Advance Nanotechnology Group

2018

• December 27, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our paper entitled "Waveguide-integrated black phosphorus photodetector for mid-infrared applications" to ACS Nano!

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• December 21, 2018

Congratulations to Wang Lin for his paper featured in the top 5% most read articles published in Nanoscale during July-September 2018!

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• December 8, 2018

Prof. Ang has been listed in the 2018 Golden List of Reviewers for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and IEEE Electron Device Letters three years in a roll.

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• December 3, 2018

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Li Bochang!

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• November 9, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a keynote talk at the International Conference on Graphene and 2D Materials - Graphene Korea 2019, to be held on Mar. 27-29, 2019 in Incheon-Seoul, Korea.

URL: http://www.setcor.org/conferences/Graphene-Korea-2019

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• November 8, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our invited review paper entitled "Recent advances in black phosphorus-based electronic devices" to Advanced Electronic Materials!

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• October 13, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee of OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics conference, to be held from 29 Jul. - 1 Aug. 2019 in Burlingame, California, USA.

URL: https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/advanced_photonics_congress/program/integrated_photonics_research_silicon_and_nano/

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• October 13, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 8th MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials, to be held on Nov. 21-23, 2018 in Singapore.

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• September 25, 2018

Congratulations to Xuewei for the figures featured on the front cover of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, volume 65, number 10, October 2018!

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• August 25, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Efficient and reliable surface charge transfer doping of black phosphorus via atomic layer deposited MgO toward high performance complementry circuits" to Nanoscale!

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• July 8, 2018

Warm welcome to our new group member, Li Sifan!

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• July 3, 2018

Congratulations to Chen Li, Wang Lin and Xuewei on the acceptance of their manuscripts to 2018 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, to be held from Sep. 9-13, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan! 

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• July 1, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Tunable black phosphorus heterojunction transistor for multifunctional optoelectronics" to Nanoscale! 

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• June 22, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Large scale transparent molybdenum disulfide plasmonic photodetector using split bull eye structure" to Advanced Optical Materials! 

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• June 19, 2018

Congratulations to Huang Li for winning the 2018 VLSI Technology Symposia Student Travel Grant Award! 

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• June 12, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our invited paper entitled "Complementary black phosphorus nanoribbons field-effect transistors and circuits" to IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices! 

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• May 19, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus carbide as a tunable anisotropic plasmonic metasurface" to ACS Photonics! 

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• May 9, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to contribute a review article to Advanced Electronic Materials (IF: 6.31) journal. 

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• May 9, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Gigahertz integrated circuits based on complementary black phosphorus transistors" to Advanced Electronic Materials!

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• April 16, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "High mobility anisotropic black phosphorus nanoribbons field-effect transistor" to Advanced Functional Materials!

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• March 22, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Integration of 2D black phosphorus phototransistor and silicon photonics waveguide system towards mid-infrared on-chip sensing applications" to 2018 Symposium on VLSI Technology, to be held from Jun. 18-22, 2018 in Honolulu, USA!

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• March 16, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 256th ACS National Meeting, to be held from Aug. 19-23, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

URL: https://acsanalytical.org/meetings/fall-2018-national-acs-meeting/

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• March 15, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to contribute a paper to IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices for a special issue on 2D materials for electronic, optoelectronic, and sensor devices.

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• March 15, 2018

Our recent publication "2D Photovoltaic Devices: Progress and Prospects" in Small Methods journal has been featured in Materials Views China by Wiley publisher. Congratulations!

URL: http://www.materialsviewschina.com/2018/03/28116/

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• March 9, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to contribute a chapter to a book entitled "2D Materials for Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications," by publisher Elsevier.

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• March 5, 2018

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Direct n- to p-type channel conversion in monolayer/few-layer WS2 field-effect transistors by atomic nitrogen treatment" to ACS Nano!

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• February 8, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 5th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment, to be held from Nov. 11-14, 2018 in Jeju, Korea.

URL: http://www.enge2018.org/

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• January 17, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to contribute a chapter to a book entitled "2D Semiconductor Materials and Devices" as part of the Elsevier Materials Today book series.

