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Yang-Fang Chen

Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

TEL: +886-2-3366-5125
FAX: +886-2-2363-9984
E-MAIL: yfchen@phys.ntu.edu.tw
Publications & Projects: NTU Scholars

  • Fabrication and characterization of III-V and II-VI compound quantum dots.
  • Studies of GaN, InGaN, AlGaN, InAsN based alloys and quantum structures.
  • Magneto-optical properties of semiconductors.
  • Design, synthesis, and characterization of nanocomposite materials based on semiconductors.
  • Spin generation and detection based on semiconductor nanostructures.
  • Coupling between plasmonics, photonic crystals, and semiconductors.

    Education

  • Ph. D., Purdue University (1984)

    Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding research award of National Science Council of Republic of China. (1997-1998, 1995-1996, 1994-1995)
  • Distinguished research fellow of National Science Council of Republic of China. (1998-2004)
  • Guest Editor of Journal of Chemistry and Physics of Solids. (2000-2001)
  • National Lecture Chair of Ministry of Education of Republic of China. (2001)
  • Outstanding teacher award. (2001, 2003, 2005)
  • Chair professor of National Taiwan University. (2006-2018)
  • TSMC research award. (first prize, 2007)
  • Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials. (2013)
  • Lam outstanding research award. (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016)
  • Referee for International Journal: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Journal of Chemistry and Physics, IEEE Electronic Devices Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Electrochemical Society, Journal of Crystal Growth, Nature Communication, Advanced Materials...etc.
  • Member of Editorial Board for International Journal: Scientific Reports, Journal of Lasers Optics and Photonics, and The Scientific Pages of Robotics.
  • International Advisory Committee: National Development Foundation of Executive Yuan, National Nano-devices Lab, High Scope Educational Program for Emerging Science and Technology of Ministry of Science and Technology.

