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Professor Tao Wang

Professor
Institute of Compound Semiconductors
Condensed Matter and Photonics Group

Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Professor Tao Wang currently holds a Chair in Semiconductors. Before that, he had been a Professor as a Chair in Semiconductor Materials and Devices at Sheffield since May 2011 and was the Founding Director of Centre for GaN Materials and Devices. His innovation researches are regularly highlghted by newspaper and magazines

So far, he has ~550 publications included journal papers. conference papers/presentations and patents. He has supervised 31 successfully graduated PhD students (26 as a principal supervisor) and  22 post-doctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) as a principal supervisor. One of his PhD students under his principal supervison was awarded “Year 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Chinese Students Abroad”.

The advanced epitaxay technologies he developed to achieve monolithic on-chip integration of III-nitride LEDs on a microscale were sucessfully transferred to the semiconductor industry in 2022, making large social and economic impacts. The pioneering work on deveoping MOVPE growth of semi-polar and non-polar GaN on large lattice-mismatched substrates generated 10 IP patents, leading to Royal Society Emerging Technology Award in 2015.

Publication

2025

2023

Articles

Research

  • MOVPE growth of polar, semipolar and non-polar III-nitrides (GaN, AlN, InN and their alloys) on large lattice-mismatched substrates, such as sapphire, silicon, SiC and diamond
  • Advanced MOVPE overgrowth of III-nitrides on patterned substrates
  • Nano/micro-fabrication technologies of III-nitrides: nano/micro-patterning of substrates for advanced epitaxial overgrowth; nano-rod array emitters; single nano-rod emitters; plasmonic nanolaser; micro-/nano-cavity; photonic crystal structures
  • III-nitride micro-emitters for AR/VR and Li-Fi
  • Monolithic on-chip integration of III-nitride optoelectronics
  • Solar-power hydrogen generation, solar cells, etc
  • Hybrid III-nitrides/organic/2D materials for optoelectronics including flexible optoelectronics
  • Boron nitride based opto-electronics

Contact Details

Email WangT61@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29225 14760
Campuses Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room N/1.27, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA