Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Prof. Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received her PhD in 2001. In the same year, she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a post-doctoral fellow, and later worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. In 2006, she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor of Applied Physics and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group in the same institution. Prof. Loi served as an Associate Editor on APL since 2014 and promoted to Deputy Editor since 2019.
Research Interests: Solar cells, photophysics, transistors, semiconductor quantum dots, organic semiconductors, hybrid perovskites, carbon nanotubes, light emitting diodes, photodetectors, and optical spectroscopy.
Professional Activities and Awards:Professor Loi is a member of the international advisory boards of Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Electronic Materials, Advanced Materials Interfaces, and Cell Reports Physical Science. She has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles with an H-index of 81, and is recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Minerva Prize (2011), Physica Prize (2018), and is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (2020), of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (2022), of the European Academy of Science (EurASc) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022). Prof. Loi was awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and serves as the leader of the Functional Materials cluster at the Materials Innovation Institute (M2i) and the chair of the board of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
Deputy Editors
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Alexander A. Balandin received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1997. He spent more than two decades at the University of California at Riverside, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as the Founding Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program. He is presently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA.
Research Interests: Nanotechnology and advanced materials; 2D and 1D van der Waals quantum materials; Raman and Brillouin-Mandelstam spectroscopy; nanophononics and thermal transport; noise in electronic materials and devices.
Professional Activities and Awards: Professor Balandin is a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow (VBFF), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), A Fellow of the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a recipient of The MRS Medal (2013) for the discovery of unique thermal properties of graphene and the IEEE Pioneer of Nanotechnology Award (2011) for his nanotechnology research.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Qing Hu received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he was a postdoctoral associate at University of California-Berkeley. He joined the MIT faculty in 1990, where he is now a distinguished professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
Research Interests: Dr. Hu has made significant contributions to physics and device applications over a broad electromagnetic spectrum, from millimeter wave, THz, to infrared frequencies. Among those contributions, the most distinctive is his development of high-performance terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). Now this breakthrough has already found applications in heterodyne receiver technology and real‐time THz imaging, which was also pioneered by his group.
Professional Activities and Awards: He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of 2012 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award and the 2015 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from OSA. He was an associate editor of Applied Physics Letters from 2006-2014 and has been a deputy editor since 2015.
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Xiuling Li received her B.S. degree form Peking University and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Following post-doctoral positions at California Institute of Technology and University of Illinois, as well as industry experience at II-VI, Inc. (formerly EpiWorks, Inc.), she joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2007. At UIUC, she was the Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering and the interim director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She then joined the faculty of UT Austin in Aug. 2021 and currently holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also has an affiliate appointment in Chemistry as the Fellow of the Dow Professorship.
Her research focuses on nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices. She has published >160 journal papers and holds >20+ patents, delivered > 120 invited lectures worldwide. Her research opens new avenues by using innovative epitaxial growth and nanofabrication approaches including metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of III-V, III-N and Ga2O3, metal-assisted chemical vapor deposition (MacEtch), and strain-induced self-rolled-up membranes (S-RuM), to address the ever-present needs to reduce the size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) of microelectronic devices, among other applications. She has been honored with the NSF CAREER award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and ONR Young Investigator Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physics Society (APS), Optica (formerly OSA), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Research Interests: III-V compound semiconductors, epitaxial growth, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), nanowires, nanowire electronics, nanomembranes, optoelectronics, solar cells, and nanofabrication.
Professional Activities and Awards: Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2008), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), ONR Young Investigator Award (2011), Dean’s award for excellence in research (2012), Andrew T. Yang Research Award (2013), and the Willet Faculty Scholar Award (2015). She has published more than 110 referred journal papers and holds more than 15 patents. She is a fellow of the IEEE, an elected member of the IEEE Photonic Society Board of Governors and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Nanotechnology Council.
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, China
Professor Liang-Sheng Liao received his Ph.D. in Physics from Nanjing University in 1996. He had worked as an assistant professor and associate professor in the Department of Physics at Jiangxi University, as an associate professor at Fudan University, and as a researcher at Eastman Kodak. In 2009, he joined the Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials of Soochow University and was appointed as a full professor and deputy director (2009-2016). Currently, he is the executive director of the Institute of Organic Optoelectronics at Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute. Dr. Liao was one of the inventors of tandem organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) achieving multiplied light efficiency, and provided key device technologies for OLED TV’s, tablet computers, smartphones, car taillights, and other products.
Research Interests: Organic optoelectronics; organic light-emitting materials and devices; quantum dot light-emitting materials and devices; organic micro-nano crystal photonic materials and devices; thin film solar cells, and industrial applications of organic light-emitting devices.
Professional Activities and Awards: Dr. Liao is a recipient of the Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Contribution Award (2013), second prize for the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education (2017), second prize for the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (2018), second prize for the Science and Technology Invention Award of the China Electronics Society (2021), and second prize for the Jiangsu Science and Technology Award (2022). Dr. Liao has published more than 500 academic papers and has been granted 267 patents (including 42 US patents). Dr. Liao was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Imaging Science and Photochemistry from 2011 to 2018, has been a member of the Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Professional Committee of the China Nonferrous Metals Society since 2016, a member of the OLED Committee of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 2020, and has served as an associate editor of Applied Physics Letters since 2015.
CNRS-Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux à Haute Température, Orleans, France
David L. Price obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1966. After a postdoctoral appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Dr. Price moved to Argonne National Laboratory and served variously as senior scientist, director of the Solid-State Science Division, and director of the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source. He later joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as executive director of the High-Flux Isotope Reactor and Center for Neutron Scattering. He is currently a research scientist at the Research Center for Extreme Conditions and Materials: High Temperature and Irradiation, Orléans, France.
Research Interests: Order and disorder in solids and liquids, dynamics of disordered systems, glass transition and melting, neutron diffraction with isotope substitution, deep inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering, anomalous, high-energy and inelastic x-ray scattering, and materials for energy conversion and storage.
Professional Activities and Awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America. Dr. Price was a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan (2000) and received the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award in 1998 and the American Crystallographic Association’s Warren Prize in 1997.
Associate Editors
Paola Borri (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
Annalisa Bruno (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Christoph H. Grein (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
Liza Herrera Diez (Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, Palaiseau, France)
Satoshi Iwamoto (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
Roger K. Lake (University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA)
Minn-Tsong Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Vincenzo Lordi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA)
Yongfeng Mei (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Prineha Narang (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA)
Becky Peterson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Mathias Schubert (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE)
Jian Shen (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Alessandro Tredicucci (Pisa University, Pisa, Italy)
Susan E. Trolier-McKinstry (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)
Martin Weides (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
Wenqing Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China)
Hongping Zhao (The Ohio State University, OH, USA)
Editor, 2019-2024: Lesley F. Cohen
Editor, 2014 – 2019: Reuben T. Collins
Editor, 1994 – 2014: Nghi Q. Lam
Editor, 1990 – 1994: Hartmut Wiedersich
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Editor, 1974 – 1975 (Acting): Thomas H. Braid
Editor, 1971 – 1973: Gilbert J. Perlow
Editor, 1965 – 1970: Frank E. Myers
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