Aiping Yu
Current Research: CNT & Graphene Process, Composite and Device

Office Address: 104 Pierce Hall Annex

Office Phone: (951) 827-2450

2007 IMAPS Thermal ATW Student Stipend Winner.

Degrees:

• B.Sc. Engineering, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing, China
• M.S. Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
• Ph. D. candidate, UCR
  

Research Interests:

Her research includes developed efficient and scalable approach for obtaining ultra-pure SWNTs, which are almost free of amorphous carbon and nanoparticles. The film field effect transistor (FET) fabricated from the ultra-pure SWNTs demonstrated very good performance. And the transparent and conducting films from the ultra-pure SWNTs show excellent potential for bolometric Infrared detection. She also achieved to get graphene nanoplatelets (a few layer graphene sheets, Gn, where n ? 4, a robust alternative to single layer graphene) of arbitrary aspect ratio and demonstrate the power of this technology in achieving record levels of thermal conductivity in polymer/carbon nanomaterial composites for electronic packing. The graphene based FET is under study.

SEM image of ultra-pure SWNTs (left) and AFM image of few layer graphite nanoplatelets (right)