    Selected Publication

    1. Yun‐Tzu Hsu, Yen‐Yu Lin, Yi‐Zih Chen, Hsia‐Yu Lin, Yu‐Ming Liao , Cheng‐Fu Hou , Min‐Hsuan Wu , Wei‐Ning Deng , Yang‐Fang Chen, "3D Printed Random Lasers", Advanced Materials Technologies 5, 1900742, 2020.
    2. Tien Lin Shen, Yu Wei Chu, Yu Kuang Liao, Wen Ya Lee, Hao Chung Kuo, Tai Yuan Lin, Yang Fang Chen*, "Ultrahigh‐Performance Self‐Powered Flexible Photodetector Driven from Photogating, Piezo‐Phototronic, and Ferroelectric Effects", Advanced Optical Materials, 8, 1901334, 2020.
    3. Yu-Wei Chu; Fang-Chi Hsu; Chen-Yang Tzou; Chi-Ping Li; Yang-Fang Chen, "Fully Solution Processed, Stable, and Flexible Bifacial Polymer Solar Cells", IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 10, 508, 2020.
    4. Yi-Rou Liou, Hsia Yu Lin, Tien Lin Shen, Shu Yi Cai, Ya Hsuan Wu, Yu Ming Liao, Hung I Lin, Tzu Pei Chen, Tai Yuan Lin, and Yang Fang Chen*, "Integration of Nanoscale and Macroscale Graphene Heterostructures for Flexible and Multilevel Nonvolatile Photoelectronic Memory", ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 3, 608, 2020.
    5. Yu‐Fan Yang, Han‐Wen Hu, Meng‐Jer Wu, Tai‐Yuan Lin, Ji‐Lin Shen, Yang‐Fang Chen, "Stretchable and Broadband Cavity‐Free Lasers Based on All 2D Metamaterials", Advanced Optical Materials, 8, 1901326, 2020.
    6. Meng-Shian Tsai, Tien-Lin Shen, Hsing-Mei Wu, Yu-Ming Liao, Yu-Kuang Liao, Wen-Ya Lee, Hao-Chung Kuo, Ying-Chih Lai*, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Self-Powered, Self-Healed, and Shape-Adaptive Ultraviolet Photodetectors", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 9755, 2020.
    7. Han‐Wen Hu, Tien‐Lin Shen, Tai‐Yuan Lin, Yang‐Fang Chen, "Interactive Color-Changing Electronic Skin Based on Flexible and Piezoelectrically Tunable Quantum Dots Light-Emitting Diodes", Advanced Optical Materials, 8, 1901715, 2020.
    8. Yu-Ting Cheng, Chen-You Su, Hsia-Yu Lin, Yu-Ming Liao, Tien-Lin Shen, Han-Wen Hu, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Excess Random Laser Action in Memories for Hybrid Optical/Electric Logic", ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 954-961, 2020.
    9. Monika Kataria, Kanchan Yadav, Amit Nain, Hung-I Lin, Han-Wen Hu, Christy Roshini Paul Inbaraj, Ting-Jia Chang, Yu-Ming Liao, Hao-Yu Cheng, Kung-Hsuan Lin, Huan-Tsung Chang, Fan-Gang Tseng, Wei-Hua Wang, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Self-Sufficient and Highly Efficient Gold Sandwich Upconversion Nanocomposites Lasers for Stretchable and Bio Applications", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 19840, 2020.
    10. Christy Roshini Paul Inbaraj, Roshan Jesus Mathew, Rajesh Kumar Ulaganathan, Raman Sankar, Monika Kataria, Hsia Yu Lin, Hao-Yu Cheng, Kung-Hsuan Lin, Hung-I Lin, Yu-Ming Liao, Fang Cheng Chou, Yit-Tsong Chen, Chih-Hao Lee, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Modulating Charge Separation with Hexagonal Boron Nitride Mediation in Vertical Van der Waals Heterostructures", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 26213, 2020.
    11. Yi-Rou Liou, Hsia-Yu Lin, Shu-Yi Cai, Yu-Ming Liao, Tai-Yuan Lin, Yang-Fang Chen, "Photoelectronic memory based on nitride multiple quantum wells and the hybrid of graphene nanoflakes and a-IGZO film", Optics Express, 28, 13542, 2020.
    12. Fang-Chi Hsu, Jin-Wen Luo, Yu-Wei Su, Cheng-Syun Yang, Yu-An Lin, Jia-Yu Lin, Chi-Yuan Chang, Yang-Fang Chen, Chi-Ping Li, "Efficient Charge Transfer and Carrier Extraction in All-Polymer Solar Cells Using an Acceptor Fille", ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 3, 4217, 2020.
    13. Meng-Jer Wu; Yuejin Wang; Shang-Cheng Wu; Yu-Chuan Chien; Chi-Yuan Chang; Jyun-Han Chen; Yu-Ming Liao; Tai-Yuan Lin; Shuping Li; Duanjun Cai; Junyong Kang; Yang-Fang Chen, "Graphene-Insulator-Semiconductor Ultraviolet Light-Responsive Nitride LEDs for Multi-Applications", ACS Appl. Electron. Mater., 2, 2104, 2020.
    14. Cing-Yu Jiang; Cheng-Hsun Tsai; Chen-Yang Tzou; Fang-Chi Hsu; Yang-Fang Chen, "Magnetically controllable and flexible phototransistor for artificial intelligent skin with additional perception", Organic Electronics, 85, 105849, 2020.
    15. Rapti Ghosh; Hung‐I Lin; Yu‐Siang Chen; Mukesh Singh; Zhi‐Long Yen; Shengkuei Chiu; Hsia‐Yu Lin; Krishna P. Bera; Yu‐Ming Liao; Mario Hofmann; Ya‐Ping Hsieh; Yang‐Fang Chen, "QD/2D Hybrid Nanoscrolls: A New Class of Materials for High‐Performance Polarized Photodetection and Ultralow Threshold Laser Action", Small, 16, 2003944 2020.
    16. Chen-You Su, Cheng-Fu Hou, Yun-Tzu Hsu, Hsia-Yu Lin, Yu-Ming Liao, Tai-Yuan Lin, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Multifunctional Random-Laser Smart Inks", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 49122, 2020.
    17. Tien-Lin Shen, Han-Wen Hu, Wei-Ju Lin, Yu-Ming Liao, Tzu-Pei Chen, Yu-Kuang Liao, Tai-Yuan Lin, Yang-Fang Chen, "Coherent Förster resonance energy transfer: A new paradigm for electrically driven quantum dot random lasers", Science Advances, 6, eaba1705, 2020.
