defect assisted mass transportation in 2D MoS2, and point defect quantification in 2D WSe2 were respectively accepted by AIP Advances, Rare Metals (as an invited submission), and Nanotechnology.
2021.03, wish all the best to Fenfa and Xiaoming, who just submitted their Ph.D. thesis to external review, along with their application for postdoc fellowship.
2021.02, Congratulations to Xiaoming, whose paper entitled "Synergy between Structure Characteristics and the Solution Chemistry in a Near/Non-Equilibrium Oxidative Etching of Penta-Twinned Palladium Nanorods" was accepted by JPCC. This work was also chosen as the Back Cover.
20210127, Congratulations to Fenfa and Zhangru, whose manuscript on revealing the pristine edge structures and the associated spontaneous edge reconstruction in atomically thin black phosphorus via in situ HRTEM was accepted by Nanoscale. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Jingsi Qiao at NUS, Prof. Wei Ji @ Renmin University of China, and Prof. Rongjun Xie @ Xiamen University. This work is probably also a mark to temporally suspend any further TEM/STEM study on 2D BP materials in my group, as we have been suffering and somehow exhausting from a couple of really challenging issues, such as sample preparation (to achieve monolayer), too much beam damage (damage rate is so high), and the limited spatial resolution (the neighboring P-P is not resolvable). All these issues have over-burdened Zhangru and Fenfa for a long period, particularly given the fact that we actually do not have enough suitable tools to work on this material based on the currently available EM facilities in our center. Hopefully, one day we could move back to this 2D materials with better tools and techniques. Thanks again, Fenfa (to be Dr. Yao soon) and Dr. Zhangru Xiao again, for your continuing efforts and your trust. Congratulations anyway!
20210101, Time really flies. The new year 2021 has already arrived. Wish you all a heathy, safe and fruitful Happy New Year of 2021. Wish the whole messy world back to a safe and ordered state asap!
20201205, Haifeng Wang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Wang!
20201125, Fenfa and Zhangru's paper on revealing the vacancy defects in monolayer and few-layer black phosphorus was accepted by 2D Materials. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Yongqing Cai and Prof. Gang Zhang @A*Star and Prof. Rongjun Xie @Xiamen University. Congratulations.
20200929, Bing Gao will join our group as a Ph.D. student in year 2021, who did his summer internship with us and left us a very good impression. Welcome, Bing!
20200924, Congratulation to Bo Wang. His contributed work on reporting the finding of a novel "single-layer Mo5Te8 polymorph of layered TMDC materials" was accepted by 2D Materials. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie@HKU.
20200915, Xibiao's work on revealing the kinetics and mechanisms of grain boundary motion in 2D h-BN via in situ TEM was formally accepted by ACS Nano. Congratulations to Xibiao!
20200827, Our contributed book 'Defects in Functional Materials' was finally published online by World Scientific as https://doi.org/10.1142/11352. We contribute a chapter entitled 'Defects Physics in 2D nanomaterials Explored by TEM/STM' together with Prof. Maohai Xie from HKU, where the TEM/STEM part was mainly drafted by Dr. Jinhua Hong.
20200821, Mr. Haozhe Lu joined us as a freshly registered Ph.D. student. Welcome back to ZJU, Haozhe!
20200807, Xujing successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "The behaviors and mechanisms of lithium intercalation induced phase transition in atomically thin MoS2". Haofei also successfully passed his undergraduate thesis defense focusing on tuning the antisite defects in MoS2 via optimizing and varying the growth parameters during the CVD process. Congratulations to Dr. Ji and Mr. Haofei Zheng.
20200727, Xiaoming's paper on "Unveiling growth pathways of multiply twinned gold nanocrystals by in situ LCTEM" was accepted by ACS Nano. Congratulations.
20200611. Sun Yang passed her Master thesis defense, Xibiao successfully defend his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
20200604, After a long, long time awaiting, almost all our group members returned back to their positions. Hopefully we could soon recover with "full blood".
20200530, Congratulation to Bo, who just successfully defensed his Master thesis. He will soon join our group again as a new bie but through a totally different program-the full-time Ph.D. project from ZJU side. Looking forward to having you again, Bo!
20200522, Congratulation to Sujuan. Her contributed work on high-density, aligned CNT arrays for high-performance FETs was published on Science online. This work was coordinated by Prof. Lianmao Peng and Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @ PKU.
20200508, Congratulation to Daliang. His contributed work on revealing the phase transition in few-layer VSe2 was published on ACS AMI. This work was coordinated by Prof. Xiaodong Cui @ HKU.
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! Hope the Coronavirus gone asap, and wish all the best to our country, all the people!
20200103, Congratulations to Bo. His work on revealing the Re doping induced mirror twin boundaries in MBE grown WSe2 monolayer was accepted by Nano Research.
Wish you all have a fruitful happy new year of 2020!
20191228, Congratulations to Xujing and Chunyang. Their work on revealing the solid state lithiation induced H-T' phase transition in monolayer MoS2 was accepted by Applied Physics Letters.
20191215. Dr. Jin attended the LDMO2019 symposium in Shenzhen as organized by Prof. Wenjing Zhang.
20191125, Congratulations to the opening ceremony of the Nano Fabrication Laboratory of Hunan Institute of Advanced Sensing and Information Technology in Xiangtan University.
