Faculty
QIN Hua / 秦华
  • Department:Division of Nano-devices & Materials
  • Position:Professor
  • Expertise:Terahertz devices and applications, High frequency and high sensitivity nanoelectronic devices
  • Email:hqin2007@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
  1. Solid-state terahertz detectors/mixers, emitters, modulators and terahertz applications;
  2. Nanoelectronic and nanoelectromechanical devices for high frequency and high sensitivity applications;
  3. Measurement techniques and instrumentation.
Experience:
Employment

Dec. 2007 -Present 

Professor 

Division of Nanodevices and Materials, 

Key Laboratory for Nanodevice and Application, SINANO, CAS

May 2004 -Dec.2007 

Postdoctoral Research

Assistant Scientist

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

May. 2002 -May 2004 

Postdoctoral Research

Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, 

University of Cambridge, UK

Education

Ph.D. 2001 

Department of Physics

University of Munich

Ph.D.1998 Candidate 

Department of Physics

Nanjing University

B.S. 1994 

Department of Physics

Nanjing University

Selected Publication:
  1. Y. F. Sun, J. D. Sun, Y. Zhou, R. B. Tan, C. H. Zeng, W. Xue, H. Qin, B. S. Zhang, and D. M. Wu, Room temperature GaN/AlGaN self-mixing terahertz detector enhanced by resonant antennas, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 252103 (2011)。

  2.  

    Zhou Yu, Sun Jiandong, Sun Yunfei, Zhang Zhipeng, Lin Wenkui, Liu Hongxin, Zeng Chunhong, Lu Min, Cai Yong, Wu Dongmin, Lou Shitao, Qin Hua, and Zhang Baoshun, Characterization of a room temperature terahertz detector based on a GaN/AlGaN HEMT, Journal of Semiconductors 32(6), 064005-1 (2011)。
  3. Hua Qin, Renbing Tan, Jonghoo Park, Hyun-Seok Kim, and Robert H. Blick, Direct observation of sub-threshold field emission from silicon Nanomembranes, J. Appl. Phys. 109, 124504  (2011).

  4. Hua Qin, Hyun-Seok Kim, and Robert H. Blick, Marshmallowing of nanopillar arrays by field emission, J. Appl. Phys. 107, 054308 (2010).

  5. N. Shaji, C. B. Simons, M. Thalakulam, L. J. Klein, H. Qin, H. Luo, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, A. J. Rimberg, R. Joynt, M. Friesen, R. H. Blick, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson, Spin blockade and lifetime-enhanced transport in a few-electron Si/SiGe double quantum dot, Nature Physics 4, 540 (2008).

  6. Hua Qin, Hyun-Seok Kim, and Robert H Blick, Nanopillar arrays on semiconductor membranes as electron emission amplifiers, Nanotechnology 19, 095504 (2008).

  7. Hua Qin, Hyun-Seok Kim, Robert H. Blick, Michael S. Westphall, and Lloyd M. Smith, Subthreshold field emission from thin silicon membranes, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 183506 (2007).

  8. H. Qin and D. A. Williams, Radio-frequency point-contact electrometer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 203506 (2006).

  9. H. Qin, N. Shaji, N. E. Merrill, H. S. Kim, R. C. Toonen, and R. H. Blick, Formation of Micro-Tubes from strained SiGe/Si heterostructures, New Journal of Physics 7, 241 (2005).

  10. H. Qin, A. W. Holleitner, A. K. Huettel, R. H. Blick, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, K. Eberl, and J. P. Kotthaus, Review paper: Probing coherent electronic states in double quantum dots, phys. stat. sol. (c) 1, No. 8, 2094-2110 (2004).

  11. R. H. Blick, A. W. Holleitner, and H. Qin, Microwave spectroscopy on single and coupled quantum dots, a book chapter in Electron Transport in Quantum Dots, edited by Jonathan P. Bird, Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003, 1-4020-7459-X.

  12. H. Qin, A. W. Holleitner, K. Eberl, and R. H. Blick, Coherent superposition of photon- and phonon-assisted tunneling in coupled quantum dots, Phys. Rev. B 64, 241302(R) (2001).

  13. H. Qin, F. Simmel, R. H. Blick, J. P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler, Determination of the complex microwave photonconductance of a single quantum dot, Phys. Rev. B 63, 035320 (2001).

  14. W. Holleitner, C. Decker, H. Qin, K. Eberl, and R. H. Blick, Coherent coupling of two quantum dots embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 256802 (2001).