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News:-Mar. 22, Congratulations to Gabrial and Faye for their paper "Pixelation of Perovskite Quantum Wire Thin Films with 0.18 μm Features and 63,500 ppi Pixel Density" being accepted by Science Advances! -Feb. 20, our collaboration work with Airan (Prof. Leilei Gu) "Human-centered design and fabrication of a wearable multimodal visualassistance system " is accepted by Nature Machine Intelligence! -Jan. 23, 2025, Congratulations to Vinson for his work “Biomimetic olfactory chips based on large-scale monolithically integrated nanotube sensor arrays” being awarded as "Nomination Award" -Aug. 13, 2024, Congratulations to Justin, Joe, Sheldon, Edward and Deep for their paper "Biomimetic optoelectronics with nanomaterials for artificial vision" being accepted by Nature Reviews Materials！ -Jul. 7, 2024, our paper "An ultra-wide field-of-view pinhole compound eye using hemispherical nanowire array for robot vision" is highlighted by Nature Electronics！ -Ju. 3, 2024, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for being elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials！ -Jun. 24, 2024, our paper "Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes with Quantum Wires and Nanorods" is accepted in Advanced Materials in a speical issue to celebrate HKUST's 30th Anniversary！ -Jun 3, 2024, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for being elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials！ -Apr. 9, 2024, Congratulations to Beitao Ren for his paper "Full-color fibre light-emitting diodes based on perovskite quantum wires" being accepted by Science Advances! -Mar. 20, 2024, Congratulations to Sheldon for his paper "A Tetrachromatic Sensor for Imaging Beyond the Visible Spectrum in Harsh Conditions" being accepted by Device! -Feb. 22, 2024, Congratulations to Qianpeng Zhang for his paper "Improving the Operational Lifetime of Metal-halide Perovskite LEDs with Dimension Control and Ligand Engineering" being accepted by ACS Nano! -Feb. 20, 2024, Congratulations to Sammy for her paper "Ultra-Sensitive and Stable Multiplexed Biosensors Array in FullyPrinted and Integrated Platforms for Reliable PerspirationAnalysis" being accepted by Advanced Materials! -Feb. 7, 2024, Congratulations to Joe and Edward for their paper "An ultra-wide field-of-view pinhole compound eye using hemispherical nanowire array for robot vision" being accepted by Science Robotics! -Dec. 11, 2023, Congratulations to Justin (Zhenghao Long) and Lei Shu for passing PhD thesis defence! -Nov. 24, 2023, Congratulations to Vinson and Zachary for their paper "Biomimetic Olfactory Chips Based on Large-scale Monolithically Integrated Nanotube Sensor Arrays" being accepted by Nature Electronics. -Nov. 2, 2023, Congratulations to Dr. Chen Wang (Vinson) for being awarded as "Young Outstanding Oversea Scholar" (海外优青）and joining Jilin University (吉林大学）as a Full Professor. -Sept. 25, 2023, Congratulations to Deep and Justin for winning "IUMRS Frontier Materials Graduate Students Award". -Aug. 7, 2023, Congratulations to Lei Shu for his paper "Highly efficient blue light-emitting diodes based on perovskite film with vertically graded bandgap and organic grain boundary passivation shells" being accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. -Jul. 13, 2023, Congratulations to Bryan for his paper "High-Efficiency, Flexible and Large-area Red/Green/Blue All-Inorganic Metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Wires-Based Light-Emitting Diodes" being accepted by Nature Communications. -Apr. 24, 2023, Congratulate to Dr. Swapnadeep Poddar for his winning prestigious RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship. -Apr. 4, 2023, Congratulate to Deep for his wining Finalist award of School of Engineering (SENG) PhD Research Excellence Award 2022-23. -Mar. 25, 2023, Congratulations to David for his paper "Metal seeding growth of three-dimensional perovskite nanowire forests for high-performance stretchable photodetectors" being accepted by Nano Energy. -Mar. 21, 2023, Congratulations to Justin for his paper "A neuromorphic bionic eye with filter-free colour vision using hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina" being accepted by Nature Communications. -Dec. 12, 2022, Congrats to Prof. FAN Zhiyong on winning