Speaker: Prof. Richard FU (Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK)

Inviter: Prof. Luo Jingting

Time: March 16, 2023, 15:30-17:30 PM

Venue: Room 1206, the Zhiyuan Building, Shenzhen University

Abstract:

Acoustic wave technologies have been widely used in radio-frequency communication, sensing, acoustofluidics and lab-on-a-chip applications. Recently flexible, bendable or wearable acoustic wave devices have received extensive attention as they could provide many exciting wearable or implantable applications. However, most of current SAW devices are made on bulk piezoelectric materials or piezoelectric films on rigid substrates, which are unsuitable for these applications, In this talk, challenges in material selections and structural designs for high-performance flexible and wearable acoustic wave devices are discussed. Fabrication strategies, wave mode evolution, and bending behavior, as well as their influence on device performance are introduced. Finally key potential applications in flexible and wearable sensors and lab-on-a-chip system with their major challenges in this field are highlighted.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Richard Fu, has been working as a full professor in Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) after 2015. Before that, he has been a lecturer in Heriot-Watt University, and an associate professor in University of the West Scotland (Edinburgh, UK). Dr. Richard Fu received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Singapore-MIT Allied Research Center, the University of Cambridge (UK).

Dr. Fu has nearly thirty years of rich research experience in novel intelligent materials, thin films, sensors, microsystem devices, nano-material preparation and applications. His research focuses mainly on three original research fields: thin-film acoustic surface wave devices in microfluidics and biochip sensors; the micro-nano miniaturization of shape memory alloy thin films and composite materials for applications in microsystems and minimally invasive surgery; and applications of novel micro-nano structures intelligent material in engineering, detection, and energy.

So far, he has published more than 450 SCI papers, two books, in the fields of thin films, physics, materials, and nanotechnology, renowned with a Google H-index of 71 and a total citation of more than 23,000. Much of his research have been published in top journals in the relevant fields, such as Nature Communications, Progress in Materials Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, ACS Nano, Small, , Materials Horizons, Nano Energy, Nano Letters, etc.