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Overview

Toh-Ming Lu is a researcher affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their work spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, focusing extensively on electrical and electronic engineering as well as materials chemistry.

Their research covers several specialized areas including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Graphene research and applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

Toh-Ming Lu's publication record reflects a significant contribution to these fields. Key recent papers include:

  • "A chiral switchable photovoltaic ferroelectric 1D perovskite," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Giant pyroelectricity in nanomembranes," 2022, Nature
  • "Room-temperature electrically switchable spin-valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix," 2022, Nature Photonics
  • "High-Crystallinity Epitaxial Sb2Se3 Thin Films on Mica for Flexible Near-Infrared Photodetectors," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Efficient and stable flexible Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells enabled by an epitaxial CdS buffer layer," 2021, Nano Energy

Their research has been published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Applied Surface Science
  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • Science Advances

Toh-Ming Lu collaborates actively with multiple researchers. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Zonghuan Lu
  • G.-C. Wang
  • Xixing Wen
  • Morris Washington
  • Jian Shi

Their scholarly outputs highlight engagement with cutting-edge topics in materials synthesis, device fabrication, and optoelectronic properties. This multidisciplinary approach integrates core engineering principles with applied materials science to explore novel semiconductor materials and their applications in flexible electronics, photovoltaics, and energy harvesting.

Best Publications

  • Ultrafast optical switching properties of single-wall carbon nanotube polymer composites at 1.55 μm

    Y.-C. Chen;N. R. Raravikar;L. S. Schadler;P. M. Ajayan

  • Nanostructured Silicon Anodes for Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries

    Ranganath Teki;Moni K. Datta;Rahul Krishnan;Thomas C. Parker

  • Defect-induced photoluminescence in monolayer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides.

    Philippe K Chow;Robin B Jacobs-Gedrim;Jian Gao;Toh-Ming Lu

  • Aging of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers.

    Jian Gao;Baichang Li;Jiawei Tan;Phil Chow

  • Nanostructured electrodes for high-power lithium ion batteries

    Rahul Mukherjee;Rahul Krishnan;Toh-Ming Lu;Nikhil Koratkar

  • Terahertz optical rectification from a nonlinear organic crystal

    X.‐C. Zhang;X. F. Ma;Y. Jin;T.‐M. Lu

  • Characterization of Amorphous and Crystalline Rough Surface: Principles and Applications

    Yiping Zhao;Gwo-Ching Wang;Toh-Ming Lu

  • Novel Nano-Column and Nano-Flower Arrays by Glancing Angle Deposition

    Y. P. Zhao;D. X. Ye;G. C. Wang;T. M. Lu

  • Evolution of Thin Film Morphology

    Matthew Pelliccione;Toh-Ming Lu

  • Vertically Oriented Arrays of ReS2 Nanosheets for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Electrocatalysis

    Jian Gao;Lu Li;Jiawei Tan;Hao Sun

  • Transition-Metal Substitution Doping in Synthetic Atomically Thin Semiconductors.

    Jian Gao;Young Duck Kim;Liangbo Liang;Liangbo Liang;Juan Carlos Idrobo

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition Polymerization: The Growth and Properties of Parylene Thin Films

    Jeffrey B. Fortin;Toh-Ming Lu

  • Designing nanostructures by glancing angle deposition

    Yiping Zhao;Dexian Ye;Gwo-Ching Wang;Toh-Ming Lu

  • Surface-roughness effect on capacitance and leakage current of an insulating film

    Y.P. Zhao;G.C. Wang;T.M. Lu;Georgios Palasantzas

  • Effect of surface roughness on magnetic domain wall thickness, domain size, and coercivity

    Y.-P. Zhao;R. M. Gamache;G.-C. Wang;T.-M. Lu

  • Measurements of dynamic scaling from epitaxial growth front: Fe film on Fe(001).

    Y.-L. He;H.-N. Yang;T.-M. Lu;G.-C. Wang

  • A chiral switchable photovoltaic ferroelectric 1D perovskite

    Yang Hu;Fred Florio;Zhizhong Chen;W. Adam Phelan

  • Diffraction from surfaces with randomly distributed steps

    T.-M. Lu;M.G. Lagally

  • A Model for the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Poly(para-xylylene) (Parylene) Thin Films

    Jeffery B. Fortin;T. M. Lu

  • Surface roughening in shadowing growth and etching in 2 + 1 dimensions

    Jason T. Drotar;Y.-P. Zhao;T.-M. Lu;G.-C. Wang

  • Physical self-assembly and the nucleation of three-dimensional nanostructures by oblique angle deposition

    T. Karabacak;G.-C. Wang;T.-M. Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Gwo-Ching Wang
Gwo-Ching Wang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yiping Zhao
Yiping Zhao University of Georgia
Jian Shi
Jian Shi Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nikhil Koratkar
Nikhil Koratkar Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Joel L. Plawsky
Joel L. Plawsky Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Shengbai Zhang
Shengbai Zhang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
William A. Lanford
William A. Lanford University at Albany, State University of New York
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally University of Wisconsin–Madison
Xi-Cheng Zhang
Xi-Cheng Zhang University of Rochester
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University

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