LAU Shu Ping, Daniel
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Assistant Head of Division of Microelectronics

Phone: (65) 6790 6439, Fax: (65) 6793 3318
Office: S1-B1c-93
Email: esplau@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

Dr Lau Shu Ping obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D from N. London University and University of Wales Swansea, respectively. Before joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as a faculty member in 1998, he worked in the University of Wales Swansea and the University of Surrey as a Senior Research Assistant and Research Fellow, respectively. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He has been appointed as Assistant Head in the Division of Microelectronic since 2007. He was the visiting scientist to the University of Melbourne and Nagoya Institute of Technology through the Overseas Attachment Fellowship and Japan Society Promotion for Science Fellowship, respectively. He has secured more than S$ 5 millions research grants as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI since 1999. He has published over 170 papers in refereed international journals and received many invited oral presentations at various international conferences. His works have been cited by others for more than 1230 times as of April 2007. He was the recipient of Nanyang Award 2006 in the Research and Innovation category for his outstanding contribution and achievement in ZnO research. He has several patents in the areas of carbon nanotubes and nanomaterials. Dr Lau was the guest editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth (2005), Journal of Society for Information Display (2003) and International Journal of Modern Physics B (2002). He was the chairman of the Symposium N: ZnO and Related Materials, 3 rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) held in Singapore 2005. He was the secretary of Materials Research Society ( Singapore) from 2000 to 2005. He has been the treasurer of Society of Information Display Singapore & Malaysia Chapter since 2000.

Research Interest

  • Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured materials (eg. Carbon nanotubes, ZnO, InN).
  • Field emission vacuum devices for x-ray and terahertz sources.
  • Radiation detectors based on nanostructured materials.
  • Design and fabrication of ZnO based ultraviolet lasers.
  • Flexible electron field emitters for plastic electronics.
  • Oxide-based diluted magnetic semiconductors for spintronic applications.
  • ZnO based biomolecular sensors.

Selected Research Projects

  • Principle Investigator, Fabrication and characterization of carbon nanocomposite based x-ray source, $280k, funded by NTU.
  • Co-Principle Investigator, High current carbon nanotubes based cathode for miniature high power terahertz source applications, $500k, funded by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
  • Co-Principle Investigator, Microcavity Polariton Lasers, S$660k, funded by Ministry of Education.

Selected Publications

  • S.P. Lau, H.Y. Yang, S.F. Yu, H.D. Li, M. Tanemura, T. Okita, and H. Hatano and H.H. Hng, “Laser action in ZnO nanoneedles selectively grown on silicon and plastic substrates”, Appl Phys Lett 87 (2005) 013104.
  • S.P. Lau, H.Y. Yang, S.F. Yu, C. Yuen, E.S.P. Leong, H.D. Li and H.H. Hng, “Flexible ultraviolet random laser based on nanoparticles”, Small 1 (2005) 956-959.
  • S.P. Lau, L. Huang, S.F. Yu, H.Y. Yang, J.K. Yoo, S.J. An, G-C. Yi, “Enhanced secondary electron emission from III-nitride/ZnO coaxial heterostructures”, Small 2 (2006) 736.
  • H.D. Li, S.F. Yu, S.P. Lau, Eunice S.P. Leong, H.Y. Yang, T.P. Chen, A.P. Abiyasa and C.Y. Ng, “High-temperature lasing characteristics of ZnO epilayers”, Adv. Mat. 18 (2006) 771-774.
  • T.S. Herng, S.P. Lau, S.F. Yu, H.Y. Yang, L. Wang, M. Tanemura, J.S. Chen, “Magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic copper-doped ZnO nannoneedles”, Appl. Phys. Lett 90 (2007) 032509.