the inaugural BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize (中银香港科技创新奖) under the field of "New Materials and New Energy". -Nov. 14, 2022, Congratulations to Julie for her paper "Three-dimensional Nanopillar Arrays-based Efficient and Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Stability" being accepted by Nano Letters. -Sept. 15, 2022, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for receiving a distinguished award "2022 Xplorer Prize" (科学探索奖) funded by Tencent Foundation, targeting at supporting the most talented young and mid-career scholars in China. There are only two awardees in Hong Kong this year. The news can be found in the links below: -Sept. 14, 2022, Congratulations to Dr. Qianpeng Zhang for being awarded a distinguished title "IAAM Fellow". IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials) is a non-profit international organization established to promote scientific research in the field of advanced materials with more than 10,000 members from 125 countries. IAAM Fellow is a prestigious honor and recognized title awarded only to those researchers who have made significant contributions to the fields of materials science, engineering and technology. -Sept. 1, 2022, Congratulations to Edward for his paper "Uncooled self-powered hemispherical biomimetic pit organ for mid- to long-infrared imaging" being published on Science Advances. -Aug. 2, 2022, Congratulations to Zhilong for his paper "Temperature-Modulated Selective Detection of Part-per-Trillion NO2 Using Platinum Nanoclusters Sensitized 3D Metal Oxide Nanotube Arrays" being accepted by Small. -Jul. 11, 2022, Congratulations to David for his paper "Metal Halide Perovskite Nanowires: Synthesis, Integration, Properties, and Applications in Optoelectronics" being accepted by Advanced Energy Materials. -Jun. 25, 2022, Congratulations to Wendy and Zachary for their paper "Micro-heater Integrated Nanotube Array Gas Sensor for Parts-Per-Trillion Level Gas Detection and Single Sensor-based Gas Discrimination" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Jun. 15, 2022, Congratulations to Joe for his paper "Halide-exchanged perovskite photodetectors for wearable visible-blind ultraviolet monitoring" being accepted by Nano Energy. -Jun. 2, 2022, Congratulations to Dr. Qianpeng (Gabriel) Zhang for accepting Assistant Professor position offer from Fudan University (复旦大学), China. He will start in his new position in the beginning of December, 2022. -Apr. 20, 2022, Congratulations to Jason for his paper "Strongly Quantum-confined Perovskite Nanowire Arrays for Color Tunable Blue Light-emitting Diodes" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Apr. 20, 2022, Congratulations to Deep for his paper "Robust Lead-free Perovskite Nanowire Array Based Artificial Synapses Exemplifying Gestalt Principle of Closure via a Letter Recognition Scheme" being accepted by Advanced Intelligent Systems. -Apr. 1, 2022, Congratulations to David for his paper "Large-scale planar and spherical light-emitting diodes based on arrays of perovskite quantum wires" being published on Nature Photonics. -Mar. 14, 2022, Congratulations to David for his paper "Vertical heterogeneous integration of metal halide perovskite quantum-wires/nanowires for flexible narrowband photodetectors" being accepted by Nano Letters. -Feb. 1, 2022, Congratulations to Jason (Yu Fu) and Julie (Yiyi Zhu) for passing PhD thesis defence! -Sept. 5, 2021, Congratulations to Carol and Deep for their paper "Three-dimensional perovskite nanowire array–based ultrafast resistive RAM with ultralong data retention" being published on Science Advances. -Jun. 2, 2021, Congratulations to Deep for his paper "Down-scalable and Ultra-fast Memristors with Ultra-high Density Three-dimensional Arrays of Perovskite Quantum Wires" being accepted by Nano Letters. -May. 21, 2021, Congratulations to Julie for her paper "Moth Eye-inspired Highly Efficient, Robust, and Neutral-colored Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells for Building-integrated Photovoltaics" being accepted by EcoMat. -Apr. 14, 2021, Congratulations to Zhilong and Wenhao for their paper "Wireless Self-Powered High-Performance Integrated Nanostructured-Gas-Sensor Network for Future Smart Homes" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Feb. 8, 2021, Our work "A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina" is selected into "2020 Top 10 Research Progress on Semiconductors in China" (2020 中国半导体十大进展). -Jan. 15, 2021, Our work "A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina" is selected into "2020 Top 10 Innovation News in Hong Kong" (2020香港十大创科新闻). -Sept. 16, 2020, Welcome to Andrea, Andrew, Edward, Faye, Samantha and Jonathan to join our group as new PhD and MPhil students. -Sept. 9, 2020, Congratulations to Dr. Leilei (Airan) Gu for accepting Associate Professor position offer from Shanghai Jiaotong University (上海交通大学), China. He will start in his new position by the end of October, 2020. -Jun. 8, 2020, Congratulations to Jason for his paper "Scalable All-evaporation Fabrication of Efficient Light-Emitting Diodes with Hybrid 2D-3D Perovskite Nanostructures" being accepted by AFM. -May. 20, 2020, Congratulations to Airan for his paper "A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina" being published on Nature. -Apr. 20, 2020, Congratulations to Gabriel for his paper "Light Out-Coupling Management in Perovskite LEDs- What Can We Learn from the Past?" being accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. -Mar. 20, Congratulations to Angela for accepting Assistant Professor position offer from Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学), China. She will join School of Microelectronics by the end of 2020. -Jan. 16, 2020, Congratulations to Gabriel for his paper "Three-Dimensional Perovskite Nanophotonic Wire Array-Based Light-Emitting Diodes with Significantly Improved Efficiency and Stability" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Dec. 5, 2019, our paper "Efficient metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes with significantly improved light extraction on nanophotonic substrates" being listed as "ESI Highly Cited Paper" by Web of Science, 2019 Clarivate Analytics. -Aug. 26, 2019, Congratulations to Hoi for passing his PhD thesis defence. -May. 16, 2019, Congratulations to Angela for her paper "Porous enzymatic membrane for nanotextured glucose sweat sensors with high stability towards reliable noninvasive health monitoring" being accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. -Apr. 24, 2019, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for being awarded 2019 HKUST SENG Research Excellence Award. -Apr. 01, 2019, Congratulations to David for his paper "Increasing photoluminescence quantum yield by nanophotonic design of quantum-confined halide perovskite nanowire arrays" being accepted by Nano Letters. -Mar. 15, 2019, Congratulate to Deep for being awarded prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship starting from Sept. 1, 2019. -Jan. 08, 2019, Congratulations to Gabriel for his paper "Efficient metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes with significantly improved light extraction on nanophotonic substrates" being accepted by Nature Communications. -Nov. 27, 2018, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for being named as a Highly Cited Researcher for 2018 by Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). -Nov. 16, 2018, Congratulations to Angela for her paper "Printable Fabrication of Fully Integrated and Self-powered Sensor System on Plastic Substrates" being accepted by Advanced Materials. -Jul. 21, 2018, Congratulations to Airan for his paper "Significantly Improved Black Phase Stability of FAPbI3 Nanowires via Spatially Confined Vapor Phase Growth in Nanoporous Templates" being accepted to Nanoscale. -Jul. 8, 2018, Congratulations to Prof. Fan for being awarded distinguished title "Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry". -Jun. 29, 2018, Congratulations to Jiaqi Chen for passing his PhD thesis defence. -Jun. 13, 2018, Congratulations to Angela for accepting a postdoc position offer from UC Berkeley. -May 25, 2018, Congratulations to Jiaqi Chen for his paper "Ultra-Low Power Smart Electronic Nose System Based on Three-Dimensional Tin-Oxide Nanotube Arrays" being accepted to ACS Nano. -Dec. 18, 2017, Congratulations to Mahdi for his paper "Large-Grain Tin-Rich Perovskite Film for Efficient Solar Cells via Metal Alloying Technique" being accepted by Advanced Materials. -Oct. 21, 2017, Congratulations to Larry, Hoi and Chaky for winning the Championship of the 3rd "GCL Cup (协鑫杯) International College Student Green Energy Science and Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition", in Suzhou China. -Oct. 10, 2017, Our Nano Letters paper "Lead-free Perovskite Nanowire Array Photodetectors with Drastically Improved Stability in Nanoengineering Templates" is selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper. -Sept. 19, 2017, Congratulations to Angela for being accepted by UC Berkeley as a PhD research exchange student. -Aug. 22, 2017, Congratulations to Angela for her paper "Printable Fabrication of Nanocoral-structured Electrodes for High-perormance Flexible and Planar Supercapacitor with Artistic Design" being accepted by Advanced Materials. -Aug. 20, 2017, Congratulations to Aashir for joining University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, as a tenure track assistant professor. -Aug. 17, 2017, Congratulations to Mahdi for accepting a postdoc position offer in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). -Aug. 16, 2017, Congratulations to Mahdi, Aashir and George for passing their PhD thesis defence. -Aug. 10, 2017, Congratulations to Larry for passing his MPhil. thesis defence. -Jul. 24, 2017, Congratulations to Aashir for his paper "All Inorganic Cesium Lead Iodide Perovskite Nanowires with Stabilized Cubic Phase at Room Temperature and Nanowire Array-based Photodetectors" being accepted by Nano Letters. -May 3, 2017, Our collaboration work "A Scalable Indium Phosphide Thin-Film Nanophotonics Platform for Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices" is accepted by ACS Nano. -Mar. 22, 2017, Congratulations to Deep for being conferred with the 1st Runner Up Prize in the 3MT Thesis Presentation organized by the School of Engineering, HKUST. -Mar. 22, 2017, Congratulations to Airan for his paper "ZnO Quantum Dots Decorated Zn2SnO4 Nanowire Heterojunction Photodetectors with Drastic Performance Enhancement and Flexible Ultraviolet Image Sensors" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Jan. 27, 2017, Congratulations to Mahdi's paper " High Quality Organohalide Lead Perovskite Films Fabricated with Layer-by-Layer Alternting Vacuum Deposition for High Efficiency Photovoltaics" being accepted by Materials Chemistry Frontiers. -Dec. 29, 2016, Congratulations to our previous postdoc Dr. Yongcai Qiu (丘勇才博士) being enlisted in the prestigious "The Thirteenth Round of National Young 1000 Talents Plan" ("第十三批国家青年千人计划") . -Dec. 24, 2016, Congratulations to Aashir for his paper "Lead-free Perovskite Nanowire Array Photodetectors with Drastically Improved Stability in Nanoengineering Templates" being accepted by Nano Letters. -Dec. 22, 2016, Our collaboration paper "Electric Field Enhanced 3D Scalable Low-Voltage Nano-spike Electroporation System" is accepted by Sensors and Actuators A: Physical.-Dec. 14, 2016, Congratulations to Alex, Hoi, Chaky and Larry for winning "Yeung Wing Yee Entrepreneur Fund". -Dec. 7, 2016, Congratulations to David for winning "Best Student Presentation Award" in ECS PRIME 2016 Honolulu. -Dec. 6, 2016, Congratulations to Shabeeb, Aashir and Mahdi for their paper " Fabrication of CuFe2O4α-Fe2O3 Composite Thin Films on FTO coated glass and 3-D Nanospike Structures for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting". -Dec. 5, 2016, Congratullations to Mahdi for being accepted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for exchange research.-Nov. 23, 2016, Congratulations to Airan for his Advanced Materials paper being published as a front cover paper. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.v28.44/issuetoc) -Aug. 1, 2016, Congratulations to Leilei (Airan)for his paper "Three-dimensional Arrays of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowire Based Image Sensors with 1K Pixels" being accepted by Advanced Materials. -Jun. 19, 2016, Congratulations to Xuzhou (Sam) for his paper "Integrated Flexible, Waterproof,Transparent and Self-Powered Tactile Sensing Panel" being accepted by ACS Nano. -Jun. 11, 2016, Congratulations to Xuzhou Jiang (Sam) for passing his PhD thesis defence. -Jun. 3, 2016, Congratulations to the great achievement of Hoi, Alex, Chaky and Larry for winning three prizes in "The 6th Annual One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition" at HKUST. The prizes are "Innovation Prize", "President's