20191118, Zhoubin's contributed paper on MoS2 nanopore based devices for DNA separation was accepted by APL, this paper was coordinated by Prof. Yang Liu in EE Department, ZJU. Congratulations.
20191031, Xibiao and Xiaowei's paper entitled "Atomic-Precision Fabrication of Quasi-Full-Space Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride" was accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations!
20191029, Xibiao's contributed paper entitled "Multifarious interfaces, band alignments, and formation asymmetry of WSe<sub>2</sub>-MoSe<sub>2</sub> heterojunction grown by molecular-beam epitaxy" was accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie's group at Physics Department, HKU. Congratulations!
20191022, Dr. Jin attended and gave an invited talk at the 5th International Conference on 2D Materials and Technology held in Soochow, China.
20191015, Bo's contributed paper entitled "study of intrinsic defect states of FeSe with scanning tunneling microscopy" was published on PRB. This work was coordinated by Prof. Yi Yin @ Dept. Physics of ZJU, congratulations!
20191011, Zhoubin's contributed paper entitled "Shallow Acceptor of Phosphorous Doped in MoSe2 Monolayer" was accepted by Advanced Electronic Materials. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie's group at Physics Department, HKU. Congratulations!
20190909, fall semester starts.
20190908, Dr. Biao Jin, a previous group member focusing on liquid cell TEM joined PNNL for his postdoc position. Wish you all the best there, Biao!
Sujuan successfully passed her thesis opening in Hunan Institute of Advanced Sensing and Information Technology, Xiangtan University. Congratulations!
20190731, Yingying's paper on revealing the kinetics of spherical-to-truncated octahedral nanocrystals via liquid-cell TEM was accepted by Nano Res. Congratulations!
20190720, Degong, Zhoubin, Xiaowei and Xibiao started their 4-week internship in Beijing, as part of their Ph.D. programmed set by ZJU. Good luck to you guys there.
20190919. Quanlin Guo from Sun Yat-sen University joined us for a 4-week summer internship. Welcome to Hangzhou!
20190706, our new Ph.D student-Dajiang He joined us in advance. Li Gu, a visiting master student from East University of Science and Technology also joined us. Welcome to Hangzhou!
20190625, Our previous group member-Yu Wang came back to visit us. So happy to see you again, Yu. Wish you all the best.
20190616, Rongtao from Prof. Lunhui Guan's group paid a short visit to us. Welcome to Hangzhou, Rongtao!
20190618, Biao's work entitled "Quantitative investigation of the formation and growth of palladium fractal nanocrystals by liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy" was published online on Chemical Communications. This work was done in close collaboration with Prof. Ruikang Tang. Congratulations!
20190613, Congratulations to Chuqiao, Jingrui, Qinyuan and Jiaming, who successfully completed their undergraduate thesis defense. Many thanks for your contributions and your time for being with us. Wish all of you shining futures abroad!
20190606, Prof. Wei Ji from Physics Dep. of Renmin University of China visited us. Prof. Ji delivered a seminar on revealing the effects of quasi-covalent interlayer bonding on tailoring the properties of layered 2D materials.
20190604, Congratulations to Biao, now formally as Dr. Biao Jin, who successfully completed his Ph.D. thesis defense.
20190527-0530, Dr. Jin attended the Physics Boat Conference in Finland as organized by Prof. Ardady Krashennikov and Dr. Hannu-Pekka Komsa. It was really a great meeting. Many thanks to Hannu for your wonderful arrangement.
20190524, Xibiao and Bo's contributed work to reveal the existence of the sub nm origami in 2D TMD nanostructures was published online in PRM. This work was coordinated by Prof. Feng Ding @IBS, Korea. Congratulations!
20190520, Congratulation to Chunxia, who successfully passed the defense for her Master Degree. She is going to join the newly-born West Lake University as a research assistant. Wish you all the best there!
20190416-0421, Zhoubin, Bo and Dr. Jin visite Prof. Maohai Xie's group @ Dep. Physics, HKU, and discussed in details about our joint collaboration. It was nice that we also met with Xiong, who used to work with us during his stay in ZJU as an undergraduate student, and now a Ph.D student in HKU. All the best to Xiong and Congcheng (hopefully we could find another chance to meet with you there).
20190420, our contributed work on effective passivation of BP transistors via ultra-thin tin oxide film coating appeared online in Science Bulletin. This work was coordinated by Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @Department of Physical Electronics, PKU.
20190416, Qiuqin started to visit Prof. Lunhui Guan's group@fjirsm, where she will learn how to encapsulate BP, MoS2 etc. into carbon nanotubes.
20190414, our contributed work on developing a software-CalAtom to quantitatively count the atoms and analyze the chemical compositions was just accepted by Ultramicroscopy. This work was coordinated by Dr. Fang Lin@Guangzhou.
20190413-04.14. Xibiao and Dr. Jin got the chance to attend the Low-dimensional Mechanics Symposium in Wuxi, chaired by Prof. Junhua Zhao in Jiangnan University. It was really a nice conference.
20190411-04.12 Dr. Jin attended the Nature Conference in Chendu focusing on the Emergent Electronic Materials.
