Areas of expertise
- Solid State Chemistry 030206
- Functional Materials 091205
- Surfaces And Structural Properties Of Condensed Matter 020406
Research interests
(1) the optical, electrical and mechanical multifunctional properties characterisation from millimetre to nanometre length scale.
(2) complex structural analyses at different size (average to local) and time (time-averaged to time-resolved) scales through electron/neutron/synchrotron X-ray diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering as well as solid-state spectroscopies.
(3) material synthesis and fabrication, including solid state reaction, thin-film growth via Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD/PED).
Publications
- Peng, J, Kremer, F, Walter, D et al. 2022, 'Centimetre-scale perovskite solar cells with fill factors of more than 86 per cent', Nature, vol. 601, no. 7894, pp. 573-578.
- Nekouei, F, Wen, X, Zheng, Z et al. 2022, 'InOOH-mediated intergrown heterojunctions for enhanced photocatalytic Performance: Assembly and interfacial charge carrier transferring', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 442, no. 2.
- Liu, B, Torres Alvarez, J, Taheri, M et al. 2022, 'Dual-Ion Flux Management for Stable High Areal Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Batteries', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1-13.
- Mai, H, Lu, T, Sun, Q et al. 2021, 'Defect engineering for creating and enhancing bulk photovoltaic effect in centrosymmetric materials', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 9, no. 22, pp. 13182-13191.
- Peng, J, Walter, D, Ren, Y et al. 2021, 'Nanoscale localized contacts for high fill factors in polymer-passivated perovskite solar cells', Science, vol. 371, no. 6527, pp. 390-395.
- Lu, T, Cortie, D, Li, Z et al. 2021, 'Role of A-Site Molecular Ions in the Polar Functionality of Metal-Organic Framework Perovskites', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 33, no. 24, pp. 9666-9676.
- Liu, Z, Lu, T, Xue, F et al. 2020, 'Lead-free (Ag,K)NbO3 materials for high-performance explosive energy conversion', Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 21, pp. 1-9.
- Narayanan, N, Lou, Q, Rawal, A et al. 2020, 'Defect structure and property consequence when small Li+ ions meet BaTiO3', Physical Review Materials, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1-7.
- Lu, T, Tian, Y, Studer, A et al. 2020, 'Structure-Driven, Ferroelectric Wake-Up Effect for Electrical Fatigue Relief', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 32, no. 15, pp. 6456-6463.
- Khan, A, Lu, T, Ma, W et al. 2020, 'Tunable Optoelectronic Properties of WS2 by Local Strain Engineering and Folding', Advanced Electronic Materials, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1-8.
- Mai, H, Lu, T, Sun, Q et al 2020, 'High performance bulk photovoltaics in narrow bandgap centrosymmetric ultrathin films', Materials Horizons, 7, 898–904.
- Raj, V, Lu, T, Lockrey, M et al. 2019, 'Introduction of TiO2 in CuI for Its Improved Performance as a p-Type Transparent Conductor', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 11, no. 27, pp. 24254-24263.
- Dong, W, Cortie, D, Lu, T et al 2019, 'Collective nonlinear electric polarization: Via defect-driven local symmetry breaking', Materials Horizons, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1717-1725.
- Lu, T, Tian, Y, Studer, A et al. 2019, 'Symmetry-mode analysis for intuitive observation of structure-property relationships in the lead-free antiferroelectric (1-x)AgNbO3-xLiTaO3', IUCrJ, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 740-750.
- Mai, H, Lu, T, Li, Q et al. 2018, 'Above-Band Gap Photoinduced Stabilization of Engineered Ferroelectric Domains', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 15, pp. 12781-12789.
- Mai, H, Lu, T, Li, Q et al. 2018, 'Photovoltaic Effect of a Ferroelectric-Luminescent Heterostructure under Infrared Light Illumination', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 35, pp. 29786-29794.
- Liu, Z, Lu, T, Ye, J et al. 2018, 'Antiferroelectrics for Energy Storage Applications: a Review', Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 1-21.
- Liu, X, Zhang, F, Long, P et al. 2018, 'Anomalous Photovoltaic Effect in Centrosymmetric Ferroelastic BiVO4', Advanced Materials, vol. 30, no. 44, pp. 1-8.
- Li, Q, Lu, T, Schiemer, J et al 2018, 'Giant thermally-enhanced electrostriction and polar surface phase in La2Mo2O9 oxygen ion conductors', Physical Review Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 7pp.
- Lu, T, Studer, A, Yu, D et al. 2017, 'Critical role of the coupling between the octahedral rotation and A-site ionic displacements in PbZrO3-based antiferroelectric materials investigated by in situ neutron diffraction', Physical Review B, vol. 96, pp. 214108/1-9.
- Lu, T, Studer, A, Cortie, D et al. 2016, 'Susceptible Ferroelectric/Antiferroelectric Phase Transition near the Surface of Nb-Doped Lead Zirconate Stannate Titanate from Surface Processing', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 8, no. 23, pp. 14313-14317.
- Lu, T, Studer, A, Noren, L et al. 2016, 'Electric-field-induced AFE-FE transitions and associated strain/preferred orientation in antiferroelectric PLZST', Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 23659, pp. 1-8.
Projects and Grants
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- Chemical and structural design for high power energy storage materials (Primary Investigator)
- Locally structured polar-photofunctional materials for energy conversion (Primary Investigator)
- Unveil the chemical and physical mechanisms underlying multicaloric effects in antiferroelectric materials via neutron scattering (Primary Investigator)
