MBE People

Dr Giorgos Boras

Giorgos Boras obtained his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece in July 2017 after a 5 year long integrated programme of studies. His thesis with the title “Tests in nanodielectric materials” focused on the use of materials injected with nanoparticles as insulators for high voltage systems. He joined MBE group at UCL on January 2018 as a Marie Curie Trainee and received his PhD degree in 2021. His project was about the monolithic dot-in-well and dot-in-wire growth on Si and Ge substrates

Dr Shun Chan

Shun Chan received the MEng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with First-Class Hons at UCL in 2016. After that, he has joined the MBE group from Oct 2016 and obtained his Ph.D degree in 2022. His research field focussed on group III-V quantum dot intermediate band solar cells.

Dr Siming Chen

Dr Siming Chen obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 2014. In September 2013, upon submission of his PhD thesis, he joined the UCL as a Research Associate and was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2017 in recognition is pioneering work on Si-based QD light sources. Dr Chen was then appointed as a Lecturer and a member of the Photonics Group in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at UCL. He has published more than 80 refereed papers and 4 patents and has an h-index of 24.

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Fan Cui

Fan Cui received his bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University in 2013 and Master's degree in Advanced Engineering Material from University of Manchester. He joined the Photonics group in 2017 as a PhD student. His research field focussed on III-V semiconductor photoelectrochemical water splitting.

Ms Claudia Gonzalez-Burguete

Claudia Gonzalez-Burguete received the MSc degree in Microelectronics Systems and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Liverpool and BEng (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico. Her research field focussed on 3rd generation Infrared photodetectors with special interest on type 2 superlattice.

Dr Daqian Guo

Daqian Guo received his Bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Swansea University. He joined the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Group at UCL and obtained his PhD degree in 2020. His research field focussed on infrared photodetectors and Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth of III-V Semiconductors.

Dr Sabina Hatch

Dr Sabina Hatch received her Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London in May 2013 specialising in low-temperature growth of ZnO nanostructures, defect characterisation, and the fabrication of nanostructured optoelectronic devices using both inorganic and organic semiconductors. She joined Prof. Huiyun Liu as a Research Associate in July 2013 and her research field focussed on the fabrication of hybrid (inorganic/organic) and purely inorganic optoelectronic devices using low-dimensional structures (i.e. quantum well, quantum dots, quantum nanowires). Her publication record includes a first-author contribution to Advanced Materials on self-powered UV photodetectors, and a number of other journal publications on materials processing and device fabrication.

Dr Qi Jiang

Dr Qi Jiang received the B.Sc degree in Electronics from University of Sheffield, UK, in 2004. He then completed M.Sc in a joint venture between University of Sheffield and University of Leeds in 2005. He started his Ph.D. in the topic of quantum dot laser and superluminescent diode in 2008 in Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering after he worked for Department of Physics in University of Sheffield. As a Research Associate, his research field focussed on the integration of Group IV and III-V Photonics.

Dr Pamela Jurczak

Pamela Jurczak received the M.Eng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Nanotechnology from University College London in 2014. She received the Ph.D degree in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy research group at UCL in 2017. Her research field focussed on III-V and group IV MBE materials growth for thermophotovoltaic cells and nanowires.

Dr Dongyoung Kim

Dongyoung Kim received the M.Eng. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Semiconductor Photonics from University College London, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. His Ph.D. research was on III-V semiconductor nanostructures for photovoltaic applications, including quantum dots and nanowires. Upon completion of his Ph.D., Dongyoung was appointed as a Research Associate at University College London, and continued his research on III-V semiconductor materials on Si within the  Molecular Beam Epitaxy Research Group.

Dr Phu Lam

Dr Phu Lam joined the photonics division at UCL in 2012, sponsored by Dstl. His Ph.D. work focussed on quantum dot solar cell engineering, which includes epitaxial growth of III-V quantum dot materials, full-cycle device processing, electrical and optical characterisation.

Dr Andrew Lee

Dr Andrew Lee did his PhD in UCL from 2012 to 2015

Kevin Lee

Kevin worked at UCL for over 40 times most of which as a research technician for the Electrical and Electronic Engineering department's clean rooms.

Dr Keshuang Li

Keshuang Li received his Bachelor degree in Wuhan University in China on optical communication science and technology in 2015. He obtained an MSc semiconductor photonics and electronics in the University of Sheffield with Distinction in 2016. After that he went to University of Tokyo in Japan for one year as an international research student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information System. He joined MBE group as PhD student in Oct 2017 and obtained his PhD degree in 2021. His research focussed on III-V quantum dots laser growth.

Dr Xiao Li

Xiao Li received her Bachelor degree in Communication Engineering in 2014 and  Masters degree in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology in 2017, both from Shandong University. After that, she joined the Photonics group at UCL and obtained her PhD in 2021. Her research focussed on the 2-D material photodetector.

Dr Mengya Liao

Mengya Liao received the BEng degree with the First-Class Hons. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL), London, UK, in 2015. After that, she joined the Photonics group and obtained her PhD degree in 2020. Her research focussed on n optoelectronic device fabrication and Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors.

Dr Zizhuo Liu

Zizhuo Liu received his MSc degree in Semiconductor Photonics and Electronics at University of Sheffield. He joined the MBE group in January 2017 and obtained his PhD degree in 2021. As a Research Fellow in the Photonics group his research focussed on laser devices fabrication and Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors.

Ying Lu

Ying Lu received her Bachelor degree in Optical Information Science and Technology at Wuhan University of Technology, in 2015. She received the MSc degree in Wireless and Optical Communication with the First-Class Hons at University College London, in 2016. In July 2017 she joined the Photonics group at UCL as a PhD student. Her research field focused on 1.3um InAs/GaAs QD Laser.