Prize" and "Student Team Prize". This is the 2nd time Prof. Fan's team won One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition at HKUST. -Apr. 15, 2016, Congratulations to Mahdi for being accepted by UCLA as an exchange research student. -Mar. 16, 2016, Prof. Fan won HKUST SENG "Young Investigator Award". -Mar. 1, 2016, Congratulations to Mahdi for his being awarded "Overseas Research Award for PhD Students" by HKUST. -Feb. 21, 2016, Congratulations to Ethan and Mahdi for their paper "High Performance Thin Film Solar Cells on Plastic Substrates with Nanostructure-Enhanced Flexibility" being accepted to Nano Energy. -Feb. 3, 2016, Congratulations to Mahdi for his paper "High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cell Using ZnO/rGO QDs as an Electron Transfer Layer" being accepted toAdvanced Materials Interfaces. -Jan. 19, 2016, Congratulations to Mahdi for his paper "Efficient, Flexible and Mechanically Robust Perovskite Solar Cells on Inverted Nanocone Plastic Substrates" being accepted to Nanoscale. -Jan. 14, 2016, Congratulations to Airan for passing his PhD thesis defence. -Oct. 21, Angela delivered two oral presentations at the 228th ECS meeting in Phoenix, AZ, USA. -Aug. 18, 2015, Congratulations to Mohammad for his paper "Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cell with Anti-reflection and Self-cleaning Nanostructures" being accepted to ACS Nano. -Prof. Fan is awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as one of the top 1% of highly cited authors in the RSC journals in 2014. -Aug. 8, 2015, Congratulations to Mohammad for his paper "Fabrication of efficient planar perovskite solar cells using a one-step chemical vapor deposition method" being accepted to Scientific Reports. -Our paper "Flexible Photovoltiac Technologies" is among the top 30 most accessed articles in Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2014. (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=tc&themeid=663457d4-5e2a-45ce-8225-625d982ef948) -Apr. 7, 2015, Mahdi presents his poster "Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using one step Chemical Vapour Deposition" in MRS meeting in San Francisco. -Apr. 3, 2015, Congratulations to George, his paper "Highly Flexible and Transferable Supercapacitors with Ordered Three-dimensional MnO2/Au/MnO2 Nanospikes Arrays" is accepted to Journal of Materials Chemistry A. -Jan. 26, 2015, Congratulations to Xiaofang (Rachel) for her passing PhD thesis defense. -Sept. 10, 2014, Congratulations to Mark, his paper " Large scale, Flexible and Three-dimensional Quasi-ordered Aluminum Nanospikes for Thin Film Photovoltaics with Omnidirectional Light Trapping and Optimized Electrical Design" is accepted to Energy & Environmental Science. -Aug. 30, 2014, Congratulations to Rachel, her paper "A fast-response/recovery ZnO hierarchical nanostructure based gas sensor with ultra-high room-temperature output response" is accepted to Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical. -Aug. 18, 2014, Welcome Yuanjing (Angela) Lin and Daquan (David) Zhang join us as PhD students. And welcome Kwong Hoi Tsui joins us as an MPhil student. -Jul. 15, 2014, our collaboration paper "Three-dimensional Hexagonal Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide Nanocone Array: A Superior Light Harvesting Electrode for High Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting" is accepted to Energy & Environmental Science. -Jun. 26, 2014. Congratulations to Ethan for his passing PhD thesis defense. He will be the first PhD student graduate from our group. -May 30, 2014, Congratulations to Ethan, his paper "Inverted Nanocone-Based Thin Film Photovoltaics with Omnidirectionally Enhanced Performance" is accepted to ACS Nano -Apr. 30, 2014, Congratulations to Brian, Airan and Gabriel, our paper "All Printable Band-edge Modulated ZnO Nanowire Photodetectors with Ultra-High Detectivity" is accepted to Nature Communications. -Our Nano Letters paper "Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Ultrathin films of Hematite on Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Structures" is among top 20 most downloaded papers for March. -Mar. 7, 2014, Yongcai and Mark's paper "Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Ultra-thin film of Hematite on Three-dimensional Nanophotonic Structures" is