20190410 Prof. Nobuo and Dr. Jin paid a visit to CHEM@ShanghaiTech University.
20190406, Prof. Nobuo Tanaka started his 6-day visit in our EM Center, as invited by "111" project. Many thanks for Nobuo, for his inspiring lectures to the fresh graduate student.
Haifeng's paper on probing the degradation of CNTs in aqueous by LCTEM was accepted by Carbon. Congratulations!
20190315, Xiaowei's contributed work on revealing the atomic scale stability of W-Co intermetallic nanocrystals in reactive environment at high T was accepted by JACS. This work was coordinated by Dr. Feng Yang and Prof. Yan Li at School of Chemistry@PKU.
Congratulations to Biao. His work on revealing the anisotropic growth of Au Penta-twinned nanorods by LCTEM was accepted by JPCL. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ruikang Tan's group.
20190228, Congratulations to Chunyang and Bo. Their work on reporting the growth and mechanistic Sy of MoS2 nanoribbons was accepted by Nanotechnology.
20190224-0225, Dr. Jin visited ChEM@ShanghaiTech University, a wonderful place dedicated for Electron Microscopy.
20190222, Congratulations to Biao! His work on revealing a novel nano-crystallization pathway of nanocrystals in solution was accepted by Adv. Mater. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ruikang Tang's group.
20190116, my busy teaching season ceased officially.
20190105, Wanglin Lu, a previous group member, now working in Huawei, Hangzhou, came back to re-visit us. So happy to see u again, Wanglin. Wish you all the best.
Wish you all a Fruitful Happy New Year of 2019.
201811, Dr. Jin was awarded as the Highly Cited Researcher in Cross Field by Clarivate Analytics.
20181220, Xibiao's manuscript on revealing the unusual microstructures of grains boundaries in CVD grown h-BN films was accepted as an regular article by Physical Review Materials. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Jinchen Dong and Prof. Feng Ding @ IBS, Prof. Haomin Wang's group @ SIMIT, Prof. Wanlin Guo's group at NUAA.
20181201, Xiaowei and Dr. Jin attended a micro-symposium about 1D Carbon Nanostructures held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. So excited to re-meet with many old friends in nanocarbon community.
201811119, my teaching season starts again.
20181116-18, we attended the first workshop organized by Hunan Institute of Advanced Sensing and Information Technology, Xiangtan, China.
20181104, Dr. Jin gave an invited talk at the seminar "Microelectronics+ 2D Materials", as part of the celebration of the opening ceremony of the Micro-Fabrication Center of Zhejiang University.
20181025-1028, Dr. Jin gave an invited talk at the Low-dimensional Materials for Optoelectronics (LDMO, 2018) conference in Shenzhen.
20181019-20. Prof. Juexian Cao and his group members from Xiangtan University delivered a visit to us in Hangzhou.
20181013-1015, Dr. Fang Lin visited us in Hangzhou.
2018109, our 973 project for young scientists is now close to its ending mark. An internal workshop was held in Peking University and chaired by the project PI- Prof. Hailin Peng. Great thanks to the MOST for the financial support to us, particularly at the early stage of my career!
20180925-0928, Bo, Xiaoming, Dr. Jiang and Dr. Jin attended the Electron Microscopy Unit Conference at the 7th Annual meeting of Chinese Crystallophy Society. This session was co-organized by Prof. Rong Yu @Tsinghua Univ., Prof. Junliang Sun @Peking Univ, and Dr. Jin @ZJU. We also took this oppotunity to visit Dr. Hongjun Liu's group @ Tianjin University of Technology.
20180907-0915. Biao, Xibiao, Xiaowei, Dr. Jiang and Dr. Jin attended the IMC19 held in Sydney, Australia.
20180906. Biao's paper on revealing the formation of inter-particle bridge, as an important intermediate stage during the coalescence of colloidal nanocrystal was accepted by NL. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ruikang Tang's group. Congratulations to Biao.
20180820, Bo's co-first authored paper entitled "Hole doping in epitaxial MoSe2 monolayer by nitrogen plasma treatment" was accepted by 2D Materials. This work was coordinated by Prof. Maohai Xie's group @Physics Department, HKU, and financially supported by the NSFC-RGC joint funding. Congratulations to Bo!
2018.07.15-07.20, Xibiao, Haifeng and Bo attended the NT18 conference in Peking University, Beijing.
201807.08-07.14, Dr. Chuanhong Jin attended the conference on Physics of Defects in Solids: Quantum Mechanics Meets Topology, at ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
20180708, Zequan Chen and Yanxing Li from USTB joined our group for their Summer Internship. Welcome!
20180706, Prof. Maohai Xie from HKU payed a one-day visit to us, and discussed about the collaboration under our joint grant.
20180604, Sujuan and Hua joined us for their summer internship. Welcome!
20180527, Congratulations to the Inauguration of Center for High-resolution Electron Microscopy(CћEM) of ShanghaiTech University, and Prof. Osamu Terasaki.
20150527, Congratulation to the 40 Anniv. of Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University.
20180525, Profs. Wenjing Zhang and Yang Chai visited us, and delivered seminars in our group.
20180523, congratulations to Zhangru and Dancheng for their successful Ph.D. defense.
