Senior Lecturer
Electrical, Electronic & Power Engineering (EEPE)
Profile
I am currently Senior Lecturer in Nanotechnology Science at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University. I held positions previously as Research Associate / Senior Research Associate at London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London (UCL). Prior to that, I was an Industrial Research Fellow at NTT Basic Research Labs in Japan.
Qualifications & Education
- PhD in Electronic Engineering, University College London
Employment
- I am currently Senior Lecturer in Nanotechnology Science at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.
Teaching activity
- EE3NPD Network Product Development (BEng Third Year)
- EE7002 Electronic Sensors (MSc Sensing)
- SE0EEF & ME1600 Electronic Lab (Foundation Year & First Year)
Research interests
- CVD homo-epitaxial and heteroepitaxial diamond films growth
- Wear resistive nanodiamond coatings for Advanced Engineering Application
- Surface functionalisation of nanodiamond powders for cold water cleaning
- Nanodiamond particles for drug delivery
- Materials characterisation (XPS, AES, Impedance, SEM, Raman, PL, FTIR, XRD)
- Semiconductor devices fabrications (UV detector, FET, IGBT)
- Electrospun carbon fibers and composites
Recent research funding
- EPSRC Grant (EP/H034269/1) with Procter & Gamble Ltd.
- EPSRC Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network Industrial PhD Case Studentship.
- UK Department of Business. Innovation, and Skills.
- Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
- British Council Windsor Treaty Programme
- Marie Curie FP7-People-IRSES, CarbonNASA
- Marie Curie FP7-People-IIF, CNTBUS
- West Midlands European Services
Awards and Honors
- Royal Academy of Engineering Research Exchange Award with China/India
- Royal Society International Short Visiting Award
- British Council Science Exchange Award
PhD Supervision
We are always willing to consider suitably qualified people as candidates for PhDs at Aston. If you have (or be close to completing) a first or upper second class honours degree, preferably with a Master’s degree with an appropriate background in electronic engineering, physics, materials science or electrochemistry, with an interest in nanotechnology, please contact us. Funding could be available from grant awarding bodies, such as the EPSRC, and University’s studentship may also be available.
There are also occasional vacancies for postdoctoral researchers, but these will be advertised below when they are available. Experience in one of the following areas will be of advantage: (1) PECVD thin film growth, materials characterization using XPS, AES, SEM, and Raman spectroscopy; (2) Electronic device fabrication using clean room facilities including photolithography, RIE, and FIB; and (3) Electrochemistry including impedance spectroscopy, dielectric relaxation, and potentiostatic measurement.
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Editorial Board, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Letters (www.aspbs.com/nnl/)
- Scientific Review Panel Member, Israel Science Foundation
- Reviewer for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics /Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter / Diamond & Related Materials / Semiconductor Science & Technology / Nanotechnology /Physica Status Solidi /Materials Research Society Proceedings
Selected publications
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S. Su, J. Li, A. Abbot, H. Ye, C.Tang, J. Pinto, Y.Wu and G.Chen, Thermal stability of Hydrogen-terminated detonation nanodiamond, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, submitted, 2012.
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G. Lee, S. Su, J. Li, K. Sugden and H. Ye, Femtosecond laser inscription on single crystalline diamond films for MEMs applications, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, submitted, 2012.
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X. Cui, S.P.Brown, X. Liu, A. Tatton, H. Ye and A. Marsh, Nanodiamond enhances triglyceride removal from a hydrophobic surface at or below room temperature, ACS-Advanced Materials and Interfaces, submitted, 2012.
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G. Chen, B. Li, Z.Yan, J. Liu, F.Lu and H. Ye, Growth of ultrananocrystalline diamond films by DC Arcjet plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, Journal of Crystal Growth 349 (2012) 1-5.
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S. Su, J. Li, V. Kundrat, A. Abbot and H. Ye, Hydrogen-passivated detonation nanodiamond: An impedance spectroscopy study, Diamond & Related Materials 24 (2012) 49-53.
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C. J. Tang, I. Abe, A.J.S. Fernandes, M.A. Neto, L.P. Gu, S. Pereira, H. Ye, X.F. Jiang, and J. L. Pinto, Diamond and Related Materials 20 (2011) 304-309.
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J. Li, X.Yi and H.Ye, Tubular carbon nanostructures produced by tunneling of cobalt nanoparticles in carbon fibers, Carbon 48 (2010) 4574-77.
Patent
UK patent No: GB1004715.7, 2010, pending.
EPSRC First Grant Letter of Support (updated 14 May 2012)
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