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Lei Liao is a researcher affiliated with Hunan University in China. Their work primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, contributing extensively to the fields of materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research spans various subfields including biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into a wide range of material properties and device applications.

Lei Liao's recent publications illustrate their active engagement in advanced materials research. Notable papers include:

  • Efficient strain modulation of 2D materials via polymer encapsulation (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Van der Waals epitaxial growth of air-stable CrSe2 nanosheets with thickness-tunable magnetic order (2021, Nature Materials)
  • Recent Progress on Electrical and Optical Manipulations of Perovskite Photodetectors (2021, Advanced Science)
  • Doping-free complementary WSe2 circuit via van der Waals metal integration (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Transferred van der Waals metal electrodes for sub-1-nm MoS2 vertical transistors (2021, Nature Electronics)

The researcher frequently publishes in journals such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, arXiv (Cornell University), and IEEE Electron Device Letters.

Lei Liao collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Xingqiang Liu
  • Yuan Liu
  • Xuming Zou
  • Guoli Li
  • Quanyang Tao

The scientist's work largely covers topics related to:

  • 2D materials and applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Perovskite materials and applications
  • Nanowire synthesis and applications
  • MXene and MAX phase materials
  • Advanced memory and neural computing
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Best Publications

  • Approaching the Schottky-Mott limit in van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions.

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Jian Guo;Enbo Zhu;Lei Liao

  • High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

    Lei Liao;Yung Chen Lin;Mingqiang Bao;Rui Cheng

  • Two-dimensional antimonene single crystals grown by van der Waals epitaxy.

    Jianping Ji;Xiufeng Song;Jizi Liu;Zhong Yan

  • New Porous Crystals of Extended Metal-Catecholates

    Mohamad Hmadeh;Zheng Lu;Zheng Liu;Felipe Gandara

  • Covalent Organic Frameworks with High Charge Carrier Mobility

    Shun Wan;Felipe Gándara;Atsushi Asano;Hiroyasu Furukawa

  • Ultrasensitive and Broadband MoS2 Photodetector Driven by Ferroelectrics

    Xudong Wang;Xudong Wang;Peng Wang;Jianlu Wang;Weida Hu

  • Graphene: An Emerging Electronic Material

    Nathan O. Weiss;Hailong Zhou;Lei Liao;Yuan Liu

  • Plasmon resonance enhanced multicolour photodetection by graphene

    Yuan Liu;Rui Cheng;Lei Liao;Hailong Zhou

  • High Mobility MoS2 Transistor with Low Schottky Barrier Contact by Using Atomic Thick h-BN as a Tunneling Layer

    Jingli Wang;Qian Yao;Chun Wei Huang;Xuming Zou

  • Metal-Ion-Modified Black Phosphorus with Enhanced Stability and Transistor Performance.

    Zhinan Guo;Zhinan Guo;Si Chen;Zhongzheng Wang;Zhongzheng Wang;Zhenyu Yang

  • Size Dependence of Gas Sensitivity of ZnO Nanorods

    L. Liao;H. B. Lu;J. C. Li;H. He

  • Multifunctional CuO nanowire devices: P-type field effect transistors and CO gas sensors

    Lei Liao;Zhou Zhang;Bin Yan;Zhe Zheng

  • Surface Plasmon‐Enhanced Photodetection in Few Layer MoS2 Phototransistors with Au Nanostructure Arrays

    Jinshui Miao;Weida Hu;Youliang Jing;Wenjin Luo

  • Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices

    Chen Wang;Qiyuan He;Udayabagya Halim;Yuanyue Liu

  • Ultrafast growth of single-crystal graphene assisted by a continuous oxygen supply

    Xiaozhi Xu;Zhihong Zhang;Lu Qiu;Jianing Zhuang

  • Direct growth of SnO2nanorod array electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

    Jinping Liu;Yuanyuan Li;Xintang Huang;Xintang Huang;Ruimin Ding

  • Efficient strain modulation of 2D materials via polymer encapsulation.

    Zhiwei Li;Yawei Lv;Liwang Ren;Jia Li

  • Recent Advances in Optoelectronic Devices Based on 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures

    Jinbing Cheng;Chunlan Wang;Xuming Zou;Lei Liao;Lei Liao

  • Interface Engineering for High‐Performance Top‐Gated MoS2 Field‐Effect Transistors

    Xuming Zou;Jingli Wang;Chung Hua Chiu;Yun Wu

  • Millimeter-Size Single-Crystal Graphene by Suppressing Evaporative Loss of Cu During Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Shanshan Chen;Hengxing Ji;Harry Chou;Qiongyu Li

  • High-frequency self-aligned graphene transistors with transferred gate stacks.

    Rui Cheng;Jingwei Bai;Lei Liao;Hailong Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangfeng Duan
Xiangfeng Duan University of California, Los Angeles
Weida Hu
Weida Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiangheng Xiao
Xiangheng Xiao Wuhan University
Changzhong Jiang
Changzhong Jiang Hunan University
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Xiaoshuang Chen
Xiaoshuang Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Johnny C. Ho
Johnny C. Ho City University of Hong Kong
Zhongfan Liu
Zhongfan Liu Peking University
Hailin Peng
Hailin Peng Peking University
Zhiyong Fan
Zhiyong Fan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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