Group Members

 • Group Leader

 • PostDocs & Staff

    – Yolande Berta
    – Yong Ding
    – Xudong Wang
    – Liqiang Mai

 • Graduate Students

    – Brent Buchine
    – Rusen Yang
    – Jenny Morber
    – Changshi Lao
    – Jin Liu
    – Jinhui Song
    – Wenjie Mai
    – Ben Weintraub
    – Melanie Kirkham
    – Yifan Gao

 • Memories

 • Prior Members

Biosketch

• Master of Science in Advanced Materials for Micro and Nano Systems (AMM&NS), Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, 2003.
• Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 2002.

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Research Area

• Application of Nanobelts based devices.

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Publications

1. "Carrier Density and Schottky Barrier on the Performance of DC Nanogenerator", J. Liu, P. Fei, J.H. Song, X.D. Wang, C.S. Lao, R. Tummala and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 8(2008) 328-332.
2. "Piezoelectric Potential Output from ZnO Nanowire Functionalized with p-Type Oligomer", J.H. Song, X.D. Wang, J. Liu, H.B. Liu, Y.L. Li and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 8(2008) 203-207.
3. "Bridged ZnO nanowires across trenched electrodes", P.X. Gao, J. Liu, B.A. Buchine, B. Weintraub, Z.L. Wang and J.L. LeeAppl. Phys. Lett., 91 (2007) 142108.
4. "ZnS/Silica Nanocable Field Effect Transistors as Biological and Chemical Nanosensors",J.H. He, Y.Y. Zhang, J. Liu, D. Moore, G. Bao and Z.L. Wang J. Phys. Chem. C., 111(2007) 12152-12156.
5. "Piezoelectric Gated Diode of a Single ZnO Nanowire", J.H. He, C.L. Hsin, J. Liu, L.J. Chen and Z.L. Wang Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 781-784.
6. "Nanowire Piezoelectric Nanogenerators on Plastic Substrates as Flexible Power Sources for Nanodevices", P.G. Gao, J.H. Song, J. Liu and Z.L. Wang Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 67-72.
7. "Piezoelectric Field Effect Transistor and Nanoforce Sensor Based on a Single ZnO Nanowire", X.D. Wang, J. Zhou, J.H. Song, J. Liu, N.S. Xu and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 6 (2006) 2768-2772.
8. "Quantifying oxygen diffusion in ZnO nanobelt", J. Liu, P.X. Gao, W.J. Mai, C.S. Lao, Z.L. Wang and R. Tummala Appl. Phys. Lett., 89 (2006) 063125.
9. "SiC-Shell Nanostructures Fabricated by Replicating ZnO Nano-objects: A Technique for Producing Hollow Nanostructures of Desired Shape", J. Zhou, J. Liu, R.S. Yang, C.S. Lao, P.X. Gao, R. Tummala, N.S. Xu, and Z.L. Wang Small, 2 (2006) 1344-1347.
10. "ZnO Nanobelt/Nanowire Schottky Diodes Formed by Dielectrophoresis Alignment across Au Electrodes", C.S. Lao, J. Liu, P.X. Gao, L. Zhang, D. Davidovic, R. Tummala and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 6 (2006) 263-266.
11. "Packaging of ZnO nanobelts as nanosensors: synthesis, alignment and characterization" J. Liu, C.S. Lao, R. Tummala and Z.L.Wang, 6th Inter. Conf. Electron. Packaging Technol. (2005) 546-549
12. "Optical Interconnects Integration on FR4 Board with MSM Photodetector and Commercial Optoelectronic Devices", Zhaoran Huang, Daniel Guidotti, Gee-Kung Chang, Jin Liu, Fuhan Liu, Y-J Chang, and Rao Tummala, (2004) LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, MB2.4, 13-14.

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Research Highlights

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Honors & Awards

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