Dr Pouyan Matin

Pouyan Matin received his BEng degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Westminster, in 2011. He received his MSc degree in Telecommunications and Computer Networks Engineering in the department of Engineering and Design at London South Bank University, in 2013. He joined the Photonics group at University College London (UCL) in 2016 as a research student and he obtained his PhD in 2021. His research field focussed on 1.5um InGaAs/AlAsSb Double Quantum Wells ISB Electro-Absorption Modulator and also 1.5um InAs/GaAs Quantum dots IB Electro-Optics Modulator.

Dr Arthur Onno

Dr Arthur joined Professor Huiyun Liu’s team in March 2014 to work on MBE growth of III-V on silicon multijunction solar cells. His PhD was sponsored by French oil & gas major company Total. Before that, Arthur worked for 2 years for Total New Energies, a subsidiary of Total, in Paris and in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he worked as an analyst on technological and scientific prospective intelligence, detecting and establishing first contact with emerging technology leaders among the academic and entrepreneur communities of the Silicon Valley. Arthur previously graduated with a Master of Engineering from the ENSTA ParisTech and a Master of Science from the Ecole Polytechnique, both schools based in Paris, France. At UCL, Arthur was awarded the Cullen Prize 2015 for best student poster at the Barlow Memorial Lecture. By November 2015, Arthur had 2 co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals (1 as first author) and 4 presentations in conferences (2 international, 2 national).

Shujie Pan

Shujie Pan obtained a BEng degree with the First-Class Hons. in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), in 2017. In September 2017 she joined the Photonics group at UCL as a PhD student. Her research focussed on the fabrication of III-Vs and Si based quantum dots optoelectronics devices.

Dr Kai Shen

Kai Shen received his MEng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University College London in 2017. He then joined the UCL Molecular Beam Epitaxy research group and obtained a PhD degree in 2021. His research mainly focussed on Perovskite Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors.

Dr  Frank Tutu

Dr Frank Tutu did his PhD in UCL from 2011 to 2015

Dr João Valente

Dr João Pedro Mire Dores Pulido Valente received his PhD degree, in 2016, from the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton. During his PhD project he developed nanomechanically reconfigurable metamaterials that can be rearranged by application of electric or magnetic triggers. The success of this work was enabled by very advanced nanofabrication skills, namely focused ion beam milling in combination with different metal deposition, etching and optical characterization techniques. Prior to his PhD, João did his MSc degree, in 2010, from University of Aveiro and Technical University of Hamburg Harburg with the aim of a European Masters in Material Science. His graduate studies were conducted at New University of Lisbon and his final thesis - "Transparent Conductive Metal Oxides for Microelectronics" - was done in collaboration with Renato Archer Research Center in Campinas, Brazil. João’s most striking qualities were a very high level of initiative, creativity, multidisciplinarity and excellent nanofabrication skills. He co-authored several high profile publications in fields ranging from material science, optoelectronic devices and metamaterials. His interests concentrated on the development of nanofabrication tools and concepts that could enable optoelectronic, photonic and plasmonic devices for real world applications.

Dr Mu Wang

Dr Mu Wang joined the group in Jan 2017. He received his BSc degree from the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and PhD degree from the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham in 2012. He worked as post-doc Research Associate for University of Nottingham from 2012 to 2014, and London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL/ University of Cambridge from 2014 to 2016. His research areas before he joined the group were MBE/Sputtering growth, clean room fabrications and structure, magnetic, electric, optical characterisations of ferromagnetic semiconductors and ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic metals for Spintronics devices. His then focussed on  fabrication and testing of III-V semiconductors quantum dot devices for solar cell.

Dr Jiang Wu

Jiang Wu obtained a BS degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He obtained the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas (US), in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2012, he joined the Photonics group as a Research Associate on Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices. In October 2015, he was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL.

Dr Hao Xu

Dr Hao Xu received an MSc degree in integrated circuit engineering from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2015. His research focussed include the MBE growth and characterisation of two-dimensional group-IV films, Raman spectroscopy, etc.

Dr Junjie Yang

Junjie Yang received the MSc. degree in Communication and Signal Processing from Imperial College London in 2017. After that, he joined the photonics group at University College London and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Oct 2021 and was then appointed as a Research Fellow in the Photonics Group. His research focussed on the hybrid growth of group IV and III-V materials

Dr Xuezhe Yu

Xuezhe Yu obtained a BSc degree from the Peking University, China and then a PhD from the Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. After that, he was at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands as a Research Associate on quantum dots growth. In Jan 2017, he joined the Photonics group at University College London, UK as a postdoc. His research interests included Molecular beam epitaxy growth of self-assembled III-V nanostructures with applications in optoelectronic devices.

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Dr Yunyan Zhang

Dr Yunyan Zhang got his PhD degree from UCL within three years and was appointed as a Research Associate in UCL and focussed on nanowire growth and device fabrication. High-quality nanowires, such as GaAs, GaAsP, GaAsSb, InAs, InAsP, have been achieved and the results have been published in more than six Nano Letters. During 2011- 2012, he was an RA in HKUST and focused on MOCVD growth for nitride devices, such as LED and HEMT. In 2008 and 2011, he got his B.S. and M.S. degree from SCNU, respectively. During his study, he published 10 SCI first-author papers in some journals such as APL, EDL, OE, JAP, and JQE. He also has more than 10 co-author papers, 1 conference paper, 1 Patent. He participated as one of the Principal authors in the LED industry patent trend analysis report of 2009 version and 2010 version. He participated as a principal member in more than 5 big projects with research funding more than 20,000 pounds.