accepted to Nano Letters. -Mar. 5, 2014, our collaboration paper "Single InAs Nanowire Room-Temperature Near-Infrared Photodetectors" is accepted to ACS Nano. -Mar. 2, Prof. Fan joins editorial board of NPG Scientific Reports. -Mar. 1, 2014, Ethan's abstract is accepted to European MRS meeting. -Feb. 18, our work is reported in SPIE News, "Reducing reflection losses in solar cells". -Feb. 11, 2014, Mark's paper "Roll-to-roll fabrication of large scale and regular arrays of three-dimensional nanospikes for high efficiency and flexible photovoltaics" was accepted to Nature Publishing Group Scientific Reports. -Feb. 7, 2014, our collaboration paper "Viability of Using Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals as Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers to Enhance the Efficiency of Thin-Film CdTe/CdS and Crystalline Si Solar Cells" was accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. -Jan. 7, Yongcai's paper "Three-dimensional metal/oxide nanocone arrays for high-performance electrochemical pseudocapacitors" was accepted to Nanoscale. -Dec. 19, 2013, our collaboration paper “High-performance UV-visible-NIR organic-inorganic hybrid photodetectors based on PCBM:Cd3P2 nanowire on rigid and flexible substrates” was accepted to ACS Nano. -Dec. 10, 2013, our collaboration paper “Scalable Integration of Indium Zinc Oxide/Photosensitive Nanowires Composite Thin Film Transistors for Transparent Multicolor Photodetectors Array on Glass” was accepted to Advanced Materials. -Nov. 28, 2013, Hoi and Ethan's paper “Low-cost, Flexible and Self-Cleaning Three-Dimensional Anti-reflection Nanocone Arrays for High Efficiency Photovoltaics” was accepted to Advanced Materials. -Nov. 5, 2013, congratulations to Bo Hua for his smooth graduation. -Oct. 29, 2013, Ethan gave an oral presentation in the 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA, on his work "Programmable Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Structures for Thin-film Photovoltaic Applications". -Oct. 26, 2013, Our collaboration paper "Tailoring surface plasmons of high-density gold nanostar assemblies on metal films for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy" was accepted to Nanoscale. -Ivy and Ethan got the Research Travel Grant for their ECS conference in San Francisco. -Aug. 30, 2013, Rachel's paper "Self-Gating Effect Induced Large Performance Improvement of ZnO Nanocomb Gas Sensors" was accepted to ACS Nano. -Aug. 19, 2013, Congratulations to Gimpel for passing his MPhil thesis defense. -Aug. 15, 2013, Congratulations to Mark for passing his MPhil thesis defense. -Jun. 5, 2013, Mark and Prof. Fan together with 3 MBA students won the 1st place prize in HKUST One Million Dollars Entrepreneurship Competition. -Jun. 5, 2013, Our collaboration paper “Performance Enhancement of Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells with Low-cost Nanodent Plasmonic Substrates” was accepted to Energy and Environmental Science. -Jun. 4, 2013, Airan's paper “In-situ Doping Control and Electrical Transport Investigation of Single and Arrayed CdS Nanowires” was accepted to Nanoscale. -May 30, 2013, Ethan's paper “Programmable Nanoengineering Templates for Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Structures” was accepted to Nanoscale Research Letters. -May 16, 2013, Prof. Fan was interviewed by Phoenix TV(凤凰卫视) about new solar cell technologies. -May 9, 2013, Ethan won the first place poster prize in International Workshop “Photonics of Functional Nanomaterials” , organized by City University of Hong Kong. -May 1, 2013, Prof. Fan starts to serve as an Assistant Editor for Nanoscale Research Letters. -Apr. 2, 2013, Gimpel (Bo Hua) present his poster "Shape Engineering of Nanostructures from Nanowires to Nanocones for Efficient Light Harvesting" in 2013 Spring MRS meeting in San Francisco. -Mar. 19, 2013, Congratulations to Gimpel for acceptance of his Nano Energy paper "Rational Geometrical Design of Multi-diameter Nanopillars for Efficient Light Harvesting". -Feb. 25, 2013, Our paper "Recent advances in solar cells based on one-dimensional nanostructure arrays" is one of the "Top 25 most-read" Nanoscale article for year of 2012. -Feb. 18, 2013, Congratulations to Ethan, Gimpel, Mark and Kent
for acceptance of their ACS Nano paper "Efficient Light Absorption