20180515, we attended the opening ceremony of Research Institute of Super-alloys of Zhejiang University. It is also the 6th anniversary for our Electron Microscopy Center. Coincidentally, it is also my 7th Anni very being working as a faculty of ZJU. Time really flies.
20180509, Hulian, Dancheng and Feng's work on revealing the microscopic growth mechanism of 2D MoSe2 via a joint CVD-TEM study was accepted by a special issue of Nanotechnology.
20180508, Wei, Xiaowei and Xujing's manuscript reporting a novel type of edge structure-Mo6S6 NW termination in 2D MoS2 via in-situ STEM, was accepted by Nano Research.
20180507, Hello, the New Summer Semester in year 2018. My teaching season starts.
20180506, Dr. Jin gave an invited talk at the Symposium for Chemistry of 2D Materials, during 31st Annual Meeting of CCS at Hangzhou.
20180505, we host a internal round-table meeting for the Young Scientist Project of MOST at Jinxi Hotel, Hangzhou. This project started at 2013, and was led by Prof. Hailin Peng @ PKU. The other two members are Dr. Xiaojie Duan @ PKU and Dr. Chuanhong Jin @ZJU. It is now approaching the time for us to draw the ending mark for this project. Time really flies.
20180504, Congratulations to Degong, who just passed the entrance exam, and will join us for his Ph.D.
20180501, Welcome back, Hongtao!
Dr. Vijay's work on controllable doping of W into ML MoS2 assisted by TEM grid was accepted by Sci. Rep. Xiaowei and Danhui's contributed work on the synthesis of NbS2/MoS2 vertical junctions was accepted by Chem. Mater. This work was coordinated by Dr. Zheng Liu @NTU.
20180426, Xiaowei and Yang successfully submitted their thesis proposals.
20180313, Congratulations to Qi and Ganxing, who just passed the defense for their master thesis.
Guoli's paper entitled "Hydrogen assisted post-growth substitution of Tellurium into MoS2 monolayer with tunable compositions" was accepted by Nanotechnology. This work on done in collaboration of Dr. Hannu-Pekka Komsa's group in Alto University, Finland.
8 December, Dr. Jin visited Prof. Lunhui Guan's group @ FJIRSM, HaiXi Institute, Fujian, and gave a seminar.
Dr. Jin visited Department of Physics, HKU during 21-24 Nov, and was taking this opportunity to i) attended the Ph.D. defense of Dr. Jinglei Chen, ii) discuss with Prof. Maohai Xie's group on the progress and future plans to proceed the joint NSFC-RGC project, iii) and other colleagues for possible collaborations.
Wei's contributed work on revealing the stacking-independent ultrafast charge transfer in MoS2/WS2 heterostructures was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was coordinated by Prof. Kaihui Liu @ Peking University.
Nov. 8th-11th, Xibiao, Xujing and Dr. Jin attend the 3rd East-Asia Microscopy Congress held in Busan, Korea, and presented our recent work on STEM studying of 2D materials.
Nov. 5th-7th, Xibiao, Xujing and Dr. Jin visited UNIST, Ulsan under the kind invitation of Prof. Feng Ding.
Prof. Jun Yuan from Department of Physics, University of York made a short visit to our group.
Biao, Haifeng, Xujing and Dr. Jin attended the Annual Conference of Chinese Microscopy Society held in Chengdu during 17-21 October, 2017.
Jinhua's paper on revealing the unusually stacking induced electronic structure in bilayer MBE MoSe2 via a joint MBE-STEM-STM+STS-DFT study was accepted by Nano Letters. This work was done in close collaboration with Profs. Maohai Xie @HKU and Wei Ji's group @RUC. Congratulations. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02600
Dr. Jin gave a keynote talk at the EM&Materials Science Session on BCEIA 2017.
Prof. Zhiyong Zhang 张志勇 from the Department of Electronics in Peking University visited us, and delivered a seminar entitled "CNT-COMS: current status and future challenges"
20170906, Dr. Shoucong Ning from HKUST gave a talk on how to correct the scan noises of STEM in our group.
2017.08.21, Dr. Jin gave a Plenary Talk in the TFC'17 National Symposium for Thin-Film Technology in Hefei.
2017.07.20-22, Dr. Jin attended the Symposium on Carbon Based Flexible Electronics held in Peking University, Beijing.
2017.07.17-19, Dr. Jin got a chance to visit Prof. Jianyu Huang's TEM Lab in MSE School of Yanshan University, and then attended a workshop there organized by the Center for the Materials Physics and Microstructures chaired by Prof. Yong Liu.
Warmest welcome to Zhezhu Lao to join us as a fresh Ph.D. student under the joint supervision of Prof. Jixue Li. W
20170701. Let's celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the HKSAR.
20170630 Dr. Jin got a chance to attend the Annual Conference of the Microscopy Society of the Five Provinces and Autonomous Regions in Northwest China.
20170629, It is a special day. I got the chance to attend two graduation ceremonies: one in the Chu Kochen Honors College, and another in the Commencement of Zhejiang University for the first time in my career in ZJU/ Both as the Director of Class-1302. Congratulations to the Great Class-1302. Wish you all have the wonderful life! Bye-bye, the great Class-1302.
20170624 Our EM center held a party for all the graduate students-masters and Ph.Ds. as organized by Prof. Ze Zhang. Congratulations to Danhui, Yingying, Dejiong, Qingqing, Wentao, Zhengfei, Zhen, Chao, Li, Jialin. Wish you all bright futures.
