Technische Universität München

Shuit-Tong Lee is the Chair Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), City University of Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.S. from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia, all in Chemistry. He was a Research fellow in the Department of Chemistry, University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 1994 and is the founding Director of COSDAF. Lee is the founding Director of the Nano-organic Photoelectronic Laboratory, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, Beijing. He is an advisory professor of several Universities in Mainland China, including Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Institute of Physics, etc.

2006 Hsun Lee Lecture Award, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, Shenyang

2005 National Natural Science Award (2nd Class Award), State Council of the People's Republic of China

2002 National Natural Science Award (2nd Class Award), State Council of the People's Republic of China

2002 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award, Hong Kong

2001 Humboldt Research Award, Germany

1999 Shenyang Science and Technology Award (1st Class Award), Shenyang

D.D.D. Ma, C.S. Lee, F.C.K. Au, S.Y. Tong, S.T. Lee, “Small diameter silicon nanowire surface”, Science 299, 1874-1877 (2003).

S.T. Lee, Y. Lifshitz, “The road to diamond wafers“, Nature 424, 500 (2003).

Y. Lifshitz, Th. Kohler, Th. Frauenheim, I. Guzmann, A. Hoffman, R.Q. Zhang, X.T. Zhou, S.T. Lee, “The mechanism of diamond nucleation from energetic species”, Science 297, 1531 (2002).

Y. Lifshitz, X. F. Duan, N. G. Shang,Q. Li, L. Wan, I. Bello, S. T. Lee, "Epitaxial diamond polytypes on silicon", Nature 412, 404 (2001).

S.T. Lee, H.Y. Peng, X.T. Zhou, N. Wang, C.S. Lee, I. Bello, Y. Lifshitz, "A Nucleation site and mechanism leading to epitaxial growth of diamond films", Science 287 104-106, (2000).

Y. He, Z.H. Kang, Q.S. Li, C.H. A. Tsang, C.H. Fan, S.T. Lee, “Ultrastable, Highly Fluorescent, and Water-Dispersed Silicon-Based Nanospheres as Cellular Probes”, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 48, 128-132 (2008).

Z.H. Kang, Y. Liu, C.H.A. Tsang, D.D.D. Ma, X. Fan, N.B. Wong, S.T. Lee, “Water-Soluble Silicon Quantum Dots with Fine Wavelength-tunable Photoluminescence”, Adv. Mater. 21, 661-664 (2009).

Y.B. Tang, Z.H. Chen, H.S. Song, C.S. Lee, H.T. Cong, H.M. Cheng, W.J. Zhang, I. Bello, S.T. Lee, “Vertically Aligned p-type Single-Crystalline GaN Nanorod Arrays on n-type Si for Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells”, Nano Lett. 8, 4191 - 4195 (2008).

Y. He, Y.Y. Su, X.B. Yang, Z.H. Kang, T.T. Xu, R.Q. Zhang, C.H. Fan, S.T. Lee, “Photo and pH Stable, Highly-Luminescent Silicon Nanospheres and Their Bioconjugates for Immunofluorescent Cell Imaging”, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. (4/2009)

G.D. Yuan, W.J. Zhang, J.S. Jie, X. Fan, J.A. Zapien, Y.H. Leung, L.B. Luo, P.F. Wang, C.S. Lee, S.T. Lee, “p-Type ZnO Nanowire Arrays”, Nano Letters 8(8), 2591-2597 (2008).

Lee works on the research of nanomaterials and nanoscience. He and his team are interested in developing controlled synthesis of nanomaterials. They have developed oxide-assisted growth method for semiconductor nanomaterials, and metal-assisted etching method to prepare large-area Si nanowires from Si wafers. These synthetic methods have excellent advantages such as simplicity, low-cost, high-yield, etc. Lee is also interested in studying the surface, electronic, structural and optical properties (Laser) of nanomaterials. His group is focused on developing nanomaterials for energy regeneration and reduction, biomedical, and catalysis applications. Lee also research on organic electronics, organic emitting diode (OLED) display technology, thin films and super-hard coatings, surface science and modification.