with -- Our paper "Nanomaterials and nanostructures for efficient light absorption and photovoltaics" is among the most Cited Nano Energy Articles in 2012, Feb. 10, 2013. -- Congratulations to Matthew for passing his Mphil thesis examination, Jun. 12, 2012. -- Congratulations to Mark, Matthew, Ethan, Ronald and Airan for acceptance of their Nano Letters paper "Efficient Photon Capturing with Ordered Three-dimensional Nanowell Arrays", May 29, 2012. -- Congratulations to our former exchange student, Jason, for being admitted to EECS department, UC Berkeley as a PhD student. Mar. 24, 2012. -- Congratulations to Mark for being awarded "HKUST Research Travel Grant" for attending MRS Spring conference at San Francisco, Mar. 8, 2012. -- Congratulations to Brian for acceptance of his ACS Nano paper, Feb. 27, 2012. -- Josh joined us as a summer exchange student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jun. 18th, 2012. -- Congratulations to Matthew and Samantha for being admitted to Columbia University and University of California, Los Angeles as PG students. -- Matthew passed MPhil thesis defense, June 11th, 2012. -- Congratulations to Mark, Matthew, Ethan, Ronald and Airan for acceptance of their Nano Letters paper "Efficient Photon Capturing with Ordered Three-dimensional Nanowell Arrays", May 29th, 2012. -- Dr. Liu joined us, Apr. 2nd, 2012. -- Congratulations to our former exchange student, Jason, for being admitted to EECS department, UC Berkeley as a PhD student, Mar. 24, 2012. -- Congratulations to Mark for being awarded "HKUST Research Travel Grant" for attending MRS Spring conference at San Francisco, Mar. 8, 2012. -- Congratulations to Brian for acceptance of his ACS Nano paper, Feb. 27th, 2012. -- Dr. Fu joined us, Feb. 17th, 2012. -- Congratulations to Prof. Fan, Mark, Matthew, and Ethan for "Outstanding Paper Award" at International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials, 2011 Nov. 7~10 at Jeju, Korea, Dec. 12, 2011. -- Prof. Fan, Ethan and Matthew had a lunch meeting with father of photonic crystal, Prof. Eli Yablonovitch from UC Berkeley, Nov. 22, 2011. -- Congratulations to Rachel, Ronald, Ethan, Mark and Diaz for acceptance of their ACS Nanopaper, Oct. 24th, 2011. -- Congratulations to Rachel, Ethan and Mark for acceptance of their Nano Energy paper, Oct. 17th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Xi LIU joined us, Aug. 22th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Leilei GU joined us, Aug. 15th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Qingfeng LIN gave a talk on “Fabrication of Ultra-large Pitch Perfect Ordered Anodic Alumina Membrane” at The 19th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering, Shanghai, Jul. 27th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Mark Leung gave a talk on “Optical Absorption Of Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Structures” at The 19th International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering, Shanghai, Jul. 27th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Miao YU gave a talk on "Asian Science and Technology Pioneering Institutes of Research and Education" at 2011 ASPIRE League and was awarded for "Best Presentation Prize", Seoul, Jul. 8th, 2011. -- Ronald (Kwonglung Ching) joined us as an ITF intern student, June, 2011. -- FYP students, Judy, Yen, Plom, Syrus, Sunny graduated in June, 2011. -- Ph. D student Qingfeng LIN took part in the conference ICCE-19 in Shanghai, Jul. 24th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Mark LEUNG took part in the conference ICCE-19 in Shanghai, Jul. 24th, 2011. -- Dr. Yunze LONG went back to Tsingdao University, May. 27th, 2011. -- Ph. D student Miao YU joined us, Feb. 7th, 2011. -- Second group dinner held on Dec. 23th, 2010. -- First visit to CityU, Oct. 23th, 2010. -- First group dinner held on Sep. 14th, 2010. -- Group website is up online, Sept. 13th, 2010. -- Dr. Rui YU joined us, Sept. 10th, 2010. -- Exchange student from Tshinghua, Sen LIN, joined us, Aug. 27th, 2010. -- Ph. D student Qingfeng LIN joined us, Aug. 26th, 2010. -- Ph. D student Mark LEUNG joined us, Aug. 26th, 2010. -- First group meeting held on Jun. 24th, 2010. -- Group website is up online, June 14th, 2010. -- Dr. Yunze LONG joined FAN lab, June 1st, 2010. -- Prof. Zhiyong FAN joined HKUST, May 3rd, 2010. |