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• January 12, 2018

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve on the Executive Committee of the 3rd Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) Conference 2019, to be held from 12-15 Mar 2019 in Singapore.

URL: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/edtm/2019/

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2017​

• December 19, 2017

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve as a co-chair to organize a symposium on 'Graphene and 2D Materials' at the 10th Singapore International Chemistry Conference (SICC 10), to be held from 16-19 Dec 2018.

URL: https://sicc10.org/

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• November 10, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Pronounced photovoltaic effect in electrically tunable lateral black phosphorus heterojunction diode" to Advanced Electronic Materials!

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• October 30, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our invited review manuscript entitled "Two-dimensional photovoltaic devices: Progress and prospects" to Small Methods!

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• October 10, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus carbide infrared phototransistor" to Advanced Materials!

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• September 29, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Infrared black phosphorus phototransistor with tunable responsivity and low noise equivalent power" to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!

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• September 20, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus carbide phototransistor with wide spectrum sensing for IoT applications" to 63rd IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held from Dec. 2-6, 2017 in San Francisco, USA!

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• September 5, 2017

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 13th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, to be held from Apr. 22-26, 2018 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.ieee-nems2018.org/index.jsp

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• August 15, 2017

Our recent ACS Nano publication on "Monolithic black phosphorus inverter circuits" has been featured in 2D Graphene Research!

URL: https://2dresearch.com/2017/08/15/monolithic-black-phosphorus-inverter-circuits/

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• July 14, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Infrared black phosphorus phototransistor with electrostatically tunable responsivity" to 2017 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM), to be held from Sep. 19-22, 2017 in Sendai, Japan!

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• June 28, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Monolithically integrated flexible black phosphorus complementary inverter circuits" to ACS Nano!

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• April 28, 2017

Prof. Ang has been invited to contribute an invited review article on a focus topic of '2D photovoltaic devices: progress and prospects' to Small Methods journal.

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• April 27, 2017

Warm welcome to our new visiting Research Fellow, Dr. Kailas K. Tehare!

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• March 24, 2017

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Huang Xin!

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• March 17, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Mid-IR waveguides in SOI platform" in Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR), to be held from Jul. 31-Aug. 4, 2017 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.cleopacificrim.com/home/

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• March 9, 2017

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 9th Annual Recent Progress in Graphene & 2D Materials Research (RPRG) Conference, to be held from Sep. 19-22, 2017 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.rpgr2017.com

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• March 6, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Few-layer black phosphorus carbide field-effect transistor via carbon doping" to Advanced Materials!

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• February 8, 2017

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Sourav Adhikary!

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• January 11, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Monolayer WMoS2 grown by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition: Bandgap engineering and field effect transistors" to Advanced Functional Materials!

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• January 7, 2017

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscripts entitled "Adatoms Doping Effects on the Thermal Stability of Black Phosphorus formed on High-k Gate Dielectric" and "High Performance Photovoltaic Based on Black Phosphorus p-n Homojunction Diode" to 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Arizona, USA!

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​2016

• December 19, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Band alignment of atomic layer deposited TiO2/multilayer MoS2 interface determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy" to Journal of Alloys and Compounds!

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• December 16, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Effects of Al2O3 capping layers on the thermal properties of thin black phosphorus" to Applied Physics Letters!

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• December 12, 2016

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Wang Lin!

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• December 9, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Impact and origin of interface states in MOS capacitor with monolayer MoS2 and HfO2 high-k dielectric" to Scientific Reports, Nature Research!

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• December 8, 2016

Prof. Ang has been recognized in the '2016 Golden List of Reviewers' for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and IEEE Electron Device Letters.

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• November 22, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Al-doped Black Phosphorus p-n Homojunction Diode for High Performance Photovoltaic" to Advanced Functional Materials!​

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• October 7, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus n-type field-effect transistor with ultra-high electron mobility via aluminum adatoms doping" to Small!

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• September 30, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve as a short course lecturer for the 1st IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), to be held in Toyama, Japan from February 28-March 2, 2017.

URL: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/edtm/2017/

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• September 16, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature.

URL: http://www.nature.com/srep/

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• September 9, 2016

Warm welcome to our new group member, Chen Li!

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• August 13, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Propogation loss improvement in Ge-on-SOI mid-infrared waveguides using rapid thermal annealing" to IEEE Photonics Technology Letters!

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• August 8, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Band alignment of ZnO/multilayer MoS2 interface determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy" to Applied Physics Letters!

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• August 3, 2016

Prof. Ang is serving as Co-Chair in organizing a symposium on "2D Materials and Devices Beyond Graphene" at the 9th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, to be held from Jun. 18-23, 2017 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.icmat2017.mrs.org.sg 

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• July 19, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscripts entitled "The physical origin of interface states and its influence on MOSCAP with magnetron sputtered MoS2 and HfO2 high-k gate dielectric" and "Thickness-dependent flatband voltage shift in MOSCAP with MoS2 and high-k gate dielectric" to 2016 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM), Tsukuba, Japan!

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• July 10, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Improving propagation loss of Ge-on-SOI mid-infrared waveguides using rapid thermal annealing" to 13th International Conference on Group-IV Photonics, China!

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• June 29, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 2016 ZEISS Technology Symposia Series on "Semiconductor Technology Imaging & Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities", to be held on Jul. 22, 2016 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.zeiss.com.sg/content/dam/Microscopy/sg/download/2016/sg_semiconductor-technology-symposia-series_artc_220716_web.pdf

 

• June 13, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 9th Singapore International Chemistry Conference (SICC-9), to be held from Dec. 11-14, 2016 in Singapore.

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• June 4, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 8th International Conference on Low Dimensional Structures and Devices, to be held from Aug. 28 - Sep. 2, 2016 in Mayan Riviera, Mexico.

URL: http://ldsd.cinvestav.mx/Invited

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• May 19, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Germanium-on-SOI waveguides for mid-infrared wavelengths" to Optics Express!

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• May 18, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Mid-infrared waveguides in Ge-on-SOI" in 2016 IEEE Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics Conference, Singapore!

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• May 17, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Anomalously enhanced thermal stability of phosphorene via metal adatoms doping: An experimental and first-principles study" to Nano Research!

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• May 5, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Interface engineering for the enhancement of carrier transport in black phosphorus transistor with ultra-thin high-k gate dielectric" to Scientific Reports, Nature Research!

 

• May 3, 2016

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Amit Prakash!

 

• April 25, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus transistors with enhanced hole transport and subthreshold swing using ultra-thin HfO2 high-k gate dielectric" to 2016 IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop, Honolulu, USA!

 

• April 7, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus based field effect transistors with simultaneously achieved near ideal subthreshold swing and high hole mobility at room temperature" to Scientific Reports, Nature Research!

 

• March 22, 2016

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Towards low-loss mid-infrared waveguides in Ge-on-SOI" to 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA!

 

• March 15, 2016

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Tan Wee Chong!

 

• March 3, 2016

Prof. Ang is serving as Co-Chair in organizing a symposium on "Physics, Chemistry and Materials for Beyond Silicon Electronics" at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, to be held from Apr. 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona USA.

URL: http://www.mrs.org/spring2017 

 

• January 8, 2016

Two new research grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for Competitive Research Program (CRP) are gratefully acknowledged!

 

• January 5, 2016

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 2016 EMN Meeting on Carbon Nanostructures, to be held from Mar. 27-31, 2016 in Hawaii, USA.

 

​2015

• December 21, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Nickel-phosphide contact for effective Schottky barrier modulation in black phosphorus p-channel transistors" to 2016 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA), Hsinchu, Taiwan!

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• December 15, 2015

Congratulations on the publication of U.S. Patent entitled "Semiconductor devices including photodetectors integrated on waveguides and methods for fabricating the same," Issue No.: 9,213,137!

 

• December 7, 2015

Prof. Ang has been invited to be session chair and invited speaker at the 2nd Annual World Congress of Smart Materials - 2016 (WCSM 2016), to be held from Mar. 4-6, 2016.

 

• November 27, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Thermal effects on the Raman phonon of few-layer phosphorene" to APL Materials!

 

• October 30, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Black phosphorus transistors with near band edge contact Schottky barrier" to Scientific Reports, Nature Research!

