Haibin SU ( 蘇海斌 ) Division of Materials Science Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Office: N 4.1 - 01 - 08 Phone: (65) 6790-4346 Fax: (65) 6790-9081 Email: hbsu (at) ntu.edu.sg

Biography:

· PostDoc, California Institute of Technology

· PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(Thesis projects were performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Teaching:

· Computer Modeling of Materials (MS6101; MS9045)

· Principles of Semiconductor Devices (MS4501)

· Materials Aspects in Design (MS3005)

· Thin Film (MS4556) (co-lectured with Dr. Y. Long)

· Physics II (MS1002) (Tutor)

Research:

Development and application of theoretical and computational materials science; Quantum-mechanical, classical simulations and modeling of the electronic, structural, energetic and dynamical properties of functional materials; Emergent collective properties of condensed matter systems, in particular, at nanometer scales.

Recent Partial Publications: (Preprints available upon request)

(Authors’names, as shown in officially online and print publications, are not listed here for clarity.)

· “Three-Stage-Transformation Pathway from Nanodiamonds to Fullerenes”
J. Phys. Chem. 115, 8327 (2011) (journal copy)

· “Scaling of Excitons in Graphene Nanoribbons with Armchair Shaped Edges”
J. Phys. Chem.115,11998(2011) (journal copy)

· “Excitons of Edge and Surface Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons”
J.Phys.Chem. 114, 17257(2010) (journal copy)

· “Impact Ionization and Auger Recombination Rates in Semiconductor Quantum Dots”
J.Phys.Chem. 114, 3743 (2010) (journal copy)

· “Magnetism in hybrid carbon nanostructures: Nanobuds”
Phys. Rev. B 79, 165401 (2009) (journal copy)

· “Lateral size and thickness dependence in ferroelectric nanostructures formed by localized domain switching”
Acta Materialia 57, 2047 (2009) (journal copy)

· “Strain effect on electronic structures of graphene nanoribbons: a first-principles study”
J. Chem.Phys.129,074704(2008) (journal copy)

· “Average Density of States in Disordered Graphene Systems”
Phys. Rev. B 77, 195411 (2008) (journal copy)

· “Kagome antiferromagnet: a Schwinger-boson mean-field theory study”
Phys. Rev. B 76, 174406 (2007) (journal copy)

· “Pair-hopping characteristic of lithium's diffusive motion in Li-doped beta-phase manganese-phthalocyanine”
J.Phys.ChemB 111,10064(2007) (journal copy)

· “Effects of confinement and Ni-catalysis on the formation of tubular fullerene structures from peapod precursors”

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134107 (2007) (journal copy)

· “Tuning the electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons through chemical edge modification”

Phys. Rev. B 75, 113406 (2007) (journal copy)

· “Electronic structure of bilayer graphene: a real-space Green's function study”
Phys. Rev. B 75, 085424 (2007) (journal copy; cond-mat/0612483)

· “Dynamic friction force in a carbon peapod oscillator”
Nanotechnology 17, 5691 (2006) (journal copy; cond-mat/0611671)

· “Electronic and magnetic properties of V-doped anatase TiO₂ from first principles”
Phys. Rev. B 74, 233201 (2006) (journal copy; cond-mat/0612206)

· “Soft X-Ray absorption spectroscopy of the MgB₂ boron K edge in an MgB₂/Mg composite”
Mod.Phys.Lett.B 20, 1207(2006) (journal copy)

· “Electronic mechanism of critical temperature variation in 123 superconductors”
Phys. Rev. B 71, 094512 (2005) (journal copy)

· “Effects of space charge, dopants, and strain fields on surfaces and grain boundaries in YBCO compounds”
Supercond.Sci.Tech.18,24(2005) (journal copy; cond-mat/0411432)

· “DFT and MD studies on energetics and kinetics for electro-active polymers: PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE)”
Phys. Rev. B 70, 064101 (2004) (journal copy; cond-mat/0408156)

· “Strain Effects on point defects and chain-oxygen order-disorder transition in 123-structure cuprate superconductors”
Phys. Rev. B 70, 054517 (2004) (journal copy; cond-mat/0408176)

· “Valence electron distribution in MgB₂ studied by accurate diffraction measurements and first principle calculations”
Phys. Rev. B 69, 064501 (2004) (journal copy; cond-mat/0210107)

· “Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB₂ by electron energy-loss spectroscopy”
Phys. Rev. B 67, 144508 (2003) (journal copy; cond-mat/0211295)

Final Year Projects

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