Welcome to the home page of the Shih Research Group at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology.  We are dedicated to exploiting new materials and fabrication method to develop novel soft electronic and optoelectronic devices exhibiting enhanced performance and functionality. Research topics include stretchable electronics for future biomedical studies and low-cost carbon nanotube flexible electronics.  These efforts are highly multidisciplinary, requiring a combined expertise in materials science, chemistry, electrical engineering, and device physics.

Group News

The latest news from our lab

2024/03/01  Our collaborative research  ''Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes with Light‐Driven Gating Behaviors in Phototransistor Memory Utilizing an N‐Type Conjugated Polymer Sorting '' with Dr. Yan Cheng Lin in NCKU has been published in Small Science. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smsc.202300268

2023/11/25  Congratulation! Dr. Shih received 研發績優新人獎 from National Yunlin University Science and Technology. 

2023/10/29  Our paper " Chain-Kinked Design: Improving Stretchability of Polymer Semiconductors through Nonlinear Conjugated Linkers “  has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.3c10033

2023/10/20  Congratulation!  Yu-Ching and Ting-Wei awarded Best Poster Presentation Award (特優)  at IEDMS 2023!

2023/08/30 Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in  2023 SEED Conference & Workshop, Taiwan

Lecture topic: Stretchable Electronics Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

2023/08/01 Congratulations! Ting-Wei has joined Prof. Naoji Matsuhisa's group at the University of Tokyo as a visiting student.

2023/07/21  Congratulation!  Shi-Ting and Yong-Ruei awarded Poster Presentation Award (佳作) at  TWCIS 2023!

2023/07/01 Welcome Tzu-Ming, Ta-Chung,  Chung-Chien, Fong-Yi, Rou-Yi, Cheng -Yu and  Yu-An  to our group!

2023/03/29  Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in  Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry,  Kaohsiung medical university

Lecture topic: Skin-inspired electronics enabled by stretchable conjugated polymers

2023/01/19  Congratulation!  Ting-wei awarded Best Poster Presentation Award (特優) at Annual meeting of the polymer society 2023! 

2023/01/18 Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in Annual meeting of the polymer society 2023,  Chang Gung University .

2022/07/01 Welcome En-Jia , Yu-Ching,  Shi-Ting ,Yong-Ruei and  Yi-Ting  to our group!

2022/5/31  Our paper " Emerging polymer electrets for transistor-structured memory devices and artificial synapses “  has been accepted by J. Mater. Chem. C.  This article is part of the themed collections:  2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators.     pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/tc/d2tc01132h/unauth 

2022/3/1    Dr. Shih serves as the guest editor in the journal of Nanomaterials ( IF: 5.07) , 2022-2023

                        Special issue : Advanced Nanomaterials for Soft and Wearable Electronic

2022/2/23 Dr. Shih receives the award from  Fengtay cultural and education foundation.

2022/1/19   Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in Annual meeting of the polymer society 2022,  National Chin-Yi University of Technology .

2021/12/30 Welcome Ming-Zhang and Li Xiang to our group!

2021/11/25  Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in Department of Molecular Science and Engineering,   National Taipei University of Technology.

2021/11/19  Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in IEDMS (International Electron Devices & Materials Symposium)  2021 conference,    National Cheng Kung University.

2021/09/14  Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in 2021-Stanford-Taiwan LEAP Virtual Symposium.

2021/08/13   Dr. Shih gives an invited talk in 2021  interface science conference, Taiwan, online meeting.

2021/07/20  Dr. Shih  receives MOST Young Scholar Fellowship - Emerging Young Scholars, 2021 - 2024

2021/07/15   Welcome Yun-Shan to our group!

2021/03/01   Welcome Ting-Wei to our group! 

2021/02/01  The websites of Soft Materials and Electronics Laboratory is online!