20170623 Dr. Xiaolong Zou from TBSI visited our group, delivered a seminar here regarding the defect physics in 2D materials.
Jinhua's work on revealing the dynamics of GBs in monolayer MoS2 was accepted by Nanoscale. This work was done in collaboration with Profs. Zhiping Xu from Tsinghua Univ, Dr. Matt Probert, Jun Yuan from University of York.
Dr. Jin attended a joint group seminar with Prof. Jianguang Zhou's research team.
20170615 Dr. Nigel D. Browning from PNNL visited our group, and delivered a seminar here.
20170612-14 Some of us (Zhen, Xibiao, Xujing, Dejiong and Chuanhong) attended the 3rd Femtosecond electron imaging and spectroscopy (FEIS-3) as organized by SJTU, Shanghai. Many thanks to Prof. Dao Xiang and local organizers from SJTU for giving us such a great opportunity to learn about the exciting progress in the UED and UEM regime.
20170609. Dr. Chunyang re-visited us. Welcome home, Chunyang. 春阳回组访问
20170609. Congratulations to Zhen, who just passed his mater thesis defense. I am so proud of you. Wish you all the best in the future. 祝贺费震顺利通过硕士答辩，祝前程似锦！
Congratulations to all the members of Class 1302 from Chu Kochen Honors Colleges. I am so proud you. Wish you all have shining life after the graduation. 祝贺竺院1302混合班的全体同学顺利毕业，祝你们前程似锦！
20170605, Congratulations to Zhoubin, Qihang, Xiong and Pengchao, who just passed their undergraduate thesis defense. 祝贺周斌、雄、启航、鹏超通过本科毕设答辩，祝你们前程似锦！
201706.02 Dr. Chuanhong Jin attended the 10th K. H. Kuo Summer School in Xi'an Jiaotong University. Many thanks to the local organizers for this wonderful conference.
Dejiong's paper on studying the oxidation mechanism of Pd nanocrystals was selected as the back-cover of Nanoscale, as http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C6NR08763A
2017.05.29 Congratulations to Danhui, Yingying and Dejiong, who passed their Ph.D. defense. Wish you all bright and promising futures there: Dr. Lv, Dr. Jiang and Dr. Zhang. The defense community is comprised of Profs. Ruikang Tan, Jie Fan, Yi Yin, Jixue Li, Hui Zhang, and Dr. He Tian. Dejiong is going to take a position in DE, Danhui will join Intel-Dalian, while Yingying will stay with us as a postdoc research fellow. 祝贺丹辉、德炯、莹莹顺利通过博士答辩！
2017.05.27 Dr. Chuanhong Jin gave a lecture on studying the defect physics and growth mechanisms of 2D materials on the Nature conference- Electron Microscopy for Materials: the next ten years.
2017.05.27-29. The Nature Conference: electron microscopy for materials: the next ten years was held in Hangzhou, on the occasion for the celebration of 120th anniversary of Zhejiang University. It was really a great conference with lots of vacillating lectures, perspective for the future development of electron microscopy. We got this chance to meet with many of our friends, and make new friends as well. We appreciate a lot to the conference organizers for giving us such a great opportunity, particularly to the young students here. Many thanks for those who made this event into reality.
Jinhua's work on revealing the kinetic pathway and the energy landscape of atomic defects in 2D MoS2 via quantitative ADF-STEM was just accepted by Nano Lett. This work was done in collaboration with Profs. Jun Yuan, Wei Ji, Ze Zhang. 金华关于实验确定MoS2单层材料中缺陷原子的扩散和energy landscape的工作被Nano Letter接收
Our previous group member-Dr. Jinhua Hong came back to our group for a short visit during the Nature conference. 金华回组访问
2017.05.25-26. Prof. Nobuo Tanaka delivered serial lectures about the theory of coherent imaging, and its latest progress.
2017.05.24 Prof. Jingyue Liu gave serial lectures about the fundamentals, theory and applications of STEM. Thank you, Prof. Liu, for your fascinating lectures here.
2017.05.23 Prof. Xiaobin Niu from UESTC visited my group for thoughtful discussions.
2017.05.23 Dr. Qiang Xu from Denssolutions gave an introductory lecture on in situ HRTEM.
The dissertation defense for Yingying, Danhui and Dejiong, and the thesis proposal defense for Xibiao, are scheduled on May. 29th, 2017. Good luck.
