Research at FAST

Department of Applied Physics Department of Applied Physics 115 Representative Publications • Nature, 2020 , 579, 32-33 • Nature Nanotechnology, 2019 , 14, 776-782 • Science Advances, 2018 , 4, eaau6252 • Advanced Materials, 2017 , 29, 1604230-1-10 • Nature Communications, 2016 , 7, 12206-1-7 • IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) Technical Digest, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec., 2010 , 210-213 • IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) Technical Digest, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec., 2010 , 214-217 • IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 30, No. 8, 2009 , 811-813 • IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) Technical Digest, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec., 2008 , 607-610 • IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 29, No. 9, 2008 , 1001-1003 Awards and Achievements • Member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences elected in 2019 • The 5 th ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award in 2019 • Semiconductor Science and Technology Early Career Award in 2017 • IEEE Distinguished Lecture in Electron Device Society since 2016 • Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) Early Career Award in 2014 - 2015 Patent • “Methods of establishing low-resistance electrical contact to carbon nanostructures with graphitic interfacial layer” (US20130059134 A1). Inventors: Y. Chai , A. Hazeghi, K. Takei, A. Javey, and H. -S. Philip Wong Dr CHAI Yang Associate Professor Research Overview We are dedicated to discover, understand, and engineer low-dimensional materials and devices with new functionalities and unprecedented performance. The ongoing projects include the researchers on two-dimensional materials, emerging memories, flexible electronics, and hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing. Qualification BSc (Nanjing) MSc (Peking) PhD (HKUST) ORCID ID 0000-0002-8943-0861