 

• October 21, 2015

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve as the Technical Program Committee for the 12th IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2016) to be held from August 3-5, 2016 in Hong Kong.

URL: http://www.eee.hku.hk/edssc2016/committees.html

 

• October 13, 2015

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Liu Yuanda!

 

• September 11, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Low temperature carrier transport study of monolayer MoS2 field effect transistor prepared by chemical vapor deposition under an atmospheric pressure" to Journal of Applied Physics!

 

• September 15, 2015

Congratulations on the publication of U.S. Patent entitled "Optical modulator and methods for manufacturing the same," Issue No.: 9,134,553!

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• September 7, 2015

Warm welcome to our new group member, Xia Pengkun!

 

• September 1, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Band alignment of HfO2/multilayer MoS2 interface determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: effect of CHF3 treatment" to Applied Physics Letters!

 

• August 7, 2015

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 2015 Energy Materials Nanotechnology (EMN) Fall Meeting, to be held from Nov. 16-19, 2015 in Las Vegas, NV USA.

 

• July 23, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Band alignment of atomic layer deposited high-k Al2O3/multilayer MoS2 interface determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy" to Journal of Alloys and Compounds!

 

• July 21, 2015

Warm welcome to our new group members, Huang Li and Feng Xuewei!

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• July 16, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Ultra-sensitive 2D photodetectors based on large scale molybdenum disulfide crystals" to 2015 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM), Sapporo, Japan!

 

• ​July 15, 2015

New research grant from A*STAR SERC for project entitled "2D devices & materials for ubiquitous electronic, sensor and optoelectronic applications" is gratefully acknowledged!

 

• June 10, 2015

Prof. Ang is serving as Co-Chair in organizing a Symposium on "2D Materials and Devices Beyond Graphene" in International Conference on Electronic Materials (ICEM 2016), to be held from Jul. 4-8, 2016 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.mrs.org.sg/icem2016 

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• June 2, 2015

Congratulations on the publication of U.S. Patent entitled "Semiconductor devices including avalanche photodetector integrated on waveguides and methods for fabricating the same," Issue No.: 9,048,371!

 

• May 12, 2015

Congratulations on the acceptance of our manuscript entitled "Large-scale two-dimensional MoS2 photodetectors by magnetron sputtering" to Optics Express!

 

• April 18, 2015

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing on topic related to "Future Nano Electronic Devices for DSP", to be held from Jul. 21-25, 2015.

 

• March 4, 2015

Warm welcome to our new group member, Dr. Usman Younis!

 

​2014

• December 24, 2014

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the third IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium Workshop on Graphene and Other 2D Materials and Devices for Wireless Application to be held from Mar. 30 - Apr. 1, 2015 in Shenzhen, China.

URL: http://iws-ieee.org/workshops-m/14-technical-program/252-ws1

 

• December 16, 2014

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the Workshop on Next Generation Electronics on Silicon - Role of an Academic Silicon Role to be held on Feb. 9, 2015 in Singapore.

 

• October 24, 2014

Prof. Ang has been invited to give a talk at the 9th International Conference on Silicon Epitaxy and Heterostructures to be held from May 17-22, 2015 in Montreal, Canada.

URL: http://129.69.179.216/wordpress/speakers/

 

• October 1, 2014

New research grant from MOE for project entitled "Group-IV photonics materials and devices for mid-IR applications" is gratefully acknowledged!

 

• September 29, 2014

Warm welcome to our new group member, Gordon Ling Zhi Peng!

 

• September 18, 2014

Prof. Ang has been invited to serve as the Technical Program Committee for the 11th IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2015) to be held from June 1-3, 2015 in Singapore.

URL: http://www.edssc2015.org/tpc.html

 

• August 12, 2014

Congratulations on the publication of U.S. Patent entitled "Integration of germanium photodetector in CMOS processing" Issue No.: 8,802,484!

 

• August 4, 2014

Warm welcome to our new group member, Yang Rui, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology!

 

• August 1, 2014

New research grant on "Novel channel engineering for next generation transistor technology" is gratefully acknowledged!

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