Happy 120th Anniversary, Zhejiang University! 欢庆浙大120周年校庆
Congratulations to Bo, who won the first rank for his undergraduate thesis in the School of Physics, Lanzhou University. We are so proud of you. 祝贺汪博，毕设论文答辩第一
19 May, 2017, Dr. Chuanhong Jin attended the symposium for Launching of the "Materials Chemistry" at Zhejiang University Special Issue in Advanced Materials, and gave a lecture on the understanding of defect physics in 2D MoS2 materials. 《先进材料》浙大专刊发布会与学术研讨会顺利召开，有幸参与其中，感谢飞鹤和一政的组织和编辑
2017.05.15. Time really flies. It has been exactly six years for my stay in Zhejiang University. I still remember almost all the things happened on 16th May, 2011, that special day, my first day in Zheda. 时光飞逝，一转眼在浙之滨已然六年
Mr. Manjunath left my group for his own research interests. 我们小组的第一个也是唯一一个CSC博士生Manjunath因为个人研究兴趣离组，祝好运
May 11-13, 2017. Prof. Feng Ding from IBS, UNIST, Korea visited us in Zhejiang University, who gave an excellent and very, very clear seminar on the growth theory of carbon nanotubes and graphene. 韩国IBS丁峰教授访问研究组
Zhen sent his master thesis out for review. 费震的硕士论文完成送审，又一位即将要毕业离组
Dr. Zhenju Shen is going to join Intel (Dalian, China). Thank you very much for BJ staying with us, though very shortly, and giving us a lot of help. Wish you had a bright feature there. 沈振菊博士入职Intel大连，感谢振菊博士毕业后的一路相陪，祝你在大连的生活、工作一切顺利
Yingying was elected for the China 2017 "Postdoctoral Innovative Personnel Support Program". 博士生蒋莹莹入选2017年全国博士后创新人才支持计划，祝贺莹莹！期待博后阶段的合作成功
Dejiong's work on revealing the oxidation kinetics of Co nanocrystals via in situ ETEM was accepted by Science Bulletin.
Danhui, Yingying and Dejiong successfully submitted their Ph.D. thesis for external review. It is now close to the graduation season. 毕业季节又要来临了
Danhui, Hulian, Guoli, Jie, and Dancheng's work on revealing the microscopic mechanism for the oxidative etching in monolayer MoS2 was just accpeted by Science Bulletin. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Fang Lin.
Danhui and Dancheng's work on preferential substitution of selenium along the GBs in monolayer MoS2 was just accepted by Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica.
Prof. Jijun Zhao from the Department of Physics visited our group, and had a seminar entitled "Recent research progress on 2D Xenes" here. 大工物理系赵纪军教授访问课题组。
Jinhua and Xiaowei's contributed work on studying the atomic structure of PdSe2 was published on AM on-line. This work was coordinated by Dr. Zheng Liu at NTU.
Zhen and Bo's manuscript on identifying the thickness and vertical orientation of ReS2 monolayers via electron diffraction was just accepted by Nano Research. This method should be generally appliable to other 2D materials with lower symmetry. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ching-Hwa Ho from Taiwan and Prof. Jun Yuan @York, UK. 费震、汪博利用运动学电子衍射方法确定低对称ReSe2的工作被Nano Research接收，该工作是和约克大学物理系袁俊教授、台科大Ching-Hwa等一起合作完成，毕设学生汪博参与其中
Xujing's contributed work on studying the MoS2/h-BN van der Waals heterostructures was accepted by ACS Nano. This work was led by Prof. Yanfeng Zhang's group @PKU.
Hongtao's contributed work to the energy applications of SnO2/graphene hybrid structures appeared on Nano Energy, this work was coordinated by Dr. Zheng Liu in NTU.
Yingying's work on studying the kinetics of Fe(III) assisted oxidative etching of Pd nanocrystals in solution was accepted by Micron. 莹莹关于Fe(III)辅助Pd纳米晶的液相氧化刻蚀工作被Micron接收发表
Xibiao's contributed work entitled Fabrication of MoSe2 nanoribbons was just accepted by Nature Communications. This work was coordinated by Prof. Chih-Kang Shih and Zhenyu Zhang.
新学期正式开始喽 Let's continue our journey on science.
Dejiong's work on studying the e-beam driven oxidation kinetics of Pd nanocrystal via in situ TEM was accepted by Nanoscale. This work was done in collaboration with Profs. Jixue Li, Ziyou Li, Hui Zhang and Jie Fang's group. 祝贺德炯电子束辅助Pd纳米晶的原位氧化工作被Nanoscale接收发表，并被选为背封面
Dancheng, Feng Jiang, Danhui and Vijay’s work on revealing the growth mechanism of MoS2 via a joint CVD-STEM study was accepted by npj 2D Materials and Applications. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Haibo Shu, Prof. Jun Yuan's group. see also arXiv:1612.05337. 丹诚等研究MoS2形核和生长动力学guocheng的工作被npj 2D Materials and Applications接收
Jinhua’s review article was just accepted by Advanced Materials, as a contribution to a special issue to celebrate the 120-year anniversary of Zhejiang University. 金华的综述文章被Adv. Mater.的浙大校庆专刊接收发表
Happy Rooster Chinese New Year! 春节快乐
Mr. Junhua Xu left for his new position. Wish you bright future there.
Xibiao's contributed paper to the grain boundary engineering of graphene (led by Prof. Cheng's group in Shenyang) was accepted by Nature Communications; to the STEM-STM-STS study of vertically stacked TMD materials (led by Prof. Shih in UT Austin) was accepted by Sci. Adv.
Zhangru's work on deriving atomic chains of phosphorus via controlled e-beam engineering was just accepted by Nano Research. This work was done in collaboration with Profs. Wei Ji and Xianhui Chen's group, see also arXiv:1611.08332. 张茹等关于磷原子链的工作被Nano Research接收
20161226 Dr. Mario A. Gomez from Institute of Environmental Protection in Shenyang delivered a talk about in-situ liquid-phase TEM and its possible applications in ion/molecular adsorption.