    18. Golam Haider; Yen‐Hsiang Wang; Farjana J. Sonia; Chia‐Wei Chiang; Otakar Frank; Jana Vejpravova; Martin Kalbáč; Yang‐Fang Chen, "Rippled Metallic-Nanowire/Graphene/Semiconductor Nanostack for a Gate-Tunable Ultrahigh-Performance Stretchable Phototransistor", Advanced Optical Materials, 8, 2000859, 2020.
    19. Hung-I Lin, Chun-Che Wang, Kun-Ching Shen, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Pradip Kumar Roy, Krishna Prasad Bera, Monika Kataria, Christy Roshini Paul Inbaraj & Yang-Fang Chen, "Enhanced laser action from smart fabrics made with rollable hyperbolic metamaterials", npj Flexible Electronics, 4, 1, 2020.
    20. Shang-Cheng Wu; Meng-Jer Wu; Yang-Fang Chen, "Nanolayered Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride/n-AlGaN Heterostructures as Solar-Blind Deep-Ultraviolet Photodetectors", ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 3, 7595, 2020.
    21. Han-Wen Hu, Golam Haider, Yu-Ming Liao, Pradip Kumar Roy, Hung-I. Lin, Shih-Yao Lin, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Ultralow Threshold Cavity-Free Laser Induced by Total Internal Reflection", ACS Omega, 5, 18551, 2020.
    22. Krishna Prasad Bera, Saqib Kamal, Arif I. Inamdar, Batjargal Sainbileg, Hung-I Lin, Yu-Ming Liao, Rapti Ghosh, Ting-Jia Chang, Yen-Guang Lee, Hou Cheng-Fu, Yun-Tzu Hsu, Michitoshi Hayashi, Chen-Hsiung Hung, Tzuoo-Tsair Luo, Kuang-Lieh Lu*, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "Intrinsic Ultralow-Threshold Laser Action from Rationally Molecular Design of Metal-Organic Framework Materials", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 36485, 2020.
    23. Shu-Yuan Chiang, Yueh-Yuan Li, Tien-Lin Shen, Mario Hofmann*, and Yang-Fang Chen*, "2D Material-Enabled Nanomechanical Bolometer", Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 2326−2331.
    24. "Electrically Driven White Light Emission from Intrinsic Metal-Organic Framework", Golam Haider, Muhammad Usman, Tzu-Pei Chen, Packiyaraj Perumal, Kuang-Lieh Lu*, and Yang-Fang Chen*, ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03030 (2016) ( Selected as press release article from ACS editorial office)
    25. "Stretchable Random Lasers with Tunable Coherent Loops", Tzu-Min Sun, Cih-Su Wang, Chi-Shiun Liao, Lin-Shih Yao, Packiyaraj Perumal, Chia-Wei Chiang, and Yang-Fang Chen*, ACS Nano, 9 , 12436-12441 (2015)(Selected as soon as publishable paper)
    26. "Self-polarized spin-nanolasers", Ju-Ying Chen, Tong-Ming Wong, Che-Wei Chang, Chen-Yuan Dong, and Yang-Fang Chen*, Nature Nanotechnology, doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.195 (2014) (Selected as the article of News and Views of Nature Nanotechnology)
    27. "Rewritable, moldable, and flexible sticker-type organic memory on arbitrary substrates", Ying-Chih Lai, Yi-Xiang Wang, Yi-Chuan Huang, Tai-Yuan Lin, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Ying-Jay Yang and Yang-Fang Chen*, Advanced Functional Materials, 24, 1430–1438 (2014) (Highlighted by Nanowerk and NewScientist)
    28. "Efficient Spin-Light Emitting Diodes Based on InGaN/GaN Quantum Disks at Room Temperature: A New Self-Polarized Paradigm", J. Y. Chen, C. Y. Ho, M. L. Lu, L. J. Chu, K. C. Chen, S. W. Chu, W. Chen, C. Y. Mou, and Y. F. Chen*, Nano Letters, 14, 3130 (2014)
    29. "A Facile Integration of Zero- (I-III-VI Quantum Dots) and One- (Single SnO2 Nanowire) Dimensional Nanomaterials: Fabrication of a Nanocomposite Photodetector with Ultrahigh Gain and Wide Spectral Response", Meng-Lin Lu, Chih-Wei Lai, Hsing-Ju Pan, Chung-Tse Chen, Pi-Tai Chou, Yang-Fang Chen*, Nano Letters, 13, 1920?19277 (2013)
    30. "Transferable and Flexible Label-Like Macromolecular Memory on Arbitrary Substrates with High Performance and a Facile Methodology ", Y.C. Lai, J.Y. Chen, T.C. Chang, Y.T. Yang, F.C. Hsu, and Y.F. Chen*, Advanced Materials, 25, 2733–2739 (2013)
    31. "Graphene/SiO2/p-GaN Diodes: An Advanced Economical Alternative for Electrically Tunable Light Emitters", Che-Wei Chang, Wei-Chun Tan, Meng-Lin Lu, Tai-Chun Pan, Ying-Jay Yang, Yang-Fang Chen*, Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 4043-4048 (2013)
    32. "Efficient Light Harvesting by Photon Downconversion and Light Trapping in Hybrid ZnS Nanoparticles/Si Nanotips Solar Cells", Chun-Ying Huang, Di-Yan Wang, Chun-Hsiung Wang, Yung-Ting Chen, Yaw-Tyng Wang, You-Ting Jiang, Ying-Jay Yang, Chia-Chun Chen, and Yang-Fang Chen*, ACS Nano, 4, 10, 5849–5854 (2010) (Selected as research news in Nanoscience Network)
    33. "Electroluminescence from ZnO/Si-nanotips light emitting diodes", Y.P. Hsieh, H.Y. Chen, M.Z. Lin, S.C. Shiu, M.Y. Chern, X.T. Jia, H. J. Chang, H.M. Huang, S.C. Tseng, L.C. Chen, K.H. Chen, C.F. Lin, C.T. Liang and Y.F. Chen*, Nano Lett. 9 (5), pp 1839–1843 (2009) (Cited by the important review article of progress in Materials Science)