Youmin Rong

PhD Student

Youmin obtained both his Bachelor and Master degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London in 2012, has joined the NSM Group Oxford for DPhil studies, specifically focusing on Synthesis and Characterisation of Two-dimensional Semiconducting Thin films (Transition Metal Dichalcogenides - WS₂, MoS₂, etc.) from Chemical Vapour Deposition Methods. Upon his final year PhD, he has been awarded Trinity College Graduate Academic Prize for the achievement as a PhD student.

Department of Materials (Trinity College)
University of Oxford
14 Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PH
UK
Email: youmin.rong@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 7988397955

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Publications

10. Youmin Rong, Yuewen Sheng, Merce Pacios, Xiaochen Wang, Zhengyu He, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner."Electroluminescence Dynamics across Grain Boundary Regions of Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide". ACS Nano, 2015, ASAP Online

9. Youmin Rong, Kuang He, Merce Pacios, Alex Robertson, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. "Controlled Preferential Oxidation of Grain Boundaries in Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide for Direct Optical Imaging". ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (4), pp 3695-3703, published as ACS AuthorChoice.

8. Youmin Rong, and Jamie H. Warner. "Wired Up: Interconnecting Two-Dimensional Materials with One-Dimensional Atomic Chains". ACS Nano, 2014, 8 (12), pp 11907–11912.

7. Youmin Rong, Ye Fan, Ai Leen Koh, Alex W. Robertson, Kuang He, Shanshan Wang, Haijie Tan, Robert Sinclair, and Jamie H. Warner. "Controlling Sulphur Precursor Addition for Large Single Crystal Domains of WS₂". Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 12096-12103.

6. Zhengyu He, Wenshuo Xu, Yingqiu Zhou, Xiaochen Wang, Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Shaoqiang Guo, Junying Zhang, Jason M. Smith, and Jamie H. Warner. "Biexciton Formation in Bilayer Tungsten Disulfide". ACS Nano, 2016 Article ASAP.

5. Yuewen Sheng, Wenshuo Xu, Xiaochen Wang, Zhengyu He, Youmin Rong, and Jamie H. Warner. "Mixed multilayered vertical heterostructures utilizing strained monolayer WS₂". Nanoscale, 2016 Advance Article.

4. Haijie Tan, Ye Fan, Youmin Rong, Ben Porter, Chit Siong Lau, Yingqiu Zhou, Zhengyu He, Shanshan Wang, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. "Doping Graphene Transistors Using Vertical Stacked Monolayer WS₂ Heterostructures Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition". ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016 Article ASAP.

3. Zhengyu He, Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Gun-Do Lee, Ju Li, and Jamie H. Warner. "Layer-Dependent Modulation of Tungsten Disulfide Photoluminescence by Lateral Electric Fields". ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (3), pp 2740–2748.

2. Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Zhengyu He, Ye Fan and Jamie H. Warner. "Uniformity of Large-Area Bilayer Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition". Nanotechnology, 2015, 26, 395601.

1. Shanshan Wang, Youmin Rong, Ye Fan, Merce Pacios, Harish Bhaskaran, Kuang He, and Jamie H. Warner. "Shape Evolution of Monolayer MoS₂ crystals Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition". Chemistry of Materials, 2014, 26 (22), pp 6371–6379.