20161223-26. Dr. Junhao Liu, a JSPS Postdoc Fellowship from AIST Japan, gave a seminar on Revealing the atomic structures of 2D materials via low-voltage STEM in our group. 日本AIST林君浩博士访问课题组
20161222. Congratulations to Xiaoqin, who successfully passed her master thesis defense. Meanwhile, her first paper on the hetero-deposition of Pd onto Au nanocrystals was accepted by Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica (in Chinese). 祝贺晓琴通过答辩，顺利毕业！液体电镜方向的第二个硕士毕业离组
20161222. Xibiao (2nd year Ph.D. student) won the Lecture Prize at The 6th Annual Conference of Chinese Crystallographic Society, held in Guangzhou. 锡标获得全国晶体学会电子晶体分会最佳口头报告奖
Our contributed paper regarding the water assisted growth of SWCNTs with controlled chirality led by Prof. Yan Li @ PKU was accepted by ACS Nano.
20161116. Dr. Jinhua Hong left the group for JFCC, Nagoya, Japan. Jinhua, wish you had great success there, and enjoy your life in Japan, particularly the EEL Rice. 欢送金华，未来一切顺利！
20161108. Yingying returned back to our group after one year stay in BNL as a CSC scholarship granted visiting Ph.D student. Welcome back home, Yingying! 欢迎莹莹归队
20161107. Dr. Komsa from Aalto University arrived in our group, who stayed with us for about two weeks as a visiting scholar. Komsa博士访问研究组
20161104. We hosted a seminar given by Prof. Ute Kaiser from Ulm Univ. 德国沃尔姆大学Ute Kaiser教授访问课题组
Congratulations to Ganxing (2nd year Master student). He just won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 Annual Conference of Chinese Electron Microscopy Society. 干兴获得2016年全国电子显微学会原位电镜分会最佳论文奖
Dr Vishnu from the Department of Physics, Oslo University, visited our group during 14th Oct till 12th Nov. He delivered a few seminars here regarding the defects and dopants in ZnO, and basics of MOCVD. Oslo大学Vinshnu博士刚问研究组
金华等论文"Exploring atomic defects in monolayer MoS2"入选2015年全国百篇最具影响国际学术论文！祝贺
20160918 After an unexpected long summer vacation, our group sets sail again with a few new members: Xiaowei, Hangfei, Mutee and Manjunath. 欢迎小威、Manju和杭霏加入小组
20160803. Congratulations to Chunyang whose paper was accepted by CrystEngComm.
20160730. Xiaoqin, Biao, Ganxing and Haifeng started their journey in Prof. Yawen Zhang's group in the School of Chemistry in Peking University. Hopefully they could take this chance to "recharge" themselves for their own research projects.
20160724-0730. Dr. Chuanhong Jin delivered an invited talk on the ISCNN2016 held in CityU, Hong Kong. During this week, he also visited the collaborators in Hong Kong Univ. and Poly. U and delivered a seminar there.
20160720-0723. We anticipated the "2016 International Workshop & Summer School on the Frontiers of Advanced Functional materials" as a joint workshop between the MSE School of ZJU, NTU and NUS. We had fruitful discussions with Dr. Zheng Liu and Mr. Jiagong Zhou from NTU for the current progress through the collaboration.
20160720. Prof. Steve Pennycook visited our center and delivered a tutorial talk on Z contrast imaging. Interestingly, quite a few undergraduate students attended his seminar, and it might be a good (or bad? for so many physics) stimulus for them to enter the field of EM. 新加坡国立大学Pennycook教授访问浙大电镜中心
20150701 Dr. Wei Huang, one of our first Ph.D., re-joined us as a postdoc fellowship. 黄威博士毕业留组做博士后研究助理
20160630-0702. Six of us attended the International Symposium on Devices and Applications of Two-dimensional materials held in Fudan Univ.
20160610. Congratulations to Congcheng, Guoli, Yu, Jingfei, Xiaowei and Yanqing for passing their undergraduate research project defense. 祝贺聪诚、国立、竞飞、小威和彦清顺利通过本科毕设答辩
20160606. Congratulations to Wei Huang and Jinhua Hong, who just passed their Ph.D. defense on May 6th, 2016. The first two Ph.D. came out from our group. We are all proud of you, and wish you great success in the future.
Mr. Florian Podvin from France joined us. He is going to take a 3-month undergraduate research project in our group. Welcome Florian.
Two papers by Wei et al., on studying the surface atomic and electronic structures , and the associated structural reconstruction and elemental segregation in lithium-rich and sodium cathode material via ADF-STEM, EDS and EELS were accepted by Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica (in Chinese).
Mr. Wei Huang and Dr. Chuanhong Jin attended the APMC11 meeting held in Phuket, Thailand, and both of them gave an oral talk there.
Dr. Guozhen Zhu from the MSE School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University visited us, and delivered a talk on probing the electronic structures of surface reconstruction by HR-EELS.
Prof. Mark H. Rummeli from Soochow University visited us, and delivered a seminar on in-situ Electron Microscopy here.
Prof. Yong Liu from the Department of Physics in Yanshan University visited our group, and delivered a few internal seminars here.
Dr. Chuanhong Jin was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Physical Science and Technology of Lanzhou University.
