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  • 2012 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Zhiyong Fan is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on engineering and materials science. The main fields of study include engineering with 230 publications and materials science with 103 publications. Within these fields, notable subfields include electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, and mechanical engineering.

Their work concentrates on several key scientific topics such as perovskite materials and applications, conducting polymers and applications, quantum dots synthesis and properties, advanced memory and neural computing, organic light-emitting diodes research, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors.

Zhiyong Fan has contributed research papers published in various prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include ECS Meeting Abstracts (11 publications), Nano Letters (9 publications), ACS Nano (8 publications), Advanced Functional Materials (8 publications), and Advanced Materials (7 publications).

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhiyong Fan include:

  • Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors, 2023, ACS Nano
  • A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina, 2020, Nature
  • Wireless Self-Powered High-Performance Integrated Nanostructured-Gas-Sensor Network for Future Smart Homes, 2021, ACS Nano
  • A neuromorphic bionic eye with filter-free color vision using hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina, 2023, Nature Communications
  • A Wearable Nutrition Tracker, 2020, Advanced Materials

Zhiyong Fan has collaborated frequently with various researchers. Their notable co-authors include Swapnadeep Poddar, Qianpeng Zhang, Yucheng Ding, Daquan Zhang, and Beitao Ren.

The awards section records that Zhiyong Fan was honored as an SPIE Fellow in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates

    Zhiyong Fan;Haleh Razavi;Haleh Razavi;Jae Won Do;Jae Won Do;Aimee Moriwaki;Aimee Moriwaki

  • Zinc oxide nanostructures: synthesis and properties.

    Zhiyong Fan;Jia Grace Lu

  • ZnO nanowire field-effect transistor and oxygen sensing property

    Zhiyong Fan;Dawei Wang;Paichun Chang;Weiyu Tseng

  • Recent advances in synthesis, physical properties and applications of conducting polymer nanotubes and nanofibers

    Yun-Ze Long;Yun-Ze Long;Meng-Meng Li;Changzhi Gu;Meixiang Wan

  • Quasi-one-dimensional metal oxide materials—Synthesis, properties and applications

    Jia Grace Lu;Paichun Chang;Zhiyong Fan

  • Wafer-scale assembly of highly ordered semiconductor nanowire arrays by contact printing.

    Zhiyong Fan;Johnny C. Ho;Zachery A. Jacobson;Roie Yerushalmi

  • A biomimetic eye with a hemispherical perovskite nanowire array retina

    Leilei Gu;Swapnadeep Poddar;Yuanjing Lin;Yuanjing Lin;Zhenghao Long

  • Wafer-Scale Assembly of Semiconductor Nanowire Arrays by Contact Printing

    Zhiyong Fan;Johnny C. Ho;Zachery A. Jacobson;Roie Yerushalmi

  • All-printable band-edge modulated ZnO nanowire photodetectors with ultra-high detectivity

    Xi Liu;Leilei Gu;Qianpeng Zhang;Jiyuan Wu

  • Gate-refreshable nanowire chemical sensors

    Zhiyong Fan;Jia Grace Lu

  • 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

  • Diameter-dependent electron mobility of InAs nanowires.

    Alexandra C. Ford;Johnny C. Ho;Johnny C. Ho;Johnny C. Ho;Yu-Lun Chueh;Yu-Lun Chueh;Yu-Lun Chueh;Yu-Chih Tseng;Yu-Chih Tseng;Yu-Chih Tseng

  • Negative Magnetoresistance in Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2

    Hui Li;Hongtao He;Hai-Zhou Lu;Huachen Zhang

  • ZnO nanowires synthesized by vapor trapping CVD method

    Paichun Chang;Zhiyong Fan;Dawei Wang;Weiyu Tseng

  • Silver Nanodisks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

    Sihai Chen;Zhiyong Fan;David L. Carroll

  • Toward the Development of Printable Nanowire Electronics and Sensors

    Zhiyong Fan;Johnny C. Ho;Toshitake Takahashi;Roie Yerushalmi

  • Photoluminescence and polarized photodetection of single ZnO nanowires

    Zhiyong Fan;Paichun Chang;Jia Grac Lu;Erich C. Walter

  • Controlled nanoscale doping of semiconductors via molecular monolayers.

    Johnny C. Ho;Johnny C. Ho;Roie Yerushalmi;Roie Yerushalmi;Zachery A. Jacobson;Zachery A. Jacobson;Zhiyong Fan;Zhiyong Fan

  • Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells with Antireflection and Self-Cleaning Nanostructures.

    Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli;Kwong-Hoi Tsui;Qianpeng Zhang;Jin He

  • Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Ultrathin films of Hematite on Three-Dimensional Nanophotonic Structures

    Yongcai Qiu;Siu Fung Leung;Qianpeng Zhang;Bo Hua

  • Ordered arrays of dual-diameter nanopillars for maximized optical absorption.

    Zhiyong Fan;Zhiyong Fan;Rehan Kapadia;Rehan Kapadia;Paul W. Leu;Paul W. Leu;Xiaobo Zhang;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Recent advances in large-scale assembly of semiconducting inorganic nanowires and nanofibers for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics.

    Yun-Ze Long;Miao Yu;Bin Sun;Chang-Zhi Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Javey
Ali Javey University of California, Berkeley
Johnny C. Ho
Johnny C. Ho City University of Hong Kong
Dongdong Li
Dongdong Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Lei Liao
Lei Liao Hunan University
Yu-Lun Chueh
Yu-Lun Chueh National Tsing Hua University
Shihe Yang
Shihe Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yun-Ze Long
Yun-Ze Long Qingdao University
Yan Yao
Yan Yao University of Houston
Weida Hu
Weida Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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