Staff

Hongtao Cao, Male, Ph.D. Professor, Doctoral Tutor, Principle Investigator (PI) at the Research Group of Functional Thin Films & Integrated Devices. He received the B.S. and M.A. degree in Ferrous Metallurgy from Northeastern University in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. in Materials Processing Engineering from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Division of Functional Materials and Nano Devices at the Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering as a professor as well as the principle investigator of Research Group of Functional Thin Films & Integrated Devices.  He was a recipient of the Qianjiang Talent Award of Zhejiang Province in 2007 and the second-level Award of Ningbo Leading Talent Cultivation Project in 2012. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers with about 600 citations to date. He has applied and authorized more than 20 Chinese patents. Up to now, he has guided and trained more than 10 postgraduate students and post-doctors.

Dr. Cao is in charge of or as a core partner to participate in the Chinese National Program on Key Basic Research Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Innovative Research Team of Ningbo Municipality, and the Key Program for Science and Technology Innovative Team of Zhejiang Province.

Dr. Cao is committed in fundamental research focusing on exploring and understanding thin films of oxide semiconductors & dielectrics, constructing oxide heterostructures or homostructures, developing new applications for oxide electronic and prospective optoelectronic devices. Cao’s group research also includes fundamental investigations on compound oxide properties and related processing and multifunctional material integration issues.

Oxide research pool that can cover large areas on cheap substrates has received ever-increasing attention in the last couple of decades, because it enables classes of applications that lie outside those easily addressed with wafer-based strategy (Si, GaN, GaAs, etc.). Large-area, low-temperature-processed oxide semiconductor-based electronics and optoelectronics, which differ from established systems that are driven primarily by reducing the critical dimensions of the functional elements, allow lower fabrication costs and new functionality in applications such as transparent displays, cheap sensor arrays, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, and integration of logic circuits on glass or flexible polymer substrate. A major driving force for the extensive research in this field is the promise of applications to a new generation of customer electronics that can potentially revolutionize current technologies and thus create new era.
 

Fei Zhuge

l. Professor of Materials Physics and Chemistry in the Department of Functional Materials and Nano Devices

2. Leader, low-dimensional semiconductors group

He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, and the Ph.D. degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 2005. He then went to Hiroshima University as a JSPS (the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellow where he did postdoctoral research. In 2008 Zhuge joined the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Zhuge's research interest is focused on low-dimensional semiconductor materials and devices, including biomimetic neural synapses based on memristive devices (microelectronics), photocatalysis in environmental protection and solar fuel production (optoelectronics), and light diffusion/guide plates for LED lighting/display applications (optics). 

• 2011-now: Associate Professor, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS, Ningbo, Zhejiang, P.R.China 
• 2010-2011: Professor assistant, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS 
• 2008-2010: Post-Doc Fellow., Department of Division of Functional Materials and Nano Devices, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS 
• 2003~2008: M.S./Ph.D., Material Physics & Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). 
• 1999~2003: B.S., NanJingUniversity, P.R.China 

• Novel oxide semiconductor thin films, and their electronic and optoelectronic devices (such as thin-film transistors and p-n junctions)
• High-k oxide dielectric thin films and their flexible circuit applications
• Energy-related materials and devices: Zinc tin nitride and its oxide

Hongliang Zhang, Male, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Master Tutor.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2014-Until now: Associate Professor, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
• 2011-2013: Professor assistant & Postdoctoral Fellow, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
• 2008-2011: PhD Dissertation, Physical Science and Technology School, Lanzhou University, P. R. China and The Centre of Laser Fusion Research, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P. R. China

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Erqing Xie and Prof. Dr. Weidong Wu

• 2005-2008: Master Dissertation, Physical Science and Technology School, Lanzhou University, P. R. China and The Centre of Laser Fusion Research, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P. R. China

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Erqing Xie and Prof. Dr. Weidong Wu

• 1999-2003: Bachelor Dissertation, Physical Science and Technology School, Lanzhou University, P. R. China

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Erqing Xie 

CURRERENT RESEARCH

• Focusing on low-voltage oxide thin-film transistors.
• Focusing on electrochromic devices with high performance and their applications.

Junhua Gao, Male, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Master Tutor.  He received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Materials Processing Engineering from North University of China, and the Ph.D. in Materials Processing Engineering from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research is centered on functional thin films, covering mid- and high-temperature solar selective absorbing coatings, controllable fabrication of 1D nanomaterial and noble metal nanowire array/ceramic composite electromagnetic metamaterials by ion-assisted deposition. Dr. Gao obtained some financial supports from the National Nature Science Foundation of China, the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and etc. His work has been published in some professional journals, including: Adv. Mater. Interfaces, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells.