Shih-Chun Lo (Lawrence)
- BSc, MSc, GCHEd, DPhil
- Asso. Professor
- The University of Queensland, Australia
Lawrence held a prestigious Swire DPhil Scholarship while carrying out his PhD studies on semiconductor material development for organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at Oxford University, UK (1996–2000). His post-doctoral research at Oxford University focused on the design, synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent and phosphorescent dendrimers for highly efficient LEDs. Dendrimers have been recognised internationally as the third main class of LED materials, alongside small molecules and polymers, where he played a key role. In 2007, he joined the University of Queensland as a Lecturer in Chemistry of Materials. His research work has focused on the development of advanced functional semiconductor materials for quantum based optoelectronic applications (e.g. organic solar cells, LEDs, photodetectors, sensors, superconductors and lasers) as well as clean energy generation.
Research impacts
Assoc. Prof. Shih-Chun Lo (Lawrence) is a synthetic chemist with leading expertise in semiconductor materials development for quantum-based optoelectronics, e.g. organic LED displays/lighting, solar cells, field-effect transistors, photodetectors, light-emitting field-effect transistors and lasers. He has contributed to the field by establishing new structure-property relationships to advance device performance through new materials design and synthesis (ranging from molecular, oligomeric, dendritic and polymeric organics to organometallics). He has published >110 journal papers in refereed scientific journals (Adv. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; Chem. Mater.; Chem. Rev.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Nature Commun.; Nature Mater. and Science) and is a co-inventor of >70 patents globally. His current h-index is 44 with i-10 index of 101 and total citations of >8,300 (Google Scholar). In 2016, he was awarded with a Progress 100 Visiting Professorship by Kyushu University (with Prof. C. Adachi), Japan , and also a visiting scholar at Yamagata University (with Prof. S. Tokito), Japan and a visiting academic at Oxford University (with Profs M. Moloney and D. D. C. Bradley), UK.
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