Fundings & Grants

Participated in proposal writing for one U.S. Department of Energy / Basic Energy Science award (Project number: DE-SC0013957, “Machine-Learning-Enabled Microscopy to Probe Charge Dynamics at Semiconductor Surfaces for Photovoltaic and Quantum Light Applications”), 2024.
Participated in the whitepaper writing for an U.S. Office of Naval Research award (“Narrow Density-of-State Organic Transport Layers for Improved Reverse Bias Stability in Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics”), 2024.
Metrology team leader for one U.S. Department of Energy award (Project No: DE-EE0009528, “High –Throughput and –Yield Process using In-line Metrology for Sheet-to-Sheet Manufacturing of Perovskite Modules”), 2021 – 2022.
Project leader/coordinator for one U.S. Office of Naval Research award (Project No: N00014-20-1-2587, “Development of Materials and Processes for Tandem Perovskite/Silicon Solar Cells”), 2021 –2024.
Project leader/coordinator for one U.S. Department of Energy award (Project number: DE-EE0008747, “Approaching the Radiative Efficiency Limit in Perovskite Solar Cells”), 2021 – 2022.

Teaching & Mentoring

Helped to set up the optoelectronic lab courses of IMOD – an NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronics Materials on Demand – for interdisciplinary students/researchers, 2022 – 2023.

Optoelectronic subgroup team leader, the Ginger lab, Aug. 2021 – Present: directly mentored >10 graduate/undergraduate students, including those enrolled in Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU) supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Sept. 2014 – Present.

Gave > 10 lectures on “scientific writing & publishing, from the perspective of a journal editor”, at Institute of Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Science), Sichuan University, Hunan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, South China University of Technology, etc., June 2020 – July 2021

Invited referee for: Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Energy, JACS, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Energy Technologies etc; Proposals review at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); abstracts review for many conferences such as IEEE PVSC.

Materials & Devices Fabrications: wet-processing, spin-coating, thermal evaporation, magnetron sputtering, slot-die coating, photolithography, 3D printing, etc.
Characterizations: AFM, PL, PLQY, SIMS, LBIC, I-V, SEM, EDX, XRD, UV-Vis, etc.
Data Analysis: Python, ImageJ, Origin, Theoretical Simulation based on physics models, etc.

Camping & Hiking : in 5 National Park , 8 National Forest and 12 State Park
Traveling : 10+ country and counting
Razor Clamming & Fishing : All season around
Biking : Accomplished Lake Washington Loop
Snowboarding : Fun of Crystal Mountain
Swimming & Kayaking : Fun of Crystal Mountain