Dapeng Yu
Professor, School of Physics, Peking University
Chang Kung Professorship, Ministry of Education, P. R. China
Group leader: Laboratory for Nanostructures and Low-dimensional Physics, PKU
Director: Electron Microscopy Laboratory, PKU
Educations：
1978.09~1982.07: B.S. East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 1982
1982.09~1985.07: M.S. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1989.10~1993.11: PhD in Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1992
Employments：
1985.09~1989.10: Asistant Engineer, Shanghai Institute of Glasses and Glazing, Ministry of Light Industry, Shanghai, China;
1993.11~1995.09: Postdoc in Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
1995.09~1999.09: Associate Professor in Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing;
1996.11~1997.08: Research Felllow in Department of Physics and Materials, City University of Hong Kong;
1999.09~Now: Professor, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
Biography：
Dapeng Yu was promoted to full professor in 1999 in Peking University. He was then supported by the Outstanding Young Scientists Funding by NSFC in 2000. He was further sponsored by the Chang Kung Professorship in 2002 by Ministry of Education, China. Prof Dapeng Yu is one of the world pioneers in developing method to synthesize from the bottom, and to characterize 1-dimensional semiconductor nanowires, and made important contributions to the investigations of nanowire materials.
His group has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers in nanowire materials and physics in important journal such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Phys. Rev B/Letters, Appl. Phys. Letters, JACS and Nature Communications. Those papers have important impact and been cited for more than 15000 times by colleagues worldwide with an h-index of 64(from Google Scholar). His work has been recognized by important awards such as the awards from the Ministry of Education for “1-D Nanostructured Materials and Physics”; 1st class, 2004, P. R. China, and the “National Natural Science Award” “1-D Nanostructured Materials and Physics”, 2nd class, P. R. China, 2007.
He has mentored more than 60 graduates and postdoctoral associates.
Research Interests:
Functional 1-D & 2-D Nanomaterials, Nanodevices, Nanowire-based Solar Cells, Methods of Characterization, Single biomolecular Detection via solid state nanopores microscope.