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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Zetian Mi Univ. of Michigan, USA For contributions to the development of high-performance III-nitride nanowire photonic devices, including full-color light-emitting diodes, electrically injected ultraviolet lasers and artificial solar fuel technology.
  • 2017 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Zetian Mi is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy, with extensive contributions to subfields such as materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical and magnetic materials.

The scientist's work covers a variety of advanced topics, focusing on semiconductor materials and devices. Key areas of study include GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials, Ga2O3 and related materials, acoustic wave resonator technologies, advanced photocatalysis techniques, ZnO doping and properties, metal and thin film mechanics, and ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials.

Significant recent research papers include the following:

  • "Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting," 2023, Nature
  • "Bidirectional photocurrent in p-n heterojunction nanowires," 2021, Nature Electronics
  • "Pt/AlGaN Nanoarchitecture: Toward High Responsivity, Self-Powered Ultraviolet-Sensitive Photodetection," 2020, Nano Letters
  • "Fully epitaxial ferroelectric ScAlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy," 2021, Applied Physics Letters
  • "Highly efficient binary copper−iron catalyst for photoelectrochemical carbon dioxide reduction toward methane," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their work include the following researchers:

  • Ping Wang
  • Yuanpeng Wu
  • Ding Wang
  • Shubham Mondal
  • Yixin Xiao

The venues in which Zetian Mi has published most frequently are:

  • Applied Physics Letters
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nano Letters

Zetian Mi's contributions have been recognized by professional organizations. They were named an OSA Fellow in 2018 for contributions to high-performance III-nitride nanowire photonic devices and artificial solar fuel technology. Additionally, they were honored as an SPIE Fellow in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting

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  • Wafer-level photocatalytic water splitting on gan nanowire arrays grown by molecular beam epitaxy

    Defa Wang;Adrien Pierre;Golam Kibria;Kai Cui

  • Visible light-driven efficient overall water splitting using p -type metal-nitride nanowire arrays

    M. G. Kibria;F. A. Chowdhury;S. Zhao;B. AlOtaibi

  • The role of Auger recombination in the temperature-dependent output characteristics (T0=∞) of p-doped 1.3 μm quantum dot lasers

    S. Fathpour;Z. Mi;P. Bhattacharya;A. R. Kovsh

  • p-Type modulation doped InGaN/GaN dot-in-a-wire white-light-emitting diodes monolithically grown on Si(111).

    H. P. T. Nguyen;S. Zhang;K. Cui;X. Han

  • Ultralow-threshold electrically injected AlGaN nanowire ultraviolet lasers on Si operating at low temperature

    K. H. Li;X. Liu;Q. Wang;S. Zhao

  • Simple and Clean Photoinduced Aromatic Trifluoromethylation Reaction

    Lu Li;Xiaoyue Mu;Wenbo Liu;Yichen Wang

  • Tuning the surface Fermi level on p-type gallium nitride nanowires for efficient overall water splitting

    M. G. Kibria;S. Zhao;F. A. Chowdhury;Q. Wang

  • Bidirectional photocurrent in p–n heterojunction nanowires

    Danhao Wang;Xin Liu;Yang Kang;Xiaoning Wang

  • Optically Pumped Two-Dimensional MoS2 Lasers Operating at Room-Temperature

    Omid Salehzadeh;Mehrdad Djavid;Nhung Hong Tran;Ishiang Shih

  • Aluminum nitride nanowire light emitting diodes: Breaking the fundamental bottleneck of deep ultraviolet light sources

    S. Zhao;A. T. Connie;M. H. T. Dastjerdi;X. H. Kong

  • III-Nitride nanowire optoelectronics

    Songrui Zhao;Hieu P.T. Nguyen;Md. G. Kibria;Zetian Mi

  • One-Step Overall Water Splitting under Visible Light Using Multiband InGaN/GaN Nanowire Heterostructures

    G. Kibria;Hieu P. T. Nguyen;Kai Cui;Songrui Zhao

  • Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction into Syngas with the Metal/Oxide Interface.

    Sheng Chu;Pengfei Ou;Pegah Ghamari;Srinivas Vanka;Srinivas Vanka

  • Highly stable photoelectrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation using a double-band InGaN/GaN core/shell nanowire photoanode.

    B. AlOtaibi;H. P. T. Nguyen;S. Zhao;M. G. Kibria

  • Optical performance of top-down fabricated InGaN/GaN nanorod light emitting diode arrays.

    Qiming Li;Karl R. Westlake;Mary H. Crawford;Stephen R. Lee

  • Roadmap on solar water splitting: current status and future prospects

    Sheng Chu;Wei Li;Yanfa Yan;Thomas Hamann

  • Remarkably enhanced photocatalytic activity of laser ablated Au nanoparticle decorated BiFeO3 nanowires under visible-light

    Shun Li;Jianming Zhang;Golam Kibria;Zetian Mi

  • Controlling electron overflow in phosphor-free InGaN/GaN nanowire white light-emitting diodes.

    Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen;Kai Cui;Shaofei Zhang;Mehrdad Djavid

  • Enhancing visible-light photoelectrochemical water splitting through transition-metal doped TiO2 nanorod arrays

    Chengzhi Wang;Zhuo Chen;Haibo Jin;Chuanbao Cao

  • High-speed 1.3μm tunnel injection quantum-dot lasers

    Z. Mi;P. Bhattacharya;S. Fathpour

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluigi A. Botton
Gianluigi A. Botton McMaster University
Hong Guo
Hong Guo McGill University
P. K. Bhattacharya
P. K. Bhattacharya University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David V. Plant
David V. Plant McGill University
Federico Rosei
Federico Rosei Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pallab Bhattacharya
Pallab Bhattacharya University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip J. Poole
Philip J. Poole National Research Council Canada
Alberto Vomiero
Alberto Vomiero Luleå University of Technology
Michel Trudeau
Michel Trudeau Hydro-Québec
Kai Sun
Kai Sun University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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