Chalcogenide: From 3D to 2D and Beyond

Xinyu Liu is currently a Research Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame conducting research on spin-based processes in semiconductors and their nanostructures. Prior to his current role, he worked at the University of Notre Dame as a post-doc and research assistant, focusing on magnetic semiconductors and ferromagnetic semiconductor materials.

Sanghoon Lee joined the Electrical Materials Engineering Department at Kwangwoon University as a faculty member (2000). At Kwangwoon University he founded the “spin functional semiconductor research center. In 2001 he joined Korea University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2008. His current research focuses on the spin related phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures, which include magnetic semiconductor materials growth, characterization of spin property, and semiconductor spin devices. For the last few years, he has served as the Department Chair and the Director of the BK21 plus project.

Jacek Furdyna is the Marquez Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. Since the 1960s he has been studying semiconductors with special expertise on epitaxially grown semiconductors and their quantum structures. For the totality of his scientific accomplishments he was awarded honorary doctorates by Warsaw University in October 2002 and by Purdue University in May 2007. In 2009 he was awarded the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Luo joined Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 2012 as an assistant professor after finishing his postdoctoral research in MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and B.S. in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Luo’s research focuses on understanding fundamentals of nanoscale heat and mass transfer using computational and experimental techniques and applying the knowledge to the fields of renewable energy, microelectronics thermal management and water treatment.

Dr. Yong Zhang is a scientist in the field of High entropy alloys (HEAs) and has published more than 300 research articles. The first body-centred cubic HEA was synthesised with high strength and entropy. He is also a committee member of the amorphous Metals Society, China Materials Research and Nuclear Materials Society. Dr Zhang participated in organizing many conferences on HEAs. He is also a guest professor at the North Minzu University of China. He has been selected as one thousand talents and new century excellent talent of the Ministry of Education. He has edited albums of “Serration and Noise Behaviours in Advanced Materials and “Nanostructured HEAs. “The new advances in HEAs, “bcc structured HEAs, etc. Professor Zhang devoted himself to studying serration behaviour, high-throughput technology and collective effect in materials science.