Three new group members (Hulian, Yanfei and Dr. Yousuf) joined us.
Xibiao and Zhen's contributed papers with Prof. Hailin Peng's group and Prof. Hua Zhang's groups were published on-line on Nano Lett. and Small, respectively.
A full publication list was added, thanks to Google scholar. The content of "selected publications" was re-edited.
Jinhua's paper on resolving the electronic structure of MoS2 by momentum-resolved EELS was finally accepted by PRB (11-pages full article).
Dr. Chen Xu from the China Academy of Engineering Physics visited us in Hangzhou.
Five members of our group attended the 2nd International Conference on two-dimensional layered materials, and presented their results in 1 oral presentation and 4 posters.
2015.11.29-12.13 Profs. Jun Yuan and Ziyou Li visited us, and completed part of the course lectures on "Electron Microscopy for Materials Science".
2015.11.18-11.20 Dr. Zheng Liu, a senior staff scientist from AIST, Japan visited us in Hangzhou. She delivered a seminar entitled "atomic scale study of low-dimensional nanomaterials by state-of-the-art STEM and EELS".
2015. 10.09-11.20 Prof. Ray Egerton is now visiting the CEM Center, and will give a full course on "Physical principles of electron microscopes". A few special seminars on the latest development of EELS and renewed understanding of radiation damage will also be given around then. In addition to these scientific activities, Mrs. Maia Egerton is arranging her English conversation club here with a focus on Chinese Traditional music, culture, and poems etc. Please join her discussions if you wish to talk in English.
Dr. Vijay Asokan joined us, who is the first foreign postdoc fellow in our EM Center. Welcome, Vijay. Wish you a pleasant life and great success in ZJU!
Prof. Xiaojun Wu delivered a talk about the theoretical designs of 2D materials on Nov. 16. A lot of hot discussions there!
Danhui and Guoli's contributed paper on the high performance of MoS2 based FET was accepted by Materials Express.
Xibiao's contributed paper on graphene/MoS2 stack junction (with Prof. Yanfeng Zhang @PKU) was published on Advanced Materials.
Wanglin's contributed paper on studying the performance of BP based electronic devices (with Prof. Zhiyong Zhang @PKU) was published on AIP advances.
Danhui's contributed paper on the optoelectronics devices of In2Se3 with Dr. Zheng Liu's group in NTU appeared on-line on Nano Letters, where he was listed as an equally contributed author of this paper.
Congratulations to Jinhua and Wanglin, who won the National Scholarship for Ph.D student and master student, respectively!
10.07 Welcome Zijin, Songhao, Pengwei, Feng, Lin, Ning and Ziwei (2nd year undergraduate) join our group to work as research assistants.
Mr. Chengyu Song from NCEM visited us, and kindly guided us how to apply for the machine time of TEAM 0.5 and 1.0.
Dr. Zheng Liu from NTU visited us again and gave an talk on the controlled growth of 2D materials and their applications in electronic devices.
Dr. Bo Li from Rice University visited us, and delivered a talk on 2D van der Waals junctions.
Yingying's paper on revealing the growth dynamics of noble metal nanocrystals was accepted and published on J. Mater. Chem. A. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Hui Zhang's group @Zhejiang Univ.
Wanglin's paper on studying the anisotropic behaviors of few-layer black phosphorus by TEM, angle-resolved Raman and electronic transport was published on APL. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Zhiyong Zhang's group @Peking University.
Summer of 2015. Welcome Wandong, who joined us as a short-term research assistant during the summer vacation.
Summer vacation of 2015. Unfortunately, we had big problems with both two aberration corrected microscopes in the CEM, it was really hard time for us.
2015.06 Taking the opportunity of attending the NT conference in Japan, Dr. Jin re-visited his previous group in AIST, Tsukuba.
2015.06.Prof. Nobuo Tanaka visited us for week, and delivered serial lectures on the basics of TEM and STEM.
2015.04 Mr. Dancheng Zhu (a Ph.D. student) and Zhen Fei (a master student) submitted their thesis proposals.
Congratulations to Jie Lin, Zhengji Chen and Xibiao Ren, who just passed their thesis defense for under-graduation research. Wish you all have bright future!
Mr. Guomin Zhu, the first master student from our group, passed his thesis defense. Congratulations, well done! He is going to be a Ph.D. candidate in University of Washington, USA, continuing working on liquid-cell EM.
2015.04.27 Prof. Haim Bau from U. Penn visited us, and delivered a talk on liquid-cell TEM focused on the semi-quantitative analysis of beam-water interactions.
Prof. Sumio Iijima from Meijo University Japan visited us, and kindly shared with us his research experience on electron microscopy and nanocarbon.
Profs. Ziyou Li from Birmingham Univ. and Jun Yuan from University of York visited us, and delivered a few seminars and group discussions on nano-alloys, defects in 2D materials etc. During his stay, Jun was also lecturing on a graduate-level course "Electron microscopy for materials science".
Dr. Fang Lin, an expert on quantitative (S)TEM and a long-term collaborator visited us, and kindly gave a seminar on imaging processing.
Congratulations to Guomin, who just passed his mater degree defense. Guomin is the first guy who got the Master degree from this group, and is going to pursue his Ph.D in Washington Univ. this summer