Dr. Chen Peng is currently an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology. His research primarily focuses on high-performance two-dimensional electronic devices, such as transistors and sensors. To date, he has published 40 papers in top-tier international journals including Nature and Science. His research achievements have been recognized with several honors, including the First Prize of the Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Materials Research Society and the Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been selected for national-level and Shenzhen municipal-level talent programs. Dr. Chen leads several research projects, such as the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) and the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.He also serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member for the journal Chip and as a reviewer for multiple academic journals.

(1) Development and Fabrication of High-Performance Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Devices

(2) Technology Development for High-Performance Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Integrated Circuits

(3) Exploration of Novel Micro/Nano-Electronic Devices Based on New Principles

Sep 2010 – Jul 2016: Ph.D., Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep 2006 – Jun 2010: B.S., Department of Physics, Northwest University

Dec 2022 – Present: Associate Professor / Ph.D. Supervisor, School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022: Assistant Professor / Ph.D. Supervisor, School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology

Jul 2017 – Aug 2021: Visiting Assistant Researcher / Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

Oct 2016 – Jul 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hunan University

2024 Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize

2020 First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS)

2015 Director's Scholarship, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2013 Director's Scholarship, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research ID:

[1] Peng Chen#, Timothy Atallah#, Zhaoyang Lin, Peiqi Wang, Sung-Joon Lee, Junqing Xu, Zhihong Huang, Xidong Duan, Yuan Ping, Yu Huang, Justin Caram, Xiangfeng Duan. Approaching the intrinsic exciton physics limit in two-dimensional semiconductor diodes. Nature 599, 404–410 (2021)  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03949-7

[2] Zhengwei Zhang#, Peng Chen#, Xidong Duan, Ketao Zang, Jun Luo, Xiangfeng Duan, Robust epitaxial growth of two-dimensional heterostructures, multiheterostructures, and superlattices. Science 357, 788-792 (2017) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aan6814

[3] Bo Li#, Zhong Wan#, Cong Wang#, Peng Chen#, Bevin Huang, Xing Cheng, Qi Qian, Jia Li, Zhengwei Zhang, Guangzhuang Sun, Bei Zhao, Huifang Ma, Ruixia Wu, Zhongming Wei, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Yu Ye, Yu Huang, Xiaodong Xu, Xidong Duan, Wei Ji, Xiangfeng Duan. Van der Waals epitaxial growth of air-stable CrSe2 nanosheets with thickness tunable magnetic order. Nature Materials 20, 818–825 (2021)  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-00927-2

[4] Zhaoyang Lin, Yuan Liu, Udayabagya Halim, Mengning Ding, Yuanyue Liu, Yiliu Wang, Chuancheng Jia, Peng Chen, Xidong Duan, Chen Wang, Frank Song, Mufan Li, Chengzhang Wan, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Solution-processable 2D semiconductors for high-performance large-area electronics, Nature 562, 254–258 (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0574-4

[5] Sung-Joon Lee, Zhaoyang Lin, Jin Huang, Christopher S Choi, Peng Chen, Yuan Liu, Jian Guo, Chuancheng Jia, Yiliu Wang, Laiyuan Wang, Qingliang Liao, Imran Shakir, Xidong Duan, Bruce Dunn, Yue Zhang, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Programmable devices based on reversible solid-state doping of two-dimensional semiconductors with superionic silver iodide. Nature Electronics 3, 630–637 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00472-x