Title: Computation - a New Paradigm for Materials Research
Speaker: Professor Yuan Ping Feng
Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of materials science
American Society of Physics
Secretary General of the International Federation of materials research
National University of Singapore / Department of physics advanced 2D Materials Research Center
Time: 14th June, 2018, 10:00a.m
Place: Yuan wang lu，Building Chao Kuang Piu ，School of Materials Science & Engineering
Inviter: Prof. Yunhao Lu
Abstract:
New materials are essential and urgently needed for future technologies. How to develop new materials in a fast and economical way is the challenge. While experimental studies take time and require a lot of resources, computational study, particularly first-principles calculations, is playing an increasingly important role in materials discovery. We have been using such methods to investigate a series of materials as well as conceptual design of spintronic devices. Some of our recent works including first-principles designs of advanced two-dimensional (2D) materials, and materials and devices for spintronics applications will be discussed. Recently, we have expanded our interest and activities to high throughput calculation and materials genome approach and have been developing a genome for advanced 2D materials. An update on the progress of this project will be provided. Using both the “top down” approach in which available three-dimensional (3D) materials are screened for potentially layered structures, and the “bottom up” approach where chemical elements in known 2D materials are systematically substituted by similar elements to generate new 2D materials, thousands of monolayer structures have been investigated.
Bio:
Professor Yuan Ping Feng received his B.Sc. degree from Lanzhou University in 1982 and Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1987. After working as a postdoc for three years at Purdue University, he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a faculty member in 1990. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics, and Head of Theory Group at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS. His research interest is in computational materials physics, focusing mainly on the understanding of fundamental properties of materials for advanced technologies, and prediction of new materials based on ab-initio electronic structure calculations. Prof. Feng is a fellow of the American Physical Society, an Academician of the Asian Pacific Academy of Materials. He served as the Head of Physics Department at NUS from April 2007 to June 2014. He is currently the Secretary of International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), and a Vice President of Materials Research Society of Singapore. Association for the Advancement of Science, and an editorial board member for ACS Photonics and Nano Letters. His research focuses on how materials can be engineered to create new and useful optical properties.
